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"The country has seen the images of humans in cages and heard the cries of children begging to be reunited with their parents. Our immigration enforcement system is cruel and inhumane.
Members of MomsRising signed thousands of petitions and delivered letters to their local Chase bank branches from coast to coast as part of the nationwide Families Belong Together Corporate Accountability campaign.
- Read more about Moms Celebrate That JPMorgan Chase Will No Longer "Bank the Private Prison Industry"
Ana Maria Archila is the co-executive director for the Center for Popular Democracy, a national network of community organizations and individuals that has organized public protests at the bank’s headquarters, at annual meetings and outside the bank’s chief executive’s home in Manhattan.
Johnson also serves on the board of Local Progress, a group of progressive elected officials across the country.
For the first time in decades, rent control is under serious consideration by lawmakers across the country.
- Read more about Rent Control Passed in Oregon. Will it Work as a Housing-Crisis Solution Nationwide?
Rent control isn't the only way to fix the current housing crisis. But it is one of the easiest.
Make the Road NY, the Center for Popular Democracy, and New York Communities for Change were among the organizations credited with pressuring the bank to stop bankrolling CoreCivic and GEO Group, the nation's largest private prison operators.
Over the past few years, there’s been a steady drumbeat of actions from civil society addressing this relationship.
Although JPMorgan Chase does not directly admit it, it was grassroots and digital organizers who pressured cancellation of these contracts, after shining a national spotlight on the profitable backing of hate.
Affordable housing -- or lack thereof -- isn't an issue confined to Oregon. While the U.S.
