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MONOPOLY? SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE?

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I believe I'm dealing with a "monopoly".  Let me start with Arizona: Since this information has been released to the press - I'm not breaking any confidences here speaking about Kathleen Mitchell and Prostitutes Anonymous out of Arizona.  I received a letter from her from jail asking for help to stop being arrested over and over again for prostitution from Kathleen about 1989.  I sent her our "jail step study" program which we send to inmates to let them "work their steps" from jail, along with our 1st edition "Recovery Guide" as a donation.  In other words, she didn't pay anything for these items. She was released about 1990 and asked me "now what?"  We had no chapter of "Prostitutes Anonymous" (as we were originally called back then although we changed our name in 1995 to "Sex Workers Anonymous").  Not really having the ability to do street outreach by herself, I suggested she do what I did to start

NO SUCH THING IS NOT A SOLUTION

Below is a letter we just sent to the AP about the "No Such Thing" campaign: Our hotline has taken over 500,000 calls since 1987 when we founded Sex Workers Anonymous. We also created the first safe house for adults in this country, as well as the first alternative to sentencing and diversion programs. I am the founder of this modern trafficking movement. I can verify this with clips at www.hightechmadam.com You will not find anyone else speaking about us needing legal reform in this country because we were being forced into the sex industry during the years of 1984 until the Trafficking Act of 2000 OTHER THAN US. Right now we have 190,000 current members with 50,000 subscribers to our blog. These are all survivors who were trafficked as juveniles and then as adults who are now in recovery. They are PISSED we are not being included in this discussion. Especially since they do not feel this is doing anything but targeting juveniles for MORE trafficking when you r