The Prison Industry Divestment Campaign began in 2011 from the need to launch a comprehensive strategy to decriminalize immigrants and people of color, end detention, end mass incarceration, and demilitarize the border. It was not only Politicians that we needed to target, but also the Prison Industry and Wall Street who were the other powerful force behind mass incarceration, the police state, immigrant detention, and deportation.
The Campaign has since become a national movement bringing together Black, Brown, and LGBTQ communities to end mass incarceration and immigration enforcement. The movement is working to divest from criminalization and incarceration, and demand reparations and reinvestment in our communities!
Freedom to Thrive (Formerly Enlace) builds alliances among organizations working on immigrant rights, criminal justice, another social justice groups to end mass incarceration and achieve legalization for all immigrants.
For additional information visit Freedom to Thrive’s webpage, you will find a page of resources including fact sheets, organizing toolkits, sample divestment resolutions, and more!
CURRENT CAMPAIGN EFFORTS
- University Divestment
- City Divestment
- Union Pension Divestment
- Targeting Million Shares Club (Major Prison Investors)
- Stopping Prison Expansion
- Pressuring Politicians to Cut ties with the Industry
- End Tax Breaks for Private Prisons
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For more information contact Freedom to Thrive info@freedomtothrive.org or (503) 295-6466.
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