Demonstrators in front of Citigroup’s New York City headquarters on July 8, 2024.
Photographer: Mark Peterson for Bloomberg MarketsClimate Protesters Are Bringing the Fight to Wall Street Bankers
The ‘Summer of Heat’ demonstrators outside of Citigroup targeting lending for fossil fuels, in photos.
Climate activists have converged on the shady, tree-lined plaza at Citigroup Inc.’s headquarters in New York in a series of demonstrations this summer. Some have come dressed in orca suits. Others have linked their arms, slicked with sweat, to form a barricade in front of the bank’s entrance, or they’ve held up signs that read “Hot People Hate Wall Street.” On July 8 a group of older activists, shown in the photos below, held a march and mock die-in. Dozens laid down passively so officers of the New York City Police Department could arrest them.
The protests are planned to run through August and are part of the Summer of Heat, a movement calling for banks to divest from fossil fuels.