On September 24, activists from Jobs With Justice, Mass Alliance Against Predatory Lending, SEIU, City Life/Vida Urbana and community allies put themselves at great risk of exposure to “Greedy Pig Flu” to send a message to Bank of America: “We’re sick of your toxic lending practices in our communities!”

Symptoms of the Bank of America Greedy Pig Flu include:

• Receiving a $45 billion bailout from the government, and then giving CEO Ken Lewis a $24 million bonus for his hard work bankrupting the company;

• Awarding huge bonuses to Lewis and other executives while planning to lay-off 35,000 workers due to difficult economic circumstances;

• Convincing the government to back more than $300 billion in troubled assets but refusing to lend to customers so the funds can instead be used to raise their capital ratio for profit;

• Foreclosing on over 700 households in Boston alone in the past 6 months;

• Mistreating employees, fighting their attempts to form unions, and contributing millions of dollars from the bailout to kill the Employee Free Choice Act.

Bank of America? More like Bankrupting America.