Ahead of UNGA and Climate Week, NY activists call out banking ties to climate crisis

Record ID: 1637392

  • Title: Ahead of UNGA and Climate Week, NY activists call out banking ties to climate crisis
  • Date: 17th September 2021
  • Summary: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (SEPTEMBER 17, 2021) (REUTERS) EXTINCTION REBELLION ACTIVIST ON ROLLERBLADES PASSING TENT PROTEST OUTSIDE OF BANK OF AMERICA HEADQUARTERS, WAVING EXTINCTION REBELLION FLAG VARIOUS OF ACTIVISTS HOLD RED BANNER THAT READS, "BofA [BANK OF AMERICA] FUNDS ECOCIDE VARIOUS OF ACTIVIST BEING ESCORTED INTO POLICE VAN VARIOUS OF NEW YORK POLICE DEPARTMENT [NYPD] OFFICERS ON SCENE, SPEAKING ON MICROPHONE WARNING ABOUT "DISORDERLY CONDUCT" CLOSE OF BANNERS ON TENT READING, "STOP FUNDING CLIMATE DEATH" WITH BOFA LOGO / "WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME" WITH EXTINCTION REBELLION INSIGNIA ACTIVISTS SEATED AT TENT WIDE OF PROTEST BANNER THAT READS "$198 BILLION INVESTED IN FOSSIL FUELS SINCE THE PARIS AGREEMENT" (SOUNDBITE) (English) EXTINCTION REBELLION ACTING COORDINATOR, PRESLEIGH HAYASHIGA, SAYING: "I would love to see people who are actually talking about the climate crisis realistically and not making, you know, 20-year plans, 30-year plans. We can't talk about 2050 or 2030 anymore. We have to immediately stop fossil fuel investment. And so that's why we're here. We're asking for immediate action from these banks. So we're also targeting today, we've also targeted, Chase Bank and Citibank. And yeah, Bank of America, we're asking them to follow the science and to act now on the climate and stop their investment in fossil fuels." ACTIVISTS SEATED IN PROTEST POLICE ESCORTING OUT PROTESTER PROTESTERS IN POLICE VAN WIDE OF POLICE AND VAN VARIOUS OF ARRESTS VARIOUS OF POLICE TAKING DOWN TENT VARIOUS OF PERFORMANCE AT PROTEST EXTERIOR OF BANK OF AMERICA TOWER
  • Embargoed: 1st October 2021 18:46
  • Keywords: Bank of America Extinction Rebellion Midtown activism climate week
  • Location: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
  • City: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: Climate Change,Environment,General News,Government / Politics,United States,Climate Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA001EV3Z58N
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Several arrests were made as some 50 climate activists set up a tent and protested outside Bank of America's Midtown Manhattan headquarters Friday (September 17).
    The action was one of several across New York aimed at highlighting the bank world's ties to the climate crisis.
    In addition to Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase and Citibank are being targeted for actions, said organizers.
    "We're asking for immediate action from these banks that we're also targeting today," Presleigh Hayashiga, the acting coordinator of Extinction Rebellion, said in an interview. "We have to immediately stop fossil fuel investment. And so that's why we're here. We're asking for immediate action from these banks that we're also targeting today,"
    World leaders and activists will descend on New York next week as the Climate Week NYC and the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) take place.
    (Production by: Dan Fastenberg and Hussein al Waaile)
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