Billionaires from across North Carolina converged on Bank of America branches in Asheville, Chapel Hill, Charlotte and Raleigh in a stunning show of support for the bank’s coal investments.
Sipping “dirty martinis” made with coal and holding signs with slogans like “More profit, less mountains” and “Our bottom line is the bottom line,” the Billionaires for Coal have been gathering at branches of their favorite bank - calling attention to Bank of America’s investment priorities and defending their choices to fund the coal industry and ignore the environmental and human rights consequences coal mining and power.
In North Carolina’s affluent Research Triangle, an organized Billionaire Bloc paid visits to Bank of America’s main branch in Chapel Hill, an office in downtown Raleigh, and another smaller but very well-trafficked branch in Raleigh.
Dressed in top hats, gowns, monocles and feather boas, these Billionaires for Coal staged a demonstration calling for increased coal development. They chanted “Get your dirty mountains off our clean coal!” and thanked customers for their support. Meanwhile, a group of counter-protesters leaf-letted about the ecological and human rights consequences of dirty energy investment and held banners decrying the bank’s support for mountaintop removal mining.
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