busted for busting out at bank of america

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http://www.nationofchange.org/busted-busting-out-bank-america-1331569295




“Strip­ping Pro­tes­tors In Pink Bras Crashed Bank Of Amer­ica CEO Brian Moyni­han's Speech,” de­clared Busi­ness In­sider on March 8, show­ing Moyni­han’s stern photo with a pink bra play­fully dan­gling in the air be­side him.

It’s true, things did get a bit wild at Citi's Fi­nan­cial Ser­vices con­fer­ence at New York’s Wal­dorf As­to­ria when Brian Moyni­han got on stage and began flip­ping through his te­dious pow­er­point.

While the hotel se­cu­rity was busy watch­ing anti-bank pro­test­ers ral­ly­ing out­side, CODE­PINK co­founder Jodie Evans, dressed in a hot pink bustier, burst into the con­fer­ence room. “Bust up Bank of Amer­ica be­fore it busts up Amer­ica”, she shouted, be­fore being hauled out by se­cu­rity guards. “As I was say­ing,” con­tin­ued a dead­pan Moyni­han to the laugh­ter of the crowd, re­turn­ing to the dreary slides that tried to put a rosy spin on this di­nosaur of a com­pany whose share price has plum­meted while it con­tin­ues to fore­close on fam­i­lies’ homes and faces tens of bil­lions of dol­lars in dam­ages from law­suits over mort­gage in­vest­ments.

Lit­tle did Moyni­han know that the ex­cite­ment at what is nor­mally a bankers’ snooze­fest had just begun. CODE­PINK codi­rec­tor Rae Abileah and I were al­ready seated in the front of the room. Wear­ing dark busi­ness suits, we did our best to blend into the crowd of stodgy white men in black busi­ness suits.