More than 100,000 people march through midtown Manhattan on Sunday, September 21, 2014 as part of the People’s Climate March, a worldwide mobilization calling on world leaders meeting at the UN to commit to urgent action on climate change and 100% clean energy, Sunday, Sept. 21, 2014, in New York. (AP)
Wall Street sit-in planned on climate crisis
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NEW YORK (AP) — One day after a huge climate march in New York City, activists on Monday planned to flood Wall Street to protest what they say is corporate and economic institutions’ role in the climate crisis.
The protesters, dressed in blue, scheduled a rally in Battery Park before marching to the financial district in Lower Manhattan, according to organizers of #FloodWallStreet.
Scheduled speakers at the rally include Canadian author-activist Naomi Klein, journalist Chris Hedges and San Francisco writer Rebecca Solnit. Environmentalist, activist and author Bill McKibben also was expected.
Organizers said in a press release that the sit-in aimed to disrupt business in the financial district by targeting “corporate polluters and those profiting from the fossil fuel industry.”
“Two years ago, Superstorm Sandy literally flooded New York’s financial district but it didn’t faze Wall Street and their drive for the short term profits that flow from the cooking of the planet,” Klein said in a statement. “Which is why we’re going to flood them again.”
On Sunday, tens of thousands of activists participated in the People’s Climate March through Manhattan warning that climate change is destroying the Earth.
Organizers said more than 100,000 participated, including actors Mark Ruffalo and Evangeline Lilly.
It was one of many demonstrations around the world urging policymakers to take quick action.