Bank Of America Protest: Dozens Storm Bank Branch In DC

[laughingliberal]

Dozens of noisy purple-shirted SEIU protesters stormed a Bank of America branch near the U.S. Capitol on Monday, forcing the bank to close down as confused customers looked on and tellers retreated to an interior room.

Other groups from SEIU and National People's Action were set to stage protests at BofA's and JPMorgan Chase's lobby shops downtown as part of a daylong anti-K Street extravaganza.

A security guard told HuffPost the branch would be closed only temporarily.

From there, the group blocked an intersection in D.C.'s tiny Chinatown, then stopped by a Citibank branch. "Corporate greed has got to go!" <snip>

More at link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/17/bank-of-america-protest-d_n_578539.html

A little public unrest could be persuasive.

[Scuba]

1. Woo Hoo !!!!

[arcadian]

2. Hell yeah

this needs to happen every day

[grasswire]

3. go! go! go!

I've been thinking of protesting at my local branch, but one person can't make much of a swarm.

Ha! Employees retreated to an interior room. I hope they were sore afraid.

[greencharlie]

4. couldn't happen to a "nicer" bank...

:sarcasm:

[grasswire]

5. the comments on huffpost are weird

Lots of wingnuts and freepers over there!

[kctim]

6. Yeah

intimidating and frightening $10 and hour tellers will make such a huge impact.

[laughingliberal]

8. They protested at an executive's home yesterday.

I'd like to see protests at many branches and many executives' homes. Maybe a little public unrest will get their attention. Nothing else has.

[Lost4words]

9. what would you suggest?

[grasswire]

7. here's live coverage on moveon.org

http://www.moveon.org/kstshowdown/?id=20471-15640209-ZC4YSAx&t=1