Along with 53 others, I was arrested this week for blockading the doors to Citibank’s global headquarters. For two days in a row, we prevented hundreds of the bank’s most senior employees from getting to work.
These actions announced the launch of the Summer of Heaton Wall Street―a campaign of sustained, disruptive, nonviolent civil disobedience designed to push big banks, investors and insurance companies to stop bankrolling the fossil fuel industry.
During the Summer of Heat, we’re going to organize 3-5 disruptive actions every week, at the New York headquarters of banks like Citi, until they commit to stop financing new coal, oil, and gas.
Since the Paris Agreement was adopted in 2015, Citi has funded more new oil pipelines and gas terminals than almost any bank on earth. To prevent climate chaos, that needs to stop. And we can stop banks like Citi. Throughout history, nonviolent civil disobedience has played a critical role in successful social movements.
Sustained civil disobedience campaigns are hard, though. They require many hundreds of people who are willing to get arrested and thousands more who are willing to show up on the streets and support.
Campaigns like this also require money. Money that is used to pay for lawyers fees, food for people when they get out of jail, as well as for organizers, direct action expenses, housing, and more.
Whether you’re able to chip in $5 or $5,000, every cent will go directly to the Summer of Heat campaign―we’ll use it to support organizing and recruitment, action planning, legal support, trainings, frontline travel, and more.
In Solidarity,
– Alec, Stop the Money Pipeline coalition co-director
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