Activists take to the street during Bank of America's annual shareholder meeting.

Community members impacted by Bank of America’s financing of coal brought their message to Charlotte:

Bob Kincaid of Coal River Mountain Watch talks about how he was forced to set the record straight when Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan quoted inaccurate statistics on his bank's funding of coal -- and mountaintop removal coal mining in particular -- at today's BofA shareholder meeting.



Adam Hall served two tours in Iraq. Now he’s fighting what he calls his third battle: Stopping King Coal from destroying any more of his home in the mountains of Appalachia. He’s here in Charlotte to call on Bank of America to stop funding coal.



Larry Gibson of Keeper of the Mountains Foundation is inside Bank of America’s shareholder meeting right now to tell BofA to stop funding coal.



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Bank of America: Risking Public Health and the Climate

As outrage at the country’s largest banks increases with the Occupy Movement and record bank customers move money to credit unions and local banks, RAN finds yet another reason customers should be wary of BoA. Our campaign briefing shines a light on the company as the country’s top financier of the coal industry, in turn, a leading contributor to climate change in the United States.

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