Alec Connon is the coordinator of the Stop the Money Pipeline coalition, a coalition of over 160 organizations working to stop the flow of money from Wall Street to the fossil fuel industry. He is also a writer. His first novel, The Activist, was published in 2016.
It’s not even July yet, but already the world is on fire. Over the last few weeks, more than 1,300 Hajj pilgrims died due to heat sickness. In Greece, the Acropolis shuttered after several tourists succumbed in the heat. The highest June temperature ever reliably recorded on the continent of Africa occurred in Egypt. In Mexico, hundreds of howler monkeys have perished. In the United States, multiple heat records were broken.
On Friday, students and other young people blockaded Citi’s HQ with four 15-foot long pipelines that spelled out: Citibank Stop Funding Death. I don’t know if it was because of the record-breaking heat, or because it was the seventh protest at the headquarters in 10 business days, but Citi employees were much more irascible on Friday than at previous actions. One middle-aged man violently pushed a young student. Another kicked a climate defender in the shin.
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