John,

You did it -- you showed TD Bank, and the international banking industry, that we will hold them responsible every single time it tries to reinvest in private prison corporations.

Just 24 hours after you helped launch our campaign calling on TD Bank to divest from Trump’s favourite private prison company, GEO Group, the bank promised to recommit to never investing in the GEO again.

When we found out that TD Bank quietly bought tens of thousands of shares in GEO Group during the start of the pandemic, we started a petition. Within hours, more than 20,000 of you signed the petition and SumOfUs landed an exclusive story on Bloomberg News. In response to your pressure, TD told the Bloomberg reporter that it no longer holds the shares in GEO and commits to not have financial ties with private prison corporations in the future.

Due to the decades-long grassroots campaign, every single bank in the world committed to end financial ties with GEO and CoreCivic last winter. It was a massive win against the American prison industrial complex and the two companies that are responsible for building Trump’s concentration camps along the Mexican-US border where kids are held in cages and separated from their parents.

And thanks to your pressure on TD Bank, every bank in the world knows we will be watching them to make sure they never invest in the infamous private prison corporations again. Please watch and share the video explaining this important win against TD and the American prison industrial complex.  

Please watch and share the video explaining this important win against TD and the American prison industrial complex.

This is not the first time that SumOfUs members led and won a campaign pressuring financial institutions to divest from GEO Group. Last year, through the pressure of tens of thousands of SumOfUs members, including hundreds who showed up at CPP’s public events, we forced a 300 billion dollar pension plan to stop its investment in GEO Group and CoreCivic.

And together we now got Canada’s second largest corporation, TD Bank, to commit to distance itself from notorious private prison corporations.

Thank you for continued pressure pushing for the end of the American prison industrial complex.