Activists with RAN Chicago attached a banner to Chase's HQ in downtown Chicago. This was part of an escalating campaign in the Windy City to expose Chase's financing of destructive mountaintop coal mining in central Appalachia.
Activists thus far have been using culture jamming and street protest to educate and raise awareness of Chase's financial dealings. Today’s banner hang adds just one more action to RAN’s broader campaign to raise public awareness and pressure Chase to cease funding mountaintop removal. The ongoing campaign includes delivering letters to Chase branches throughout Chicagoland, educating Chase customers and employees, distributing stickers, and writing chalk messages on sidewalks and other publicly visible areas.
Chase has a pervasive presence in Chicago, second only to New York, and offices some of Chase's heavy hitters including William Daley (former Commerce Secretary under Clinton, brother to Chicago mayor Richard Daley, and son to former Chicago mayor Richard P. Daley).
Actions of this nature have begun to receive increased amounts of attention. A Climate Action march and rally this past October and a demonstration against the Chicago Climate Exchange in November also put a focus on supporting truly clean energy.
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