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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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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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.
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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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
October National Month of Action
Protests against Wall Street & Wells Fargo’s for their Role in Immigrant Detention
National contact: Daniel Carrillo (323) 514-4048 .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
What: Protesters in 13 major cities across the country will converge on branches of Wells Fargo Bank to demand that Wells Fargo abandon its role in the nation’s rapidly expanding for-profit immigrant detention system in a National Month of Action against Wells Fargo.
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). Through its mutual funds, Wells Fargo is a major investor in the GEO, the nation’s second largest private prison company, and a minor shareholder in CCA, the largest. The Prison Divestment Campaign is working to pressure investors to divest from the prison industry and cut all political ties.
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National Strategy Session
The Prison Divestment Campaign will hold a National Strategy Session August 19- 20 in Denver. The Strategy Session will run from 9am- 6pm on August 19th and from 9am- 3pm on August 20th.
Topics include: History of private prisons CCA and GEO; How to Stop Prison Construction; How Drug Wars, National Security, Anti-Immigrant Laws have Criminalized and Incarcerated Communities of Color and Immigrants; How Multinational Firms profit from broken immigration and criminal justice systems; Education materials to engage diverse communities; How to build diverse coalitions; Divestment Strategies; Short/Long term Campaign planning.
For more information please contact Daniel at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 213-284-3802.
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.
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Enlace ED Peter Cervantes-Gautschi on Despierta America
On May 12th Peter Cervantes-Gautschi, Enlace Executive Director, appeared on Univision’s Despierta America to talk about the National Day of Action and the Prison Industry Divestment Campaign. Watch the video interview.
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