The Rainforest Action Network staged an action on Tuesday in front of Bank One headquarters, to oppose the financial giant's support for deals that devastate old growth forests in the global south.

Despite a driving rain, dozens of guerilla theater participants played out a classic corporate hack vs. civic activist scenario, with activists searching bankers for 'weapons of mass destruction' -- including a 'find' of cash (which went flying in the rain) and copious quantities of 'gold bullion' acquired through the company grifters' misdeeds.

RAN has opened a new branch office in Chicago, and is working with Chicagoans to pressure major banking interests to stop funding environmental desruction.

In the past five years, RAN has successfully lobbied two of the three largest banks in the United States to adopt ethical investment standards which forbid investment for logging in forests. Now, with a new Chicago office, RAN is pressuring the third bank of those big three -- Bank One and its corporate parent JPMorgan Chase -- to join the ethical-standards bandwagon. Chicagoans have protested and picketed Bank One affiliates in recent weeks, culminating in today's protest, staged as part of an International Day of Action against Bank One/Chase.