Enlace
Enlace is a strategic alliance of low-wage worker centers, unions, and community organizations in Mexico and in the U.S. We partner with our member organizations in international campaigns to motivate abusive multi-sector transnational corporations to treat workers and communities with dignity and respect.
Enlace uses an integrated approach to organizing, creating unique campaign strategies while developing systems strengthening organizations internally. Our strategies often cross industrial and sector lines for reasons relating to both workforce development and campaign strategy.
In addition, the Enlace Institute presents trainings in strategic organization development that were developed over the many years of learning through our campaigns. Our collaborative brainstorming processes are useful for virtually all work groups in base-building organizations.
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Prison Divestment Campaign
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.
Anti immigrant laws, like Arizona’s SB 1070 and Georgia’s HB 87, are not only a consequence of racism but also of the greed for money. It is a huge business to criminalize and incarcerate our communities because the federal government pays private prison companies a average of $122 per day per person in prison. Private Prison Companies like Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and the GEO Group have influenced politicians to pass laws that criminalize communities of color to increase the prison population for more profit. These companies are making millions from incarcerating our loved ones. Those who benefit are companies (shareholders) that invest in the prison industry. Our government is building more prisons while cutting social services and schools, all with tax payer money. This is why Enlace has launched the Prison Industry Divestment Campaign to convince shareholders (banks, hedge funds, etc) to divest their funds from the prison industry so that we can make an impact on the prison business and reducing the power of CCA and GEO to lobby for laws that imprison our communities.
Please go to our blog and join the campaign today!
Campaign Partners
Advancement Project
ACUDIR (Alameda County United in Defense of Immigrant Rights)
African Services Committee
Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE)
Architects / Designers / Planners for Social Responsibility
Black Alliance for Just Immigration
Brandworkers International
Campaign for Youth Justice
Campaign to End New Jim Crow
Cante Wanjila
CAPS
Casa Esperanza
Casa Freehold
Catalyst Miami
Causa Justa/ Just Cause
CEIG
Center for Constitutional Rights Center for New Community
Central Ohio Immigrant Justice
Centro Laboral de Graton
Centro Presente
Chicago PIC Teaching Collective/Project NIA
City Books & Taxes
CJJC
CLEAN Carwash Campaign
CNU
Coalición fe Derechos Humanos
Coloradans For Immigrant Rights, a project of AFSC
Communities Engaged in Global Justice
Community Church of Boston
Community to Community Development
Contra Costa Interfaith Supporting Community Organization
Corazon de Tucson
Crazy for Justice
Creative Patio Critical Resistance
Cuentame
Detention Watch Network
Domestic Workers United
Dream Team LA
El Comite Pro-Reforma Migratoria y Justicia Social.
Excluded Workers Congress
Families for Freedom
Florida Immigrant Coalition
Food Chain Workers Alliance
Friends Committee on National Legislation
Fuerza Mundial (FM/TICPM/Pueblos en Movimiento)
General Board of Church and Society,
The United Methodist Church
Georgia Detention Watch
Grassroots Leadership
Hillsboro Presbyterian Church
Human Rights Defense Center
Instituto de Educación Popular del Sur de California (IDEPSCA)
Immigrant Worker Center Coll.
Immigrant Youth Coalition
Justice Today
Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance
LA Community Action Network
La Raza Centro Legal
La Union
Labor Strategy Center/BRU
Latina/o Youth Collective
LCLAA
Maine Prisoner Advocacy Coalition (M-PAC)
MEChA
Mid-South Peace and Justice Center
MILK NOT JAILS
Movement for Love and Unity,Inc
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
National People’s Action
NDLON
New Immigrant Community Empowerment
New York Taxi Workers Alliance
No More Deaths
Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights
NYCPP & LICPP
Occupy Chattanooga
Occupy the Hood
Occupy Wall Street/ Occupy SI/ Occupy The world
Offenders for Community Empowerment
Pacific Southwest District/Unitarian Universalist
Padres Y Jovenes Unidos
Parishioners for Peace & Justice Pax Christi
People’s Health Movement
PICO
Pilipino Worker’s Center
Politically Active Ztudents (PAZ)
Portland Central America Solidarity Committee (PCASC)
Portland Jobs With Justice Project NIA
Project Reach
Right to the City
Rights for All People
Riverside Church Prison
Sadie Peterson Delaney
African Roots Library
Service Employees International Union
SEIU Local 26
SEIU Local 49
SEIU Local 721
Latino Caucus
SF Pride at Work
Southeast Immigrant Rights Network
Southern California Immigrant Coalition
Southside Workers Center
Stanford Students For Queer Liberation
Stop The Checkpoints
Strategic Action for a Just Economy
Students Working for Equal Rights
Sunflower Community Action
Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition
Texans United for Families
The Revolutionaty Students Union for the University of Utah
The Sound Strike
The Truth Productions
Torture No Prisoners
Unidos Tucson
United Methodist Church
United Steel Workers Local 675
Voces de la Frontera
We Are Florida
We Reject Racism
We Reject Racism (No More Deaths)
William and Mary Living Wage Coalition Wisdom,
Gamaliel Foundation
Workplace Project
Young Workers United
Youth Justice Coalition