Empowering Disenfranchised Veterans Supporting Environmental Sustainability
Roots
Mission
Roots
The founder is a Marine and strides to maintain true to the Marine Corps motto, Semper Fidelis, Latin for Always Faithful. Marines are faithful to God; Country and our Corps. Semper Utilis is Latin for always useful.
We believe that any Veteran with disabilities can remain employable if properly empowered.
Team
Mission
Roots
We are an all-volunteer, Veteran founded 501 (c)(3). We are professionals in various industries that took on the mission to assist disenfranchised Veterans with employment. Our Board of Directors is comprised of Veterans and family of Veterans. No one, except the disenfranchised Veterans we employ, are compensated.
Mission
Mission
Veterans Row Operations
We are focused on creating family sustaining careers in the recycling and manufacturing industries for disabled and disenfranchised Veterans. Our goal is to employ Veterans in every step of the recycling and up-cycling process- from material recovery to a useable product. We believe that with an all-accommodating career, a destitute Veteran can regain stability and a re-orientation in life.
Veterans Row Operations
Why Does Veterans Row Continue
Veterans Row Operations
In 2020, during the pandemic the Greater Los Angeles VA began to shutter its 388acre campus to disenfranchised Veterans to prevent Covid-19 surging within its interest. As a result, disenfranchised Veterans and their families erected an encampment known as Veteran's Row just over the VA's gate. We then shifted our sights from acquiring a
In 2020, during the pandemic the Greater Los Angeles VA began to shutter its 388acre campus to disenfranchised Veterans to prevent Covid-19 surging within its interest. As a result, disenfranchised Veterans and their families erected an encampment known as Veteran's Row just over the VA's gate. We then shifted our sights from acquiring a processing facility to supporting an encampment that helped over 350 Veterans and family thrive. Veterans died at this encampment waiting for services at this VA and we did not and will not just stand-by. We partnered with the leadership at Veterans Row and began providing the encampment critical support like hot meals, cleanups, necessities, moral boosting events, but most importantly, comradeship.
Veterans Row 2.0 Operations
Why Does Veterans Row Continue
Why Does Veterans Row Continue
Due to great public support, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, The Honorable Denis Richard McDonough, walked by Veterans Row on Oct. 20, 2021*, and by his request, the unhoused disabled Veterans were finally able to move off a public sidewalk and justly onto the Pacific Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldier's (NHDVS
Due to great public support, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, The Honorable Denis Richard McDonough, walked by Veterans Row on Oct. 20, 2021*, and by his request, the unhoused disabled Veterans were finally able to move off a public sidewalk and justly onto the Pacific Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldier's (NHDVS), which was deeded to them in 1888**.
*Q&A with VA Secretary Denis McDonough about veteran homelessness in Los Angeles | Stars and Stripes
**National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers - Postcard virtual exhibit - VA History Office
Once the encampment moved on to the NHDVS Pacific Branch, problems only persisted the encampment, but so did our support. With unwavering partnerships, we produced monthly supportive events on the NHDVS Pacific Branch and will continue to do so. Please support those that support Veteran’s Row.
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Why Does Veterans Row Continue
Why Does Veterans Row Continue
Why Does Veterans Row Continue
Perhaps the best person to speak on the matter isn’t an official from a bloated bureaucracy but someone who volunteers their time to lead grassroots initiatives aimed at fixing the problem from the
Perhaps the best person to speak on the matter isn’t an official from a bloated bureaucracy but someone who volunteers their time to lead grassroots initiatives aimed at fixing the problem from the ground up. That person is Robert Reynolds, a thirty-something former California firefighter and Army infantry Veteran of the Iraq war.
Purple Heart Veterans react to Biden’s visit to the NHDVS Pacific Branch to praise an illegal land lease (Metro Purple Line) and fails to acknowledge the homeless Veteran issue in the capital for America’s Veteran homelessness issue.
More than 60% of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ land-use agreements on its West Los Angeles campus are illegal or improper, a federal audit found, including leases for a Los Angeles city dog park and ballfields, Red Cross offices, a Shakespeare festival, a parrot sanctuary and the private Brentwood School.
Homeless Veterans win a class action lawsuit against Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki and the director of the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare. The suit contended that the VA’s benefits program discriminates against veterans who are homeless as a result of their severe mental disabilities, because they cannot access the medical, mental health and other services to which they are entitled.
- Los Angeles VA Has Made Millions On Rental Deals : NPR
- Inside Veterans Row: Homeless Vets Outside Los Angeles's Veterans Administration - Invisible People
- Helping Homeless Veterans – NBC Los Angeles
- Homeless veterans sleep in tents outside West LA VA (foxla.com)
- Veterans Row: A protest encampment outside the West LA VA might soon move inside (kcrw.com)
- https://www.nhdvs.net
A historical timeline of events, facts and evidence on the West Los Angeles VA Soldiers Home third party land-use racket.