What a week, it’s been. On Monday, activists shut down, occupied, and disrupted the HQs of Citi, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America. On Tuesday, those three banks had their annual shareholder meetings. On Wednesday, Goldman Sachs had its annual meeting and activists were arrested at the headquarters of KKR, the massive private equity firm.
In all, the votes at the annual shareholder meetings this week were largely disappointing, though as the Financial Timespoints out “a rising tide of investors” did demand climate plans from Bank of America and Goldman Sachs.
All of this whirlwind of activity comes at the end of the Peoples’ Earth Week. In partnership with our friends at People vs Fossil Fuels, we mailed 60,000 works of art to 1,300 activists in 49 states. In dozens of cities, the art was used in actions, put up onto banks, college classrooms, shared community spaces, coffee shop walls and tattoo parlor windows.
Wheatpasting a poster onto a bank branch or a community space may not feel like a direct way to address the climate crisis, but movements are made up of millions of small actions, actions that together chip away at harmful systems and contribute to a new zeitgeist.
Through the #PeoplesEarthWeek, not only have we collectively made the world a more beautiful place, we’ve helped to shine a light on Wall Street’s and the White House’s role in the build-out of new oil and gas projects.
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