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Timeline:
November 17th - 9 members of PCASC were arrested for refusing to leave a downtown Wells Fargo.
December 17th – As a part of Occupy Portland’s Immigrant Rights’ Are Workers’ Rights March, a stop was held by PCASC at Wells Fargo to voice continued opposition to their racist investments in private prisons.
January 16th – During the Sisters of the Road 19th Martin Luther King Jr March & Rally, PCASC stopped at Wells Fargo to express outrage over the destruction to communities of color which is caused by their investments in private prisons. A banner was dropped during the march calling for Wells Fargo to “dump [their] prison stock”.
January 24 – As part of a National Day of Action Against Wells Fargo, PCASC joined forced with We Are Oregon and Enlace to show that the community was organizing together to call out Wells Fargo for their terrible business practices.
Portland, OR Wells Fargo Protest, 1/24/2012 from Peter Parks
Feb 19th – PCASC Planning Retreat – PCASC members agree to take on a 2-year campaign against Wells Fargo for their investments in Private Prisons. They map out a 2 year vision on how to dismantle a major financier of the prison-industrial-complex.
February 29th – #F29 : Shut Down the Corporations – Focused on the connection Wells Fargo has with Correction Corporation of America, PCASC exposed the dirty connection to ALEC and their racist and unjust laws which turn people into commodities.
March, 19th – Celebrating Wells Fargo’s 160th Birthday! – To celebrate their proud history of economic exploitation and their bold new strategy of investing in private, for-profit prisons and immigrant detention centers, PCASC joined forces with our friends at We Are Oregon to deliver a special birthday message. We put together a boisterous cadre of clowns and prisoners, and invited ourselves to Wells Fargo’s birthday celebration at the Wells Fargo museum, housed in their massive tower in downtown Portland. Their small birthday celebration of cake and balloons was nicely complemented by our clowning, confetti, bubble-blowing, noise-making, and a spirited speech about their history of empire-building and their current investments in racial profiling and criminalizing communities of color. Our departing birthday wish was that Wells Fargo divest from the private prison industry. After leaving the Wells Fargo museum, we visited two other Wells Fargo branches and brought the same revelry there, making a scene and passing out information to passers-by. A festive time was had by all.
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