Bank of America
Marches, students and nurses
By adamg - 10/6/11 - 6:45 am
On march through Downtown Crossing. Photo by Jeff Tamagini. More.
Occupy Boston almost had its first arrests Wednesday. Marchers moved out from Dewey Square and surrounded the Bank of America headquarters on Federal Street (where 24 had been arrested in a different protest on Friday). They began to lock hands around the entrances. Police called in prisoner transport wagons. And then, they broke for a bite to eat. Protesters also demonstrated outside Goldman Sachs offices on High Street:
Criminal charges dropped against would-be Bank of America occupiers
By adamg - 10/4/11 - 1:42 pmThe Suffolk County District Attorney's office today dropped misdemeanor trespassing charges against 24 people who tried to stage a sit-in at Bank of America's Massachusetts headquarters as a protest against its lending and foreclosure policies on Friday.
"The Commonwealth makes this recommendation based on the peaceful nature of the protest and the non-confrontational manner of their interactions with police," Assistant District Attorney Susan Terrey said in Boston Municipal Court today.
The change, accepted by the protesters, ranging in age from 19 to 68, means none will face a criminal record as a result of the protest, organized by Take Back Boston, a coalition of local and national groups that also staged a weekend protest in Dorchester.
24 arrested at Bank of America protest
By adamg - 9/30/11 - 5:09 pm
BPD Supt. William Evans made one of the first arrests.
The protesters were taken away from the bank's Federal Street building when they attempted a sit-in as a protest against the bank's lending and foreclosure policies.
The six who I saw arrested at the bank's front entrance went peacefully when police asked them to stand and hag plastic restraints put on. The six had taken up position in groups of two at the doors. Boston Police Superintendent William Evans made the first arrest.
Some 1,500 people participated in the protest, organizers of Take Back Boston say.
Mystery Pill took this video:
Dewey Square takeover might be the smaller protest on Friday: Bank of America targeted for afternoon sit-in
By adamg - 9/29/11 - 12:39 pmAs the Occupy Boston forces gear up to occupy the space in front of South Station on Friday, participants in another protest will be marching around the Financial District - before settling down for a sit-in at Bank of America's Massachusetts headquarters on Federal Street.
Take Back Boston says it will have as many as 1,000 people in a march that starts at 3:30 p.m. at the Parkman Bandstand on the Common. The protest march will visit Verizon, embroiled in a contract dispute with workers, Hyatt, which fired those 100 workers, NStar and Fidelity before arriving at Federal Street, where 40 of the protesters - many people from Dorchester who have lost their homes to foreclosure - will stage a sit-in. In a statement, organizers say:
They take out the trash - and leave it on bank president's front steps
By adamg - 9/22/11 - 11:15 amMalden Patch reports foreclosure protesters gathered up trash from a foreclosed Malden house they say Bank of America has let go to hell, then took it over to the Beacon Hill home of the president of the bank's Massachusetts division and dumped it there.
Red Line not only thing that stopped working today: Bank of America computer systems are down
By adamg - 7/12/11 - 1:25 pmMax Silver reports:
Scary - all Bank of America systems in Boston area are down. No account management possible.
USuncut takes action against Bank of America in Harvard Square
By Anonymous - 2/27/11 - 3:42 am
"We won't pay for your crisis"
If you have $3 in your wallet, you have more money than Bank of America paid in corporate taxes last year. On Saturday, USuncut took peaceful action against the Bank of America branch in Harvard Square by protesting the unfair tax code and drawing attention to that fact this ginourmous Bank of America happily profits from taxpayer-funded bailouts and banking business but avoids paying almost anything in Federal taxes.
If we let you photograph those flowers, the terrorists have won
By adamg - 5/13/09 - 9:33 amGuy taking macro shots of tulips in front of a Bank of America branch downtown is ordered to stop by a bank rent-a-cop.
