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“Protesters outside 270 Park earlier this afternoon. They were giving out cake so Dimon can ‘have his cake & eat it too.’ Group called ChaseU.”
Earlier today, we were told that Brian Moynihan’s speech at the Citi Financial Services was interrupted by several protesters chanting “bust up Bank of America before it busts up America.” One did so running down the aisles, one jumped onto the stage and grabbed the mic from Moynihan, and one “jumped on a table in front of the stage and pulled off her top to show the slogan written across her chest,” before being escorted out. Some of, as is your wont, requested visual evidence before you would believe it happened. Here you go. Read more »
Apparently this group was downtown earlier today, marching with music and signs that read “make banks pay” and “people before Wall Street, Governor Cuomo.”
Protesters outside the Bank of America Bryant Park building, where the firm’s annual meeting is taking place today and where they are taking issue with the bank’s mortgage issues.
Apparently some people are of the mind that Cerberus Capital Management is racist. Read more »
Unclear on the details but according to our photog, the people out front of the bank’s building on 299 Park “are waving the flag of Tibet and holding signs that say something belongs in China.”
It’s part of their new tactic re: protesting his commencement speech this weekend. Which oughta send a message. Read more »
[A participant in yesterday's festivities, waiting downtown to give Lloyd a mustache ride. ]
Yesterday’s Wall Street Protest: A Good Time Was Had by All [Daily Intel]
Let it be known: you do not have to be a strapping, beautiful, devastatingly charming bank executive and no friend of the city of Atlanta to have university students get their panties in a bunch over your speaking engagements at their school. Members of Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs are “up in arms” over Vikram Pandit’s selection as their commencement speaker this year. Read more »
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