My Labor Day Gift to You to Help to Keep the Resistance Fires Burning While At the Wheel or Barbecue

Hello everyone, This US Labor Day, as you take the day to trim your trees or cook for dozens or confront that long road trip home following your long holiday weekend away, I’d like to pass on this gift to you: I hope that it will help turn your outrage at what US democracy has become into action. It is one great big Call to Action, and something anyone can do from anywhere. It’s a way of bringing the resistance from the streets to the boardroom. Enjoy! And stay strong, my friends. The only way through this is…Together,In solidarity,✊🏼 SarahWHAT: The ProblemFor-profit prison companies, like publicly traded GEO Group and CoreCivic, are undeniably committing crimes against humanity. That makes them BAD BUSINESS. And they operate 90% of the ICE Gulag.WHY: The Scourge* Private for-profit prisons are metastasizing like a cancer in our society and body politic, compromising all our values.* Most of us don’t know to what extent we may be contributing to and benefiting from their crimes against humanity, but they are in the pension plans and retirement portfolios that are chosen for us by our labor unions, human resources departments, board trustees, and financial advisors.* Many mutual, exchange-traded, and index funds invest heavily in prison profiteers like GEO Group and CoreCivic. * These companies are helping to drive the expansion of the US prison-industrial complex and ICE’s gulag of concentration camps.* What’s more, they are making BANK by putting their profits over people.WHO: US!A growing group of civic, professional, faith, and community-based organizations called the Coalition for Values-Based Investment is asking YOU — individuals and institutions nationwide — to commit to making crimes against humanity BAD BUSINESS by finding and divesting from the bad actors hiding in all our financial portfolios. Stand against the craven injustice. But don’t stop there…HOW: What You Can Do About ItOur workshop and resources aim to help you, your communities, and constituencies answer discover:* The bad actors are hiding in your financial portfolio; so that you can* Make informed decisions about your investment, by divesting from crimes against humanity and rebuilding a retirement portfolio that reflects your values.Remember, investing your values does not mean devaluing your worth. It can be quite the opposite!WHEN: Now! There’s no time like the present to register your disgust at how our tax dollars — and our financial investments — are being used by a madman and his evil coterie to exact tremendous misery and traumatic harm on the many for the enrichment of the few.This back-to-school (and work) season, we can create meaningful change, together. Conscious collective investing is one way among many. Take a listen to the podcast above, or jump straight to our webinar here:Don’t forget to Heart, Restack, and Share =>My gratitude knows no bounds!SarahTales of Humanity is a reader-supported publication. If you like the information and perspective you find here, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. Get full access to Tales of Humanity at sarahtowle.substack.com/subscribe