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
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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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Protests against Fidelity & Wells Fargo for their Role in Immigrant Detention
January 24, 2012 – MEDIA ADVISORY | Contact: Daniel Carrillo, Enlace 323-514-4048
Protests against Fidelity & Wells Fargo for their Role in Immigrant Detention
What: Protestors across the country will converge on January 24, 2012, in 15 Cities on branches of Wells Fargo Bank, and FMR/Fidelity to demand that they abandon their roles in the nation’s rapidly expanding for-profit immigrant detention system. Click here for list of actions
Why: Over the past three years, hundreds of thousands of non-criminal immigrants have been subjected to excessively abusive treatment in for-profit prisons run for the federal government by the Geo Group (GEO) and Corrections of America (CCA). These big financial institutions are major investors in CCA and GEO, the nation’s two largest for-profit companies. Enlace is coordinating the Prison Divestment Campaign that is asking institutions, public and private, to divest and cut all political ties from the prison industry.
Occupy Wall Street: Financing AZ Copycat Bills & Profiting from Deportations
In October the Prison Divestment Campaign launched a National Month of Action. Campaign partners and allies across the US joined with Occupy Wall Street to denounce Wall Street’s role in financing and lobbying for Arizona copycat laws while making billions from incarcerating families. National actions in 13 cities protested the big banks and Wall Street financial institutions to expose them for their political financial contributions and lobbying in support of the current scapegoating and criminalization of immigrants. The actions were a great success, forming new alliances and garnering major news media coverage to include immigration in the Occupy Wall Street movement.
The momentum continues during December; in the first week of the month partners and allies took action against ALEC, a vehicle used by corporations and big banks to push their political agenda (drafting laws like SB 1070).
Prison Industry Divestment Campaign
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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.
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End the Criminalization of our Communities! Stop the Raids and Deportations! Abolish Prisons!
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United Methodist Church Divests from Private Prisons!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Jan. 5, 2012)
Social justice agency salutes pension fund for divesting from private-prison investments
Urges other organizations of conscience to do likewise and send a message condemning mass incarceration for profit.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United Methodist General Board of Church & Society (GBCS) salutes the recent announcement of the denomination’s pension fund divestment from private-prison corporations and the establishment of a permanent screen on such investments. The agency also issued a call for all organizations and institutions of conscience to divest from the private-prison industry.
GBCS applauds the decision of the United Methodist General Board of Pension & Health Benefits (GBPHB) to divest from two of the largest private, for-profit prison entities: Corrections Corp. of America (CCA) and GEO Group.
Wells Fargo & Wall Street Invest in Private Prisons and Profit from Separating Families
Enlace denounces DHS Mass Incarceration and Deportation Agenda
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Prison Divestment Campaign denounces DHS Mass Incarceration and Deportation Agenda
Friday August 5th 2011 the Department of Homeland Security announced changes to the Secure Communities (S-Comm) program, a controversial tax-funded information sharing program that incarcerates and deports huge numbers of immigrants who have not committed crimes. DHS stated that it will effectively and unilaterally terminate all Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with states, immediately imposing the program across the US regardless of any state official’s desire to opt out of the program.
While immigrants and allies have been generating more and more support on the streets, calling for an end to anti-immigrant policies and laws and for legalization, their calls have fallen on deaf ears. Instead, the private prison industry has been successfully manipulating our immigration and criminal justice systems to reap record profits for major shareholders like Wells Fargo, General Electric, Capital Group, Vanguard and other corporate finance giants.
Victory! Pershing Square Divests from CCA
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, May 26, 2011 ACKMAN COMMENDED FOR DIVESTING CCA STOCK
On behalf of the Prison Divestment Campaign Enlace commends renowned hedge fund manager, Bill Ackman, for divesting Pershing Square Capital Management’s holdings in Corrections Corporation (CCA) of America, the nation’s largest private prison company.
Mr. Ackman and CCA filed a joint statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 16, 2011 confirming that Pershing Square no longer holds stock in CCA. Pershing Square Capital Management divested over 7 million shares in CCA.
Radio Interview about how Private Prisons profit from anti immigrant laws
Listen to Daniel Carrillo from Enlace speak on how private prisons profit from anti-immigrant laws as he is interviewed on KPFK 90.7
Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod
Guests: Brent Newell, Isabel Garcia and Daniel Carrillo.
Environmental groups are suing the state of California for failing to include alternatives to the Cap and Trade program in the law to reduce greenhouse gases. Also, SB 1070, the anti-immigrant bill in Arizona, 1 yr later, and how the prison industry is invested in passing these types of laws around the country.
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VICTORY IN VIRGINIA!
Congratulations are due to Tenants and Workers United (TWU), Virginia New Majority (VNM) and their allies in Virginia where 10 anti-immigrant bills were defeated in the state senate on Wednesday February 16, 2011. Last November TWU and VNM started organizing their base to pressure state legislators to defeat anti-immigrant legislation through community forums, vigils, delegations, and mobilizations to the state capitol. Wednesday their efforts bore fruit.
Enlace in the Fight to Decriminalize Immigrants
On Friday, July 30, 2010 the Republican Governors Association sent out a nationwide solicitation written by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer requesting contributions to fund an appeal of the partial injunction issued by a judge against SB1070.
Although some of the law’s worst provisions were stalled, the ruling was by no means a solid victory. Thousands gathered all over the country and around the world to protest the wave of anti-immigrant and people of color sentiment in the US that is creating racist laws and breeding a rise in terrorist white supremacist groups.