Ash Lauth

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Organization: Energy Action Coalition
Location: Washington, DC

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Bank of America's "Automated Truth Machines" hit Washington, DC!

This morning people across Washington, DC got a dose of reality about Bank of America.

In the dark of night activists went to all known Bank of America branches and over 50 ATMs to transform them into “Automated Truth Machines.”

Activists used special non-adhesive stickers designed to look exactly like BoA’s ATM interface, so when people went to use ATMs in the morning they would learn the truth about Bank of America. Instead of checking and saving accounts, these new menus offered a list of everything BoA customers’ money is used for, including investment in coal-fired power plants, foreclosure on Americans’ homes, bankrolling climate change, and paying for fat executive bonuses.

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Students Take to the Streets, and to the Branches: Stories from Bank of America Day of Action

What’s worse than being the #1 financier of the coal industry? Fleecing students and young people 1 trillion dollars in order to fund it. Yesterday, student debt topped an astonishing 1 trillion dollars. It’s not only the largest financial crisis ever, it all rests on our generation. What did we do? We took to the streets for 1T Day to take back our education from the clutches of Big Banks.

Yesterday was also a day when one of the worst banks saw a well-deserved day of action. Bank of America felt the ire of students across the country in the National Day of Student Action on Bank of America, and heard the demands of young people calling for an end to coal financing, home foreclosure, and crushing student debt.

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Punk'd! Bank of America's Phony Letter Admitting Profits Before People

Bank of America got punk'd bad today in a hilarious mock site called YourBofA. On the site, BofA CEO Brian Moynihan, "publically admits" that Bank of America had cheated the nation out of bililons of dollars, engaged in predatory lending practices, executed aggressive and discriminatory foreclosure campaigns, and made the disastrous choice of investing in coal and moutain top removal.

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