Closing "Big Bank" Accounts as a Political Statement

Pensacola News Journal
Sunday, March 5, 2017

Concerned citizens around the country are closing their accounts with "Big Banks" either in protest of investments in controversial projects such as the Dakota Access pipeline or in support of a more localized form of community investment in the case of the #BankBlack movement. As Beneficial State CEO Kat Taylor shares, "We know how mass movements can start and increase and aggregate to something that moves hearts and minds - and markets."