Let's Keep It Up For Immigrants!

Happy Friday, Activists!

We hope you had a good week so far. Today we have more ways to help immigrant communities - directly and indirectly.  

But first, remember to see Tuesday's newsletter at this link for your Calls To Action, all your election info, and a bunch of upcoming actions you can take.  

OUR NEXT CITIZENS PROTEST - ANOTHER NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION!

Let's keep up the pressure, pressure, pressure

Join us and thousands of people across the country on Saturday, June 6th to send Citizens Bank a clear message: financing private prison and immigration detention facility operators The GEO Group and CoreCivic is bad for business. We'll be at Philadelphia branches at 11:00. 

Citizens Bank is bankrolling the country’s two largest prison companies that are earning record profits operating dozens of ICE detention facilities. While most major banks have cut ties with CoreCivic and The GEO Group, Citizens Bank is deepening its financial support for these companies, which are already holding more than half of the 70,000 immigrants currently in ICE detention centers across the country.

Please bring your signs!  Some ideas are: De-ICE Citizens Bank; Cages Aren't Communities; Citizens Bank - Stop Financing ICE Prisons; Citizens Bank + ICE = Human Rights Abuse; ICE Prisons Don't Strengthen Our Communities; Citizens Bank - Cut Ties With ICE Prisons; or think up one of your own!  We love to see them.

Where: 1515 Market Street, Philadelphia

When: Saturday, June 6, 11:00 - Noon

Sign up here. 

HELP A HEROIC FAMILY

Last week some Indivisibles living in the area showed up at a Clearfield County Commissioners Meeting to bring testimony about the conditions at Moshannon and demand the County end their contract with GEO Group, the private prison company that operates the detention camp.  Along with them was the wife of a detainee, Charlotte, and their six year old son.  Her husband has been held at Moshannon for 14 months.  They live in Maryland and came up to Clearfield County to testify and make a difference.  She testified with a compelling story to the Commissioners and the Indivisibles think it made a difference to them before their vote in a few weeks.  

GEO Group runs the camp with horrible conditions - including forced labor and wrongful deaths due to understaffing and medical neglect at their facilities.  And Moshannon is no different.  To help her husband's case, Charlotte was forced to sell their home to pay legal fees and lost the family's income from her husband, the bread winner.

We can help this family by donating to their GoFundMe account.  They just need to be able to pay to maintain Charlotte and her son until they can free her husband from this horrible detention camp.  If you can, please make a donation at this link.

Thank you for your generosity! 

JOIN OUR NEW CAMPAIGN AGANST CITIZENS BANK

Write Some Letters!

Last week we announced our new campaign against Citizens Bank.  Not only are we protesting in front of their branches, now, we are directly telling Citizens to stop funding GEO Group and Core Civic, the two biggest private detention camp contractors.  Sign up here!

These two private prison companies make millions off our taxpayer dollars while they harm the people in their facilities - by withholding necessary medical care, illegally putting people in solitary confinement, and using other inhumane conditions.  Which is why we are protesting Citizens, a major funder of these companies.

We've been telling people about what they are doing so they can help De-ICE Citizens.  Now we also will be contacting Citizens leadership directly in no uncertain terms!  After that we will write to other organizations that bank with or support Citizens.  It's very fulfilling work!  Sign up here

MAKE CALLS TO SHUT DOWN MOSHANNON

Unlike many detention camps, ICE contracts for Moshannon with Clearfield County. ICE pays Clearfield County nearly $3 million a month plus a daily rate per person held. The county has hired GEO Group to run the facility. 

We are targeting the Clearfield County Commissioners and demanding they end their contract with ICE.  We're making phone calls to folks in Clearfield County and asking them, as constituents, to contact the Commissioners with that message.  With your calls you'll be helping shut down Moshannon! 

The phone bank will link you to registered Democrats in Clearfield county and a script. Just use this link and follow the prompts. If you run into and problems or questions, just ask in the comments or send Kali a message.

JOIN OUR DETENTION CAMP LABOR PROJECT

Write Some Letters!

Join more than 800 others who are writing letters each week in our new Detention Camp Labor program!  We write and ask companies to pledge they will not use the labor of detainees unless the labor is not forced and they pay the prevailing wage.  You can join the team too and write two or three letters a week to the companies we are focusing on. Sign up here and we'll give you all the information you need!  Check out the project's background at this link.

And A Few More Things:

We can send you our No Kings t-shirt!  For the short sleeve shirt, make a donation of $35 and then sign up for your color choice.  Or, for the long sleeve shirt, make a donation of $45 and then sign up for your choice.  Your shirt will be mailed directly to you. 

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