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Following nearly two years of public pressure to cut all ties to private prisons, Wells Fargo divested nearly 75 percent of its aggregate holdings in the GEO Group, the nation’s second largest private prison company, according to the latest SEC filing. The following is a statement by Emira Palacios, vice president of National People’s Action Board of Directors:

This past weekend, Sunflower Community Action went toe to toe with Wells Fargo and won!

Wells Fargo set up a table at an event sponsored by the Mexican consulate's office in Wichita, Kansas to try to recruit new customers. Sunflower set up a table right next to them to tell people the truth about Wells' extensive ties to the private prison industry.

The response to Storm Wells Fargo Facebook Day was awesome! We asked you to leave comments on Wells Fargo’s page calling it out for investing millions of dollars in private prisons, an obvious contradiction to its state vision and values, and boy did you respond.
   
 

Help us get the word out about Wells Fargo's hypocrisy and the profits it reaps from financing the private prison industry and the detention of immigrants even as it court Latino customers aggressively.
 

Help us get the word out about the profits Wells Fargo reaps from financing the private prison industry and the detention of undocumented immigrants even as it courts Latino customers. 

3.7 million families lost their homes between 2008 and 2012.  Meanwhile Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and JP Morgan Chase reaped in $93 billion profits between 2009-2011 -- after receiving more than $374.5 billion in taxpayer bailouts.  (Big Banks Make Bad Neighbors, Our Future Minnesota http://www.ourfuturemn.org/files/2012/06/Big-Banks-Make-Bad-Neigbors-Report.pdf)

Wells Fargo employees are having meetings about us. Yes, we are starting to get under their skin.

A member from Marshalltown, Maria Alvarez, called and reported on her interaction with the branch manager when she closed her Wells Fargo account because of their investments in private prisons, predatory lending, and giant executive bonuses.

Chanting “That ain’t right” and “Wells Fargo, you’re the worst, time to put the people first!”, the National People’s Action (NPA) occupied three Wells Fargo banks today.

The NPA says that 1,000 community leaders from 25 states shut down three Wells Fargo branches to denounce the bank’s ties to private prisons and payday lending. The event included testimony from Abel Pacheco’s whose 11 year-old daughter was detained — alone — in a private detention center for 84 days.

99% Power in Washington D.C.

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