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Dozens Protest Bank of America in “Fight BAC” Action

HeadlineMar 16, 2012

Dozens of people rallied in New York on Thursday to protest Bank of America for its foreclosure practices and billions in government aid. At least three people were arrested after demonstrating at a Bank of America branch.

Austin Guest: “The message today was very simple. Bank of America is a criminal institution that has stolen $230 billion in bailout money alone from the American people. They’ve stolen our homes. They steal from taxpayers, and they kill the environment. So today we took our homes to Bank of America. We’re starting a campaign to break up the bank, to end the Bank of America corporation, to take its assets and redistribute them to institutions that will be accountable to the American people. Because it’s our money, right? It’s our trillions of dollars that they’ve been using to fly on jets, to buy their houses while they kick us out of ours. So we’re going to take our money, and we’re going to put it into institutions that do things that are good for our people, and not institutions that hurt, destroy and rob from our people.”

Occupy Wall Street members have organized the so-called “Fight BAC” action to continue through May.

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