Los Comités de
Defensa del Barrio Human Rights Commission
PHOENIX, AZ – In the aftermath of implementation of AZ
SB1070 Section 2b in Arizona, Los Comites de Defensa del Barrio will be
celebrating 4 years of resistance against the pogrom of state sanctioned
persecution and human rights violations in front of the Wells Fargo Bank in
downtown Phoenix at noon on Thursday, October 11th.
LA HUELGA DEL
PUEBLO
Celebration of 4 years of Resistance Against Racial Profiling
International
Divestment Campaign Against Wells Fargo and the
Private Prison
Industry
Press
Conference
When: Thursday,
October 11, 2012 at 12PM Noon
Where: Wells Fargo
Bank Downtown Phoenix - 100 W. Washington Phoenix, AZ
Contact: Salvador Reza (602) 446-9928; Anayanse Garza (602) 487-0186
In denunciation of the Human Rights violations that have
become institutionalized under the regime of Maricopa County Sherriff J.
Arpaio, the protest on Thursday is part of an international call to divest from
the financial institutions such as Wells
Fargo Bank that have been profiteering in collusion with the private prison
industry and their lackeys of the American
Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
Well Fargo Bank, a member of ALEC until this summer, was complicit and
remains in partnership with the Corrections
Corporation of America (CCA) who along with ALEC conspired to produce AZ
SB1070 as a money making scheme for the private prison industry in
Arizona. The subsequent operations
of the Maricopa County Sheriff, who remains a tenant of the Wells Fargo Bank
building to this day has resulted in the criminal and inhumane separation of
families as racial profiling degenerated into standard police practices across
Arizona under Section 2b of AZ SB1070.
Community members have sustained a daily protest in front of
Wells Fargo since 2008.
The Comités de Defensa del Barrio plan to multiply their
efforts by calling for an International
Day of Action and Continuous Divestment from Wells Fargo on Saturday,
October 13, 2012. On that day,
family members and community allies will peacefully protest outside of Wells
Fargo Banks throughout Phoenix, Tempe, Scottsdale and invite others to do so at
Wells Fargo Banks in their area.
Solidarity actions are also being organized in Mexico.
Wells Fargo has a long history of unethical practices and
was involved in the notorious Bracero
Program scandal of the 1950’s where the pensions of thousands of Bracero
workers were “disappeared” and never recovered.
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