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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...
Wells Fargo & Chase – Dump Prisons!
We are winning! The Movement against the Prison Industry achieved incredible victories this month. New York and New Jersey State Pensions Divested! The Nashville City Council passed a divestment resolution, and the California State Teachers' Retirement System...
NYS DIVESTS FROM PRIVATE PRISON COMPANIES!!
On July 13 New York State decided to divest its nearly $10 million in pension investments from private prisons corporations, The Geo Group and CoreCivic!!This is a big and necessary step forward from New York State Comptroller DiNapoli, to divest New Yorkers pensions...
