President Obama has just rejected the Keystone XL pipeline!
This puts a halt to current plans for a massive 1700-mile pipeline that would have allowed some of the world’s dirtiest oil to travel from Canada’s tar sands through America’s heartland — jeopardizing our water, our air and our climate.
RAN activists took to the streets of San Francisco last night and turned every Bank of America ATM in the city into an Automated Truth Machine.
The activists used special non-adhesive stickers designed to look exactly like BoA’s ATM interface. But instead of checking and savings accounts, these new menus offered a list of everything BoA customers’ money is being used for, including investment in coal-fired power plants, foreclosure on Americans’ homes, bankrolling of climate change, and paying for fat executive bonuses.
Here’s a handy map showing all 85 ATMs we made a little more truthful last night:
The stickers also encourage BoA customers to “Stop doing business with Bank of America until they start behaving responsibly” and have the URL to our new blog, which we’ve just launched along with The New Bottom Line:
BankruptingAmerica.tumblr.com.
We’re using that blog to track all the ways BoA is bankrupting America, hence the name. We’ve received so many submissions it’s clear to us that this website was badly needed. There are lots of grievances to be aired with regard to how Bank of America is conducting its business these days, as it turns out. (Not that that’s terribly surprising.)
Check it out, and feel free to submit if you’re so inclined.
Update: The response to this action has been so huge that we’ve made the design available as a high-res PDF. It’s available here. We ARE NOT suggesting you do anything with it.
There’s so much opposition to Bank of America’s practices that it’s almost become a movement unto itself. We figured it was high time the movement to hold BoA accountable had its own website, so we teamed up with The New Bottom Line to launch the Bankrupting America blog, where we’ll be posting videos, photos, and other report-backs from every single protest or campaign aimed at holding BoA accountable for its practices that are wrecking our economy and our environment. But we can’t do it without you.
If you’re a dissatisfied BoA customer and closing your account, an activist or organizer involved in a protest or campaign, or simply someone disgusted by BoA’s banking practices, we want you to submit to the blog. Just go here.
In addition to news about protests against BoA, we’re also looking for calls to action for protests against Bank of America, brand jams/logo jams or any other creative materials spoofing Bank of America and its profits-over-people-and-planet business model, news relating to Bank of America’s practices that are bankrupting our economy and wrecking our climate, and anything else creative or inspiring that we never could have even dreamed of.
Why Bank of America? There are plenty of reasons why the bank deserves all the attention it’s getting these days. To name just a few:
Check out the blog at BankruptingAmerica.tumblr.com and share the content with your networks, submit a post, and help us call Bank of America out for wrecking our economy and our planet in the name of profits.
