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November 8, 2018
Sacramento– Yesterday after months of advocacy from teachers and community organizations, the CalSTRS Board voted to divest from prisons. The vote came after activists pressured CalSTRS to complete a review of their investments during the summer. Last week CalSTRS rele...
November 7, 2018
Sacramento, CA - On Wednesday November 7th, the CalSTRS Board will have an opportunity to stand with migrant families and end their financial complicity in crimes against humanity. Last week, CalSTRS released a report on for-profit prison companies that found that dive...
October 25, 2018
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 last...
September 11, 2018
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 to pi...
August 14, 2018
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 elec...
July 14, 2018
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 f...
June 16, 2018
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...
August 19, 2016
Today, the Department of Justice announced that it will begin to phase out federal Bureau of Prisons contracts with private prisons, which make up approximately 15% of revenues for prison companies GEO Group and Corrections Corporation of America. The move will impact...
June 1, 2016
While Pride festivities have historically been intended to create space for the LGBTQ community to gather and celebrate one another, that space has often become oppressive, exclusionary, and dominated by business interests and corporate sponsors.
As Pride has shifted...
April 12, 2016
During our 2015 Week of Engagement, communities across the country explored how we are all tied to the criminal justice and immigration systems, through our lived experience, community ties, or capital ties to our institutions. The goal of the 2016 Week of Action the P...
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