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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Make Wall Street Pay Campaign
At the beginning of 2009, our Immigrant Inclusion Project evolved into a new campaign – Make Wall Street Pay. Our goal has been to shift public debate on the economic crisis from ignoring the needs of immigrants and people of color (and in fact justifying the increasing right-wing racist attacks on them) to the source: the international financial institutions which caused the current crisis in the U.S., Mexico, and worldwide as well as the mid-1990s takeover of Mexican banks that resulted in families losing homes and businesses and decimated the social infrastructure, leading to the subsequent massive wave of migration by economic refugees to the U.S.
This economic crisis institutional racism is worsening as state budget cuts target services for the rapidly expanding ranks of unemployed and working poor and their families. Very little political will exists to save services that protect immigrant workers. As more white people suffer, underlying racism is exacerbated, resulting in rising violence and attacks against immigrants. Working class race-based bigotry has grown into a major obstacle in organizing for justice. The campaign is an attempt to provide a means for organizations whose base is predominantly white to work together with organizations of people of color to pressure a powerful common adversary to behave responsibly.
Most of the campaign work has taken place in the Northwest. On October 28 Enlace and a coalition of community, religious, and labor groups - Jobs with Justice Central Oregon, Recursos para Derechos Humanos, Rural Organizing Project, SEIU Local 49 SEIU Local 775, Jobs With Justice Portland, and ACORN - engaged in a multi-city (Portland, Seattle and Bend) action at JP Morgan Chase bank branches, highlighting Chase’s role in the destruction of the Mexican economy in the mid-1990s as well as their role in the current economic crisis.