{"id":22152,"date":"2022-04-26T11:04:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T18:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=22152"},"modified":"2022-04-26T11:07:46","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T18:07:46","slug":"climate-activists-chain-themselves-to-wells-fargo-wagon-in-downtown-sf-to-protest-fossil-fuel-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2022\/04\/26\/climate-activists-chain-themselves-to-wells-fargo-wagon-in-downtown-sf-to-protest-fossil-fuel-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Activists Chain Themselves to Wells Fargo Wagon in Downtown SF to Protest Fossil Fuel Investment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>25 APRIL 2022\/<a href=\"https:\/\/sfist.com\/news\/\">SF NEWS<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/sfist.com\/author\/jay-barmann\/\">JAY BARMANN<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Holding signs saying things like &#8220;Tell Wells Fargo: Stop Funding Climate Change,&#8221; a group of climate activists has revived the era of downtown climate protests in San Francisco Monday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Twenty activists from the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/oilgasaction.org\/\">Oil &amp; Gas Action Network<\/a>&nbsp;chained themselves Monday to the historic Wells Fargo stagecoach at Wells Fargo headquarters at 420 Montgomery Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A woman named Claire informed SFist of the protest Monday morning, saying that the activists were conducting this action &#8220;to protest Wells&#8217; continuing financial support of fossil fuel projects around the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re gonna stay until they arrest us,&#8221; Claire said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe allowfullscreen=\"true\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=JayBarmann&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1518637870252105728&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fsfist.com%2F2022%2F04%2F25%2Fclimate-activists-chain-themselves-to-wells-fargo-wagon-in-downtown-sf-to-protest-fossil-fuel-investment%2F&amp;sessionId=b9ed2f06149da7d58997ea6a9def364ad14d6b7c&amp;siteScreenName=SFist&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=c8fe9736dd6fb%3A1649830956492&amp;width=550px\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The group tweeted that they were protesting today ahead of a Wells Fargo shareholder meeting tomorrow, and one of their signs says &#8220;Pass Shareholder Res. #9,&#8221; which must have to do with fossil fuel investment and climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Update:&nbsp;<\/strong>Wells Fargo put out a statement through a spokesperson saying, &#8220;Wells Fargo has committed to aligning our activities to support the goals of the Paris Agreement and to work with our clients during their transition to a low-carbon economy. Wells Fargo set a goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and is committed to setting interim emissions targets for the Oil &amp; Gas and Power portfolios no later than the end of 2022. Setting targets for carbon-intensive sectors is the approach banks are implementing to operationalize their net-zero goals. This approach is guided by leading industry groups, such as the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), which Wells Fargo joined in October 2021.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s been at least two years since we&#8217;ve seen this kind of protest in downtown SF, so we&#8217;ll take it as a continuing sign of the reawakening of downtown streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A group of youth activists from the Sunrise Movement did&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sfist.com\/2021\/06\/15\/around-100-youth-climate-activists-marched-from-paradise-to-nancy-pelosis-front-door-demanding\/\">a symbolic march<\/a>&nbsp;from the town of Paradise to Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s house in June 2021, in order to call for lawmakers&#8217; support of the Green New Deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But to our knowledge, it&#8217;s been since October 2019 that we&#8217;ve seen live climate-action protest on the streets of downtown San Francisco, when the group known as Extinction Rebellion&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sfist.com\/2019\/10\/23\/angry-man-yells-at-climate-change-protesters-for-blocking-traffic-in-sf-internet-decides-they-are-antifa\/\">blocked Gough Street<\/a>. A month earlier, in September 2019, climate activists&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sfist.com\/2019\/09\/25\/climate-activists-rally-downtown-sf-banks\/\">blocked off several blocks of Montgomery Street<\/a>, focusing on banks like Wells Fargo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>25 APRIL 2022\/SF NEWS\/JAY BARMANN Holding signs saying things like &#8220;Tell Wells Fargo: Stop Funding Climate Change,&#8221; a group of climate activists has revived the era of downtown climate protests in San Francisco Monday morning. 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