Boycott them:

• #BankOfAmerica (#BofA)
• #FifthThird
• #JPMorgan #Chase
• #PNC Bank
• #Suntrust
• #USBank (#USBancorp)
• #WellsFargo

Did I miss any?

And note that non-US banks are not off the hook here. Many banks in Europe invest in JPMorgan who then invests in private prisons in the US.

(clearnet link to the same page for those without Tor).

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The Families United Against Torture and for Human Rights that we accompany in Frayba are made up of people who have achieved their freedom and follow a process of searching for justice and truth; as well as relatives of survivors of torture in detention, mostly women, grandmothers, mothers, sisters, daughters, nieces, aunts who, out of love, promote justice for their relatives. Those who make up Familias Unidas come from the municipalities of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, La Concordia, Pichucalco, Jiquipilas, Palenque, Playas de Catazajá, Teopisca, Villaflores, Chilón, Cintalapa, Venustiano Carranza, Huimanguillo, and Tabasco.

The survivors, as well as their families, have reflected that torture is part of a State strategy, with clear methods to generate physical and mental pain, to generate fear and terror, break the social and solidarity fabric, intimidate the population and , as a form of control, to inhibit defense and justice actions.

At Frayba for 32 years we have accompanied relatives and victims of acts of torture. Governments of all colors have passed, constitutional and legal reforms too, but illegal detentions accompanied by acts of torture continue to be the main investigation method of the Attorney General's Office of the State of Chiapas, simulating justice, filling the prisons with victims of human rights violations.

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Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (December 9, 1842 – February 8, 1921) was a Russian anarchist and geographer known as a proponent of anarchist communism.

police-jobs-suck.com:

Would you wear a uniform that evokes fear & distrust in your neighbors?

Would you risk your mental well-being, affecting you & your loved ones?

Would you be comfortable with helping send someone to prison for years because of a petty parole violation or non-violent offence?

Would you participate in actions that split apart families?

Are there other ways you can build safety, beyond policing, in your community?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/8465104

The allegations against L.B., made by an anonymous caller at 4:45 a.m. that day, were false. These included that she was a stripper (she worked at a home for people with disabilities); that she used drugs (none were found, and a drug test was negative for all substances); and that an abusive man lived with her and that she owned “machine guns” (after an exhaustive search and interrogation, both claims were deemed baseless).

In fact, L.B. has never been found to have committed any type of child maltreatment, ACS and court records show.

Yet the anonymous caller, whom L.B. believes to be a former acquaintance with a grudge, has continued to dial in to New York’s state child welfare hotline. Each time, this person or possibly people make outlandish, often already-disproven claims about her, seeming to know that doing so will automatically trigger a government intrusion into her domestic life.

And ACS obliges: Over the past three years, the agency either has inspected her home or examined and questioned her son at school more than two dozen times. Caseworkers have sought a warrant for only three of these searches, most recently in August. All of those requests have been rejected by judges, according to court records.

In recent days, scientists from the School of Plant Sciences at Tel Aviv University have announced that they have recorded with special ultrasound-sensitive microphones the screams of pain that plants emit when they are cut or when they lack water. In Gaza there are no microphones.

Giorgio Agamben, October 30, 2023