<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class="">We have started going more to Safeway. It feels so creepy to see the Wells<br class=""></blockquote>Fargo folks in there smiling at people and socking in local dollars to support </div><div>anti immigrant causes. It makes me want to go stage an action.</div><div>Do any of you ever get this feeling.</div><div>Richard<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="color: rgb(75, 75, 75); font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(231, 235, 237); width: 1884px; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td width="5%" style="min-width: 5px; font-size: 0px;" class=""> </td><td width="90%" class=""><table width="700" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="background-color: rgb(231, 235, 237); font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; 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font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word;" class="">In the wake of massive public pressure on the banking sector and widespread outrage about family detention and child separation by the Trump Administration,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong class="">Wells Fargo publicly stated that private prisons are a risky investment and run counter to its human rights policies.</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong class="">Now</strong> <strong class="">more than 100 organizations, representing millions of people, are demanding that these banks take the next step and explicitly commit to ending their relationship with CoreCivic and the Geo Group</strong> — the two largest private prison corporations profiting from family separation and detention.<sup style="vertical-align: top; position: relative; top: -0.5em;" class="">1</sup></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 22.5px; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word;" class="">This<strong class=""> Valentine’s Day, thousands of activists, including moms, kids, immigrants, and allies, will rally outside of the headquarters of JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo locations across the country to urge the banks to stop financing for-profit prison corporations. </strong></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 22.5px; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><strong class=""><a href="http://act.presente.org/sign/wellsfargochasevalentines/?t=7&akid=6634%2E55380%2EJ3kkTK" style="color: rgb(247, 147, 29); text-decoration: none;" class="">Take Action: Demand that banks show some love to our families this Valentine’s Day and break up with private prisons!</a></strong></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 22.5px; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><strong class="">We need members like you to show up in numbers and flex your power! Can we count on you to attend our action in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://act.presente.org/go/33819?t=8&akid=6634%2E55380%2EJ3kkTK" style="color: rgb(247, 147, 29); text-decoration: none;" class="">NYC</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://act.presente.org/go/33837?t=9&akid=6634%2E55380%2EJ3kkTK" style="color: rgb(247, 147, 29); text-decoration: none;" class="">San Francisco</a>?</strong></p><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><a href="http://act.presente.org/sign/wellsfargochasevalentines/?t=10&akid=6634%2E55380%2EJ3kkTK" style="color: rgb(247, 147, 29); text-decoration: none;" class=""><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.presente.org/images/editor-2019-02-08.jpg" alt="Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase stop financing pain" style="border: 0px; width: 600px; max-width: 600px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" class=""></a></div><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 22.5px; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word;" class="">What does immigrant detention have to do with private prisons? More than <strong class="">60% of immigrant detainees are held in privately owned facilities and private prisons receive over $1B a year in contracts from ICE – that's almost $5.5M a day of taxpayer money!</strong><sup style="vertical-align: top; position: relative; top: -0.5em;" class="">2</sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The inhumane and cruel conditions our immigrant families face in these detention centers have led to deaths of 2 children in the past year.<sup style="vertical-align: top; position: relative; top: -0.5em;" class="">3</sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong class="">One death is too many, and our banks are complicit in the violation of human rights and the desecration of our democracy.</strong></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 22.5px; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><strong class="">We can do something about it;</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>together, we can align our money with our values. Your hard earned dollars shouldn’t be funding the private prison industry and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong class="">we must stop caging immigrant families and children for profit.</strong></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 22.5px; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><strong class=""><a href="http://act.presente.org/sign/wellsfargochasevalentines/?t=11&akid=6634%2E55380%2EJ3kkTK" style="color: rgb(247, 147, 29); text-decoration: none;" class="">Demand that banks show some love to our families this Valentine’s Day and break up with private prisons!</a></strong></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 22.5px; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><strong class="">Attend an action on Valentines Day in<a href="https://act.presente.org/go/33819?t=12&akid=6634%2E55380%2EJ3kkTK" style="color: rgb(247, 147, 29); text-decoration: none;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>NYC</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>or<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://act.presente.org/go/33837?t=13&akid=6634%2E55380%2EJ3kkTK" style="color: rgb(247, 147, 29); text-decoration: none;" class="">San Francisco</a>.</strong></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 22.5px; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word;" class="">Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase continue to fund the biggest operators of private prisons and immigrant detention centers.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong class="">These banks are supporting an industry responsible for widespread human rights abuses and deeply unethical business practices — profiting from confining mostly Black and brown adults and youth in some of the most dangerous and abusive conditions in the country.</strong> We won’t stand by while banks profit politically and financially from tearing apart families and traumatizing children. We need you to flex your people power and invest back in communities.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 22.5px; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word;" class="">Every family should have a safe bed to tuck their children into at night, but CoreCivic and Geo Group are profiting off of traumatized children and families who are separated and locked up just for seeking that safety.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong class="">We have the power to correct Trump’s zero-humanity policy by holding private prison profiteers accountable; it is ultimately up to us to free our families and reunite children with their parents.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 22.5px; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><strong class=""><a href="http://act.presente.org/sign/wellsfargochasevalentines/?t=14&akid=6634%2E55380%2EJ3kkTK" style="color: rgb(247, 147, 29); text-decoration: none;" class="">Demand that banks show some love to our families this Valentine’s Day!</a></strong></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 22.5px; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><strong class=""><a href="https://act.presente.org/go/33819?t=15&akid=6634%2E55380%2EJ3kkTK" style="color: rgb(247, 147, 29); text-decoration: none;" class="">Attend an action on Valentines Day.</a></strong></p><img src="https://act.presente.org/o.gif?akid=6634.55380.J3kkTK" alt="" class=""><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 22.5px; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;" class=""><a class="ak-button" href="http://act.presente.org/sign/wellsfargochasevalentines/?t=26&akid=6634%2E55380%2EJ3kkTK" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; border-top-left-radius: 8px; border-top-right-radius: 8px; border-bottom-right-radius: 8px; border-bottom-left-radius: 8px; background-color: rgb(247, 147, 29); display: inline-block; padding: 0px 22px; margin-bottom: 10px; line-height: 32px; height: 32px; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-transform: uppercase; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;">PLEDGE<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a></p><div style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 22.5px; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 22.5px; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><b class="">Thanks for all that you do y ¡Adelante!</b></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 22.5px; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word;" class="">– Matt, Elisa, Erick, Kelly, Erica, Favianna, Reetu, Oscar and the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://presente.org/" style="color: rgb(247, 147, 29); text-decoration: none;" class="">Presente.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>team.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 22.5px; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><em class="">P.S. Can you <a href="https://act.presente.org/go/33840?t=17&akid=6634%2E55380%2EJ3kkTK" style="color: rgb(247, 147, 29); text-decoration: none;" class="">donate $5 to support our work?</a> We rely on contributions from people like you to see campaigns like this through.</em></p><div style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 22.5px; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><br class=""><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 22.5px; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word;" class="">References:<br class="">[1] "<a href="https://act.presente.org/go/33820?t=18&akid=6634%2E55380%2EJ3kkTK" style="color: rgb(247, 147, 29); text-decoration: none;" class="">What Do Big Banks Have To Do With Family Detention? #FamiliesBelongTogether Explains</a>."<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em class="">Forbes</em>. September 25, 2018.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">[2] "<a href="https://act.presente.org/go/33821?t=19&akid=6634%2E55380%2EJ3kkTK" style="color: rgb(247, 147, 29); text-decoration: none;" class="">The Facts—Real Money Moves</a>."<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em class="">#<a href="http://realmoneymoves.org/" style="color: rgb(247, 147, 29); text-decoration: none;" class="">RealMoneyMoves.org</a></em>. November 14, 2018.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">[3] "<a href="https://act.presente.org/go/33822?t=20&akid=6634%2E55380%2EJ3kkTK" style="color: rgb(247, 147, 29); text-decoration: none;" class="">22 Immigrants Died in ICE Detention Centers During the Past 2 years</a>."<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em class="">NBC News</em>. 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