Multi-State Standout at Citizen’s Bank

Saturday,  3/7, at 12:30 pm 

Organizer: Brattleboro Indivisible 

Location: 894 Putney Road Citizens Bank 

Let’s do it again!  Stand up with groups at over 50 Citizen Bank branches across the region to send them a clear message: financing The GEO Group and CoreCivic is bad for business.

Citizens Bank says it’s committed to strengthening communities. BUT as nine other prominent Wall Street banks have ceased financing private prisons, like CoreCivic and the Geo Group, Citizens Bank has deepened their funding relationship.

These notorious for-profit prison companies are being called on to be part of an unprecedented expansion in capacity as part of the current administration’s mass detention, deportation, and surveillance policies. They are poised to make huge profits as the system grows. Since 2019, most lenders have cut ties with these two companies due to allegations from forced labor to securities fraud. Not Citizens Bank.

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 private prison industry in response to activism should be a reminder to us that our voices matter.

Now it’s time to use them.

An interactive map of participating locations is available here.

Bring your signs specific to this protest: 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; People Over Prison Profits

Visit https://www.boycottcitizens.org/ for more information.

A core principle behind all Indivisible Brattleboro 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. 

Contact: indibrattleboro@gmail.com