Ordinary people just cost ICE’s jailers their lender.
For months they protested outside Citizens Bank branches from Washington to Vermont and moved $300 million to other banks. On Friday, Citizens said it will stop lending to GEO Group and CoreCivic, the private prison companies that run ICE’s biggest detention centers. The bank swears the decision was purely business, but it made that announcement one day before thousands of people planned to show up at its branches again.
John Lewis called this form of protest good trouble. Three days of voter registration and civil rights organizing in his name run through the weekend at hundreds of locations. Public pressure moved a bank this week.
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