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Houston r.a.n. targets Bank of America center sucessfully today
by Rachel Ford
Friday, Aug. 31, 2007 at 5:28 PM
faerystar333@mail2world.com 832-579-8391
At the Bank of America center in downtown Houston (700 Louisiana) for the next few days one can find a banner hanging in their lobby urging Bank of America to stop funding mountiantop removal. This comes in thanks to the newly formed chapter of Rainforest Action Network Houston.
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In solidarity with mountainjusticesummer.org The newly started Houston Rainforest Action Network group targeted downtown Houston's Bank of America headquarters at 700 Louisiana St.
The security guards of bank of america were a little confused and off-guard as 7 members of Houston R.A.N. let loose a banner supported by over two dozen hellium filled balloons stating "Bank of america STOP Funding mountain top removal" in the main entrance lobby. There were no arrests and over several hundred fliers were handed out to people coming and going from the bank. As the banner climbed several stories to rest on the ceiling bank security admitted that the banner would remain there untill the balloon lost helium and dropped on it's own. I guess after funding king coal bank of america could not afford the costs of getting the banner down to save face.
Pictures will be posted later as they are available. For more info go to dirtymoney.org and mountainjusticesummer.org
And listen in on kpft. 90.1fm pacifica radio for peace at 5pm. today (Aug. 31) on local news
This should be available if you missed it after the show ends.
We will be doing more direct action here in Houston in the future. It is time for the consumers and concerned citizens in Houston to start holding corporations accountable and using their voices! We have set up a Myspace account for our R.A.N. chapter and I hope more Houston folks will be less adament to participate next time. It was a lot of fun!
For those of you who wanted to here the feed from kpft about the protest we did today you can go to this website:
http://houston.kpft.org/site/PageServer?pagename=kpft_local_news
Find Subscribe to the KPFT News Podcast.
and click the link
Find KPFT Local News, Fri, August 31, 2007
and rightclick on the link for the feed and choose save target as
it will download and come up in your media player
from here sit back... listen... and laugh
Celebrate with us, the mountains, the communites in the affected areas, concerned humanity in general etc!
www.myspace.com/ranhouston
The banner
by Rachel Ford
Friday, Aug. 31, 2007 at 5:28 PM
faerystar333@mail2world.com 832-579-8391
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www.myspace.com/ranhouston
Informing the public
by Rachel Ford
Friday, Aug. 31, 2007 at 5:28 PM
faerystar333@mail2world.com 832-579-8391
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www.myspace.com/ranhouston
Storming the bank
by Rachel Ford
Friday, Aug. 31, 2007 at 5:28 PM
faerystar333@mail2world.com 832-579-8391
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www.myspace.com/ranhouston
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