Coal miners visit Madison, NJ

Written by Japhet

Topics: Coal

Probably one of the best all around actions during the Step It Up weekend, our activists in Madison, NJ strolled down Main Street to their local Chase bank to shed a little light on the banks financial support of coal-fired power plants. My favorite photograph is of the three miners sitting in the waiting room of the bank, waiting to close their personal accounts with the bank (they really did have accounts and really did close them…which is probably the only reason they were allowed into the bank). Priceless moment in our campaign for sure. Well done folks, and keep it up!

For more pics of their action checkout our Flickr account.

Coal miners waiting to close their bank accounts at Chase in NJ.

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Posted on 16 April 2007

Tags: coal, step-it-up, step-it-up-2007

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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