As if there wasn’t already the need to stand again on the corner of Chase Bank! Join us this Friday, January 10th – 1-2P corner of Orondo & Mission.
From 350Seattle:
Right now, a multibillion dollar fossil fuel corporation and a militarized police force are trying to ram a massive fracked gas pipeline through unceded Wet’suwet’en territory, without consent and without permission. Canadian police have even been recorded making preparations to to shoot indigenous land defenders who stand in the way of Coastal GasLink as it tries to illegally build a pipeline on Wet’suwet’en land.
Earlier this week, Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs, representing all five clans of the Wet’suwet’en Nation, served an eviction notice to Coastal GasLink — and ordered the fossil fuel corporation off of their lands immediately. The Wet’suwet’en have called for allies across the globe to take solidarity actions as they stand against Coastal GasLink and the Canadian government in a fight for their land.
Last month, Goldman Sachs announced that it would stop funding coal mining and Arctic drilling projects, and that it planned to spend $750 billion by 2030 on climate adaptation and mitigation projects. Now all eyes are on JPMorgan Chase, the world’s largest funder of fossil fuels, to see if it will similarly begin to take responsibility for its choices.
We know that Chase is paying attention — in response to the Goldman Sachs announcement, a Chase spokesperson claimed that “a significant amount of work was underway” at Chase to improve its climate policies. Given that it’s the world’s largest funder of fossil fuels, and is funding Coastal GasLink — violating the Wet’suwet’en Nation’s right to Free, Prior, and Informed Consent — it’s clear that there is nowhere near enough work underway.