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We Rise! Levantémonos!
Across our movements, we know that it is often women, femmes, and people with gender oppressed identities, who carry the brunt of the work. Coupled with the double burden of both reproductive and emotional labor which they are also subjected to, women, femmes, and...
#SafetyIs Caring For Our Community! Report-back from #NOSL2017
On Tuesday August, 1st, Enlace joined dozens of organizations from across the country to participate in the Night Out for Safety and Liberation (NOSL), a community-driven alternative action to the National Night Out—a police-centric event that highlights...
On #NOSL17, the New York Worker Center Federation and #FreedomCities Movement Redefine Public Safety Beyond Policing
Dozens of community members in New York City will join people in 30 cities across the country to define and demand a vision of safety centered on what communities need to thrive.On Tuesday, August 1st ,community members and organizers from across the city will...
Victory! NYC Pension Divests from Prisons
New York City’s pension system became the first in the nation to fully divest from private prisons today, dumping about $48 million worth of stock and bonds from GEO Group, CoreCivic Inc. (CCA) and G4S.This incredible victory strikes a blow to private prisons and the...
Victory! 16 Companies Say No to Building Trump’s Wall
Last week in Portland, we pressured engineering and design firm Louis Berger to publicly announce that they will not build Trump’s border wall. This makes them one of the 16 companies to publicly commit to non-participation.We joined with Voz Workers’ Rights Education...
#FreedomCities MayDay in NYC
We have been working with the Freedom Cities movement because we know that none of us are free until ALL of us are free!We demand #FreedomCities because economic injustice and criminalization march hand in hand. Check out this video on how New Yorkers are organizing...
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Portland City Council votes to End All Corporate Investments
Broad Coalition Celebrates an end to City Profit from Suffering and ExploitationApril 6 – Portland City Council voted yesterday to end investing in all corporate securities, after broad community pressure to end investments in corporations complicit in prison...
City Prison Divestment: Making History in Portland, Oregon
In April 2017, Enlace and our broad local coalition pushed the City of Portland to become the first city in the nation to permanently divest from prison profiteers like Wells Fargo, JP Morgan Chase and other problematic companies like Caterpillar that destroy the...