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Climate Strike at Columbus Circle - 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)
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)
Activists carry the "Keep It In The Ground" message on fossil fuels outside a fundraiser Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton in Las Vegas Feb. 18, 2016. Greenpeace and more than 20 partners launched a pledge asking all presidential primary candidates to commit to fixing Democracy by rejecting campaign contributions from fossil fuel companies. Photo by Richard Salmeron/Greenpeace
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 “CODE RED!” banner in front of the United Nations headquarters. (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)
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)
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)
The NY Department of Environmental Conservation held the last public hearing on the Williams NESE Pipeline at the Rockaway Park High School For Environmental Sustainability on March 6, 2019. The Williams NESE pipeline, will carry fracked gas for 23 miles through our thriving and beautiful New York Harbor. Comments will be received by the DEC until March 15. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Kim Fraczek, Director of Sane Energy Project - 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)
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.
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)
Four Water Defenders took action along the Hudson, interrupting plans to pull AIM pipeline under the river by occupying pipeline construction site to Stop Spectra Energy’s AIM Pipeline. A rally of 130 people marched to the pipeline site, singing and showing solidarity with the defenders and pledging to continue the fight.
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 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 Columbus Circle - 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)
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)
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)
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)
On June 2, 2021 climate activists with Stop the Money Pipeline, displayed a giant banner depicting the destruction in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria outside Chase Bank branches in midtown Manhattan, calling on the banking giant to stop investing in fossil fuel projects driving catastrophic climate change. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
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)
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)
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)
#NoDAPL - Sacred Stone Camp
Cannon Ball, North Dakota
September 2016
Photo by Sunshine Velasco | Survival Media Agency
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)
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)
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)
NYC Public Advocate Tish James - Peoples Climate Movement 2018 Kick-off event is a city-wide organizing meeting on learning how you can get more involved in climate campaigns. Followed by brief updates on the exciting work of several campaigns and breaking groups focused on how we can strengthen and expand climate action in New York City and NY State, as well as nationally. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
On February 17, 2017; at the New York HQ of BayernLB in Manhattan, members of the Ramapough Lenape Nation and American Indian Law Alliance lead indigenous and environmental activists in prayer ceremony calling on Bavarian-based BayernLB bank to divest from companies building the Dakota Access Pipeline across treaty-protected land in North Dakota
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)
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.
NY City Council Member Costa Constantinides - Hundreds of climate activivsts gathered outside the CNN studios at 30 Hudson Yards where a Town Hall on Climate Policy was held on September 4, 2019 to tell the leading Democratic Party presidential candidates that it’s time for them all to commit to the boldest and fastest climate actions now. (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)
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)
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)
Harris Khan (Executive Vice President, Student Government at CUNY City College) - Hundreds of New York students took to the streets of Manhattan on July 21, 2018 for the NYC Youth Climate March and Rally from Columbus Circle to Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, to demand immediate governmental action on climate change.
(Photo by Erik McGregor)
WHITING, INDIANA, USA -- Sunday, May 15th, 2016. Hundreds of people marched in Whiting, IN (Chicago area) as part of the Break Free global wave of action to demand an end to fossil fuels and a just transition to sustainable energy. Forty-three people were arrested outside the BP Whiting refinery.
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 Hoda Katebi | Survival Media Agency
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)
On September 20, 2020 a coalition of climate, Indigenous and racial justice groups gathered at Columbus Circle to kick off Climate Week with the Climate Justice Through Racial Justice march. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
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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)
Thousands of New Yorkers came together for the #Sandy5 march on October 28, 2017; to commemorate the fifth anniversary of Superstorm Sandy. Crossing the Brooklyn Bridge in a wave of blue, participants are demanding powerful climate action from New York’s elected officials. Over 150 local, state and national organizations, with strong representation from neighborhoods impacted by the storm, signed-on to the march. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
On March 17, 2017; New Yorkers delivered over 51,000 petitions to Governor Cuomo's Office in Manhattan, urging him to
reject the 401 Water Quality Certificate for Spectra Energy’s high-pressure, high-volume, fracked-gas Atlantic Bridge pipeline and to shut down the Algonquin pipeline expansion in New York
Activist group Rise and Resist joins environmental advocacy organizations for a protest outside the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) offices in downtown Manhattan calling for the removal of Scott Pruitt. The week of protests culminated on June 8, 2018, with Reverend Billy and The Stop Shopping Choir exorcising the EPA building. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Environmental advocates with Climate Fast NJ engaged on a 14 days fast to call on New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy to enact a moratorium on pipelines, power plants and all new fossil fuel expansion projects currently proposed in our communities and through our water sources. Beginning right after the November 6th election, a water-only fast was held outside the offices of Governor Phil Murphy at New Jersey State House in Trenton; in solidarity with front line communities opposing the dozen new dirty energy proposals in New Jersey. (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)