BREAKING: We can finally post this now that our media team is out of jail. We got arrested and held for 25 hours against protocol because we disrupted Eric Adams. This is a clear act of retaliation by a humiliated mayor abusing his power.
Here’s what happened & what comes next 🧵
BREAKING: Citibank staff punches peaceful climate activist in the face for taking video. He was taken to the hospital bleeding.
@Citi
keeps proving their violent business is rooted in violent people. This can't go on.
BREAKING: Climate justice leader and renowned writer
@billmckibben
was just ARRESTED blockading Citibank's Global HQ with Summer of Heat.
McKibben and 46 other elders were arrested for demanding Citi STOP pouring billions of dollars into the fossil fuel industry.
BREAKING: 16 faith leaders arrested for blocking the doors to
@citi
HQ in Manhattan.
They are demanding that Citi protect what is sacred, and stop funding fossil fuels that are setting our world on fire.
We took over the wealthiest Hamptons golf course this morning. Here, they pay a MILLION dollar membership fee to play the world's stupidest and most ecocidal game. It's disgusting how the billionaires who destroy our planet for business come here and do it for pleasure.
HAPPENING: As 100s of Citibankers slowly file through a slim hole police made in our blockade, activists undercover as finance bros & gals patiently wait in line. Once at the door, they lock arms & blockade the line itself!
Can you spot the people of conscience in this video?
BREAKING: hundreds of us are currently flooding Citibank’s HQ. We’re blocking ALL the doors. Thousands of finance cannot get to their job of funding fossil fuels.
We’re DONE playing nice, our future is on the line.
#CitiDropFossilFuels
BREAKING: Dozens of feminists arrested outside
@Citi
CEO Jane Fraser's home in Manhattan.
Fraser is torching our planet. We fight for liberation. We fight to live.
BREAKING: 🚨Climate and Palestine protestors arrested at
@citibank
global headquarters in Manhattan
@Citi
is the top funder of new fossil fuels, and the number one foreign bank in Israel. This is not a coincidence. Their business model is death and destruction.
🇵🇸✊🌍
Diane Wilson who grew up in Calhoun County, one of the most polluted counties in the US thanks to Formosa Plastics, has locked her neck to Formosa's corporate entrance.
Formosa illegally dumped billions of plastic pellets into the Lavaca Bay, poisoning Diane's community.
HAPPENING NOW: NYPD arrests dozens of protestors locked to structures, blocking hundreds of bankers from Citi's global HQ.
Citi is the
#1
funder of fossil fuel expansion.
#SummerOfHeat
#HeatDome
BREAKING: 29 elders arrested after successfully blocking the doors to CitiBank's HQ. They are demanding a future for their children and grandchildren, which we will not have if
@Citi
keeps funding fossil fuels by the billion. The science is clear. It needs to end now.
Breaking! We just crashed a gala at the Parrish Museum sponsored by Bank of America, which has pumped over $300 billion into new fossil fuels in the last 5 years. Gala attendees crowded to hear us while security pushed us from the event & assaulted our drummer.
@nychange
If we keep fracking, burning fossil fuels, and increasing emissions, it literally does not matter how much money we spend on clean energy. You can double the number of solar panels, but if you don't halve emissions along the way, we're fucked. You can’t have it both ways.
BREAKING: Activists from the American Gulf South have blockaded the doors to insurance giant Chubb in Manhattan, which insures MASSIVE fossil fuel buildout in their region.
#SummerOfHeat
This blew up. Our friend who was punched in the face by
@citi
staff while peacefully filming has been released from jail. This is the last image he captured before the attack.
This is the kind of person who works at Citi. This is the kind of person defending fossil fuels.
BREAKING: Citibank staff punches peaceful climate activist in the face for taking video. He was taken to the hospital bleeding.
@Citi
keeps proving their violent business is rooted in violent people. This can't go on.
We just STOPPED MVP CONSTRUCTION with AAP and sent excavators packing. We joined with Appalachians Against Pipelines in a remote part of the Blue Ridge Mountains to say NOPE to this horrendous project — TWICE IN ONE DAY.
Doom to the pipeline!! Footage from yesterday's walk ons, which stopped Mountain Valley Pipeline construction in Montgomery County, Virginia for multiple hours. 👏👏👏
#NoMVP
#NoPipelines
We just stormed a bouthouse and yacht enclave in the Hamptons. We joined our friends of the Shinnecock Nation, whose land continues to be stolen and destroyed by these morally bankrupt billionaires.
@nychange
BREAKING: We just disrupted Brad Lander, NYC's Comptroller & mayoral candidate. Lander has ignored NYCers for years now, refusing to divest our billions in city pension funds from dirty asset managers funding new fossil fuels.
Time's up, Brad. We're taking direct action now.
BREAKING: In a first for Summer of Heat, activists snuck past security into the global HQ of top fossil fuel funder
@Citi
. They have been placed in literal chains. One of our friends was taken away in an ambulance because security attacked them and drew blood.
This is Citibank.
BREAKING: The famed yacht sinking orcas have descended on the Hamptons' mega-yacht marina.
The 1% are killing us for business and for pleasure. They can try to hide behind their tall Hamptons hedges, but they can't escape accountability.
Tax the motherfucking rich.
BREAKING: A founding member of POP was arrested while filming activists & complying with police.
Under orders from
@Citi
, NYPD arrested & held Teddy Ogborn for 8.5 hours. He's the 4th Summer of Heat organizer falsely charged in 5 days.
A 🧵on Citi's attempts to silence us.
HAPPENING NOW: Summer of Heat has BLOCKADED the entrance to AIG, a Manhattan insurance giant that is ready to GREENLIGHT the East African Crude Oil Pipeline. EACOP will displace hundreds of thousands of East Africans, poison their land, and torch our Earth.
We have no choice.
HAPPENING NOW: NYC'S iconic Citibikes have revolted against their maker. As the top new fossil fuel funder,
@Citi
's name brings shame on these fossil-free bikes.
At least 100 NYPD present. Arrests imminent.
👋 That was us!!!
PERMANENT CEASEFIRE NOW!
We floated it up during Kamala Harris and Bob Iger's interviews by the Times — the VP gives UNCONDITIONAL support to a murderous regime in Israel. Tens of thousands have died and millions displaced on her watch. Shame on
@KamalaHarris
BREAKING: Dozens of faith leaders garbed in white have chained themselves to the doors of Citibank's global headquarters in Manhattan. NYPD will need power tools to cut them away arrest them.
@Citi
, the
#1
new fossil fuel funder, is dead-set on desecrating our world.
HAPPENING NOW: NYPD forcibly removes a blockade device from
@Citi
's headquarters in Tribeca.
Citi is the number one foreign bank in Israel and the top funder of new fossil fuel projects.
BREAKING: We just infiltrated the official NYC Climate Week proceedings & disrupted Biden's Climate Advisor, Ali Zaidi.
No meaningful progress on climate can be made if this administration keeps funding & approving new fossil fuels. This admin is bankrolling genocide & ecocide.
HAPPENING NOW: It's come to this. Summer of Heat has gone straight to the source. Hundreds of activists have marched to CitiBank CEO Jane Fraser's apartment in Manhattan and constructed a memorial to the millions of children killed and displaced by Citi's fossil fuel expansion.
(POV) 1000+ bankers are stuck outside
@Citi
headquarters in Manhattan because
(POV) dozens of our friends risked arrest to prevent them from entering and funding massive new fossil fuel projects
Today, cellist John Mark Rozendaal risked a max sentence of 7 years in prison to protest Citibank's massive fossil fuel funding.
@Citi
obtained an unconstitutional restraining order against him so he could not legally return to protest.
He defied them.
This is how we win.
Hi Twitter, we need your help. A peaceful activist was assaulted today by a member of Citi's staff. We need to move swiftly. If you can help us to just get the name of this violent man and DM us, it would be much appreciated. Thank you ❤️
BREAKING: Activists have escalated tactics and are locked down blockading
@citis
global HQ AGAIN. We are making it loud and clear: Citi funds death. A business model based on funding genocide, fossil fuel buildout, and planetary exploitation cannot stand.
#SummerOfHeat
Billionaires did this. They'll keep doing this until we stop them.
They think they can sweep the soot, ash, death, destruction, and heartbreak under the rug. They think we'll accept more and more of this until we choke on our own air.
They're wrong. Join us.
WATCH: NYPD arrested 23 climate & Palestine activists who locked themselves to structures, preventing hundreds of bankers from entering Citi HQ. This is day 7 of the
#SummerOfHeat
, which will proceed DAILY until our demands are met.
CITI, STOP FUNDING FOSSIL FUELS AND GENOCIDE!
BREAKING: We are in the Hamptons, and we went straight to the summer home of John Duggan, Citigroup's Board Chair.
He was there. The door was slammed in our face.
On his front walk, we built a memorial to all the children displaced & harmed by his funding of fossil fuels. 🧵
BREAKING: THE SUMMER OF HEAT HAS LAUNCHED. Dozens arrested at Citi Bank's Global Headquarters after blockading the planet's biggest funder of fossil fuel expansion.
We will not let up until Citi stops fueling the destruction of our planet. It's come to this.
AMAZING NEWS: After being arrested yesterday morning while defying
@Citi
's bogus restraining order against them, John Mark and Alec have just been released from central booking after arraignment ❤️
BREAKING: Activists blockaded all doors at CitiBank this morning, for the second day in a row. Citi has flooded the fossil fuel industry with over
$300bil since 2016.
Even when NYPD's riot unit pulled up, we held our positions.
BREAKING: POP just disrupted Val Smith, Citi's Greenwasher-in-Chief, at a “Global Energy Transition Conference." Citi poured $30bil into fossil fuels this year alone. Tomorrow, HUNDREDS of Gulf South activists will descend on Citi HQ to demand it stops poisoning their families.
Let’s make ourselves clear. Adams, a former NYPD captain, couldn’t handle the humiliated, so he made sure NYPD held us overnight for 25 hours and gave us higher charges. This is despotic. This is an abuse of power.
NYC has a corrupt cop landlord mayor. /7
BREAKING: we took over a speech by Senator Joe Manchin. We humiliated him. We made him leave his seat in shame. This man is a murderer. He incinerates his own grandchildren for profit. He belongs in The Hague. Not in high society.
BREAKING: 100 CLIMATE JUSTICE ACTIVISTS snuck ahead of the march and have formed a FULL BLOCKADE around NYPD guarding Citi's global HQ. Arrests imminent.
#SummerOfHeat
NYPD admitted outright that our arrests were direct orders from the Mayor in retaliation. When we asked why we were being detained, the cops themselves said they didn’t know why, but that they’d been ordered by someone from the Mayor’s staff to arrest us /4
On Tuesday morning, Landlord Adams was speaking in front of New York's business leaders when we stormed the stage, unfurled a banner, and called him out for betraying working-class New Yorkers. Security attacked us, grabbed us by our necks, and even tried to snatch our phones /2
⚠️Activists arrested blockading CitiBank's global HQ. As the number one funder of fossil fuel expansion, they are responsible for countless deaths worldwide.
It is our responsibility — and yours — to stop them.
HUGE NEWS: We've shut down CitiBank Global HQ, TWICE IN TWO DAYS. And we're not done. As long as as they keep flooding the fossil fuel industry with new cash, we'll keep escalating against them.
Here's day 1.
HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of feminists against fossil fuels have marched to the home of Jane Fraser, CEO of top fossil fuel funder
@Citi
.
Women, girls, and mothers are disproportionately harmed by this crisis. It's time to cut the fossil funds, Jane.
BREAKING: We have blockaded Citibank's global HQ AGAIN. Today we are making it clear: from fossil fuels to the war machine, Citi's entire business model is based on destruction. Innumerable human deaths can be attributed to Citi's funding, and millions more are at risk.
Pro-Palestine protesters have disrupted the
#DNC24
delegate welcome party at Navy Pier tonight. Video taken by a source there.
"You are funding a genocide. And Harris-Biden administration keeps sending money to Israel. Free Palestine."
WE SHUT DOWN THE MOMA. AGAIN. We'll continue to do so until they dump genocide & fossil fuel profiteer, billionaire Henry Kravis. His money taints the museum. His wife sits as board chair. From Turtle Island to Palestine, settler colonialism must end.
MoMA, 💔dump💔 Kravis.
The cops told us that this is a 'big deal' because we went after important people in power. We overheard one confused cop saying that this should usually result in a simple summons and release, but she was told that it’s different because we had “gone after a Mayor Adams event"/5
We were charged with two bogus misdemeanors and taken to central booking for the night, despite NYPD’s patrol guide stating that we should be released that day with a ticket.
The judge was concerned about why we were held overnight and called the case against us ‘troubling’. /6
BREAKING: DOZENS of orcas arrested blockading Citi Bank's global HQ in Manhattan. Orcas vow to be back day after day until Citi, the number one funder of fossil fuel expansion, stops pouring billions into coal, oil, and gas.
10 minutes later, we were simply standing on the sidewalk when Adams’ security detail swarmed us with a group of cops, detaining and cuffing us. They refused to tell us why.
They kept us in jail for 25 hours, which is completely unusual for a peaceful protest /3
We will fight these charges in court, but our work is nowhere near done. We're going after the corporations and politicians responsible for the climate and inequality crisis we live in. After this week, we've never felt more strongly that NYC (and the world) deserve better. /8
We got arrested taking the streets outside Blackrock, the world’s biggest money manager and the biggest funder of COAL. Watch to the end.
Blackrock’s greenwashing lies aren’t fooling anyone. They are burning our chances at a livable future for their own profits
#ClimateShutDown
⚠️Faith leaders arrested and carried away from
@Citi
global headquarters in Manhattan after blockading the doors. They are demanding that Citi defend life, and protect what is sacred, and stop funding new fossil fuels.
More soon.
We didn't expect the orcas to get in...lol. This is one place the 1% goes to wine & dine & forget their actions have consequences. This is a bit of a goofy prologue for the video we're going to post tomorrow😈 stay tuned
HAPPENING NOW: Vibes are ELECTRIC as HUNDREDS of frontline activists from the Gulf South march to SHUT DOWN Citibank global headquarters in Manhattan!
OFF FOSSIL FUELS CITI!
⚠️HAPPENING NOW: 7 arrested at Chubb's HQ in Manhattan after blockading its doors. They joined hundreds of activists from the Gulf South in confronting the insurance giant, which insures lethal LNG buildout in their backyards. INSURE OUR FUTURES, NOT THEIR PROFITS!
@Citi
staff punched a climate activist in the face this morning, because they were taking video of a peaceful direct action.
@NYPD
(standing between them in second pic) watched. The victim was arrested. The attacker walked free.
Violent institutions protect profit. Not people.
BREAKING: 1000 CLIMATE ACTIVISTS from NYC and the Gulf South are now facing down a line of NYPD at Citibank Global HQ! "Our home is not a sacrifice zone!"
#SummerOfHeat
Today dozens of us blockaded entry to the planet's No. 2 fossil financer, Citi, at their HQ. 1000+ finance bros stuck out of their office, in a huge crowd or circling the building in a confused gyre. 26 of us were arrested.
This is what happens in 2023 when you finance oil.
We just STORMED THE SEBONACK GOLF COURSE IN THE HAMPTONS!!! To play stupid golf here, you have to pay over a HALF MILLION DOLLAR membership fee 🚮 We shouted down billionaires & marched right onto their appalling "putting" "greens." We won't be deterred.
@nychange
@ClimateDEF
BREAKING NEWS: A corporate Citibank employee CALLED FOR US TO BE KILLED WITH A MACHINE GUN.
We have it on video.
We knew
@Citi
's fossil fuel financing reflected a deep culture of violence. We now have weeks of proof.
The mask is off. Buckle up.
🧵
WATCH: 68 activists were arrested at Citibank's Global HQ after forming a blockade, surrounding NYPD guarding its doors. After a joyous march from Zuccotti Park to Tribeca, a thousand people swarmed Citi employees and NYPD. We didn't back down. We were carried away in cuffs.
We can't do it alone. People like Adams will continue selling out working people to real estate and fossil fuel companies until they're forced to stop.
That's our job. It's our responsibility.
If you care about any of this -- join us. /9
We got David Petraeus.
That feeling of humiliating a fossil fueling mass murderer as he tries to rehabilitate his image? *chef's kiss*
Solidarity with the Wet'suwet'en from New York, forever and always.
BREAKING: We just confronted David Patraeus. He oversaw the Iraq war and now pushes expansion of fracked gas at private equity firm KKR. With
@pop4climate
, we exposed his role in driving violence against Indigenous people. Dumbstruck and stunned, he left his own event early🧵
BREAKING:
@Citi
orders NYPD to arrest 63-year-old grandfather & professional cellist John Mark Rozendaal for performing Bach at its HQ.
Since June 10, climate activists have protested Citi for funding fossil fuels. 3 weeks ago, Citi obtained an unconstitutional restraining order
Activists have been arrested outside
@Citi
CEO Jane Fraser’s home. After 7 weeks of civil disobedience, Citi hasn’t listened so we’ve taken our demands directly to the top. It’s time for Citi to divest from fossil fuels and climate destruction! 🔥
BREAKING: We just shut down Citi AGAIN, this time with a meaty message: Costco is Citi's most valuable co-branded credit card. Some people love $1.50 hot dogs, but most people hate climate criminals who bankroll death. That's why the dogs are demanding that
@Costco
DROP Citi!!
BREAKING: Our cofounder is suffering from a fractured collarbone after she disrupted NYC Comptroller & mayoral candidate Brad Lander. As Comptroller, Lander directs the city’s pension funds, which pours MASSIVE amounts of NYCers money into the fossil fuel industry. 🧵
BREAKING:
@Citi
refused to meet with leaders from the Global South whose communities are under attack by the fossil fuel industry that Citi funds! So they’re sitting in to shut it down!
BREAKING: Citibank staff punches peaceful climate activist in the face for taking video. He was taken to the hospital bleeding.
@Citi
keeps proving their violent business is rooted in violent people. This can't go on.
@pop4climate
@Citi
Before you protest, assess your own carbon footprint. All of it. From your clothes, home, auto, transportation, food, utilities, then reduce it to 0. When you’ve accomplished that, you’ll have a plan for the world. Until then, 🛑. It’s too late folks. Been too late for 10 years.
BREAKING: activists from the Gulf South, where communities have been illegally poisoned by Formosa Plastics, are CHAINING THEIR NECKS to Formosa's corporate headquarters in New Jersey, demanding justice for the people whose health has been sacrificed for Formosa's greed
The only thing more ironic than this billionaire blowing $40,000,000 on the remains of an extinct stegasaurus would be if someone in there outbid him at the last second and then pulled off a Mission Impossible mask and it's the meteor
BREAKING: The
#SummerOfHeat
team met with Citibank. They gaslit us to our face. But we have science, ethics, and a massive community of grassroots activists from around the world on our side. We're going to fight back til we win.
Movement elders are RISING UP against Citibank! Hundreds of elders came out to Citi HQ and put their bodies on the line to defend future GENERATIONS and END fossil fuels
@ThirdActOrg
#summerofheat
HAPPENING NOW: Migrant communities from around the world have converged at
@Citi
's global HQ. Citi is the top new fossil fuel funder.
Climate change is fast becoming the greatest factor sending people into refugee status.
Climate justice is migrant justice.