Action Against Wells Fargo Bank January 6 2012

[neil]

Occupy Santa Rosa Joins With Immigrant Groups for Action Against Wells Fargo Bank

Mark your Calendars! Join us in protesting Wells Fargo's investments in for-profit immigrant detention centers and immoral home forclosures!

Occupy Santa Rosa, Graton Day Labor Center, D.R.E.A.M. Alliance of Sonoma County, Committee for Immigrant Rights of Sonoma County, and MECHA at SRJC.

Let's make this HUGE! Stand in SOLIDARITY with our immigrant neighbors! Build the movement for a better world!

Neil

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[neil]

Please come out Friday Jan 6 for a big rally and march against Wells Fargo. Occupy Santa Rosa is joining with Graton Day Labor Center, D.R.E.A.M. Alliance of Sonoma County, Committee for Immigrant Rights of Sonoma County, and MECHA at SRJC to protest Wells Fargo's investments in for-profit immigrant detention centers and home forclosures.

We will rally at noon at the corner of Sebastopol Rd and West Ave (the old Albertson's parking lot) in Santa Rosa, and then march to the bank.

LET'S MAKE THIS HUGE!

Here is more information about Wells Fargo and immigrant detention:

Wells Fargo Fact Sheet.pdf

This NPR article discusses the link between private prison companies and laws like Arizona's SB 1070:

https://www.npr.org/2010/10/28/13083...mmigration-law

Let's start the new year right--in the streets! See you there!

Neil

[zenekar]

Occupy Santa Rosa Joins With Immigrant Groups for Action Against Wells Fargo Bank

Mark your Calendars! Join us in protesting Wells Fargo's investments in for-profit immigrant detention centers and immoral home forclosures!

Occupy Santa Rosa, Graton Day Labor Center, D.R.E.A.M. Alliance of Sonoma County, Committee for Immigrant Rights of Sonoma County, and MECHA at SRJC.

Let's make this HUGE! Stand in SOLIDARITY with our immigrant neighbors! Build the movement for a better world!

Neil

CORRECTION: From Old Albertson's in Roseland the destination of the march will be Courthouse Square for another rally with speakers. The march will not go directly to Wells Fargo bank. Some people will go to Wells Fargo from Courthouse Square. This will be a nonviolent event.

[Barry]

Friday Jan. 6 Wells Fargo Rally & March

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Posted on January 4, 2012 by 99percenter

RALLY: Old Alberston’s Parking Lot, 665 Sebastopol ROAD , Santa Rosa (Roseland)
South of Hwy 12 on the northeast corner of West and Sebastopol Road
MARCH: The destination of the march will be Courthouse Square for another rally with speakers
BRING:
Water!
Banners! Signs! Flags! Creativity! Friends!
Sunscreen and snacks
Cameras! Take thousands of pictures to help cut thru the bias and blame and show the story in an entertaining, balanced and compelling way. (See below.)
FLYERING: Help Build the Jan. 6 Wells Fargo Rally and March
• Come to an “Outreach Shift!”
• What: join up with a crew of people and hit up the town – or flyer in front of grocery stores and go door-to-door to talk with the community about this action
• When: every day at 9am and 4pm
• Where: start at the Peace and Justice Center, 467 Sebastopol Avenue, Santa Rosa

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Wells Fargo Facts

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Posted on January 1, 2012 by turningplanet

WE STAND FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE
Wells Fargo received $36.9 billion in bailout funds in 2008.
Earlier this year, according to the Huffington Post, “Federal investigators concluded that senior managers at Wells Fargo, the fourth-largest U.S. bank by assets, broke civil laws.” The Federal Reserve itself said in July that “more than 10,000 Wells Fargo borrowers were inappropriately steered into more expensive subprime mortgages or had their loan documents falsified by bank personnel.”
Wells Fargo continues to be one of the top ten servicers of sub-prime mortgages – with a portfolio in the tens of billions of dollars.
WE STAND FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS
Wells Fargo also owns about 4 million shares of GEO Group and about half a million
shares of CCA (Corrections Corporation of America), private prison companies that profit from the detention of undocumented workers in inhumane conditions.
Wells Fargo was one of the first financial institutions to begin accepting Matriculas
(Consular IDs) from Latino customers, in 2001. The bank has opened up approximately 525,000 accounts using Matriculas, comprising about 6% of the bank’s total accounts.
This means that Wells Fargo actively markets banking services to undocumented migrants, then knowingly uses these workers’ savings to invest in and profit from their detention.
Wells Fargo must answer for these illegal and cynical actions!
March with us on January 6 for economic justice and immigrant rights!
For more on Wells Fargo and the prison industry, see this Fact Sheet.
For more on immigration and private prisons, watch “Immigrants for Sale” and read “The Shocking Ways the Corporate Prison Industry Games the System.”

[Barry]

Meet at 11:30 at the square for carpool to the rally and march.

[ubaru]

Anyone have a report on how it went?

Friday Jan. 6 Wells Fargo Rally & March

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Posted on January 4, 2012 by 99percenter
RALLY: Old Alberston’s Parking Lot, 665 Sebastopol ROAD , Santa Rosa (Roseland)
South of Hwy 12 on the northeast corner of West and Sebastopol Road
MARCH: The destination of the march will be Courthouse Square for another rally with speakers
BRING:
Water!
Banners! Signs! Flags! Creativity! Friends!
Sunscreen and snacks
Cameras! Take thousands of pictures to help cut thru the bias and blame and show the story in an entertaining, balanced and compelling way. (See below.)
FLYERING: Help Build the Jan. 6 Wells Fargo Rally and March
• Come to an “Outreach Shift!”
• What: join up with a crew of people and hit up the town – or flyer in front of grocery stores and go door-to-door to talk with the community about this action
• When: every day at 9am and 4pm
• Where: start at the Peace and Justice Center, 467 Sebastopol Avenue, Santa Rosa

[Barry]

Anyone have a report on how it went?

I didn't make but the PD did:

Allies in protest seek common cause
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/articl...p=all&tc=pgall

By MARTIN ESPINOZA
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

Published: Friday, January 6, 2012 at 11:46 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, January 6, 2012 at 1:17 p.m.

At least 300 Occupy Santa Rosa supporters and local Latino activists marched from west Santa Rosa to Old Courthouse Square on Friday to protest financial ties between Wells Fargo Bank and two large companies that operate correctional facilities and immigration detention centers.

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Dancers perform during an occupy and immigration march and rally that started at the
old Albertsons shopping center on Sebastopol Road, ending at Courthouse Square.
Crista Jeremiason / The Press Democrat

• Occupy Immigration March

The march, which began around noon in Roseland, one of the city's largest Latino neighborhoods, was the first event to bring together Occupy supporters and local immigrant rights activists.

“It's really a wonderful thing to see the Occupy movement reaching out and embracing the immigrant rights movement,” said Richard Coshnear, a Santa Rosa immigration attorney and a member of the Committee for Immigrant Rights.

Jesus Guzman, one of the main organizers of the march, said the event marked a “defining moment” for both movements and “it's about time.”

Friday's rally was slow in gaining momentum. At first only a few dozen people showed up and the march didn't get under way until about an hour and a half after the rally had started. By that time the rally had attracted about 300 people, though participants said they counted about 400.

During the rally, organizers performed political theater pieces on the back of a large flatbed tow truck. The performances blasted Wells Fargo for its business relationship with both the GEO Group and Corrections Corp. of America, which operate correctional facilities and detention centers where illegal immigrants are kept.

Activists also criticized the bank for home foreclosures they said have devastated families.

A Wells Fargo representative said Friday that the bank's relationship with those two companies is being unfairly characterized.

Holly Rockwood, a bank spokeswoman, said the bank does not invest money in those companies but rather serves as an adviser and administrator to mutual funds that include the companies.

Rockwood said Wells Fargo “respects” the seriousness of the ongoing debate on immigration reform. She also said the bank does not discriminate against minority communities.

She also said the company does not “take positions on public policy that don't directly affect our ability to serve our customers or support our team members, our employees.”

The march and rally were peaceful with only a handful of apprehensions at local Wells Fargo Bank branches.

At about the time the procession was arriving at Old Courthouse Square, two apparent demonstrators were able to enter the bank before it closed at about 2:30 p.m. Bank security told police that the demonstrators, a man and a woman, were refusing to leave and they were later taken into custody.

A group of about two dozen Occupy and immigrant rights advocates picketed in front of the Wells Fargo Bank on Third and B streets. Some of the demonstrators wore bright orange jump suits representing immigration detainees.

Some Wells Fargo customers were turned away because of the protest.

Roberto Lopez of Santa Rosa said, somewhat annoyed, that he didn't know why people were “striking” in front of the bank. “It's a good bank,” he said.

Even those customers that showed up to withdraw or deposit cash from Wells Fargo ATMs got an earful.

“Just take it out one day,” Justin Smith, an Occupy Santa Rosa participant, said to a man leaving an ATM. “Right behind you is Circle Bank.”

You can reach Staff Writer Martin Espinoza at 521-5213 or [email protected].

[Barry]

And here's a great video montage with an original sound track from the Occupy Santa Rosa Band!

[neil]

Here is a good short video on the for-profit immigrant detention centers which Wells Fargo, acting as a trustee, invests heavily in. The video talks about how the private prison companies and their investors work to draft anti-immigrant legislation to ensure the jails stay full and profits stay up.

[Quintessence]

[zenekar]

And here's a great video montage with an original sound track from the Occupy Santa Rosa Band!

Interesting collage of the Jan. 6 WF action but I caution the person who produced it to not insert photos -- police in riot gear and the prison photo -- that were not from the event. No reason to sensationalize it by including deceptive images. We get enough of that from the corporate media. Let's keep it honest!