Merrill Lynch was visited by a group of billionaires supporting their investment in TXU and their coal fired power plants on Wednesday. However, the bank was also visited by a group of real activists, demanding the bank drop TXU and stop funding dirty coal and global warming. The two made for an interesting day in the financial district downtown San Francisco.
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Posted on 23 February 2007
Tags: coal
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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