Zombie March on Coal’s Top Investorts, Copley Square, Boston
by Ian Maclellan
Today zombies descended upon Copley Square to visit the local Bank of Americas and Citi Banks to raise awareness about and protest their funding for new coal power plants and coal in general.
The event was organized by Rising Tide Boston, who had this to say about the event:
Bank of America and Citibank are top investors in coal. Ravenous coal companies, funded billions of dollars by these banks, are literally blowing the tops off of mountains throughout Appalachia to extract seams of coal. Nearly 500 mountains have been decapitated, and over 1200 miles of rivers and steams have been buried with debris and toxic waste. Associated floods, landslides, and explosions have driven communities from their homes while destroying surrounding ecosystems. Burning coal is the nation’s top source of air pollution and toxic mercury, and is responsible for one-third of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. Despite all of this, more than 150 new coal-fired power plants are in various stages of development around the country. If completed, these plants would have a total effect equivalent to doubling the number of cars on our roads. Meanwhile, our government is relaxing laws in order to allow for even more coal mining.
Now’s the time. Dress in your finest gore and living dead attire, and descend on the banks, and if you’re not dead yet, take the future into your own hands and join us at 4PM on October 31st in telling Bank of America and Citibank to…
STOP MAKING A KILLING ON COAL!
COAL IS OVER! FUND THE FUTURE!
Comments
i like the idea of tying the holiday dress with the subject of the protest. use of coal, “clean” technology included, and those who finance this program is contentious as we explore the alternatives for powering our society. though i believe all alternatives should be on the table, it appears coal is a lose/lose situation as it costs more energy than it provides and has a negative environmental impact.
nice capture ian
[…] Photos available here. Mountaintop removal coal mining is the most destructive coal extraction process, where mountains are clear cut, blasted with tons of pounds of dynamite, then the “overburden”, or what used to be the mountain, is shoved into the streams carrying much of our nation’s freshest source of water. The coal is then extracted cheaply from what used to be the mountain, leaving a virtual moonscape. This process and the chemicals involved poisons the air and water of surrounding communities, resulting in cancer, asthma, a plethora of other sicknesses, and death. […]
[…] Photos available […]
hey!! I love the pictures!! it looks like it was a total succes!!
love you all
Great pictures and protests! I used some of them in this weeks Energy Action Coalition Video Blog with a link to the blog post. http://www.powershift09.org/blog/
Great news about Bank of America acknowledging the harm they were causing by funding MTR.
Keep up the great work
Thanks everyone for your kind words and thanks for using these pictures on a bunch of different blogs. I have been thinking a lot about using these sorts of pictures as a platform to start a larger photo project about the environment and environmentalists. I really want to take portraits of head members of organizations like Earth First and then go to things like Whale Wars. Who knows what I’ll end up doing!