BBVA pours more blood

Last march 16th activists from Bil­bao belong­ing to envi­ron­men­tal­ist, anti-mil­i­tarist, inter­na­tion­al­ist groups and trade-unions protest­ed out­side BBVA’s AGM. BBVA is a Bil­bao bank which has grown to nº 66 of the Forbes list as most pow­er­ful transna­tion­al in the world. The Plat­form against BBVA denounces BBVA’s fund­ing of arms man­u­fac­tur­ing and expor­ta­tion as well as very destruc­tive projects and com­pa­nies: nuclear plants, dams, oil and gas pipes, extrac­tion, mines and quar­ries, etc. all over the world but main­ly in Latin Amer­i­ca. In the last year BBVA has also been involved in the evic­tion of fam­i­lies unable to pay their mort­gage, find­ing orga­nized resis­tance. Mean­while BBVA launch­es face-wash­ing pro­pa­gan­da to pre­tend car­ing for envi­ron­ment, being respon­si­ble, etc., which is pure dem­a­gogy. That’s why, once again, as it has hap­pened in the last 5 years, five activists poured red paint down their head, sym­bol­iz­ing BBVA’s bloody busi­ness­es. The activists man­age to pass the police cor­don while round 100 more held a vig­il. They got the atten­tion of the media hold­ing a press con­fer­ence right in the access to Euskalduna Palace, venue for BBVA’s AGM.  No one was arrest­ed but just charged with crim­i­nal dam­age.

You can find more infor­ma­tion, pic­tures and videos at the Platform’s site: www.bbvagh.org