A growing boycott against Citizens Bank is part of a campaign to pressure it to divest from financing CoreCivic and GEO Group, two of the nation’s largest private operators of ICE jails.

Julie Cohen, an Oscar-nominated film director, and her husband, Paul Barrett, a former reporter with The Wall Street Journal, gave an interview about their decision to close their accounts at Citizens Bank over its financial involvement with ICE.

According to Barrett, Citizens Bank has helped provide some $2 billion in financing for GEO Group and CoreCivic.

Goodman notes that the CEO of GEO Group, David Donahue, claimed last year that Delaney Hall, which is run by GEO, could represent an additional $130 million in annual revenue. Barrett and Cohen want to see Citizens Bank walk away from their relationship with GEO. Barrett noted that communities in multiple states are successfully pressuring community officials to put up barriers to these facilities.

Action Item: check out De-ICECitizensBank.org. There are more than 90 protests planned outside Citizens branches all over the country.

(Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action. Emphasis original.)