[act-ma] 11/16 Stop Financing Death: Stop War, Save Climate!

[Charlie Welch]

*Stop Financing Death: Stop War, Save Climate!*

*Protest at Chase Bank*

*Downtown Crossing, Boston*

*Wed November 16 @ 11:00 am** - 1:00 pm EST*

Meet behind Park Street Station, Boston, MA

@ 11am Wednesday November 16th

Veterans For Peace and allies will be demonstrating at JP Morgan Chase at
the Downtown Crossing location in Boston on November 16th 2022.

During COP27, while world leaders gather to make commitments to slowing
climate devastation, VFP aims to draw attention to the financial support
for fossil fuel corporations and war profiteering and demand an end to
support for leading climate destroying companies.

As veterans we have been used as the violent strong arms for resource
extraction, transportation and oppressing community resistance against
corporate exploitation. We will stand in opposition to Chase’s partnerships
with climate destroyers and inform Chase customers of the negative impacts
of JP Morgan Chase has on the climate and world peace.

According to the PAX report Don’t Bank on the Bomb, between 2017 and 2019
over 300 financial institutions invested at least $748 billion in the
Military Industrial Complex. Out of all these companies Chase Bank ranks in
the top 10 with investments of almost $24 billion or 3% of the total. Their
Aerospace, Defense, and Government Services group bills itself as “…experts
in helping companies in the sector grow…”. To this end some of the services
they provide to the industry are providing loans and underwriting the
issuance of stocks and bonds. The U.S. military is one of the biggest
contributors of greenhouse gasses but their destruction of the planet
doesn’t end there, they also poison the water with chemicals and pollute it
with their garbage. By investing in the Military Industrial Complex Chase
Bank is complicit in their destruction of the climate.

 In addition, Chase directly contributes to climate destruction: It is one
of the 3 largest financiers of fossil fuels on earth. *(Banking on Climate
Chaos, 2021 report)*

Contact:

Jeff Parente  jeffreyparente at yahoo.com   or Garett Reppenhagen
reppenhagen at veteransforpeace. <reppenhagen at gmail.com>org    719-235-7030