Brett Wilkins is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
Twenty more demonstrators were arrested Thursday, the second day of Earth Week protests targeting Citigroup 's Manhattan headquarters in what organizers called 'the beginning of a wave of direct actions to take place over the summer targeting big banks for creating climate chaos that is killing our communities and our planet.
Our children have asthma, our city's sky was orange, and our air polluted because of the climate crisis caused by Citi and Wall Street.' 'We're going to keep organizing and taking direct action until Citi listens to us,' he vowed. Stop the Money Pipeline co-director Alec Connon said: 'To have any chance of reigning in the climate crisis, we must stop investing in fossil fuel expansion. Yet, Citibank is pumping billions of dollars into new coal, oil, and gas projects.
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