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Related: About this forumbusted for busting out at bank of america
http://www.nationofchange.org/busted-busting-out-bank-america-1331569295Stripping Protestors In Pink Bras Crashed Bank Of America CEO Brian Moynihan's Speech, declared Business Insider on March 8, showing Moynihans stern photo with a pink bra playfully dangling in the air beside him.
Its true, things did get a bit wild at Citi's Financial Services conference at New Yorks Waldorf Astoria when Brian Moynihan got on stage and began flipping through his tedious powerpoint.
While the hotel security was busy watching anti-bank protesters rallying outside, CODEPINK cofounder Jodie Evans, dressed in a hot pink bustier, burst into the conference room. Bust up Bank of America before it busts up America, she shouted, before being hauled out by security guards. As I was saying, continued a deadpan Moynihan to the laughter of the crowd, returning to the dreary slides that tried to put a rosy spin on this dinosaur of a company whose share price has plummeted while it continues to foreclose on families homes and faces tens of billions of dollars in damages from lawsuits over mortgage investments.
Little did Moynihan know that the excitement at what is normally a bankers snoozefest had just begun. CODEPINK codirector Rae Abileah and I were already seated in the front of the room. Wearing dark business suits, we did our best to blend into the crowd of stodgy white men in black business suits.
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busted for busting out at bank of america (Original Post)
xchrom
Mar 2012
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TheWraith
(24,331 posts)1. Just when I'd hoped Code Pink had finished embarrassing the left. nt
Magoo48
(5,361 posts)2. Is your group planning something more effective, or are you simply a critic?
saras
(6,670 posts)3. So call the wahmbulance, and have them send drones for Anonymous while you're at it
The only thing I see embarrassing about it is that we live in a country that calls for tens of thousands of such actions, and that's not so much embarrassing as humiliating.
Yeah, code pink shouldn't have been there. Enough police officers, and soldiers, should have been there to round up all the bankers and give them few chances to die while attempting to escape before their trials and sentences
But we don't get to live in a good country at this point.
U4ikLefty
(4,012 posts)6. Why would a centrist care?
Note, I did not mention pom-poms
UnrepentantLiberal
(11,700 posts)7. Just when I thought Obama had stopped emulating Ronald Reagan...
ellisonz
(27,739 posts)4. Previous thread:
JoeyT
(6,785 posts)5. I wondered why threads on this were getting negative attention.
Then I remembered Code Pink said something mean about Obama once.