Denver, CO

For information about local actions please contact Liz Hamel liz@rap-dpt.org from Rights for all People.

Rights for All People
Immigrant-Led Change
1400 Dayton St.
Aurora, CO 80010
(303) 893-3500

For information about the national campaign contact Enlace at info@enlaceintl.org or 213-284-3802

Sign up and Join the national Divestment Campaign here

 

 

Regis University & CFIR/AFSC present a very special vigil…

Making Broken Hearts Whole! 
February 6th from 6:00-7:00 pm at the ICE Detention Center at
30th & Peoria in Aurora, CO 

(be at AFSC at 5pm if you need a ride!)

Vans leave Regis University at 5:15 pm. Contact Connor McFarland (cmcfarland@regis.edu) to reserve a spot in the vans. Click here for facebook event

Bring a love poem or love letter for Justice to share OR a valentine for someone interned! (We’ll be delivery Valentine’s to each person in the detention center on Feb. 14).

Feeling Artistic? Join us the Tuesday
before the Vigil, Jan 31st, 5:00 – 7 to make 540 Valentines for our people detained… A great activity for
reflection, meditation, creative expression for
classrooms, faith communities, student groups, too.
We need LOTS! Bring a Friend!

If YOU know someone being detained at the Aurora Immigrant Detention Facility, please send us their name, A# & a message to jpiper@afsc.org and we’ll make them a personal Valentine from you!

 

Vigilia: Día de los Muertos patrocinado por las tres amigas 

Monday, November 7 · 6:00pm – 7:00pm
GEO for profit immigrant detention
30th and Peoria
Aurora, Colorado

Altar de la comunidad ~ Community Altar
Hacer ruido con tambores e instrumentos ~ Serious noismaking with drums and instruments
Defendiéndose con conocer y compartir sus Derechos ~ Defending yourself with your rights

Hosted by AFSC and Coloradans for Immigrant Rights. Click here for Facebook event

Friday, Oct. 28th
• Student Rally and March to Wells Fargo to demand they divest from GEO, the private prison corporation
When: 4 pm
Where: In front of the Tivoli Student Union, Auraria Campus, 900 Auraria Parkway, Denver

Tuesday, Oct. 25th
• National Divestment Action: Close your account with Wells Fargo or any other big Wall Street bank! Download our divestment letter from www.newbottomline.com and bring it along, demand it be faxed to the CEO.
When: 12pm A big delegation will go close their accounts together. You can also participate individually or in small groups on your own. If you close your account, send a picture or statement to milehighshowdown@gmail.com
Where: Colorado Progressive Coalition, 1029 Santa Fe Drive, Denver. (staging area)

Monday, Oct. 24th
• Demands Delivery: Come deliver a letter with our demands to a Wells Fargo branch with us and have it faxed to CEO Jeff Stumpf!
When: 11:30 am. Where: Colorado Progressive Coalition, 1029 Santa Fe Drive, Denver

• Outreach: Join our street teams to cover the entire city with our flyers and postcards!
When: 9 am and/or 5 pm Where: Colorado Progressive Coalition, 1029 Santa Fe Drive, Denver

PRESS RELEASE

 Contact:  Lisa Duran  303 893-3500 x102, cell 303-881-5021

AURORA, CO–This afternoon a delegation of seven community leaders met with Wells Fargo Bank branch and corporate representatives to deliver a packet of 147 pledges to withdraw funds from the bank. They also provided research demonstrating Wells Fargo’s culpability in funding the private prison industry–particularly the company that runs the immigrant detention center in Aurora.  Accompanied by 130 community residents and protesters–who waited outside armed with fliers, huge signs, noisemakers and one baritone horn–the seven leaders informed the bank representatives that they will continue to educate the community and encourage people to withdraw their funds from Wells Fargo unless the bank agrees to divest its holdings from private prison corporations GEO Group Inc. and the Corrections Corporation of America.

The delegation included Jeanette Vizguerra, an Aurora resident and mother of four, including three citizen children.  She has never committed a crime but is currently in deportation proceedings.  Joe Deras, another Aurora resident and student at Metro State College, spoke of having to visit family and friends with no criminal records who were torn from their families through deportation.  He and Debra Brown, a Denver resident and community supporter with 19 years of bank history with Wells Fargo, withdrew their money from the bank, as a symbolic representation of the hundreds more who will be signing pledges in the coming weeks to pressure the trusted community bank to disinvest from the private prison industry. Other members of the delegation were the Rev. Anne Dunlap of Comunidad Liberacion, Jose Sanchez representating Padres y Jovenes Unidos, and Liz Hamel and Lisa Duran from Rights for All People.

A meeting between Wells Fargo and Rights for All People will take place on August 3, and the delegation today requested that Wells Fargo’s Regional President and officials from capital Funds Management be present at that meeting so that someone with the authority to disinvest would be part of the discussion.

The action is part of a national day of action headed by ENLACE, an organization which has done ground breaking work exposing the incestuous ties between right wing think tanks, the private prison industry and the passage of draconian legislation such as Arizona’s SB 1070 or the “three strikes” laws that serve to increase the numbers of community residents being incarcerated.

“As a bank with such a high profile in the Latino community, for Wells Fargo to be making money off of the unjust deportations happening all around us is unconscionable,” said Deras in the meeting.  When Wells Fargo Communications Vice President Cristie Drumm attempted to explain that the investment division is separate from the banking division and so the bank had nothing to do with corporate investments, Deras and Rev. Dunlap responded to say that Wells Fargo’s name was on those investments, and as such, their name implies an endorsement of that industry.  The group urged the bank to engage in socially responsible investing and asked Wells Fargo representatives to relay the delegation’s message to the named parties in preparation for the August 3 meeting.