Inspectors Needed

Written by Japhet

The Global Finance team is putting together one of the largest actions for this Tuesday, April 12th. This national day of action will involve hundreds of people around the country with specific flagship actions in New York City and Chicago. Targeting JP Morgan Chase and their famed Investments of Mass Destruction the goal is to draw attention to their lack of support for the Equator Principles, and agreement between financial institutions such as Citigroup, Bank of America and others, to commit to assessing the social and environmental risk in project financing. Since these banks have the largest sphere of influence worldwide, its a necessary first step to limiting the negative impact these banks have on our forests, waterways and wildlife. However, JP Morgan refuses to even take this initial first step. They’d rather stay in their cave. Help us get them out of the dark and on the road to financial integrity and progress. Sponsor a bank, make some noise, and bring JP Morgan Chase on board. If you’re really into it you’ll need to check out www.dirtymoney.org and find out the filty facts on JP Morgan’s project financing practices.

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Posted on 10 April 2005

About the Author

After a lifetime on the East Coast and getting stuck in the Midwestern suburbs of Chicago and northern Michigan I'm finally on the West Coast in the always cool and never hot city of San Francisco. Japhet worked for various outdoor organizations before becoming a member of Howard Dean's webteam (a lowly online organizer) in Burlington, Vermont. Afterwards, he continued his election work with America Coming Together in Madison, Wisconsin where he helped increase voter turnout to the highest in state history. Now, coming back to this environmental and corporate ethics roots, Japhet is excited to put his skills to use for Rainforest Action Network.

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