This event was hosted by As You Sow

Ready to help defund the prison industrial complex, exploitative prison labor, and immigration detention centers? Join As You Sow and leading experts for this webinar as they discuss how Prison Free Funds can help you find out if your money is invested in these economic systems of oppression and exploitation. By using this free online tool, you will be able to harness your economic power to divest from these systems and support the movement for true equality and liberation for all people.

Panelists include:

• Patience Marime-Ball, Founder and CEO, Women of the World Endowment

• Dalit Baum, Director of Economic Activism, American Friends Service Committee

• Julie Goodridge, Founder and CEO, Northstar Asset Management

• Andrew Behar, CEO, As You Sow

For-profit firms have flooded money into prison and detention center infrastructure — and lobby for harsher policing and longer sentencing, even for non-violent offenders. Mass incarceration is particularly devastating for poor communities, immigrants, people of color, and their families. Inmates work for pennies per hour while their families pay exorbitant fees to keep them supplied with bare necessities. Powerful, private equity interests and corporations reap enormous profits.

If this is not your idea of justice, you certainly don’t want your mutual fund investments, including 401(k) plans, supporting it. Join this webinar to learn more.

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