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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)
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)
About 30 members of activist group Rise and Resist were arrested after disrupting "Business As Usual" at a Climate Emergency protest outside the Bloomberg Global Business Forum held at the Plaza Hotel at 59th Street and 5th Avenue on September 25, 2019, blocking traffic at the intersection to protest the continued investment in the carbon economy despite overwhelming scientific evidence that to do so endangers human survival. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
At a press conference before the monthly Public Service Commission (PSC) meeting on December 12, 2019 New Yorkers from across the state called on the PSC to reject Con Ed’s proposed rate hike which will raise electricity rates over the next three years by a compounded 16% and gas rates 25% for cooking customers and 34% for heating customers. Following the press conference, participants held a silent protest against gas infrastructure and in support of renewable heating during the PSC meeting. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
The XR Red Rebel Brigade held a solemn procession in Battery Park on October 7, 2019 as Extinction Rebellion activists started a week of action around the world to highlight their environmental campaign with a wide-ranging series of protests demanding new climate policies. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
XR NYC protesters participated on a "Funeral For Our Future" on October 7, 2019 as Extinction Rebellion activists started a week of action around the world to highlight their environmental campaign with a wide-ranging series of protests demanding new climate policies. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
XR NYC protesters participated on a "Funeral For Our Future" on October 7, 2019 as Extinction Rebellion activists started a week of action around the world to highlight their environmental campaign with a wide-ranging series of protests demanding new climate policies. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Activists covered the Wall Street Bull in blood and perform a die-in around it in an act of civil disobedience on October 7, 2019, as Extinction Rebellion activists started a week of action around the world to highlight their environmental campaign with a wide-ranging series of protests demanding new climate policies. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Activists covered the Wall Street Bull in blood and perform a die-in around it in an act of civil disobedience on October 7, 2019, as Extinction Rebellion activists started a week of action around the world to highlight their environmental campaign with a wide-ranging series of protests demanding new climate policies. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
The XR Red Rebel Brigade held a solemn procession in Battery Park on October 7, 2019 as Extinction Rebellion activists started a week of action around the world to highlight their environmental campaign with a wide-ranging series of protests demanding new climate policies. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
NYC-DSA and allies dropped a banner and held a picketing outside Con Ed’s offices in Manhattan on May 20, 2019 as shareholders enter the building for their annual shareholders’ meeting. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
On January 16, 2020, the biggest public turnout of New York advocates, businesses, families, farmers, students, health professionals, and more, attended the Public Service Commission’s (PSC) monthly meeting and stood up in outrage as they awarded Consolidated Edison almost a billion dollars per year for their upcoming rate cycle, funded by New York residents, to construct 3 new fracked gas pipelines in Westchester/Bronx, Queens and Manhattan and replace old pipeline with new pipeline. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
On January 16, 2020, the biggest public turnout of New York advocates, businesses, families, farmers, students, health professionals, and more, attended the Public Service Commission’s (PSC) monthly meeting and stood up in outrage as they awarded Consolidated Edison almost a billion dollars per year for their upcoming rate cycle, funded by New York residents, to construct 3 new fracked gas pipelines in Westchester/Bronx, Queens and Manhattan and replace old pipeline with new pipeline. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
XR NYC protesters blocked traffic in midtown Manhattan on October 7, 2019 as Extinction Rebellion activists started a week of action around the world to highlight their environmental campaign with a wide-ranging series of protests demanding new climate policies. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
NY youth, leaders representing hundreds of community, social justice, environmental and climate organizations wrote and delivered an open letter to Democratic Party US Senate leader Chuck Schumer on December 3, 2018 urging him to oppose Bernard Mcnamee for FERC Commissioner and Joe Manchin as Energy And Natural Resources Committee ranking member. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
In a line that stretched upwards of a mile, over 700 New Yorkers marched across the Brooklyn Bridge on April 18, 2019 to demand Governor Andrew Cuomo to block the controversial Williams Northeast Supply Enhancement (NESE) Pipeline, which would carry fracked gas through New York Harbor. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
In honor of World Ocean Day 2018, NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio, City Officials and hundreds of students from New York City schools gathered at New York City Hall steps on May 30, 2018, to urge City Council Members to pass Int 135, a bill to ban expanded polystyrene foam (EPS, or commonly called "styrofoam") and to oppose the industry-backed legislation to recycle EPS. In 2013, NYC Council voted “yes’ to ban foam, but two industry-funded lawsuits have blocked this law. Students want their voices heard for for plastic-free oceans and to protect the health of marine wildlife, seafood and humans. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Members of the Stop the Williams Pipeline Coalition along with elected officials held a press conference this morning outside National Grid Corporate Headquarters in Brooklyn calling out corporate utilities National Grid and ConEdison for their role in perpetuating climate change by expanding fracked gas pipelines and other infrastructure in New York City and Long Island, unethically raising rates, and holding small businesses and local residents hostage in order to manufacture a demand for the twice-denied Williams NESE fracked gas pipeline. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Community members from across North Brooklyn rallied at Manhattan Avenue and Moore Street near the construction site of National Grid’s controversial Metropolitan Reliability Infrastructure (MRI) project shutting down construction for the day on February 15, 2020. Community calls for immediate, permanent halt of construction and on Mayor De Blasio, and Governor Cuomo to oppose project. (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)
10 people from the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion NYC were arrested in Bushwick on February 28, 2020 for blocking the construction of the North Brooklyn fracked gas transmission pipeline for over 2 hours in a non-violent civil disobedience protest of this massive fossil fuel project. (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)
Kim Fraczek, Director, Sane Energy - 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 June 13, 2020 Activists with the No NBK Pipeline Coalition and community members gathered again in the streets of Bushwick to speak out against National Grid and to demand the just, renewable energy future proposed by Governor Cuomo, walking along the active pipeline construction to outreach to local businesses and residents. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
An estimated 250,000 school kids, college students and New York residents gathered at Foley Square on September 20, 2019 to participate in the Global Climate Strike as hundreds of thousands of people across the United States – and the world – headed out to the streets to demand that world leaders, our government, and the fossil fuel industry change course immediately to avoid a climate catastrophe. (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)
National Grid resumed the North Brooklyn "MRI" Pipeline construction by allegedly authorizing themselves to continue, despite the risks of the COVID-19 pandemic and the extension of the shelter in place orders, creating street closures and traffic congestion in the streets of Bushwick. Residents and local elected officials have expressed strong opposition to the pipelines cutting through their neighborhoods carrying highly volatile fracked gas. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Hundreds students took part in the School Strike for Climate on May 3, 2019 in New York City, joining over 500 events worldwide. The students held a rally and perform a die in outside City Hall to bring attention to Mayor De Blasio's inaction to declare a climate emergency. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Hundreds students took part in the School Strike for Climate on May 3, 2019 in New York City, joining over 500 events worldwide. The students held a rally and perform a die in outside City Hall to bring attention to Mayor De Blasio's inaction to declare a climate emergency. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Residents from Brownsville, Brooklyn, disrupted National Grid’s construction site on December 10, 2020 at the intersection of Junius St. and Linden Boulevard halting their so-called Metropolitan Reliability Infrastructure Project, better known as the North Brooklyn Pipeline, successfully shutting it down for the day. (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)
Puerto Rico Recovery collection - 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)
New Yorkers held a rally outside the New York Stock Exchange on March 7, 2018; as Exxon CEO Darren Woods speaks at the corporation’s “Global Analyst Meeting” at the New York Stock Exchange. This comes weeks after Exxon released a report claiming climate change will have “little risk” on its core business model of fossil fuel extraction. (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)
This week defense attorney David Dorfman made a compelling case that his clients Rebecca Berlin, David Publow and Janet González crawled into a segment of 42 inch diameter steel pipe in Cortlandt, New York in October 2016, halting construction of the Spectra/Enbridge AIM pipeline for 18 hours, in order to prevent a greater harm. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
LaDonna Brave Bull Allard Water Protector, and a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota and South Dakota - In a line that stretched upwards of a mile, over 700 New Yorkers marched across the Brooklyn Bridge on April 18, 2019 to demand Governor Andrew Cuomo to block the controversial Williams Northeast Supply Enhancement (NESE) Pipeline, which would carry fracked gas through New York Harbor. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
In honor of World Ocean Day 2018, NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio, City Officials and hundreds of students from New York City schools gathered at New York City Hall steps on May 30, 2018, to urge City Council Members to pass Int 135, a bill to ban expanded polystyrene foam (EPS, or commonly called "styrofoam") and to oppose the industry-backed legislation to recycle EPS. In 2013, NYC Council voted “yes’ to ban foam, but two industry-funded lawsuits have blocked this law. Students want their voices heard for for plastic-free oceans and to protect the health of marine wildlife, seafood and humans. (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)
Ahead of Mother's Day, dozens of mothers, caregivers and allies gathered at Citi’s headquarters in Tribeca on May 11, 2023 to perform a collection of moving songs calling on Citi’s CEO, Jane Fraser, to align Citi’s policies with the Paris Agreement, stop funding coal and phase out all fossil fuel financing. Participants also delivered a giant Mother’s Day bouquet and card for Jane Fraser to Chief Sustainability Officer Valerie Smith, who came down to meet the protesters. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
About 30 members of activist group Rise and Resist were arrested after disrupting "Business As Usual" at a Climate Emergency protest outside the Bloomberg Global Business Forum held at the Plaza Hotel at 59th Street and 5th Avenue on September 25, 2019, blocking traffic at the intersection to protest the continued investment in the carbon economy despite overwhelming scientific evidence that to do so endangers human survival. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Activists covered the Wall Street Bull in blood and perform a die-in around it in an act of civil disobedience on October 7, 2019, as Extinction Rebellion activists started a week of action around the world to highlight their environmental campaign with a wide-ranging series of protests demanding new climate policies. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
XR NYC protesters blocked traffic in midtown Manhattan on October 7, 2019 as Extinction Rebellion activists started a week of action around the world to highlight their environmental campaign with a wide-ranging series of protests demanding new climate policies. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Fossil Free Divest NY, in coordination with community members and dozens of groups across America, held a rally outside the office of the New York State Comptroller in New York City, on May 14, 2018, to press NY State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli divest the state pension fund from its $6 billion in fossil fuel holdings, including $1 billion in ExxonMobil. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
10 people from the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion NYC were arrested in Bushwick on February 28, 2020 for blocking the construction of the North Brooklyn fracked gas transmission pipeline for over 2 hours in a non-violent civil disobedience protest of this massive fossil fuel project. (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)
On April 28, 2023 eleven Climate Activists were arrested after storming the barricades and pouring fake oil at BlackRock’s headquarters in Manhattan. Along with 75 other activists with pitchforks, they shut down the HQ entrance to demand that the company - the world’s largest investor in fossil fuels - end new investments in coal, oil and gas, in line with the basic scientific requirements of avoiding global climate catastrophe. (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)
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 April 26, 2023 six climate activists were arrested for blocking the entrance at the headquarters of global investment company KKR & Co. Inc., also known as Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. in Manhattan, at a protest that shut down the building's front entrance. Protesters were demanding that the private equity giant stop funding fossil fuel projects that drive the climate crisis and poison the air and water of frontline communities. (Photo by Erik McGregor)