Starting Date: 09-17-2004
Starting Time: 5:00pm
Boston Common
Boston, Massachusetts
United States
617-921-3659Rainforest Action Network and SEAC present:
The 2004 GLOBAL FINANCE CAMPAIGN
"Back to School" BBQ and Party!
WHAT: Music, Food, Speakers, and Fun in the Park on a Friday Afternoon!
WHERE: Boston Common Stage, Boston, MA (nearest T stop is Park Street on
the Red Line)
WHEN: Friday, September 17, 4:00 - 7:00 PM
WHO: You!
EXTRA ACTION! Join us at 12:30 PM on Friday 9/17 for a rally at John
Hancock's
corporate headquarters!
Meet at Copley Square to speak truth to power and challenge one of the
largest
insurance companies in the world to adopt responsible environmental
standards!
Contact dan@ran.org or kait@riseup.net to get involved in helping put this
event
together!
WHY: The global economy is out of whack. Big banks, at the heart of the
world
financial system, are investing in big oil, old growth forest destruction,
and
projects that displace indigenous communities all around the world. Many
of these
companies have no standards whatsoever to guide their investment
decisions. They
use their customers' money to finance environmental destruction, often
without the
consent of these customers. The Global Finance Campaign is redirecting
the global
economy away from environmentally and socially destructive investment and
into
clean, sustainable, and socially just alternatives.
As a result of citizen action, RAN and others helped bring down Citigroup,
the
world's largest bank, in January of 2004. After 4 years of relentless
campaigning,
Citi finally agreed to adopt landmark new environmental standards. A few
short
months later, facing mounting public pressure and scrutiny, Bank of
America (and
Fleet, its subsidiary) agreed to even more sweeping policies that set new
standards
for the entire banking industry.
This summer, folks around the country have been delivering a powerful
message to big
banks: the era of destructive investment is over, and if they want to keep
their
customers, banks must adopt strong environmental standards and stop financing
projects that contribute to climate chaos and forest destruction. "BBQ the
Banks"
has been a summertime campaign aimed at a set of the nation's worst banking
companies. With a little humor, a little nerve, and plenty of free
tofu-dogs,
activists have spoken to the customers, employees, and managers of the
nation's most
irresponsible banks, educating them about the role banks play in
environmental
destruction and urging the companies to do the right thing by adopting
environmentally ethical investment standards today.
The Boston "Back to School" BBQ brings our summer to a close and sets the
stage for
the next phase of the Global Finance Campaign. We're celebrating our
successes so
far in 2004, and getting ready to move the campaign forward into 2005 and
beyond!Geographical Scope: Local Day of Action |
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