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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...
#FreedomCities Movement Grows
Last week, Enlace, Black Alliance for Just Immigration, Ella Baker Center and Million Hoodies brought together 40 powerful organizers from across the country to further develop the #FreedomCities vision and seed Freedom Cities and Freedom Campus campaigns across the...
Reflections on resistance
I want to do some time traveling with you. Clear your mind for a bit and think back to the way you were feeling around the start of last year. We were coming out of eight years under then-President Barack Obama. We witnessed an election of a certain reality tv star...
WE Rise: Personal healing through collective liberation.
I believe in my work. I l believe in my team and my community. I believe that we will win.In just three months, the whole Enlace national team has brought me into their work and their vision of liberation. This vision centers Black folks, transgender, women, femmes,...
Beyond Firing: How do we create community-wide accountability for sexual harassment in our movements?
Via MediumThis past spring, as part of the fightback against white supremacy and the Trump regime, Enlace, the organization where I work, was asked to co-sponsor a rally. Usually, this would have been an easy decision. Dozens of organizations we collaborate with had...