Heating up in NYC

It’s been a heck of a week here in New York. Today, 56 elders, some of them with walking canes and all of them in rocking chairs, were arrested for blocking the doors to the global headquarters of the world’s largest funder of fossil fuel expansion: Citibank.

Yesterday, scientists delivered a letter to Citi’s CEO, held a teach-in outside and were arrested without warning for it. On Tuesday, orcas emerged from the ocean and 33 of them were arrested for blocking the doors, along with some guy called Pete. (Check out this truly excellent video for more on the orcas and Pete.)

Now, we’re already looking ahead to what will be the largest Summer of Heat action so far.

On Friday, June 28th, we will march from Wall Street to Citibank’s HQ and engage in mass civil disobedience to demand an end to fossil fuel financing.

Will you join us?

With over 100 community organizers and frontline leaders from the Gulf South traveling to New York, the march will be led by dozens of true environmental justice leaders, including Roishetta Ozane and John Beard, Goldman Environmental Prize-winner Sharon Lavigne, and Juan Mancias, the Tribal Chair of the Carrizo-Comecrudo Tribal Nation of Texas.

The march will be a family-friendly, celebratory and joyous second-line march led by a brass band. We will start at the head of Wall Street, and will end at the global headquarters of Citibank.

When we arrive at Citi’s HQ more than one hundred people will engage in nonviolent civil disobedience. The civil disobedience part of the march will be entirely optional and it is possible to participate in the march but not the civil disobedience.

RSVP for the Gulf South Rising, Fossil Banks Sinking March and Mass Civil Disobedience now ― and join the fight for a livable planet with us this summer.

Whether you can join us only for the march, or the march and the mass civil disobedience, we hope to see you on the streets on Friday, June 28th!

Let’s make our message impossible to ignore.

In Solidarity,
– Alec Connon, Stop the Money Pipeline coalition co-director

PS: Can’t make it to New York and looking for another way to support the Summer of Heat? You can call, email, or troll Citi on social media. Oh, and you can make a donation to the Summer of Heat campaign here.

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