NY Action on 5/12/11

JOIN US IN DEMANDING THAT BILL ACKMAN DIVEST HIS PRIVATE PRISON CORPORATE HOLDINGS

Where: 211 CENTRAL PARK W, NEW YORK, NY 10024. Subway: A – B – C to 81 St– Museum of Natural History

When: Thursday May 12th, 9:00 AM

Bill Ackman is the Wall St investment guru who is also the head of Pershing Square Capital, the hedge fund that is the biggest investor in Corrections Corporation of America, the private prison company behind Arizona’s SB 1070 and its clone that just passed the Georgia state senate.

Among investors, Ackman is a trend setter – responsible for a lot of Wall Street money going to private prison companies that drive how immigration laws are enforced through their lobbying.

On May 12th Join people in Tennessee, California, Arizona, Kansas, Florida and others participating in the National Day of Action across the US to demand private prison major shareholders DIVEST from the Prison Business.

Enlace is working in partnership with organizations across the US on the Prison Industry Divestment Campaign that is targeting major shareholders of private prisons the GEO Group Inc and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) be-cause of their roles in anti-immigrant legislation like SB1070. Visit us at www.enlaceintl.org
Questions or comments? E-mail us at info@enlaceintl.org or call to Mary Mendez 503-819-3855

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