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| Showdown in Ohio!
On May 17, nine hundred protesters surrounded the quasi-military compound owned by JPMorgan Chase in Columbus Ohio to challenge the bank's leaders and shareholders at their annual meeting. FLOC joined labor unions, the National People's Action and other religious and community organizations protesting bank greed and foreclosures. FLOC's delegation was loud and clear: Stop financing farmworker exploitation! Chase is a major lender of Reynolds America. Read more
FLOC's President Baldemar Velasquez spoke right after a shareholder introduced a resolution to stop Chase from financing corporations and/or governments involved in genocides all over the world. Velasquez directed attention to corporations' involvement in atrocities right here in the USA and called on Chase to stop financing unscrupulous employers like Reynolds. Secretary Treasurer Beatriz Maya invited Chase CEO Jamie Dimon to come with FLOC to visit tobacco farmworkers in the South to see first hand the appalling working and living conditions of these workers. Dimon responded that they will be looking into this. This is the first time the bank has acknowledged that this is a reality they need to respond to. | |
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