{"id":28501,"date":"2023-09-15T12:38:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T19:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=28501"},"modified":"2023-09-15T12:38:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T19:38:27","slug":"theres-no-economy-on-a-dead-planet-activists-blockade-hq-of-oil-financier-citibank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/09\/15\/theres-no-economy-on-a-dead-planet-activists-blockade-hq-of-oil-financier-citibank\/","title":{"rendered":"‘There’s No Economy on a Dead Planet’: Activists Blockade HQ of Oil Financier Citibank"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Climate campaigners block an entrance to Citibank’s headquarters in New York City on September 14, 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Photo: Collin Rees\/X)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Citi is the world’s second-largest financier of fossil fuels,” noted one group taking part in the protest. “How do these people sleep at night? How?”<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

BRETT WILKINS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sep 14, 2023 (CommonDreams.org)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Declaring a #ClimateShutdown, hundreds of activists blockaded the entrances of Citibank’s Lower Manhattan headquarters Thursday morning to demand that the financial giant end fossil fuel financing and stop greenwashing its record of planet-heating investments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We’re shutting down Citibank, the world’s second-largest funder of fossil fuels,” the activist group Stop the Money Pipeline<\/a> explained<\/a> on X, the social platform formerly known as Twitter. “Citi says<\/a> it’s a climate leader, but it’s also the main financier of oil expansion in the Amazon.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jay Waxse of Climate Defiance told Common Dreams <\/em>that 25 activists were arrested at the protest, including two of the group’s organizers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Citibank is “torching the planet,” said Waxse, “so the least we can do is disrupt business as usual.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Workers were talking. Executives were reeling,” Waxse added. “Citi must change their ways, or we’ll be back.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BREAKING: @Citibank<\/a> headquarters in downtown Manhattan are *totally shut down* by activists this morning.

Every entrance is blocked + there are hundreds of bankers standing outside b\/c their bank is funding deadly oil, gas, coal + refuses to #EndFossilFuels<\/a>. #ClimateShutdown<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/Gp6kc8z6ne<\/a><\/p>— Collin Rees (@collinrees) September 14, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>