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September 20, 2023

Climate Activists Take Aim at Bank of America over Its Funding of Fossil Fuel Projects
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At least 20 Indigenous leaders and climate activists were arrested
Tuesday as actions demanding an end to fossil fuels continue during New
York's Climate Week. Dozens of protesters swarmed the Bank of America
Tower in Manhattan yesterday, blocking entrances as they chanted, "We
need clean air, not another billionaire." The bank is one of the largest
funders of oil, gas and coal across the globe, as well as a leading
financial backer of the contested Mountain Valley Pipeline. This is
environmental activist John Beard of the Port Arthur Community Action
Network in Texas.

John Beard: "We refuse to be sacrificed any further on the altar of Big
Oil, Big Gas and Big Finance and BOA. We refuse to allow them to put
profits over people and determine the lives and future of people in the
Gulf South without them sharing any benefit from it and destroying the
very planet upon which we all depend."



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