Divesting from Citizens Bank: Jersey City Shows the Way
June 29 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT
Jersey City’s City Council recently voted to move $265 million out of Citizens Bank over its financing of ICE detention operators GEO Group and CoreCivic. Officials in Montclair, NJ may soon follow suit.
Join us to hear from officials and organizers working to move municipal deposits out of Citizens, and learn how you can help encourage your local government to do the same in this one-hour webinar for municipal, county and state elected officials, and community activists.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Jake Ephros, Jersey City Councilmember
Joel Brooks, Jersey City Councilmember
Susan Shin Andersen, Deputy Mayor and Councilor-at-Large, Township of Montclair, New Jersey
Carol Costello, Organizer, Montclair Indivisible
Julie Cohen, Filmmaker & Activist, Montclair Sundays
“That is not immigration enforcement. It is a for-profit machine built on human suffering, and Citizens Bank has been writing the checks.” — Jersey City Councilmember Jake Ephros
“What is happening at Delaney Hall and facilities like it across this country is not immigration enforcement, it is state-sponsored cruelty, bankrolled by institutions like Citizens Bank. We are done pretending that is acceptable.” — Jersey City Councilmember Joel Brooks
Registrants will receive a Zoom link for the event, a follow-up email with links to a toolkit to help you get started, and a link to the recording of the event.
