Victory! United Methodist Church Divests from Private Prisons
The United Methodist Church has divested from Corrections Corporation of America and the Geo Group!
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Prison Industry Divestment Campaign
National Day of Action
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Enlace, in partnership with community groups and unions across the US, is calling on all public and private institutions to divest their holdings in Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and GEO Group, America’s largest private prison corporations which have profited from billions in taxpayer money. Watch the Campaign Video.
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Peer Trainer Program Grows
The Enlace Institute’s Peer Trainer Program, is showing a 41% increase in enrolled participants in its second two-year training series.
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Our trainings are designed for people working in organizations striving for labor and social justice.
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What a Dirty Industry Can’t Hide
A wave of worker complaints and injuries at an L.A. waste and recycling facility owned by American Reclamation—just a few months after the tragic deaths of two young workers at a Crown Disposal Services facility north of LA—has drawn heated attention to an industry which LAANE’s Don’t Waste LA project is seeking to change. Both facilities are under investigation by Cal/OSHA for serious health and safety violations.
On Thursday, January 19th, Don’t Waste LA led a rally of environmental, community and labor partners outside American Reclamation, culminating in an attempted walk-through of the facility by L.A. City Councilmember Richard Alarcon and other leaders. Councilmember Alarcon, who had been joined during the rally by L.A. City Councilmember Eric Garcetti in expressing concern for the safety of workers at the facility, was refused entrance. Waste companies can shut their facility doors and hide what’s inside, but they can’t hide it when workers are hurt or when they die.
Domestic Worker Children’s March & Rally in Sac
Get on the Bus January 24th!!
Domestic Worker Children’s March & Rally in Sac followed by lobby visits and children’s festival
January 24, 2011, 10am – 3pm (March & Rally from 10am – 11:30am)
State Capitol Building
West Side Steps (10th St. between N St. and L St.)
Sacramento, CA
Interview about the prison situation in Colombia
The Horrors of Colombia’s Valledupar Prison
By Matt Byrne, Peace Brigades International - Colombia
As I write this, on the 14th of November, 2011, yet another prisoner hung himself in his cell at the Maximum Security prison in Valledupar, Colombia. The article I’m reading concludes with the fact that the prisoners’ protests have centered around constant pleas for transfers to penitentiaries closer to loved ones. How have they protested? The majority have swallowed razor blades.
My first accompaniment as a Peace Brigades International volunteer, with the Fundación Comité de Solidaridad con los Presos Políticos (Foundation Committee in Solidarity with Political Prisoners – the Comité) in February of this year to La Tramacua prison in Valledupar, remains the most shocking and powerful experience I’ve had in Colombia.
Project Censored Top Stories of 2012- Enlace’s Story on Private Prisons
Private Prison Companies Fund Anti–Immigrant Legislation
Wall Street & Our Campaign to Decriminalize Immigrants, Peter Cervantes-Gautschi
Over the past four years roughly a million immigrants have been incarcerated in dangerous detention facilities in our taxpayer-financed private prison system. Children were abused, women were raped, and men died from lack of basic medical attention. Arizona’s Governor Jan Brewer received substantial campaign financing from Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and GEO Group which are the nation’s two largest companies that design, build, finance and operate prisons.
CCA based in Nashville, Tennessee, and Geo Group, a global corporation based in Boca Raton, Florida, are the principal moving forces in the behind-the-scenes organization of the current wave of anti-immigrant legislative efforts.
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Young Workers United and PWA Victory!
The Progressive Workers Alliance claims victory! This past Tuesday August 2, 2011 over 200 members of the Progressive Workers Alliance and community friends held a press conference and rally at City Hall to demand justice for all workers and urged the Supervisors to support the Wage Theft Prevention Ordinance. It was a success when the Board of Supervisors voted yes, 11-0. It was a truly historic moment.
Thank you so much to all of the workers who took the courage to speak up and share their stories about their experiences with wage theft and who also took leadership and organized to fight back! You are truly an inspiration and remind us of the power we hold when united. And thank you to all the workers who continue to speak out and organize to demand just and equal treatment.
Sara Lee Fight- Webinar
When we reflect on nonviolent struggles we usually think of nationwide movements fighting against a non-democratic regime. This perspective obscures other rights-based struggles that have become common in recent years - those of a relatively small group of protesters and organizers that have to confront non-state actors such as large multinational corporations, many of which are even more powerful and wealthy than some governments.
Idepsca Spring Jornada XXII
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http://vozmob.net/sites/default/files/la_jornada_2011_final.pdf
US LABOR TOUR 2011
Workers Struggle Beyond Borders: Uniting the Peoples of Nuestra America
With a growing economic crisis, the U.S. empire is waging an even larger scale offensive on the world’s working poor to keep capitalism afloat, while eliminating many essential services making it more expensive and practically unaffordable to obtain healthcare, increasing cuts to education, and foreclosing on homes at an unprecedented rate. This offensive has even made it a crime to work in the U.S. if you’re an “undocumented” workers; while state legislatures, such as Wisconsin, Ohio and Indiana, are currently seeking to eliminate or weaken collective bargaining rights.