No More Prisons

Tuesday, April 9, 9 AM - 11 AM

Lehman Brothers' Annual Meeting

@ 399 Park Avenue (meet on Lexington btw 53 & 54)

(Will feature angry shareholders and the Lehman Brothers chain gang.)

Contact Not With Our Money! c/o Prison Moratorium Project, 646.486.6715, nwom@nomoreprisons.org



Before the end of June 2002, Lehman Brothers plans to pull off the biggest private prison finance deal of all time--a $1 billion refinancing package for Corrections Corporation of America. If they are successful, CCA will be back on solid footing and ready to begin building facilities to house more than 20,000 immigrants whom the Federal government plans to send to for-profit private prisons.



In order to stop this deal, we need your help. We need to show Wall Street that prison profiteering is not only wrong but also bad for business by raising our voices with Lehman and Lehman's clients (including city and state governments, pension funds and universities). Please come out on March 21 and April 9 to show your opposition to prisons-for-profit.



This year, celebrate Pesach with JFREJ.
Tell Lehman Brothers,
the #1 financier of
the private prison industry,
LET MY PEOPLE GO!



LEHMAN BROTHERS - WHERE PRISONS GET BUILT.
Lehman Brothers has been financing prisons since at least 1997. Last December, Lehman helped Cornell Corrections raise $42 million to build a new immigrant prison in rural Mississippi. In Cornell's 3rd quarter report, CEO Steve Logan enthused that:



"there are over 900,000 undocumented individuals from Middle Eastern descent [in the U.S.]. That's half of our entire prison population. … The federal business is the best business for us. It's the most consistent business, and the events of September 11 is [sic] increasing that business."



Now Lehman is preparing to refinance the giant Corrections Corporation of America with a $1 billion credit agreement.



As Jews, we are appalled that two million men and women-most of them young people of color convicted of non-violent drug offenses-are locked up in our country. We are horrified that the prison industry and Lehman Brothers view September 11 as the beginning of new financial opportunities in the mass detention of undocumented immigrants.



Jewish philanthropist Henry Kaufman is on the Lehman Brothers Board. Let him know that prison profiteering is wrong and shameful. Call him at 212-758-7100.



Richard Fuld is Chairman and CEO of Lehman Brothers. Let him know that you care about this issue and want Lehman to divest. Call him at 201-524-2000.



Invest in freedom. Join JFREJ's Passover Action.
Tell Lehman Brothers: "Dayenu. Divest."

Thousands Expected To Tell Albany To 'Drop The Rock'

On Tuesday, March 26, New Yorkers will go to Albany to demand that state legislators repeal the draconian, Rockefeller-era drug laws. Many made the same trip last year as part of the ongoing "Drop The Rock" campaign.

The Rockefeller Drug Laws, enacted in 1973, impose mandatory prison terms of up to 15 years to life for the possession or sale of small amounts of drugs. The drug laws drive prison expansion, fill upstate prisons with non-violent offenders from communities of color in New York City, and drain resources from effective alternatives to incarceration, such as drug treatment and education. There are over 21,000 drug offenders currently in New York State prisons; 94 percent are African-Americans or Latinos.

via nyc indymedia