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Freedom to Thrive blog posts share about world events, campaign victories, and analysis related to criminalization and liberation.
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In Response to Violence, Towards Healing & Liberation
Over the last week we have seen and felt the impacts of many acts of violence targeting our communities and our most vulnerable.We have seen our transgender, gender non-conforming and intersex family written off and out of all federal websites. Trump has moved to...
Join us in the Global Action Day #WorldwithoutWalls
Last year Enlace joined the international call for a World without Walls. Our Prison Industry Divestment Campaign and Freedom Cities & Campus are grounded in international struggle and are in partnership with the movement to free Palestine. Enlace’s commitment to...
CA Teacher Pensions Must Oppose Mass Incarceration
Recently we have been successful in pressuring New York City and New York State to divest from the prison industry. Companies like GEO Group, CoreCivic, and General Dynamics are harming our communities through incarceration, immigrant detention, and war.And in the...
Black liberation through youth leadership: an interview with Lanija Harris
We ask ourselves, our youth, our elders, our trainers- who do we dare to be if we didn’t have to fight all the time to simply survive? What would it look like, what would it take- to truly live, to truly believe that Black joy can exist for more than glimpses at a...
Making History: the Prison Industry Divestment Campaign
We are making history in building a truly national, multiracial alliance to confront corporate and political power and put an end to criminalization, incarceration, and racist immigration laws. – Daniel Carrillo, Enlace Executive Director (El Nuevo Herald, 2015)When...
The Year Was 1998…
As Enlace nears our 20th anniversary, we are also remembering where we came from. Sitting in a circle in bustling room in Guanajuato, MX, members and staff from 17 worker centers, unions, and social justice organizations from across the U.S. and México met for the...
California, it’s time to stand up to the Prison Industry!
Many of you have followed the innovative work of our National Prison Divestment Campaign over the past decade. We have been incredibly successful in building Black & Brown led campaigns against the Prison Industry. We know that corporations and the state will try...
Reflecting on 8 Years of Prison Divestment
Intern Merrill Liddicoat joined the Enlace team earlier this summer to research the impact of the Prison Divestment Campaign on the media landscape and in CoreCivic and GEO Group business plans. Here's what she found out. Since Enlace launched the Prison Industry...
Worst Corporation of the Year
Under the Trump administration, corporations have seized even greater power to control people’s lives. Former executives, who put profits before people, are running entire government agencies.It is more critical now to wage campaigns not just against the state and...
