A group of seniors was arrested in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday during the latest in a string of climate protests targeting Citigroup.
The demonstrators, many of whom wore photographs of their loved ones around their necks, marched toward Citi’s headquarters at 388 Greenwich St. at around 8:30 a.m. on Aug. 27. Some clung to pictures of their sons and daughters, others proudly displayed their grandchildren, and still others displayed their pets.
According to organizer Third Act, the seniors joined the civil disobedience as part of a larger movement dubbed the “Summer of Heat.” Activists say the ongoing action takes aim at Citigroup for allegedly bankrolling coal, oil, and gas companies that they say pollute communities and cause global warming.
It did not take long for the NYPD to start making arrests. Officers zip-tied dozens of protestors and whisked them away to waiting police vans.“I do a lot of public testimony, and I work with the federal government on climate policy, but when they don’t listen, social activism can open a space for science to speak,” Steingraber shouted over the heads of officers. “This is one of the biggest financiers of fossil fuels in the world.
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