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Dear John,
Mass incarceration, war and occupation, border security, police militarization, and mass surveillance are systems of state violence and oppression. But for many large corporations, they’re simply profitable markets with almost endless growth opportunities. For far too long, corporations have used their immense political influence and power to expand and entrench harmful systems of state violence—putting profits over the health, well-being, and human rights of people.
Join AFSC and partners on June 16 to learn how communities around the world have used the power of economic activism to hold corporations to account and achieve social change. Register for our webinar today.
Economic activism creates effective leverage on companies and industries using tools such as media campaigns, quiet diplomacy, consumer boycotts, institutional divestment, legal action, and investor engagement. Since its founding in 1917, AFSC has supported and led boycott and divestment campaigns linked to the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S., South African apartheid, farmworkers’ rights, the occupation of Palestine, and the rights of people in prison.
Today, AFSC’s Economic Activism program investigates the ways in which corporations get deeply entangled in policing and mass surveillance, border walls and mass incarceration, war, and occupation. We offer strategic research for action and unique tools for corporate engagement and investment screening, tailored to the needs of activists and investors seeking change.
Sign up for our webinar on Wednesday, June 16 to hear about three successful economic activism campaigns, what made them successful, and how you can take part in our ongoing efforts to hold corporations accountable for human rights violations.
Speakers include Jacinta González, Mijente’s Senior Campaign Organizer, who will give us insight into the No Tech for ICE campaign, and Morgan Simon of the Candide Group, who will discuss how a grassroots coalition succeeded in getting the largest banks in the U.S. to announce they would stop giving credit and loans to private prison companies.
We hope to see you there.
Dov Baum
Economic Activism Director
P.S. Can’t join the webinar but want to support our economic activism work? Help us continue our work by making a gift today.
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