Santa Rosa: Protesting Wells Fargo profit in private prisons and predatory lending
by Ann Garrison
KPFA Weekend News, Jan. 8, 2012
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KPFA/Ann Garrison: The birth of America’s private prison industry may be traced to 1984, when, during the Reagan administration, the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service became the first federal agency to contract for private correctional services. Human rights activists have protested corporations profiteering on incarceration and the private prison lobby since.
On Friday, a coalition of immigrant rights and Occupy activists temporarily shut down two branches of Wells Fargo Bank in Santa Rosa and distributed a flyer charging that Wells Fargo profits from the private prison business now booming on increased immigrant detention. They also said that the bank received $43 billion in taxpayer-funded federal bailouts and then continued to foreclose on hardworking, taxpaying families rather than modify loans.
Santa Rosa is the largest city and the county seat of Sonoma County, where the U.S. Census last reported that the population is 16.3 percent foreign born and that 23 percent speak a language other than English at home.
Jésus Guzman: Heat has been coming down on Wells Fargo for some time, ranging from being fined by the Federal Reserve to a possible case coming down on Wells Fargo for their illegal foreclosures and predatory loans from our attorney general here, Kamala Harris. They were fined $85 million for falsifying loan documents and pressuring folks into subprime mortgages.
KPFA: Jésus Guzman said that the coalition had not yet called on Santa Rosa to move city funds into credit unions or create a municipal bank, but they hope to research both options.
Jésus Guzman: Again, that’s our money as taxpayers. If it’s going to Wells Fargo, then that’s something we want to find out, so we’re going to do some more research. And one of the best things to do is really investing it locally here.
KPFA: The City of San Francisco also takes its business to Wells Fargo and to Bank of America and Union Bank. And at San Francisco’s first hearing on the possibility of creating a San Francisco Municipal Bank, social justice advocates testified to both Wells’ predatory lending practices and private prison profiteering.
For Pacifica and KPFA, I’m Ann Garrison.
San Francisco writer Ann Garrison writes for the San Francisco Bay View, Global Research, Colored Opinions, Black Star News, the Newsline EA (East Africa) and her own website, Ann Garrison, and produces for AfrobeatRadio on WBAI-NYC, Weekend News on KPFA and her own YouTube Channel, AnnieGetYourGang. She can be reached at ann@afrobeatradio.com. This story first appeared on her website.
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