JPMorgan Chase’s Carnival of Destruction
This morning RAN, the New York Action Network, the Waterkeeper Alliance and the Sierra Club organized a “Carnival of Destruction” outside JPMorgan Chase’s mid-town Manhattan headquarters. Scores of protesters gathered to demand that the bank stop financing the coal industry, including the devastating practice of mountaintop removal coal mining. Just last week JPMorgan Chase – financed company, Massey Energy began blasting on Coal River Mountain, an action that makes this morning’s protest even more urgent.
We called this protest a “Carnival of Destruction” because JPMC’s investments in dirty coal truly are the Most Shocking Show on Earth. Check out pictures below:
-Annie
Update: Watch this video from the action!
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October 29th, 2009 at 11:10 am
Thank you so much from West Virginia– you ROCK!
The destruction of our mountains and streams won’t end until all of America screams “stop”.
October 29th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
[...] Rainforest Action Network [...]
October 30th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
[...] braaaaiiins and end mountaintop removal. In New York City, yesterday activists gathered for the Carnival of Destruction at JP Morgan Chase’s HQ in mid-town Manhattan (Chase is the biggest funder of MTR on Wall [...]
October 31st, 2009 at 7:27 am
Here is a video from the carnival of destruction at the JPMorgan Chase HQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxg6NnErN2I
November 4th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
All right Annie!!! We were honored that you stayed with us!
November 5th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
[...] outside of JPMorgan Chase, the largest Wall Street financer of coal company Massey Energy, in an effort to stop Massey from destroying Coal River Mountain, possibly the last preserved swathes of land in West [...]
November 5th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Dirty coal = dirty money = evil deeds by dirty corporations
November 6th, 2009 at 5:48 am
it is TIME to EVOLVE past the past!
November 6th, 2009 at 5:52 am
David Rockerfeller whom used to work with chase manhatten wants to crash the US dollar and shut down the internet and HE is an example of what has taken over ARIZONA ( police FED, PRISON< slave state)
November 10th, 2009 at 6:28 am
Coal also causes black lung disease and kills many miners. We can find natural ways of keeping warm without raping our planet. Greed is not one of the ways.
November 11th, 2009 at 8:45 am
[...] sat in at the offices of the Environmental Protection Agency in DC. They descended on the local outposts of the EPA and JP Morgan Chase — Big Coal’s biggest bankroller still standing — in over twenty cities [...]
January 6th, 2010 at 5:41 pm
[...] Read more about this on The Understory. [...]
January 29th, 2010 at 5:07 pm
Everyone needs to move their money out of the large banks and put it into Community Banks and Credit Unions which help support local businesses. If the banks get the word that people will no longer just put money in a bank to get the best interest rate they will start to make the necessary changes.