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SUMMARY:De-ICE Citizens Bank: Coalition Lunch & Learn Series
DESCRIPTION:Grab your lunch\, pull up a chair and join other coalition members to sharpen your De-ICE’ing skills. \n\n\n\nThe De-ICE Citizens Bank Coalition is offering a series of Lunch & Learns to help you hone various aspects of your advocacy and resistance activities. We’ve invited leaders from across the coalition footprint to share their learnings\, best practices and hard-fought tips and tricks with each of you. These sessions are also designed to be interactive\, with opportunities to ask questions of and learn from each other. Sign up for all sessions or pick and choose the sessions that most interest you and your group! \n\n\n\nBeginning on May 27th with Tips\, Tricks and Calls to Action for the June 6th De-ICE Citizens Bank National Day of Action\, including how to promote our newest call to action\, the “Not with our money\, Citizens” organized money campaign \n\n\n\nAdditional sessions to include: \n\n\n\n\nJune 17: Getting Your Group To Go\, the “how-to guide” for moving your organization’s banking relationship away from Citizens Bank;\n\n\n\nJuly 1: Pushing Your Politicians\, learn how some groups have advocated with their electeds to move campaign funds away from Citizens Bank;\n\n\n\nJuly 15: Putting up Billboards in Your Area\, learn from the experience of members of the successful Stop Avelo campaign;\n\n\n\nJuly 29: Marketing Your Actions\, tips and tricks on spreading your message through social media and the press;\n\n\n\nAugust 12: What to Do When the Bank’s Branch is Inside a Shop or Mall\, hear from groups who have come up with a range of creative solutions for tackling this challenge;\n\n\n\nAugust 26: Coalition Onboarding\, new to the group? learn more about who we are\, what we are demanding\, and how we are keeping the heat on Citizens Bank;\n\n\n\nSeptember 9: Strengthen Your De-ICE Talking Points\, learn the map of the enablers of ICE Detention so you can see the connections and have ready answers at your branch actions;\n\n\n\nSeptember 23 Singing the Resistance\, Come sing with us! Learn some of the original songs groups are singing at their standouts\n\n\n\n\nDo you have a topic you’d like to see us cover? Or\, a special skill or learning you’d like to share with the Coalition? Let us know! \n\n\n\nZoom link will be sent out closer to event. \n\n\n\n\nSign up for Zoom Link
URL:https://turnpurple2blue.org/event/de-ice-citizens-bank-coalition-lunch-learn-series/2026-05-27/
CATEGORIES:Action Hours
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SUMMARY:Citizens Bank: Stop Financing ICE Prisons!
DESCRIPTION:Protests began on January 24 with more than 40 standouts and 1000 people at Citizens Banks across the Northeast including Acton. Protests are now on-going. Keep the pressure on! Join our standout on May 16! \n\n\n\nCitizens Bank claims it’s dedicated to fostering strong communities. Yet it provides hundreds of millions of dollars in financial support and services to the country’s large for-profit prison and detention center builders and operators—CoreCivic and The GEO Group. While other US banks have pulled out of the business\, Citizens Bank has deepened its ties with the big winners in ICE’s war on immigrants. \n\n\n\n\nSign up for Updates\n\n\n\n\nCustomers and non-customers alike! Help let people know about Citizens Bank’s involvement with ICE. Sign up and join the protest sponsored by the De-ICE Citizens Bank Coalition on Saturday\, May 16. \n\n\n\nIf you choose to\, bring a sign with a message such as Citizens Banks: Stop Financing ICE Prisons! Citizens Bank: Get Out of ICE Business or any large print sign visible to passing cars. \n\n\n\nFor more information about Citizens Bank’s relationship to the private prison system\, go to boycottcitizens.org or contact the De-ICE Citizens Bank Coalition of activist organizations in Massachusetts\, Rhode Island\, and beyond at de.ICE.CitizensBank@gmail.com.
URL:https://turnpurple2blue.org/event/citizens-bank-stop-financing-ice-prisons-2/
LOCATION:Citizens Bank – Acton\, 270 Great Rd\, Acton\, Massachusetts\, 01720
CATEGORIES:Protests
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SUMMARY:De-ICE the Heights Standout
DESCRIPTION:Since 2019\, nine prominent Wall Street banks have pledged to stop financing CoreCivic and GEO Group\, two companies that build and operate ICE detention centers\, but Citizens Bank has continued. Spread the word and join your neighbors in a peaceful protest in front of the Citizens Bank in Arlington Heights. \n\n\n\nSign Ideas: Cages Aren’t Communities De-ICE Citizens Bank Citizens Bank: Invest in Communities\, Not Cages End Mass Incarceration Say NO to CoreCivic and The GEO Group No Banks for Cages
URL:https://turnpurple2blue.org/event/de-ice-the-heights-standout/2026-04-24/
LOCATION:Citizens Bank – Arlington\, 1425 Mass Ave\, Arlington\, Massachusetts\, 02476
CATEGORIES:Protests
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SUMMARY:De-Ice Citizens Bank- Protest at Annual Shareholder Meeting
DESCRIPTION:On April 23\, Citizens Bank will be holding their Annual Shareholder Meeting at its headquarters in Providence\, RI. In response\, a coalition of progressive organizations from the surrounding area will be holding a peaceful standout that we are calling “The People’s Shareholder Meeting to De-ICE Citizens Bank” outside of the headquarters building. \n\n\n\nWe will hold a press conference\, rally the people\, sing and chant our resistance\, educate the general public\, and create artivism to get Citizens Bank De-ICE’d! \n\n\n\nCitizens Bank publicly presents itself as a community-centered institution committed to social responsibility. Yet the bank continues to maintain key financial relationships with CoreCivic and The GEO Group: two notorious\, for-profit\, prison corporations that build and operate immigration detention facilities for ICE\, provide transportation services to ICE\, and operate prisons for mass incarceration. \n\n\n\nFor more information about Citizens Bank’s relationship to the private prison system\, go to www.De-ICECitizensBank.org. You can also contact the De-ICE Coalition at de.ICE.CitizensBank@gmail.com. \n\n\n\nA 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. Indivisible has a great safety and security resource you can review before the event: https://indivisi.org/safety. \n\n\n\n\nRSVP for updates\n\n\n\n\nWear weather appropriate clothing\, bring water and a snack. \n\n\n\nSign Ideas: Cages Aren’t Communities De-ICE Citizens Bank Citizens Bank: Invest in Communities\, Not Cages End Mass Incarceration Say NO to CoreCivic and The GEO Group No Banks for Cages \n\n\n\nThings to note: Parking is either on-street metered or paid parking garages/lots. There are numerous in the area. Public restrooms are located inside the Providence Train Station which is a block north from the standout. \n\n\n\nEditor’s Note:  We don’t usually promote events outside of Massachusetts\, however\, this important protest is just about an hour outside of Boston.
URL:https://turnpurple2blue.org/event/de-ice-citizens-bank-protest-at-annual-shareholder-meeting/
LOCATION:Citizens Bank Headquarters\, One Citizens Plaza\, Providence\, Rhode Island\, 02903
CATEGORIES:Protests
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SUMMARY:De-ICE the Heights Standout
DESCRIPTION:Since 2019\, nine prominent Wall Street banks have pledged to stop financing CoreCivic and GEO Group\, two companies that build and operate ICE detention centers\, but Citizens Bank has continued. Spread the word and join your neighbors in a peaceful protest in front of the Citizens Bank in Arlington Heights. \n\n\n\nSign Ideas: Cages Aren’t Communities De-ICE Citizens Bank Citizens Bank: Invest in Communities\, Not Cages End Mass Incarceration Say NO to CoreCivic and The GEO Group No Banks for Cages
URL:https://turnpurple2blue.org/event/de-ice-the-heights-standout/2026-04-17/
LOCATION:Citizens Bank – Arlington\, 1425 Mass Ave\, Arlington\, Massachusetts\, 02476
CATEGORIES:Protests
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SUMMARY:De-ICE the Heights Standout
DESCRIPTION:Since 2019\, nine prominent Wall Street banks have pledged to stop financing CoreCivic and GEO Group\, two companies that build and operate ICE detention centers\, but Citizens Bank has continued. Spread the word and join your neighbors in a peaceful protest in front of the Citizens Bank in Arlington Heights. \n\n\n\nSign Ideas: Cages Aren’t Communities De-ICE Citizens Bank Citizens Bank: Invest in Communities\, Not Cages End Mass Incarceration Say NO to CoreCivic and The GEO Group No Banks for Cages
URL:https://turnpurple2blue.org/event/de-ice-the-heights-standout/2026-04-10/
LOCATION:Citizens Bank – Arlington\, 1425 Mass Ave\, Arlington\, Massachusetts\, 02476
CATEGORIES:Protests
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SUMMARY:De-ICE the Heights Standout
DESCRIPTION:Since 2019\, nine prominent Wall Street banks have pledged to stop financing CoreCivic and GEO Group\, two companies that build and operate ICE detention centers\, but Citizens Bank has continued. Spread the word and join your neighbors in a peaceful protest in front of the Citizens Bank in Arlington Heights. \n\n\n\nSign Ideas: Cages Aren’t Communities De-ICE Citizens Bank Citizens Bank: Invest in Communities\, Not Cages End Mass Incarceration Say NO to CoreCivic and The GEO Group No Banks for Cages
URL:https://turnpurple2blue.org/event/de-ice-the-heights-standout/2026-04-03/
LOCATION:Citizens Bank – Arlington\, 1425 Mass Ave\, Arlington\, Massachusetts\, 02476
CATEGORIES:Protests
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SUMMARY:Citizen Bank Protests
DESCRIPTION:Citizens Bank is financing ICE detention companies. \n\n\n\nCitizens Bank talks a lot about valuing diversity and building strong communities. What they don’t talk about: they’re helping for-profit prison companies get the cash they need to lock more people away in ICE detention. \n\n\n\nYou’ve heard the stories that come out of the facilities run by CoreCivic and The GEO Group. 911 dispatchers flooded with calls. Severe medical neglect. Children locked up for months on end. But even as the heartbreaking stories pour out of ICE detention centers\, Citizens Bank keeps pouring money into them.  \n\n\n\n\nDe-Ice Citizen’s Bank\n\n\n\nWho are Geo Group and Core Civic?\n\n\n\n\n\nSend a Letter to Citizen’s Bank\n\n\n\n\nCitizens Bank has dodged accountability for their important role in supporting inhumane ICE detention. Until now. \n\n\n\n\nActon | 10:30 AM-12 Noon\n\n\n\n\n\nArlington |  11:00 AM- 12 Noon\n\n\n\n\n\nBoston (Jamaica Plain) | 11:00- 12 Noon\n\n\n\n\n\nBrockton |  11:00 AM- 12 Noon\n\n\n\n\n\nBrookline |  11:00 AM- 12 Noon\n\n\n\n\n\nBurlington | 12 Noon – 1:00 PM\n\n\n\n\n\nCambridge Central  Square | 10:30 AM- 12 Noon\n\n\n\n\n\nCambridge Harvard Square | 11:00 AM- 12 Noon\n\n\n\n\n\nConcord | 11::00 AM- 1:00 PM\n\n\n\n\n\nFoxborough | 11:00 AM – 12 Noon\n\n\n\n\n\nHolyoke | 11:00 AM- 12 Noon\n\n\n\n\n\nLexington | 11:00 AM- 12 Noon\n\n\n\n\n\nMedfield | 10:30 AM- 12 Noon\n\n\n\n\n\nMedford | 11:00 AM – 12 Noon\n\n\n\n\n\nNorthampton | 11:00 AM – 12 Noon \n\n\n\n\n\nSommerville (Davis Square) | 11:00 AM – 12 Noon\n\n\n\n\n\nSpringfield | 11:00 AM- 12 Noon\n\n\n\n\n\nStow | 11:00 AM – 12 Noon
URL:https://turnpurple2blue.org/event/citizen-bank-protests/
CATEGORIES:Protests
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