Chase Bank is the world’s largest funder of fossil fuels — it’s loaned the fossil fuel industry $196 billion since 2015. Unacceptable! That’s why we’re visiting all 44 Puget Sound branches today to tell Chase to stop #BankingOnClimateChange!
On April 10th, 2019 activists in twenty-two cities shut down branches of Chase Bank across the country. Seattle activists temporarily closed forty-four bank branches, and my team, EarthWindSolar, visited six Chase banks.
EarthWindSolar Team gets ready to hit the banks.
Cold day and we are wearing many layers under the fat suits.
Photo credit to guy walking by with his dogs who agreed to take our photo if we held the dogs.
We think it looks like an album cover and are considering releasing first album by EarthWindSolar, featuring the sound of wind turbines and solar panels.
This felt like my Patty Hearst/Tania moment as the bank managers reacted as if we were carrying automatic weapons into their banks, possibly because the young man with solar panels is wearing a mask.
We personally visited six Chase Bank branches. Managers all seem to have no sense of humor or whimsy.
Ironically, CEO of Chase Bank, Jamie Diamond, was spending the morning at a hearing before the U.S. House of Representatives’ Financial Services
Committee to explain why the mega banks have continued to engage in
frauds against the investing public since the big bail-out in 2008.
