Miami, FL
For information on local actions please contact Kathy Bird from Florida Immigrant Coalition or Diego from Students Working for Equal Rights
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.
PROTEST BIG BANKS THAT INVEST IN PRIVATE PRISONS!
Tuesday January 24th from 1:30pm – 4:00pm at Boca Raton Resort & Club (501 East Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL 33432)
Click here for the facebook event.
For information, contact Kathy Bird at Florida Immigrant Coalition at 786-210-9030 or kathy@floridaimmigrant.org.
Major financial institutions will converge on the GAIM USA Conference in Boca Raton on January 24, 2012. Join us to demand they divest their holdings in private prison companies like CCA and the GEO Group.
Protesters in 14 other cities across the country will converge on branches of different financial institutions.
The GAIM USA conference is the largest annual gathering of hedge funds and large institutional investment managers in the USA. Major investors in private prisons who will be participating include: Wells Fargo, Bank of America, General Electric, Vanguard, FMR/Fidelity, BlackRock, Lazard, and others.
These big financial institutions are major investors in CCA (Corrections Corporation of America) and GEO, the nation’s two largest for-profit companies. These are two immigration prison monsters with very close ties to Florida: The GEO Group has its headquarters in Boca Raton, and CCA has plans to build a massive immigration prison in Southwest Broward. www.ccagoaway.org
Protest: Say NO to a new for-profit immigration prison in South Florida!
Saturday, November 5 · 10:00am – 1:00pm
This Saturday, ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and CCA (Corrections Corporation of America) will meet with residents to talk about the proposed building of new MASSIVE immigration detention center in the town of Southwest Ranches (SWR). This new immigration prison (yes, that’s what it is) could be one of the largest in the country!
Since ICE tentatively chose SWR as the location, the opposition among residents has been growing including areas like Pembroke Pines and Weston, who will be directly affected by this development. After getting no response from their elected officials, who claimed to be “under a cone of silence” and denied their constituents the right to know, now the residents are being granted a meeting with ICE to discuss their plans with the community.
THIS is OUR TURN to express our opposition!
A new detention center, with capacity for up to 2,000 beds, will only increase unfair detentions and separation of families. South Florida already has 1,200 beds for immigrant detention and we already lead the country in detention of immigrants who haven’t committed any crime. Why does ICE want to increase detention capacity in our area?
Everyone knows that building more immigration prisons has nothing to do with protecting our country or saving jobs for America. Instead, it only feeds the business of detention and guarantees billionaire profits for companies like CCA, which is the largest in the country and ICE’s biggest contractor.
Miami’s 99% Take on Bank of America
Tuesday, November 1 · 10:00am – 11:30am
Banks Got Bailed Out…We Got Sold Out!
BoA is the poster child of Big Banks protecting the wealth of the 1% at the expense of the 99%. With hundreds of thousands of mortgages underwater in or in foreclosure we are seeing the reorganization of wealth back into the hands of the wealthy, and corporations.
To top it off BoA is going to start nickel and diming us with $5 fees for ATM card holders on November 5. AND they are investing in private prisons like CCA, profiting from the separation of immigrant families.
It’s time to show them we’ve had enough!
We are going to march together to Bank of America at 245 NW 8th St. Miami, Florida
The 99% are rising across this country finding common cause in taking on corporate greed. Get in the streets, get active, and lets change this country.
