UPDATED Bank of America Shareholder Meeting Protests Underway
UPDATED: Wednesday, May 9th at 1:30 EST As Bank of America’s executives, board, and shareholders gathered at the bank’s shareholder meeting in Charlotte, NC, thousands of protesters took to the…
Bank of Coal: Bank of America Stadium Gets Renamed
As the largest financier of the U.S. coal industry, Bank of America should be called the “Bank of Coal.” So we decided to rename it. Today, five RAN activists scaled…
Dirty Money: U.S. Banks at the Bottom of the Class
Today Rainforest Action Network and the Sierra Club released our Coal Finance Report Card 2012, our third annual ranking of the largest financiers of mountaintop removal coal mining and coal-fired…
Greenwash of the Week
It’s the time of year when banks put their ‘best foot forward’ and prepare to be scrutinized by their shareholders at annual general meetings (AGMs). It’s a legal requirement, the…
What If You Owned Bank of America? We Teamed Up With The Yes Men to Find Out What You’d Do
Yesterday morning, Bank of America announced that it was turning over a new leaf, rebranding itself as “Your Bank of America” and seeking the American public’s input on how it…
North Carolina Tax Day Actions Make BofA Pay
North Carolina activists put their training into practice today, filling Bank of America branches in five cities with the buzz of people power. The 99% of Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill,…
Bank Of America Vs. The World: Charlotte, NC On May 9th
It sucks to be Bank of America. BoA is wrecking the planet for profit, wrecking the economy for fat cat executive bonuses, and foreclosing on millions of American Dreams. And…
Top 10 Dirty Corporate Tax Dodgers of 2011
Two weeks ago it was announced that the U.S. has the highest corporate tax rate in the world sparking furious debate from Fox News types concerned about corporate well being….
North Carolina’s 99% Spring is Coming for Bank of America
Heads up Bank of America and other corporate baddies: the North Carolina 99% Spring is upon you. What happens when over 100,000 committed activists unchain their imaginations and take action?…
Corporate Drag Gets The Goods
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…