Leavenworth CoreCivic Freedom Vigil/De-ICE Citizens Bank National Day of Action

Join Northland Neighbors United and thousands of people across the country to send Citizens Bank a clear message: financing private prison and immigration detention facility operators The GEO Group and CoreCivic is bad for business. Please join our Freedom Vigil in solidarity with our friends, neighbors and community members who are being unjustly detained and deported by 🧊 at the Leavenworth detention center known as MRRC. By signing up, you will help us build our collective power as we add our vigil outside the LV detention center to the ever expanding map of Freedom Vigils occurring every week across the country supported by @workerscircle During this time when 🧊s lawlessly tearing families apart and engaging in human rights abuses at detention centers, our vigil offers a peaceful, powerful way to oppose these cruel attacks on immigrants and show those who are detained, and their families, that they are not forgotten. Let’s raise our voices together, shining a light on the family separations happening only 29 miles from Kansas City and the deportations happening quietly out of the public eye. This will be a peaceful, family-friendly event featuring community speakers, moments of reflection, artists and opportunities to take action. Please join us and bring signs! Together, our voices will rise as we build momentum and increase the public pressure to stop the deportations, shut down MRRC and all detention centers, and end the inhumane attacks on immigrants. This is a weekly event that on June 7th we are cross-promoting in solidarity with the De-ICE Citizens Bank Coalition. Please sign up on our Mobilize at https://www.mobilize.us/theworkerscircle/event/963592 for updated vigil details and reminders. 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. The bank’s capital is supporting a deplorable ICE agenda that aims to fill detention centers with more than 100,000 people by next year. Even as it publicly touts its commitment to “strengthening our communities,” Citizens Bank has played a key role in helping The GEO Group and CoreCivic access more than $2.5 billion in financing, some of it approved earlier this year. This comes as the companies face a mountain of allegations, including forced labor and wrongful deaths due to understaffing and medical neglect at their facilities. We won't quietly stand by as Citizens continues to finance the private prison & ICE detention companies that are harming our communities. The 2019 exodus of banks from the industry in response to activism should be a reminder to us that our voices matter. Now it's time to use them. Visit www.de-icecitizensbank.org for more information and other actions you can take! A core principle behind all Coalition events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values. We expect hosts to ensure all participants in your event uphold this commitment. We recommend all participants review a safety and security resource before your event, such as https://indivisi.org/safety.

Leavenworth CoreCivic Freedom Vigil/De-ICE Citizens Bank National Day of Action

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