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A total of 27 multi-faith assembly of religious leaders and lay people were arrested on October 19, 2022 at BlackRock’s headquarters in Manhattan while peacefully and prayerfully protesting the financial giant’s ongoing investment in fossil fuel corporations that are actively destroying the earth. The demonstration was a coalition of climate action groups that was organized by GreenFaith as part of a global, multi-faith action – Faiths 4 Climate Justice. (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)
More than 1500 people took the streest of Albany and marched fom Sheridan Hollow to the Capitol Building on April 23, 2018 as part of the "Cuomo Walk The Talk" day of action, governor's seat candidates participated in the protest, Democrat Cynthia Nixon marched the streets of Albany and Green Party's Howie Hawkins marched and got arrested later at the Hall of Governors in the Capitol Building. Actor and activist James Cromwell was also among the 55 people arrested at the Hall of Governors in a non-violent act of civil disobedience, demanding Cuomo to stop all fracking infrastructure, move to 100% renewable energy, and make polluters pay. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt canceled his speech to the far right think tank, the Manhattan Institute to avoid significant opposition from New York environmental groups and and other community leaders on June 21, 2017; at the Harvard Club in Manhattan where over a hundred people organized a protest. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
On April 7, 2023 Mets fans and climate activists targeted the Mets' opening day to send a strong message about climate change and the team’s sponsor’s role in it. After the third inning, activists dropped one large banner that read “Mets Drop Citi”. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
A group of #ClimateStrike activists dropped a banner over the entrance to the Consolidated Edison Headquarters in downtown Manhattan on September 24, 2019, with the message "Con Ed's Rate Hike Plan Fails the Climate Test. #Climate Strike Utilities". This is one act in a growing movement directed at corporate utilities that are abusing their monopoly status to raise already exorbitant rates, and use that money to fund massive expansions of fracked gas pipelines, liquefied natural gas storage tanks, and other fracked gas support infrastructure throughout New York City and New York State. (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)
Impacted residents and supporters from across the Northeast, including local farmers, used a tractor blockade and climbed a 275ft tall smokestack halting construction of the Cricket Valley fracked gas power plant for a day on November 6, 2019, citing the plant’s large contribution to climate change and local air pollution, they are calling on Governor Cuomo to shut down the fracked gas power plant for good. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Seniors in New York City and a coalition of environmental groups led by Third Act NYC, along with allies from XRNYC, Stop the Money Pipeline, Greenfaith, 350NYC, Rise And Resist and many other organizations, held rally and march on March 21, 2023 as part of a National Day of Action to pressure the major banks to stop financing the expansion of the fossil fuel industry. The rally featured a climate clock, Climate and anti-consumerism activist and performance artist Rev. Billy Talen and the Church of Stop Shopping Choir and a pair of giant scissors cutting up credit cards. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Seniors in New York City and a coalition of environmental groups led by Third Act NYC, along with allies from XRNYC, Stop the Money Pipeline, Greenfaith, 350NYC, Rise And Resist and many other organizations, held rally and march on March 21, 2023 as part of a National Day of Action to pressure the major banks to stop financing the expansion of the fossil fuel industry. The rally featured a climate clock, Climate and anti-consumerism activist and performance artist Rev. Billy Talen and the Church of Stop Shopping Choir and a pair of giant scissors cutting up credit cards. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
A total of 27 multi-faith assembly of religious leaders and lay people were arrested on October 19, 2022 at BlackRock’s headquarters in Manhattan while peacefully and prayerfully protesting the financial giant’s ongoing investment in fossil fuel corporations that are actively destroying the earth. The demonstration was a coalition of climate action groups that was organized by GreenFaith as part of a global, multi-faith action – Faiths 4 Climate Justice. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Pete Sikora from NY Communities for Change - Local climate activists participated in the global launch of the Fossil Fuel Finance Report Card on March 20, 2019. In New York city, Kim Fraczek, director of Sane Energy Project, hand-delivered the Report Card 2019 at the global headquarters of JP Morgan Chase. On the eve of the report release, Chase Bank branches were illuminated by light projections related to the report finds. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Climate activists gathered on June 14, 2023 at Brooklyn Borough Hall for a teach-in and art action highlighting successful initiatives implemented this year to combat the climate crisis, reduce consumers' energy expenses, and expose the obstructive climate hypocrisy of National Grid and ConEdison at both the city and state levels. The Brooklyn event coincided with more than 50 actions across the country, called by the People vs. Fossil Fuels coalition, in angry response to Bidenâs approval of the liquified natural gas (LNG) and Willow oil projects in Alaska and the debt ceiling deal that fast-tracks the Mountain Valley Pipeline. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Climate activists with Stop the Money Pipeline held a rally in midtown Manhattan on April 17, 2021 first at BlackRock’s HQ and then march to JP Morgan Chase’s HQ, -two of the world’s biggest funders of climate destruction in their opinion- to urge the two companies to end their support for the dangerous proposed Line 3 pipeline project, and stop funding fossil fuels and forest destruction. (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 16, 2023 Climate Activists with Dayenu, Jewish Climate Action, Third Act NYC and XRNYC held a rally outside JPMorgan Chase headquarters in Manhattan, delivering a petition demanding JPMorgan Chase to denounce, divest and defund Formosa Plastics toxic and racist petrochemical complex. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Members of Beyond Extreme Energy (BXE) held an action outside the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) headquarters in Washington DC on June 25, 2018, as dozens of BXE members and allies rallied around two of their fellow activists who perched on platforms on bamboo "gas drilling rigs" and laying an inflatable pipeline on the street blocking the entrance to the driveway to FERC's employee parking lot from 7am to early afternoon, successfully preventing them from accessing the workplace. Activists are demanding a halt to the permitting and building of all new fossil fuel pipelines and other infrastructure. There were no arrests. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA -- Tuesday, May 10th, 2016. Emem Bridget speaks at a Break Free action at Oloibiri Well 1 for livelihoods of communities in the Niger River Delta who are quickly forgotten by corporations as soon as there are oil spills and the oil wells run dry. The human cost is horrific – people living with pollution every day of their lives.
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: Babawale Obayanju
Hundreds of New Yorkers still reeling from the effects of Hurricane Ida, marched to Citigroup Headquarters and the NY Federal Reserve on October 29, 2021 to demand two of the city’s iconic financial institutions stop the pipeline of money flowing to the fossil fuel industry. The actions were part of a day of international escalation with disruptions targeting financial institutions in 50 cities on six continents to protest the role of the financial sector in fueling the biggest threat to global financial security: climate change. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Hundreds of New Yorkers still reeling from the effects of Hurricane Ida, marched to Citigroup Headquarters and the NY Federal Reserve on October 29, 2021 to demand two of the city’s iconic financial institutions stop the pipeline of money flowing to the fossil fuel industry. The actions were part of a day of international escalation with disruptions targeting financial institutions in 50 cities on six continents to protest the role of the financial sector in fueling the biggest threat to global financial security: climate change. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Impacted residents and supporters from across the Northeast, including local farmers, used a tractor blockade and climbed a 275ft tall smokestack halting construction of the Cricket Valley fracked gas power plant for a day on November 6, 2019, citing the plant’s large contribution to climate change and local air pollution, they are calling on Governor Cuomo to shut down the fracked gas power plant for good. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
On September 22, 2022 the Rainforest Action Network, Friends of the Earth U.S. and SumOfUs held a rally outside Colgate-Palmolive offices in NYC, where the Consumer Goods Forum's Forest Positive Coalition held a greenwashing corporate event during Climate Week NYC. The groups also supported similar actions outside BlackRock Headquarters and TIAA Headquarters to denounce their failure to meet commitments against deforestation. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
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)
A large crowd of New York climate leaders organized a rally outside Cuomo's Manhattan office on August 16, 2018, calling on him to stop fossil fuel infrastructure and shift New York to 100 percent renewable energy and delivered thousands of petitions to Governor Cuomo, urging him to be a true climate leader. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
New Yorkers took direct action outside Governor Andrew Cuomo’s New York City office on November 2, 2018 sending a clear message: Be a real climate leader and stop the Williams NESE Pipeline. Dozens of activists rallied before dropping a 25-foot banner across the street, and delivering a letter opposing the pipeline signed by 211 New York organizations. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Orange County Resident Melissa A. Toomey-Martens - Environmental activists, organizations and principled progressives organized the ‘Love NY Don't Frack It Up’ rally on February 14, 2018; outside the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse in Manhattan, where Governor Cuomo’s former top staffer, Joseph Percoco, goes to trial on corruption charges. The Percoco trial reveals the intimate relationship between fossil fuel lobbyists and government officials, which harmed New York residents by permitting the development of the dangerous CPV Valley power plant at the center of the corruption trial. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
New Yorkers and activists from the Stop the Money Pipeline Coalition gathered outside JP Morgan headquarters in New York on February 25, 2020 during Chase Bank’s Investor Day demanding Chase to end its massive funding of fossil fuel industry. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
PARIS, FRANCE-- On December 2, 2015, activists from 350.org chanted "keep it in the ground" while bouncing a symbolic 'carbon bubble' in the air at COP21. The action today took place just before an announcement by 350.org on the divestment campaign, which stated that "more than 500 institutions representing over $3.4 trillion in assets have made some form of divestment commitment."
Today is the third day of COP21 which is being held in Paris, France, at the Le Bourget conference center.
Photos by: Emma Cassidy | Survival Media Agency
Nine arrests were reported at the US Extinction Rebellion (XR), the first major New York City civil disobedience action of a dynamic, bold new environmental movement. A nonviolent action was organized on January 26, 2019 to temporarily shut down Rockefeller Plaza, a prominent New York City landmark to create awareness of the extreme peril of the climate change emergency through a nationwide day of nonviolent civil disobedience and protest. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
As a key water-quality certificate permit deadline looms, New Yorkers rally outside and inside the New York State Capitol building in Albany on March 27, 2017; to urge Governor Cuomo to Deny the 401 Water and Air Permits and block the Northern Access export pipeline.
Local Orange County, NY residents - Oscar-nominated actor and activist, James Cromwell, Grandmother and actress Madeline Shaw, and Mother Pramilla Malick began their 7-day jail sentence in Orange County, N.Y. on July 14, 2017; for their action taken at the construction site of the Competitive Power Ventures Gas-Fired power plant in Wawayanda, NY. The three residents staged a blockade at the site on December 18, 2015 stating this project creates unacceptable health and safety risks to the public. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
On the night before JPMorgan Chase’s annual shareholder meeting, activists with Stop the Money Pipeline projected 30ft tall images of people holding protest signs with messages calling on CEO Jamie Dimon to “stop funding fossil fuels” on a wall across from his apartment in New York City. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
A total of 27 multi-faith assembly of religious leaders and lay people were arrested on October 19, 2022 at BlackRock’s headquarters in Manhattan while peacefully and prayerfully protesting the financial giant’s ongoing investment in fossil fuel corporations that are actively destroying the earth. The demonstration was a coalition of climate action groups that was organized by GreenFaith as part of a global, multi-faith action – Faiths 4 Climate Justice. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
More than 1500 people took the streest of Albany and marched fom Sheridan Hollow to the Capitol Building on April 23, 2018 as part of the "Cuomo Walk The Talk" day of action, governor's seat candidates participated in the protest, Democrat Cynthia Nixon marched the streets of Albany and Green Party's Howie Hawkins marched and got arrested later at the Hall of Governors in the Capitol Building. Actor and activist James Cromwell was also among the 55 people arrested at the Hall of Governors in a non-violent act of civil disobedience, demanding Cuomo to stop all fracking infrastructure, move to 100% renewable energy, and make polluters pay. (Photo by 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)
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
Local Orange County, NY residents - Oscar-nominated actor and activist, James Cromwell, Grandmother and actress Madeline Shaw, and Mother Pramilla Malick began their 7-day jail sentence in Orange County, N.Y. on July 14, 2017; for their action taken at the construction site of the Competitive Power Ventures Gas-Fired power plant in Wawayanda, NY. The three residents staged a blockade at the site on December 18, 2015 stating this project creates unacceptable health and safety risks to the public. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
On June 1, 2017; activist groups and concerned citizens held a rally at Foley Square and then marched to New York City Hall in protest of Trump’s attack on the Paris climate agreement and call on Governor Cuomo, Mayor de Blasio and Comptroller Stringer to take the bold action needed to fight climate change and inequality. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
On September 22, 2022 the Rainforest Action Network, Friends of the Earth U.S. and SumOfUs held a rally outside Colgate-Palmolive offices in NYC, where the Consumer Goods Forum's Forest Positive Coalition held a greenwashing corporate event during Climate Week NYC. The groups also supported similar actions outside BlackRock Headquarters and TIAA Headquarters to denounce their failure to meet commitments against deforestation. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Members of Beyond Extreme Energy (BXE) held an action outside the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) headquarters in Washington DC on June 25, 2018, as dozens of BXE members and allies rallied around two of their fellow activists who perched on platforms on bamboo "gas drilling rigs" and laying an inflatable pipeline on the street blocking the entrance to the driveway to FERC's employee parking lot from 7am to early afternoon, successfully preventing them from accessing the workplace. Activists are demanding a halt to the permitting and building of all new fossil fuel pipelines and other infrastructure. There were no arrests. (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
New Yorkers and activists from the Stop the Money Pipeline Coalition gathered outside JP Morgan headquarters in New York on February 25, 2020 during Chase Bank’s Investor Day demanding Chase to end its massive funding of fossil fuel industry. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
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
Impacted residents and supporters from across the Northeast, including local farmers, used a tractor blockade and climbed a 275ft tall smokestack halting construction of the Cricket Valley fracked gas power plant for a day on November 6, 2019, citing the plant’s large contribution to climate change and local air pollution, they are calling on Governor Cuomo to shut down the fracked gas power plant for good. (Photo by Erik McGregor)