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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...
Building a Freedom & Liberation Movement, Building #FreedomCities
Yesterday, the Freedom Cities Movement took over the streets of lower Manhattan. Along the way we stopped in front of corporations, financial institutions and civic offices that are the root causes of worker exploitation, immigrant detention, police brutality and...
2018 Delfino Leadership Institute Launch: Welcoming Our Newest Leaders!
On Saturday February 24th, the New York Worker Center Federation welcomed its third cohort of worker-leaders, embarking on a four month journey of leadership development and solidarity building as part of the Delfino Leadership Institute (DLI). This year’s cohort will...