To: John Barrett, Company CEO, Western & Southern Insurance Group
Return the Anna Louise Inn to the Struggling Women of Cincinnati
Return the Anna Louise Inn to the Cincinnati Union Bethel and the struggling women of Cincinnati, or we will boycott your company, your buildings, and any establishment you create from now on. You do not have the right to use your corporate power to take this home from these women, so you can create a boutique hotel and profit from it.
Why is this important?
The Western & Southern Insurance Group, a Fortune 500 company headed by CEO John Barrett, used a lawsuit and its unlimited money to force the sale of the Anna Louise Inn that has served thousands of struggling women in Cincinnati, in order to turn the historic building into a boutique hotel.
Barrett has long referred to the women, who live and receive services from the home, as "recovering prostitutes, saying they didn't belong in the neighborhood."* Barrett also said about the sale, "This truly is a win for everyone and will make Lytle Park a destination like no other." The Anna Louise sits across the park from Western & Southern headquarters.
*http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/struggling-women-sad-angry-over-sale-of-nonprofit-ohio-home-that-will-become-a-boutique-hotel/2013/05/18/feeb5b2e-bfce-11e2-b537-ab47f0325f7c_story.html
Barrett has long referred to the women, who live and receive services from the home, as "recovering prostitutes, saying they didn't belong in the neighborhood."* Barrett also said about the sale, "This truly is a win for everyone and will make Lytle Park a destination like no other." The Anna Louise sits across the park from Western & Southern headquarters.
*http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/struggling-women-sad-angry-over-sale-of-nonprofit-ohio-home-that-will-become-a-boutique-hotel/2013/05/18/feeb5b2e-bfce-11e2-b537-ab47f0325f7c_story.html