As part of NYC Climate Week 2024, scientists, organizers, and community leaders discuss the #SummerofHeat on Wall Street campaign - a sustained campaign of nonviolent civil disobedience targeting Big Banks for their role in the climate crisis - and how everyone can join the movement to end fossil fuel finance.
Watch 'Scientists & Activists vs Fossil Fuel Finance' ft. Dr. Sandra Steingraber
https://youtu.be/h4oCSJXR6dk?si=jTOKDoSJA2yMRpl8
Today, elders took a stand at @Citibank @Citi global HQ, demanding climate action as part of the #SummerofHeat ❤️🔥
We’re here to ensure there is a future — for our grandchildren and future generations deserve a planet they can survive on.
Older adults are on the front lines of climate change. From increased vulnerability to heat, extreme weather risks, and health complications, and limited access to care, they feel the impacts deeply.
Join us at summerofheat.org!
https://www.instagram.com/p/C_LsazARs9h/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
120 likes, 4 comments - climatedefendersaction on August 27, 2024: "Today, elders took a stand at @Citibank @Citi global HQ, demanding climate action as part of the #SummerofHeat ❤️🔥 We’re here to ensure there is a future — for our grandchildren and future generations deserve a planet they can survive on. Older adults are on the front lines of climate change. From increased vulnerability to heat, extreme weather risks, and health complications, and limited access to care, they feel the impacts deeply. Join us at summerofheat.org! #EndFossilFuels".
Yesterday, 32 feminists were arrested at the home of @citi CEO Jane Fraser, demanding an end to fossil fuel financing. These leaders were part of the #Feminists Fight Fossil Fuels march. Why feminists? The climate crisis will impact us all, but not equally. #SummerofHeat
122 likes, 7 comments - stopthemoneypipeline on August 26, 2024: "Yesterday, 32 feminists were arrested at the home of @citi CEO Jane Fraser, demanding an end to fossil fuel financing. These leaders were part of the #Feminists Fight Fossil Fuels march. Why feminists? The climate crisis will impact us all, but not equally. #SummerofHeat 🔥 📸: Photos 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 by @katiegodowski_photo".
Costco members and shareholders are at @costco’s headquarters now demanding that Costco uses its leverage as a large client to push Citi to stop funding fossil fuel expansion!!
If Citi doesn’t, Costco should drop Citi altogether.
Our planet and our climate can’t wait! #CostcoDropCiti #DropCiti #SummerofHeat
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80 likes, 0 comments - stopthemoneypipeline on August 21, 2024: "Costco members and shareholders are at @costco’s headquarters now demanding that Costco uses its leverage as a large client to push Citi to stop funding fossil fuel expansion!! If Citi doesn’t, Costco should drop Citi altogether. Our planet and our climate can’t wait! #CostcoDropCiti #DropCiti #SummerofHeat 📸Photos by @veganpattyy".
As I've mentioned before, I think there really is something to the idea that we should be fighting climate crisis by going after banks, and not just fossil fuel companies, and as such I am pretty excited about the “Summer of Heat” civil disobedience campaign going on right now, that does precisely that.
Activists Are Bringing the Heat to the Banks Funding Climate Crisis
"Backed by a coalition of more than 80 climate and racial justice groups, the “Summer of Heat” is convening every day on Wall Street all summer to take direct action against the financial institutions bankrolling the oil and gas industry. At the center of activists’ divestment demands is Citibank, the second largest financier of fossil fuels worldwide.
In an age of widespread climate nihilism, there is real reason to think that this campaign in particular could successfully push Citibank to change course on investing in fossil fuels. The multigenerational, multiracial, cross-class movement is highly strategic in its embrace of nonviolent direct action, marking “the first time in history that climate activists will hold an entire season of sustained civil disobedience protests targeting Wall Street and big banks for their role in fueling the climate crisis.” There is a track record of similar campaigns getting big wins. And there are signs that Citi is starting to crack under the sustained pressure."
Although corporate media is trying not to report it, and nihilists will tell you this sort of thing doesn't work, the fact is that disrupting the large financial institutions that underwrite the companies boiling us all like soup for five pennies a share *does* have a recent track record of success; as this very article notes similar campaigns have knocked banks like HSBC and Barclays out of the financing new oil and gas wells business, to say nothing of historically successful actions that forced banks to divest from coal, or even stop bankrolling businesses and investments in apartheid South African - a model that student protestors all across America have being trying to replicate by demanding their colleges and universities divest from Israel over its ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and its maintenance of an apartheid state in the occupied territories.
This stuff works, and the hundreds of Summer of Heat protestors who've already been arrested for these nonviolent protests are relying on us, the people, to get the word out about these actions and the establishment's repressive response to them to make these tactics more effective - because the universe knows corporate media sure isn't going to tell folks about it unless they don't have a choice.
"Still, Summer of Heat activists are determined to persist with their chosen tactics. In July, Citi obtained a restraining order against one 63-year-old protester named John Mark Rozendaal, a grandfather, professional cellist and adjunct music instructor at Princeton University. Flying in the face of the order, Rozendaal returned to the Citi headquarters on August 8 to perform J.S. Bach’s “Suites for Cello” in the bank’s public plaza. At Citi’s behest, the New York City Police Department arrested Rozendaal, who now faces up to seven years in prison.
“Rather than engage on the merits of their arguments and acknowledge the role they play, Citibank has chosen to unleash a brutal police crackdown on organizers,” New York City Council Member Alexa Avilés said in a statement. “You cannot incarcerate your way to a livable planet. I am calling on Citibank to drop the charges and commit to meeting our shared vision of a livable planet for generations to come.”
The simple truth is that they can't arrest us all; tell your friends about the Summer of Heat, the police violence being used to try and stop it, and fight climate crisis by protesting banks that fund fossil fuel production today!
#ClimateCrisis #SummerOfHeat #Citibank #WallStreet #DirectAction #Protest
Performing #Bach's #SuitesForCello in #NYC during a protest outside of #Citibank HQ could send #musician and #climateactivist #JohnMarkRozendaal to prison for 7 years
#SummerOfHeat #NewYorkCity #climatechange
What...the fuck!?
Citi just had 15 arrested for playing CELLO at their global HQ. Hey @Citi - why are you arresting nonviolent climate protesters? #SummerofHeat
Send a message via @Stopmoneypipe to Citi Execs: Stop financing fossil fuels! https://t.co/BzWDmys2mc
Citi just had 15 arrested for playing CELLO at their global HQ. Hey @citi - why are you arresting nonviolent climate protesters? #SummerofHeat
Send a message via @Stopmoneypipe to Citi Execs: Stop financing fossil fuels! https://nmshr.io/s/twitter/ZBE0CjTEH_XsR2ihLLc=/r
Hey @Costco @ATT @LLBean @Macys @HomeDepot @BestBuy @Sears: Did you know?
@Citi is the world’s #1 funder of fossil fuel expansion. I'm urging you to drop Citi for our climate.
Costco, LL Bean, Macy’s, Home Depot, Best Buy, Sears, and AT&T all have credit card partnerships with dirty Citibank. It’s time for these companies to clean up their credit cards. Citibank is the #1 funder of fossil fuel expansion since 2015. That’s why, since June 10th, families, grandparents, scientists, and young people have been regularly protesting at Citi’s global headquarters in New York City, as part of the Summer of Heat on Wall Street campaign. 364 people have been arrested to demand a just transition and an end to financing fossil fuel expansion Thousands of Costco members have already started to push the third largest retailer in the United States, Costco, to drop dirty Citibank. Now, we’re expanding the campaign beyond New York to demand that all of Citi’s largest credit card clients break up with Citi and find a better bank. Sign this petition to demand that some of Citi’s most important co-branded credit card clients drop dirty Citibank. Did you know? Since the Paris Agreement, Citibank has been the world’s largest funder of fossil fuel expansion. The fossil fuel industry is destroying and polluting our planet and our communities, disproportionately hamring low-income communities and communities of color. And since June 10th, families, grandparents, scientists, and young people have been regularly protesting at Citi’s global headquarters in New York City. 364 people engaged in nonviolent civil disobedience to demand an end to Citi’s financing of fossil fuels. Already this year, 40,000 people, including 18,000 Costco members have called on Costco to drop dirty Citibank. Now, we want to make sure all of Citi’s credit card clients hear from us. How you can help We’re expanding the Summer of Heat campaign to not just target Citi directly but to also push the bank’s institutional clients. Citi makes a huge amount of money from its partnerships with large, wealthy companies and institutions. So, we’re calling upon the large companies that have a co-branded credit card with Citi to find a better credit card partner. Who will this petition be delivered to? Citi has co-branded credit cards with Costco, LL Bean, Macy’s, Home Depot, Best Buy, Sears, and AT&T. We will deliver the petitions to those companies, all around the country. I’m in, how else can I help? Between August 5 - 12, to demonstrate our pressure, we need to deliver these petitions to as many Costco, LL Bean, Macy’s, Home Depot, Best Buy, Sears, and AT&T stores around the country as we can. If you’re able to deliver a petition to a store near you, fill out this form.
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