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Ahead of Glasgow Climate Summit COP26, a large coalition of activists and community leaders rallied across the country demanding a strong stand against climate change. In New York City, activists with Rainforest Action Network unfurled a giant banner in front of the United Nations headquarters.
PHOTO: Erik McGregor
The controversial Cricket Valley Gas-Fired Power Plant’s golden-shovel ceremony was disrupted on June 28, 2017 by a large, golden bell rung by NY voters and local farmers expressing an alarm-bell for regional waters and soil, nearby school children that will breath toxic emissions, quality of local jobs and economy, and a gigantic methane producer at the height of a global climate crisis. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Governor Cuomo is the keynote speaker at a New York League of Conservation Voters fundraiser at Chelsea Piers, Pier 60 on May 14, 2018; and we'll be picketing outside, calling on him to stop all new oil and gas projects and move New York to 100 percent renewable energy. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
September 10, 2018 - San Francisco, CA - Parc55 Hotel
Hundreds gathered outside the site of the Governors' Climate and Forest Task Force meeting leading up to the Global Climate Action Summit.
From the Indigenous and Frontline communities organizing this protest: "People of the world are being led astray by polluting industries and elected officials promoting climate capitalist systems like carbon trading and carbon tax shell games. These systems do nothing to stop the fossil fuel industry from continuing to cause climate disruption. They allow the fossil fuel industry to continue to harm Indigenous people and communities around the world from extraction to transport to refining."
"Today hundreds helped us demand that our Indigenous representatives from tribes and organizations that are resisting cap and trade schemes, and instead promoting real solutions be allowed to address the Governor's Climate and Forests Task Force at the Parc 55 Hotel. Their voices were heard and they were given a chance to speak the truth [of] the tribal groups being courted by those promoting carbon trading in the place of real solutions to climate change."
This action was organized by Idle No More SF Bay, Indigenous Environmental Network, It Takes Roots, Diablo Rising Tide, Indigenous Bloc at RISE Days of Action, and Indigenous Rising Media.
Climate Strike at City Hall Park - Thousands of school kids and college students walked out of class on March 15, 2019 to protest catastrophic climate change, perceived as the most pressing issue of their time. Students took to more than a dozen locations in New York City, including City Hall and Columbus Circle. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
WASHINGTON DC, USA -- Sunday, May 15th, 2016. Hundreds of climate activists protest at a rally organized by the Break Free movement against fossil fuel projects. Demonstrators went to the streets at the nation's capital to protest in front of the White House, calling on the decision makers in Washington DC to support the transition to renewable energy instead of coal, oil and gas energy.
Break Free 2016 is a week of coordinated direct actions that target the most dangerous fossil fuel projects, in an effort to keep coal, oil and gas in the ground and accelerate a just transition to 100% renewable energy. Thousands of people all over the planet are putting their bodies on the line to send a message to polluters and politicians that we need to break free from fossil fuels now.
Photo by: Eman Mohammed
Ahead of Glasgow Climate Summit COP26, a large coalition of activists and community leaders rallied across the country demanding a strong stand against climate change. In New York City, activists with Rainforest Action Network unfurled a giant banner in front of the United Nations headquarters.
PHOTO: Erik McGregor
Environmental activists gathered outside Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group offices in New York City on September 1, 2020 to protest the company's participation in the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, as part of a week of action against climate change. Activists dove into the privately owned public fountain in front of MUFG Bank's New York headquarters with inflatable trees on "fire" and an 18 foot banner that read "MUFG Stop Burning Rainforest", to expose their bankrolling of climate change. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
ANACORTES, WASHINGTON-- On Saturday, May 14, 2016, Thousands of people marched to March Point in Anacortes, WA, as part of the Indigenous Day of Action during Break Free.
The peaceful march went along the shores of Fidalgo Bay in front of the Shell and Tesoro refineries. The people at the march were there to highlight the moral urgency of immediate action to combat climate change.
The three-mile procession march was led by indigenous community leaders from the area, and ended at the northeast tip of March Point. The people at the march then joined the “It’s in our Hands” indigenous gathering and ceremony.
Anacortes is home to two fossil fuel refineries owned by Shell and Tesoro. These refineries are the largest unaddressed source of carbon pollution in the Northwest and they refine 47% of all the gas and diesel used in the region.
Break Free Pacific Northwest events will continue throughout the weekend.
Photo by Emma Cassidy | Survival Media Agency
ANACORTES, WASHINGTON-- On Saturday, May 14, 2016, Thousands of people marched to March Point in Anacortes, WA, as part of the Indigenous Day of Action during Break Free.
The peaceful march went along the shores of Fidalgo Bay in front of the Shell and Tesoro refineries. The people at the march were there to highlight the moral urgency of immediate action to combat climate change.
The three-mile procession march was led by indigenous community leaders from the area, and ended at the northeast tip of March Point. The people at the march then joined the “It’s in our Hands” indigenous gathering and ceremony.
Anacortes is home to two fossil fuel refineries owned by Shell and Tesoro. These refineries are the largest unaddressed source of carbon pollution in the Northwest and they refine 47% of all the gas and diesel used in the region.
Break Free Pacific Northwest events will continue throughout the weekend.
Photo by Emma Cassidy | Survival Media Agency
Countdown: Against 38,000 Tons and Environmental Catastrophe: Climate and Environmental Activists Confront Royal Dutch Shell Arctic Oil Drilling Rig Polar Pioneer in Seattle, Terminal 5, Port of Seattle, Seattle, Monday, June 8, 2015.
#NoDAPL: Citibank-Stop funding the Dakota Access Pipeline.
San Francisco Financial District
October 31, 2016
12 arrested in the lobby of SF's Citibank headquarters as others gather outside to protest the bank's major funding (over $521,000,000) for the Dakota Access Pipeline. Another top funder is Wells Fargo ($467,000,000)
Protest organized by Bay Area environmental group Diablo Rising Tide.
The Nigeria Breakfree2016 train moved to Bori, Ogoni, Rivers State Nigeria. The demand was loud and clear #KEEPITINTHEGROUND #LEAVETHEOILINTHESOIL #CLEANUPTHENIGERDELTANOW #BREAKFREEFROMFOSSILFUELS.
All Photos were taken by Babawale Obayanju
Creative Red Lines for Climate Justice at the end of COP21
© Erik Mc Gregor - erikrivas@hotmail.com - 917-225-8963
Northern California Climate Mobilization - Oakland, CA
November 21, 2015
Thousands rally and march in the streets of Oakland, CA in the run-up to the United Nations Climate Change Negotiations in Paris - COP21.
Creative Red Lines for Climate Justice at the end of COP21
© Erik Mc Gregor - erikrivas@hotmail.com - 917-225-8963
The climate and peace movements came together for a rally and short march in front of the IRS offices in NYC on tax day, April 18, 2022 to demand that our tax money stop being used to fund endless war and environmental destruction. The march ended at the Charging Bull where protesters sitting on tripods blocked traffic resulting in arrests by the NYPD. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
#NoDAPL: Citibank-Stop funding the Dakota Access Pipeline.
San Francisco Financial District
October 31, 2016
12 arrested in the lobby of SF's Citibank headquarters as others gather outside to protest the bank's major funding (over $521,000,000) for the Dakota Access Pipeline. Another top funder is Wells Fargo ($467,000,000)
Protest organized by Bay Area environmental group Diablo Rising Tide.
Over 100 New Yorkers came together outside Governor Andrew Cuomo’s fundraiser at the Plaza Hotel on June 18, 2018, calling on the New York governor to act on climate and prison injustice under the umbrella of “Cuomo’s Pipelines: Prisons to Poisons Are Bad For New York.” This is the first time these two movements have come together to demand systemic change from the governor. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Countdown: Against 38,000 Tons and Environmental Catastrophe: Climate and Environmental Activists Confront Royal Dutch Shell Arctic Oil Drilling Rig Polar Pioneer in Seattle, Terminal 5, Port of Seattle, Seattle, Friday, June 5, 2015.
The amazing youth led Sunrise Movement and allies outside Senator Dianne Feinstein's office in San Francisco with a strong message... support the Green New Deal Now!!
Cynthia Nixon, Candidate for NY Governor, held a press conference on July 13, 2018 with local community leaders calling on New York State to shut down the Spectra/Enbridge AIM Pipeline. The recently installed 42" diameter fracked gas pipeline, located within 105' of critical safety infrastructure of the aging and failing nuclear power plant. The site also holds 40 years worth of radioactive spent nuclear fuel in overcrowded and inadequate containers. Nixon urged New York Public Service Commission (PSC) to use authority delegated by Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) to ensure the shut down of gas through AIM pipeline. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Over 100 New Yorkers came together outside Governor Andrew Cuomo’s fundraiser at the Plaza Hotel on June 18, 2018, calling on the New York governor to act on climate and prison injustice under the umbrella of “Cuomo’s Pipelines: Prisons to Poisons Are Bad For New York.” This is the first time these two movements have come together to demand systemic change from the governor. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Activists from Rainforest Action Network staged a flash mob disruption on September 23, 2019 during the Global Climate Week of Action at the lobby of the new Chase headquarters in Manhattan. Launching into a theatrical parody of Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, activists unfurled a 24 foot oil Slip N' Slide and performed lively renditions of song and dance calling attention to Chase Bank’s massive financing of fossil fuels and its funding of energy company Williams’ Northeast Supply Enhancement Pipeline (NESE). (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Activists from Rainforest Action Network staged a flash mob disruption on September 23, 2019 during the Global Climate Week of Action at the lobby of the new Chase headquarters in Manhattan. Launching into a theatrical parody of Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, activists unfurled a 24 foot oil Slip N' Slide and performed lively renditions of song and dance calling attention to Chase Bank’s massive financing of fossil fuels and its funding of energy company Williams’ Northeast Supply Enhancement Pipeline (NESE). (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Hillary Clinton came to New York City for a $2700 a plate fundraiser at The Dakota. Activists groups rally outside to shine light on the corrosive nature of Money in Politics.
© Erik McGregor - erikrivas@hotmail.com - 917-225-8963
Zwei Tage vor der ersten Sitzung der Kohle-Kommission haben am 24. Juni 2018 mehrere Tausend Menschen in Berlin für den Kohleausstieg und echten Klimaschutz demonstriert. Unter dem Motto „Stop Kohle – Deine Hände für den Klimaschutz“ forderten wir, zusammen mit Campact, Greenpeace, BUND, Naturfreunde und vielen anderen Organisationen und Demonstranten_innen von der Bundesregierung einen zügigen Kohleausstieg, mit dem die nationalen Klimaziele und das Pariser Klimaabkommen eingehalten werden. Werdet Teil des Protests – unterschreibt unsere Petition www.wwf.de/kohlefrei
© Markus Winkler / WWF
Activists from Rainforest Action Network staged a flash mob disruption on September 23, 2019 during the Global Climate Week of Action at the lobby of the new Chase headquarters in Manhattan. Launching into a theatrical parody of Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, activists unfurled a 24 foot oil Slip N' Slide and performed lively renditions of song and dance calling attention to Chase Bank’s massive financing of fossil fuels and its funding of energy company Williams’ Northeast Supply Enhancement Pipeline (NESE). (Photo by Erik McGregor)
STAND WITH COMMUNITIES, NOT CORPORATIONS
September 13, 2018 - As the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS) begins, Indigenous and frontline communities continue to send Governor Brown and those attending the summit the message - stand with communities, not the climate profiteers and the fossil fuel industry.
From the organizers:
"Jerry Brown’s promotion of continued fossil fuel production, carbon trading markets and other incentives to oil, gas and other polluting corporations, perpetuates climate change and decimates Indigenous communities and Native nations, communities of color and other working class peoples throughout California and around the world.
Such perverse subsidies for “climate capitalism” will turn frontline communities into sacrifice zones for decades to come."
Today's action began at Jessie Park with a march to Moscone Center, the site of the summit. In a return appearance, 1000 Grandmothers Bay Area blocked intersections to create a safe space for the protesters outside the summit.
This weeks actions have been organized by Idle No More SF Bay, Diablo Rising Tide, the Ruckus Society, It Takes Roots, Indigenous Environmental Network, the Sunflower Alliance and Brown's Last Chance.
Activists with Seeding Sovereignty and The Illuminator projected images on the side of KKR headquarters building in New York City on September 26, 2020 in support of the Black Lives Matter Movement and the Wet’suwet’en Nation in their opposition to a Coastal GasLink pipeline entering their traditional territory in British Columbia, Canada. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Four New Yorkers were arrested early morning on January 16,2019 for using a tractor to block a cargo shipment on Route 55 in New Milford, CT destined for the Cricket Valley Energy Center construction site, a massive 1100-megawatt gas-fired power plant under construction in Wingdale, New York. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
ANACORTES, Washington, USA -- Friday May 13th, 2016. Activists begin to gather at the 350.org convergence space at Deception Pass State Park. Thousands of people began converging in Anacortes, WA, as part of the global climate mobilization Break Free. Many will risk arrest by engaging in peaceful civil disobedience to highlight the moral urgency of immediate action to combat climate change. Anacortes is home to two fossil fuel refineries owned by Shell and Tesoro. These refineries are the largest unaddressed source of carbon pollution in the Northwest and they refine 47% of all the gas and diesel used in the region. Break Free Pacific Northwest events will continue throughout the weekend.
Break Free 2016 is a week of coordinated direct actions that target the most dangerous fossil fuel projects, in an effort to keep coal, oil and gas in the ground and accelerate a just transition to 100% renewable energy. Thousands of people all over the planet are putting their bodies on the line to send a message to polluters and politicians that we need to break free from fossil fuels now.
Photo by Emma Cassidy | Survival Media Agency
Activists with Seeding Sovereignty and The Illuminator projected images on the side of KKR headquarters building in New York City on September 26, 2020 in support of the Black Lives Matter Movement and the Wet’suwet’en Nation in their opposition to a Coastal GasLink pipeline entering their traditional territory in British Columbia, Canada. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Northern California Climate Mobilization - Oakland, CA
November 21, 2015
Thousands rally and march in the streets of Oakland, CA in the run-up to the United Nations Climate Change Negotiations in Paris - COP21.
Creative Red Lines for Climate Justice at the end of COP21
© Erik Mc Gregor - erikrivas@hotmail.com - 917-225-8963
Activists from Rainforest Action Network staged a flash mob disruption on September 23, 2019 during the Global Climate Week of Action at the lobby of the new Chase headquarters in Manhattan. Launching into a theatrical parody of Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, activists unfurled a 24 foot oil Slip N' Slide and performed lively renditions of song and dance calling attention to Chase Bank’s massive financing of fossil fuels and its funding of energy company Williams’ Northeast Supply Enhancement Pipeline (NESE). (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Section of the SUNOCO Mariner II East Pipeline construction in Exton, PA. Residents and local elected officials have expressed strong opposition to the pipelines cutting through their backyards and neighborhoods carrying highly volatile fracked gas liquids to be shipped overseas for plastics manufacturing. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Northern California Climate Mobilization - Oakland, California
Thousands rally and march in the streets of Oakland, CA in the run-up to the United Nations Climate Change Negotiations in Paris - COP21.
The climate and peace movements came together for a rally and short march in front of the IRS offices in NYC on tax day, April 18, 2022 to demand that our tax money stop being used to fund endless war and environmental destruction. The march ended at the Charging Bull where protesters sitting on tripods blocked traffic resulting in arrests by the NYPD. (Photo by Erik McGregor)