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Local climate activists, working with the Insure Our Future Network, gathered outside AIG Headquarters in Manhattan on May 12, 2021 during their annual shareholders meeting to demand that AIG take action on climate change. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
September 22, 2018 - Rodeo, CA.
The planned Phillips 66 refinery expansion in the East Bay town of Rodeo would result in the processing of more toxic-polluting, climate-disrupting heavy crude oil, including Tar Sands, at this site, increasing refinery emissions and worsening the air quality for nearby communities. If Phillips 66's full expansion moves ahead, more than twice as many crude oil tankers would travel here, some of them carrying tar sands from British Columbia, the site of Canada's Trans Mountain Pipeline connecting to the vast Alberta oil sands.
This action was hosted by Indigenous Women of the Americas: Defenders of Mother Earth Treaty with support from Idle No More SF Bay and Stand.earth.
#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.
Local climate activists, working with the Insure Our Future Network, gathered outside AIG Headquarters in Manhattan on May 12, 2021 during their annual shareholders meeting to demand that AIG take action on climate change. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
On May 25, 2022 more than 100 New Yorkers on the frontlines of the climate crisis, including faith leaders and youth, held a protest outside BlackRock Headquarters in Manhattan, where their annual shareholders’ meeting took place. Participants and speakers at this event demanded that BlackRock exclude companies expanding fossil fuel production from its active and passive funds. At least twelve protesters were arrested, including six faith leaders. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
On May 25, 2022 more than 100 New Yorkers on the frontlines of the climate crisis, including faith leaders and youth, held a protest outside BlackRock Headquarters in Manhattan, where their annual shareholders’ meeting took place. Participants and speakers at this event demanded that BlackRock exclude companies expanding fossil fuel production from its active and passive funds. At least twelve protesters were arrested, including six faith leaders. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Local climate activists, working with the Insure Our Future Network, displayed a giant billboard outside Tokio Marine Headquarters in Manhattan on May 27, 2021 calling on insurance giant to stop underwriting and investing in fossil fuel projects driving catastrophic climate change. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Local climate activists, working with the Insure Our Future Network, displayed a giant billboard outside AIG Headquarters in Manhattan on January 10, 2023 calling on insurance giant to stop underwriting and investing in fossil fuel projects driving catastrophic climate change by sending a special birthday message to AIG insurance CEO Peter Zaffino. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
On May 25, 2022 more than 100 New Yorkers on the frontlines of the climate crisis, including faith leaders and youth, held a protest outside BlackRock Headquarters in Manhattan, where their annual shareholders’ meeting took place. Participants and speakers at this event demanded that BlackRock exclude companies expanding fossil fuel production from its active and passive funds. At least twelve protesters were arrested, including six faith leaders. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
After the final DAPL permit was granted, the Indigenous Coalition at Standing Rock is calling for February 8th to be an international day of emergency actions to disrupt business as usual and unleash a global intersectional resistance to fossil fuels and fascism. In New York the #NoDAPL ! Emergency Protest Against Easement action was held at Thomas Paine Park (Foley Square)
Senate Minority Leader and New York Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer’s Washington, DC office was rendered inoperable on August 3, 2017 morning when nearly two dozen people blockaded the office doors, delivering a letter backed by 15,000 supporters demanding that the Senator oppose Trump’s nominations to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the Energy and Natural Resources Act of 2017 (S 1460). Seven individuals held up a banner and were arrested for refusing to move. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
ANACORTES, WASHINGTON-- On Sunday, March 15, 2016, activists blockading the train tracks leading to the oil refineries in Anacortes were arrested by local police. The encampment lasted over 36 hours on the train tracks as part of the Break Free actions happening around the world.
Thousands of people began converging in Anacortes, WA, as part of the global climate mobilization Break Free. Many are now risking 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.
Photo by Emma Cassidy | Survival Media Agency
People Vs Fossil Fuels : Biden Keep Your Promise -
NO New Oil & Gas Leases
Golden Gate Bridge
June 27, 2022
Message to President Biden today at the Golden Gate Bridge, from the organizers -
"The Golden Gate Bridge sits on public land. It’s an iconic example of what public lands – our national parks, forests, wildlife refuges, monuments, and more – are meant to preserve and protect. Yet the Biden administration is allowing for nearly 150K acres of public lands to be sold for oil and gas drilling, which is toxic to our climate and our communities.
President Biden could stop these oil and gas lease sales on our public lands and waters with the stroke of a pen. Join us in calling on Biden to #BanFossilFuelLeasing once and for all, and protect the lands and the waters we love!"
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Center for Biological Diversity,
1000 Grandmothers Bay Area,
350 Bay Area,
Movement Rights,
Extinction Rebellion San Francisco Bay Area,
Oil and Gas Network
Hillary Clinton arriving to The Dakota for a $2700 a plate fundraiser.
© Erik McGregor - erikrivas@hotmail.com - 917-225-8963
ANACORTES, WASHINGTON-- On Sunday, March 15, 2016, activists blockading the train tracks leading to the oil refineries in Anacortes were arrested by local police. The encampment lasted over 36 hours on the train tracks as part of the Break Free actions happening around the world.
Thousands of people began converging in Anacortes, WA, as part of the global climate mobilization Break Free. Many are now risking 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.
Photo by Emma Cassidy | Survival Media Agency
NIGERIA-- On May 12, 2016, hundreds of men, women and children gathered at the first ever oil well in the Niger Delta - Oloibiri well 1. They demanded a Break Free from coal, oil and gas and called for the rehabilitation of the entire Niger Delta.
The Nigeria Breakfree2016 train moved to Bori, Ogoni, Rivers State Nigeria. The demand was loud and clear #KEEPITINTHEGROUND #LEAVETHEOILINTHESOIL #CLEANUPTHENIGERDELTANOW #BREAKFREEFROMFOSSILFUELS.
Photo by Babawale Obayanju
ANACORTES, WASHINGTON-- On Sunday, March 15, 2016, activists blockading the train tracks leading to the oil refineries in Anacortes were arrested by local police. The encampment lasted over 36 hours on the train tracks as part of the Break Free actions happening around the world.
Thousands of people began converging in Anacortes, WA, as part of the global climate mobilization Break Free. Many are now risking 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.
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
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
Thousands of school kids took part in the School Strike for Climate on March 25, 2022 in New York City. The students held a rally at Brooklyn Borough Hall and marched over the Brooklyn Bridge to Foley Square to bring attention to the inaction of city and state officials to face the current climate emergency. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Beside the Syncrude tailings pond. This area has been described as Mordor unleashed.
One of the things that makes tar sands so dirty is that enormous amounts of energy are required to heat the water needed to extract the bitumen then more energy is needed to crack the bitumen into usable products. The water is so polluted that it has to sit in settling ponds for years.
Einen Tag vor der großen Klimademo in Bonn bekam Europas zweitgrößte Drecksschleuder, das Neurather Kraftwerk, Besuch von zahlreichen Klima-Aktivist*innen. Schwarze Ballons symbolisieren den CO2-Ausstoß dieser Technologie von gestern. Am 4. November geht's in Bonn weiter mit dem Protest gegen das Energie-Fossil.
Foto: Jörg Farys / BUND
Thousands of school kids took part in the School Strike for Climate on March 25, 2022 in New York City. The students held a rally at Brooklyn Borough Hall and marched over the Brooklyn Bridge to Foley Square to bring attention to the inaction of city and state officials to face the current climate emergency. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
NoDAPL, Berlin Februar 2017.
Demonstration gegen die Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) und gegen Kredite der BayernLB und der Deutschen Bank für die DAPL in Berlin-Mitte am 17.2.2017.
Rund 70 Menschen beteiligen sich an der Auftaktkundgebung am Tränenpalast und gehen die Friedrichstraße südwärts bis zur Filiale der Deutschen Bank in der Friedrichstraße 191. Nach der Zwischenkundgebung an der Deutschen Bank geht die Demonstration weiter bis in die Kronenstraße zum Hauptsitz der Deutschen Kreditbank Aktiengesellschaft (DBK), eine hundertprozentige Tochter der Bayrischen Landesbank (BayernLB), wo es eine Abschlusskundgebung gibt.
Die Demonstration fordert die sofortige Rücknahme der Kredite von 120 Millionen US$ der BayernLB und 275 Millionen US$ der Deutschen Bank als finanzielle Unterstützung der gefährlichen Dakota Access Pipeline. Abgesehen von der Missachtung der Vertragsrechte der Lakota Sioux Nation, bedroht die DAPL das Trinkwasser von 18 Millionen Menschen flussabwärts. Die BayernLB überdenkt momentan ihre Investition und Mitte Februar sollte diese eine erneute Entscheidung treffen.
Aus dem Demonstrations-Aufruf:
„Wir sagen nein zur DAPL und nein zu Trumps Kriegsagenda und Umweltzerstörung! Wir protestieren gemeinsam, um:
1) Die BayernLB und die Deutschen Bank dazu zu bewegen, keine Kredite an die von der Dakota Access Pipeline auszugeben!
2) Der Welt zu sagen, dass der Anti-LSBTQI Vizepräsident Pence und der Klimakiller Außenminister Rex Tilleron hier in Deutschland nicht willkommen sind!“ (Zur Zeit sind Pence und Tilleron von der US-Regierung zu zwei Konferenzen in Europa)
Die Demonstration in Berlin Teil der weltweiten Aktionswoche ‘Global Week of Action’ gegen die Dakota Access Pipeline und eines gemeinsamen Aktionstages, gleichzeitig demonstrieren heute Menschen in 70 weiteren Städten weltweit gegen DAPL und für die Rücknahme der Bankkredite für die DAPL.
Hintergrund-Infos:
Die Dakota Access Pipeline (kurz: DAPL), auch Bakken Pipeline genannt, ist eine im Bau befindliche Erdölpipeline zwischen der erdölreichen Bakken-Formation in North Dakota und dem Pipelineknotenpunkt Patoka in Illinois. Die Pipeline soll eine Länge von 1.880 km haben und durch die US-Bundesstaaten North Dakota, South Dakota und Iowa bis nach Illinois führen. Ihr Bau wird von US-weiten Protesten begleitet und wurde mehrmals gerichtlich gestoppt.
Initiator des rund 3,8 Milliarden US-Dollar teuren Projekt ist der Pipelinebetreiber Energy Transfer Partners.
Dabei werden 200 Wasserläufe überquert ( "water-crossings" ). Vor allem im Gebiet des sich aus einem weit verzweigten Netz von Zuflüssen speisenden Missouri River verläuft die Pipeline durch eine große Flusslandschaft.
Der Protest gegen die Dakota Access Pipeline ist eine der größten Umweltbewegungen der 2000er Jahre in den USA. Der Protest führte zur größten Zusammenkunft von Indianer Nordamerikas seit 1920.
Die Sioux von Standing Rock wehren sich gegen den Bau der Pipeline über Grabstätten und heiligem Land ihrer Vorfahren. Viele ihrer Grabstätten und heilige Orte wurden bereits zerstört, weitere Zerstörungen wurden angekündigt…
#NoDAPL #WaterISLife #DefundDAPL #WasserIstLeben
#StandWithStandingRock #KeepItInTheGround #BavariaDivests #BankExit
© B. Sauer-Diete/bsd-photo-archiv
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.
Senate Minority Leader and New York Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer’s Washington, DC office was rendered inoperable on August 3, 2017 morning when nearly two dozen people blockaded the office doors, delivering a letter backed by 15,000 supporters demanding that the Senator oppose Trump’s nominations to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the Energy and Natural Resources Act of 2017 (S 1460). Seven individuals held up a banner and were arrested for refusing to move. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
On evening of January 9th, Hundreds of Brooklynites gathered in front of Senator Charles Schumer’s residence just off Grand Army Plaza demanding that the new Senate Minority Leader use his position to strongly oppose President-elect Trump’s nomination of climate deniers to positions of great power over energy and the environment.
On May 25, 2022 more than 100 New Yorkers on the frontlines of the climate crisis, including faith leaders and youth, held a protest outside BlackRock Headquarters in Manhattan, where their annual shareholders’ meeting took place. Participants and speakers at this event demanded that BlackRock exclude companies expanding fossil fuel production from its active and passive funds. At least twelve protesters were arrested, including six faith leaders. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
ANACORTES, WASHINGTON, USA -- Friday May 13th, 2016. Activists set up a blockade encampment on the train tracks leading to the oil refineries in Anacortes. Thousands of people began converging in Anacortes, WA, as part of the global climate mobilization Break Free. Many are now risking 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
Thousands of school kids took part in the School Strike for Climate on March 25, 2022 in New York City. The students held a rally at Brooklyn Borough Hall and marched over the Brooklyn Bridge to Foley Square to bring attention to the inaction of city and state officials to face the current climate emergency. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
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
Creative Red Lines for Climate Justice at the end of COP21
© Erik Mc Gregor - erikrivas@hotmail.com - 917-225-8963
At 350Madison's Hold the Line on Fossil Fuel: #KeepItInTheGround on December 12, the Enbridge Tar Sands Octopus flew tangled in a red line symbolizing 350Madison's resolve to hold the line on CO2.
People say walking on water is a miracle, but to me walking peacefully on earth is the real miracle. Thich Nhat Hanh
September 22, 2018 - Rodeo, CA.
The planned Phillips 66 refinery expansion in the East Bay town of Rodeo would result in the processing of more toxic-polluting, climate-disrupting heavy crude oil, including Tar Sands, at this site, increasing refinery emissions and worsening the air quality for nearby communities. If Phillips 66's full expansion moves ahead, more than twice as many crude oil tankers would travel here, some of them carrying tar sands from British Columbia, the site of Canada's Trans Mountain Pipeline connecting to the vast Alberta oil sands.
This action was hosted by Indigenous Women of the Americas: Defenders of Mother Earth Treaty with support from Idle No More SF Bay and Stand.earth.
Environmental activists with the Stop The Money Pipeline Coalition held demonstrations outside JPMorgan Chase headquarters and BlackRock offices in New York City on October 2, 2020 to denounce both companies' participation in the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, to protest their reckless financing of fossil fuels, demanding them to divest from fossil fuels and to stop bankrolling climate chaos. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Senate Minority Leader and New York Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer’s Washington, DC office was rendered inoperable on August 3, 2017 morning when nearly two dozen people blockaded the office doors, delivering a letter backed by 15,000 supporters demanding that the Senator oppose Trump’s nominations to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the Energy and Natural Resources Act of 2017 (S 1460). Seven individuals held up a banner and were arrested for refusing to move. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
25.000 Klimaschützer*innen fluten Bonn - großartig! Die Schilder sind bunt, die Stimmung gut und die Message klar: Ran an die Arbeit, raus aus der Kohle! Möge sich der gute Geist der Klimademo auf die COP23 übertragen: Die nationalen Klimaschutzpläne müssen verbessert und umgesetzt werden.
Foto: Jörg Farys / BUND
The Jewish Youth Climate Movement, with support from the interfaith organization GreenFaith, led a non-violent civil disobedience action on October 18, 2021 outside of BlackRock’s New York headquarters to demand the global asset management firm stop funding the fossil fuel industry. Police arrested at least nine people -including three rabbis- who were demonstrating as part of the protest against BlackRock. (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
CHEVRON: End Climate Chaos
The Gates of Chevron Refinery
Richmond, CA
END CLIMATE CHAOS!
On Saturday, August 6, hundreds of Richmond residents and people from all over the Bay Area came together to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of the 2012 Chevron Refinery explosion and fire that sent over 15,000 people to the hospital.
Community members marching from Richmond Bart, Kayak-tivists landing at Keller Beach, Street Murals and a public art installation (The Fenceline Project) all converged at the gates of Chevrons' Refinery in Richmond, CA.
The message to Chevron - "we REFUSE another 120 years of violence on our bodies, our communities, our air."
“120 years of broken promises, no accountability, profit at the expense of our health and climate. Our health is not for sale!”
On May 25, 2022 more than 100 New Yorkers on the frontlines of the climate crisis, including faith leaders and youth, held a protest outside BlackRock Headquarters in Manhattan, where their annual shareholders’ meeting took place. Participants and speakers at this event demanded that BlackRock exclude companies expanding fossil fuel production from its active and passive funds. At least twelve protesters were arrested, including six faith leaders. (Photo by Erik McGregor)