Right to the City

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Watch today's Democracy Now segment with Right to the City Alliance and Rainforest Action Network discussing the "Showdown in Charlotte" and the grassroots movement to hold BofA accountable for mass eviction and foreclosure of low income and people of color communities, and their role in the coal industry and climate change.

"Folks are coming to Charlotte to stand their ground against the predatory practices of Bank of America," says Rachel LaForest of the Right to the City Alliance, a national coalition of community groups that is bringing roughly 175 residents to Charlotte who have been evicted by Bank of America. "We’re coming to their shareholders meeting and to say: 'This is what your practices have done to our lives.' We’re entering into the space to become decision makers and ensure this stops." We’re also joined by Rebecca Tarbotton, executive director of Rainforest Action Network, which is calling on Bank of America, the largest financier of the coal industry, to transition its investments out of coal and toward energy efficiency and renewable energy. For more info on today's segment of Democracy Now, click here.