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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...
Prisons are NOT Real Estate #RevokeREIT
Yesterday Enlace and many other immigrant rights, social justice groups, and community members rallied outside the Midtown Hilton Hotel as CoreCivic, one the two largest for-profit prison industry companies in the U.S., spoke inside at the Real Estate Investment Trust...
Congratulations, 2018 DLI!
After months of gaining critical organizing skills, building deep solidarities, and growing their personal leadership, the Delfino Leadership Institute (DLI) graduated it’s 3rd cohort of worker leaders!This year’s cohort included members from the following...
Healing into Self-determination
On the weekend of April 28th, we brought together organizers and movement builders from all over the west coast to participate in the inaugural WE Rise 2018 Cohort training. We welcomed leaders from Casa Latina, OPAL Environmental Justice, Burgerville Workers Union,...
Public Bank NYC Launch
Join Enlace on June 5th as we call on NYC to divest from Wall Street and invest in our communities, through a public bank!Every year, New York City deposits billions of dollars of public money in big banks like Chase, Bank of America, and Citibank. On top of that,...
#FreedomCities 2018 May Day Video
Bankrolling Oppression: How Wall Street Companies Finance the Private Prison and Immigrant Detention Industry
This report investigates the influential role that major Wall Street corporations - including JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, and BlackRock - play in maintaining and expanding the private prison and immigrant detention industry. As the Trump administration advances an...
Join Us in Demanding Care Not Cops! 3 Ways You Can Support!
We know that policing does not make us more safe. Policing endangers and criminalizes our communities. Encounters with police are the entry point to incarceration, detention and deportation, and death for too many Black and brown people--not just nationwide, here in...