Sometimes change doesn’t come from the direct action camps or the hard actions putting a wrench in the gears of the machine. Sometimes it comes from putting on a suit and having a conversation. Case in point, while traveling in New York this week, I attended the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit. The schedule featured [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Last Thursday night, a team of activists working with our Energy & Finance campaign went out and turned all of Bank of America’s ATMs in San Francisco into Automated Truth Machines. A videographer rolled along with the team we sent out to hit the BoA ATMs in Chinatown and the Financial District, and put together [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 2, 2011
From coast to coast, the heat is on Bank of America for its bad practices. Yesterday, a second action in the past two weeks took place in Bank of America’s home state of North Carolina, resulting in multiple arrests at a BoA branch, this time with Appalachian residents fed up with the company and its [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 30, 2011
A new report titled “Bankrolling Climate Change” calls out the top 20 banks that are financing the dirty coal industry. The top three “climate killers” will not come as much of a surprise: JP Morgan Chase, Citi, and none other than Bank of America top the list with $22 billion, $18.27 billion, an $16.79 billion [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 31, 2011
Update: More signs that the pressure is working: Bank of America has dropped its plan to charge a $60 annual fee for its customers to access their own money! We’ve got to keep the pressure on. If you haven’t already, sign the pledge to stop doing business with Bank of America until it stops wrecking [...]
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
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