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By adamg - 10/6/11 - 7:45 am
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By adamg - 10/4/11 - 2:42 pm
The Suffolk County District Attorney's office today dropped misdemeanor trespassing charges against 24 people who tried to stage a sit-in at Bank of America's Massachusetts headquarters as a protest against its lending and foreclosure policies on Friday.
"The Commonwealth makes this recommendation based on the peaceful nature of the protest and the non-confrontational manner of their interactions with police," Assistant District Attorney Susan Terrey said in Boston Municipal Court today.
By adamg - 9/30/11 - 6:09 pm
BPD Supt. William Evans made one of the first arrests.
The protesters were taken away from the bank's Federal Street building when they attempted a sit-in as a protest against the bank's lending and foreclosure policies.
The six who I saw arrested at the bank's front entrance went peacefully when police asked them to stand and hag plastic restraints put on. The six had taken up position in groups of two at the doors. Boston Police Superintendent William Evans made the first arrest.
Some 1,500 people participated in the protest, organizers of Take Back Boston say.
Mystery Pill took this video:
By adamg - 9/29/11 - 1:39 pm
As the Occupy Boston forces gear up to occupy the space in front of South Station on Friday, participants in another protest will be marching around the Financial District - before settling down for a sit-in at Bank of America's Massachusetts headquarters on Federal Street.
By adamg - 9/22/11 - 12:15 pm
Malden Patch reports foreclosure protesters gathered up trash from a foreclosed Malden house they say Bank of America has let go to hell, then took it over to the Beacon Hill home of the president of the bank's Massachusetts division and dumped it there.
By adamg - 7/12/11 - 2:25 pm
Max Silver reports:
Scary - all Bank of America systems in Boston area are down. No account management possible.
By Anonymous - 2/27/11 - 3:42 am
"We won't pay for your crisis"
If you have $3 in your wallet, you have more money than Bank of America paid in corporate taxes last year. On Saturday, USuncut took peaceful action against the Bank of America branch in Harvard Square by protesting the unfair tax code and drawing attention to that fact this ginourmous Bank of America happily profits from taxpayer-funded bailouts and banking business but avoids paying almost anything in Federal taxes.
By adamg - 5/13/09 - 10:33 am
Guy taking macro shots of tulips in front of a Bank of America branch downtown is ordered to stop by a bank rent-a-cop.
By adamg - 4/8/09 - 1:40 pm
Word reaches us that Bank of America has told Stillman's Farms it can't use the bank parking lot off Centre Street for its farmer's markets this year:
By adamg - 6/4/08 - 7:24 pm
Steve S. gets that real secure feeling when he notices the armed security guard asleep at the Bank of America kiosk - and he explains why, in the end, he decided not to knock over the bank.
By adamg - 4/1/08 - 1:50 pm
... But by 10 a.m., dozens of police had surrounded the bank and were waiting for equipment to cut through the chains and the bicycle lock looped through the door and around one protester's neck. ...
The story also raises that perennial question: Is Copley Square part of downtown?
By adamg - 3/10/08 - 5:41 pm
Milan Kohut had been charged with peddling without a license when police objected to him standing outside a Financial District branch of the Bank of America with a pile of nooses and a sign reading "Nooses on sale."
On Friday, a Boston Municipal Court judge dismissed the charges, the Dig reports. Kohut had argued he was making a political comment about the mortgage crisis, not actually trying to sell downtown workers a way to hang themselves. He's now asking for his nooses back.
By adamg - 12/18/06 - 10:31 pm
On Soho the Dog, Matthew does some back-of-envelope calculations and concludes the bank pulled its $600,000 annual donation not out of any sense of tough love for the series (bank officials talked of forcing the series to broaden its base of support) but because it simply gets more of a marketing bang out of similar donations to the MFA and BSO. And it will only get worse, he writes:
By adamg - 12/14/06 - 8:09 am
Joel Brown discusses Bank of America's decision to stop funding the Celebrity Series, started by predecessor FleetBank:
...Both sides make nice with quotes about how important it is for givers and getters to diversify and blah blah. But basically this is the now out-of-town bank yanking major support from an arts series that has been a mainstay. ...
It's another reason to patronize a locally owned bank, Leslie Turek writes.
By adamg - 11/17/06 - 7:54 pm
Josh Ourisman begins to compile a list of banks to consider now that he's leaving the clutches of Bank of America. Jason Legg offers some additional alternatives.
By adamg - 11/15/06 - 8:02 pm
Imagine you've just added $11,000 to the $9,000 you already had in your account, then checking your balance and seeing the bank thinks you have a balance of -$6,000. You might not be very happy. Even after they figure out what happened and fix it.
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