{"id":111581,"date":"2025-02-26T16:57:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T16:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/activist\/climate-justice-organizer-to-citi-ceo-talk-is-cheap\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T16:57:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T16:57:55","slug":"climate-justice-organizer-to-citi-ceo-talk-is-cheap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=111581","title":{"rendered":"Climate Justice Organizer to Citi CEO: \u201cTalk Is Cheap\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div id=\"article-title-block_aceb9e5feb7c0314281dbdfd48e678c7\" class=\"article-title \">\n<div class=\"article-title__container\">\n<div class=\"article-title__eyebrow\">\n                            <span class=\"article-title__labels\"><br \/>\n                                        <span class=\"article-title__label\"><br \/>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/subject\/activism\/\">Activism<\/a><br \/>\n                    <\/span><br \/>\n                                                                            <\/span><br \/>\n                                    <span class=\"article-title__label-divider\"> \/ <\/span><br \/>\n                                                                            <span class=\"article-title__date\">August 8, 2024<\/span>\n                                    <\/div>\n<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-the-nation-dek article-title__dek\">\n<p>An interview with Alice Hu, one of the lead organizers of the \u201cSummer of Heat\u201d campaign targeting Wall Street fossil fuel financiers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<aside aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ad-block ad siderail-ad float-r-w-3 break-r-4\">\n<p>                                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/advertising-policy\" class=\"ad-policy\" target=\"_blank\">Ad Policy<\/a><br \/>\n                                    <\/aside>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1440\" height=\"907\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/climate-activism.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-514424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/climate-activism.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/climate-activism-275x173.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/climate-activism-768x484.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/climate-activism-810x510.jpg 810w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/climate-activism-340x215.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/climate-activism-168x106.jpg 168w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/climate-activism-382x240.jpg 382w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/climate-activism-793x500.jpg 793w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Alice Hu of the Summer of Heat campaign speaks to the camera as she is arrested at Citigroup\u2019s Manhattan headquarters on July 22, 2024, in a Stop the Money Pipeline video on Instagram.<span class=\"credits\">(Roni Zahavi-Brunner)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Since June 10, a coalition of climate justice activists has blocked entrances and disrupted business-as-usual at Citigroup\u2019s lower Manhattan headquarters a total of 15 times\u2014and counting. Calling itself the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summerofheat.org\/\">Summer of Heat<\/a>, some 3,000 people have participated in the ongoing campaign, many coming from working-class frontline communities around the city, the country, and the world. There have been more than 460 arrests for nonviolent direct action, including actions at other major financial institutions. The demand is simple: that Citi and its peers stop funding the crime against humanity that is global fossil fuel expansion.<\/p>\n<p>The International Energy Agency, along with the world\u2019s climate scientists, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2021\/may\/18\/no-new-investment-in-fossil-fuels-demands-top-energy-economist\">has warned<\/a> for years that the expansion of fossil fuel production globally must end\u2014and end now\u2014if we\u2019re to avoid the worst scenarios of catastrophic climate change already underway. Defying such warnings, Citigroup has made itself the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/opinion\/summer-heat-on-wall-street\">largest funder<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-01-17\/citi-bofa-lead-wall-street-banks-funding-fossil-fuel-expansion\">fossil fuel expansion<\/a> since the 2015 Paris Agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Citi is clearly feeling the heat of this campaign, resorting in recent weeks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summerofheat.org\/cello\">repeatedly targeting<\/a> some of the campaign\u2019s lead organizers with baseless arrests and false charges, including a bogus charge of felony assault, and restraining orders to keep organizers away from the bank\u2019s headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>I spoke with Alice Hu, 26, senior climate campaigner at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycommunities.org\/\">New York Communities for Change<\/a>, one of the New York City\u2013based groups co-organizing Summer of Heat along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetoverprofit.us\/\">Planet Over Profit<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climateorganizinghub.org\/\">Climate Organizing Hub<\/a>, and the international coalition <a href=\"https:\/\/stopthemoneypipeline.com\/\">Stop the Money Pipeline<\/a>. The interview took place on August 3, and it has been edited for length and clarity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>\u2014Wen Stephenson<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#C0C0C0\"><em>WS:<\/em><\/span> It\u2019s striking to me that the Summer of Heat campaign is co-organized by New York City community groups that aren\u2019t necessarily part of the mainstream climate movement. New York Communities for Change, for example, is known for its work on labor and housing rights. Tell me how that intersects with this kind of climate organizing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"current-issue-block_8c1858fda12207abcec0660d8a12df17\" class=\"current-issue  float-l-w-2\">\n<h4 class=\"current-issue__title\">\n                    Current Issue<br \/>\n            <\/h4>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/issue\/march-2025-issue\/\" class=\"current-issue__cover\"><br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cover0325.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of March 2025 Issue\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#FF0000\"><em>AH:<\/em><\/span> <\/strong>New York Communities for Change comes out of the tradition of base building\u2014this model of building power through meeting people where they\u2019re at, in the workplace, in their neighborhoods, in their churches, wherever it is, and then building committees and an organization, that style of organizing. We\u2019re led by our members, and our membership base determines what we do and what we fight for. And at the same time, NYCC takes a big-picture look at the economy and our political economy, saying, look, we\u2019re based in the back yard of the center of global financial capital. And yeah, climate and fossil fuel financing is now a huge part of our work as well.<\/p>\n<p>I think that\u2019s a special combination, where you have a legitimate base in working-class communities of color in New York City, and that base is interested and activated in Wall Street accountability, going to Manhattan and yelling at banks, shutting them down, to move trillions of dollars of capital away from the industries that are impoverishing our communities and destroying our planet, and into something better.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#C0C0C0\"><em>WS:<\/em><\/span> The campaign is primarily targeting Citigroup. On July 27, after weeks of actions at Citi\u2019s headquarters, hundreds of people marched to Citi CEO Jane Fraser\u2019s apartment building in lower Manhattan, and <a href=\"https:\/\/wenstephenson.substack.com\/p\/59-arrested-for-trying-to-protect\">59 were arrested<\/a> (including the two of us) for peacefully blocking the sidewalk in front of the entrance. Fraser wants to brand, or greenwash, Citi as climate-friendly. What would you say to her if you could sit down and talk face to face?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#FF0000\"><em>AH:<\/em><\/span> <\/strong>To put it plainly, talk is cheap. Put your money where your mouth is\u2014or rather, take your money out of fossil fuels. Because at the end of the day, you can\u2019t continue hiding behind various commitments, fancily worded net-zero pledges, blah blah blah. Citibank is the largest funder of new fossil fuel expansion since 2015. Specifically what that stat refers to is that Citibank, since the signing of the Paris Agreement, has been the bank, worldwide, that has put the most financing into the companies most involved in new coal, oil, and gas expansion. So when that\u2019s the case with your company, talk is cheap. Put your money where your mouth is.<\/p>\n<div id=\"cta-block_2b9707109c1384f1efa83846d875f600\" class=\"cta float-l-w-2\">\n<p>And the bottom line here, in terms of the global carbon budget, is that we actually can\u2019t afford any new fossil fuel expansion. It\u2019s a matter of physical reality\u2014an unavoidable physical fact. Nobody\u2019s going to get around that, no matter where you live.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#C0C0C0\"><em>WS:<\/em><\/span> I\u2019m impressed by the boldness of the campaign. It\u2019s not just a one-off\u2014it\u2019s the entire summer, relentlessly coming back again and again. The tactic itself, people blockading the entrances to the Citi headquarters, is relatively low-risk\u2014it\u2019s accessible as mass civil disobedience\u2014but to keep coming back is a type of escalation in itself, something we don\u2019t see very much.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#FF0000\"><em>AH:<\/em><\/span> <\/strong>Yeah, and we\u2019re actually thinking, is this open-ended? Are we going to be continuing this in September and into next year? Because the whole point of it is to put a major power holder in this world of fossil fuel financing in a perpetual state of crisis, so they actually have to pay attention. One of our organizers has described it as the \u201csand in the eye of the camel\u201d method. You\u2019re only a grain of sand, but the camel\u2019s going to go nuts! And of course we draw on the classic Martin Luther King quote [in \u201cLetter from Birmingham Jail\u201d], about creating that sense of crisis to bring somebody to the negotiating table.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#C0C0C0\"><em>WS:<\/em><\/span> You\u2019ve also put a lot of work into organizing various constituencies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes. For example, we had a Gulf South week\u2014obviously LNG is a major choke point now in terms of expansion of exports from the United States\u2014and of course communities there have been fighting this stuff for decades. And we\u2019re about to have migrant justice week, which is going to have a lot of different people from different parts of the world connect the struggles in their homeland\u2014climate impacts and impacts of fossil fuel extraction and resource extraction\u2014with what is happening now in their neighborhoods in New York City, the flooding, the heat waves, and connect it to the fossil fuel industry and fossil capital.<\/p>\n<section aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ad fullwidth-ad contained row position-relative ad-block alignfull \">\n            <!--Ad policy starts here--><br \/>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/advertising-policy\" class=\"mid-ad-policy\">Ad Policy<\/a><br \/>\n                <!--Ad policy ends here--><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#C0C0C0\"><em>WS::<\/em><\/span> In late July there was a powerful action blockading the insurance giant AIG\u2019s midtown headquarters. It was led by, and in solidarity with, people who are fighting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stopeacop.net\/why-stop-eacop\">East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline<\/a> (EACOP) in Uganda and Tanzania. What\u2019s the story behind that?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#FF0000\"><em>AH:<\/em><\/span> <\/strong>The East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline is such a direct example of what international solidarity can and should look like in the climate movement. Because, number one, people on the ground in Uganda and Tanzania\u2014which this massive carbon bomb is going to run through\u2014face excessively repressive conditions for protest. And number two, aside from Chinese capital, which is also in the mix, the biggest financiers and insurers of this project are all Western, and the company building it, Total, is a French company. So it\u2019s a clear example of how global finance capital is perpetrating this horrible pipeline in this part of the world where it\u2019s very, very hard to challenge it in a mass way, on the ground\u2014though people there are bravely stepping into very escalated risks.<\/p>\n<p>What we\u2019re able to do in the United States, and what they\u2019ve done in Europe as well, is to really go after the banks, and especially the insurers. If enough insurers say no, you\u2019re not going to get it built. In fact, enough insurers have already said no that, in a not insignificant way, it\u2019s actually impeding the construction of this pipeline right now. And we\u2019re trying to get AIG to come out and say no. That was the biggest action against AIG so far in the campaign against EACOP. <\/p>\n<p>People always say, \u201cClimate justice is racial justice,\u201d \u201cClimate justice is decolonial,\u201d but this was in a very real, concrete way, not just an activist slogan.<\/p>\n<section id=\"popular-block_f17a236890406a25e51917c70542a4a1\" class=\"popular-articles\">\n<div class=\"swiper\">\n<p><h2>Popular<\/h2>\n<p>            <span class=\"swipe-msg\"><span class=\"sr-only\">\u201cswipe left below to view more authors\u201d<\/span>Swipe \u2192<\/span>\n        <\/p>\n<ol class=\"popular-articles__list\">\n<li class=\"popular-articles__list-item swiper-slide\">\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"popular-articles__list-item swiper-slide\">\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"popular-articles__list-item swiper-slide\">\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"popular-articles__list-item swiper-slide\">\n<\/li>\n<\/ol><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#C0C0C0\"><em>WS:<\/em><\/span> Stepping back a bit, what is the Summer of Heat campaign really about? I mean, the hour is <em>late<\/em>, and global emissions are still at record levels when they need to be plummeting\u2014and these banks like Citi are still financing massive new fossil fuel projects around the world, even as the IPCC and the IEA have made it crystal clear that all new fossil fuel expansion has to stop. What does it mean that the people we\u2019re up against are people like Jane Fraser and the board of Citigroup who are doubling down in the face of this catastrophe?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#FF0000\"><em>AH:<\/em><\/span> <\/strong>The core of it\u2014this is how I feel personally and how the other organizers feel\u2014is that we\u2019ve reached this state of really, really sickening urgency. Which means we really have to take the bold step of abolishing fossil fuels and not just keep talking about it.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, I hear a lot of defeatism, and certainly in the climate realm, there\u2019s just so much nihilism, like, what does it matter? But I think this is really about an exercise in courage, and about ambition. It\u2019s about having the courage to say, I don\u2019t know how this is going to end\u2014how the climate story is going to end\u2014and it really terrifies me, but we\u2019re still going to do this because we actually believe we have the agency to change the course. It\u2019s really about faith in social movements.<\/p>\n<p>And I also think it\u2019s about ambition. Back in March, I was in an organizing meeting where we were trying to pitch this campaign, and of course the first question was, \u201cWow, it\u2019s so long, you\u2019re saying you\u2019re going to go for three whole months, maybe even longer? I like the idea, but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to work.\u201d And I\u2019m like, look, whether it works or not is whether you and I and we all believe in it. We all need the courage, and we all need to have the ambition, to set our sights very, very high.<\/p>\n<p>It makes me think of Mike Davis, the author and activist who passed away last year. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/aug\/30\/mike-davis-california-writer-interview-activism\">One of his last interviews was with <em>The Guardian<\/em><\/a>, and he was basically saying, this dying man with great insights into the world, that what we need to see is nonviolent civil disobedience everywhere. The interviewer was like, \u201cYou\u2019ve been organizing for social change your whole life. How do you deal with a future that looks so bleak?\u201d And he said [reading]:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>I\u2019ve seen miracles happen. I\u2019ve seen ordinary people do the most heroic things. When you\u2019ve had the privilege of knowing so many great fighters and resisters, you can\u2019t lay down the sword, even if things seem objectively hopeless.\u2026 What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It\u2019s what ordinary people have to do. You have to love each other. You have to defend each other. You have to fight.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s such a beautiful quote. It encapsulates everything we\u2019re saying.<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-end-\" class=\"article-end \">\n<div class=\"article-end__authors\">\n<div class=\"article-end__author\">\n<h5 class=\"article-end__author-name\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/authors\/wen-stephenson\/\">Wen Stephenson<\/a><br \/>\n                    <\/h5>\n<div class=\"article-end__author-bio\">\n<p>Wen Stephenson is the climate-justice correspondent for <em>The Nation<\/em>. An independent journalist, essayist, and activist, he is the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/250727\/what-were-fighting-for-now-is-each-other-by-wen-stephenson\/\">W<em>hat We&#8217;re Fighting for Now Is Each Other<\/em><\/a> (2015), about the pivotal early years of the US climate justice movement. His new book, forthcoming from Haymarket in June, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haymarketbooks.org\/books\/2523-learning-to-live-in-the-dark\"><em>Learning to Live in the Dark: Essays in a Time of Catastrophe<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <!-- Tag ID: thenation_incontent_2 --><\/p>\n<section class=\"collections collections--col-0\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<h2 class=\"collections__title\">More from <span class=\"not-italic\">The Nation<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"collection__row\">\n<div class=\"collections__card   \">\n            <a class=\"collections__card-image-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/environment\/trump-journalism-climate-newsrooms\/\" aria-label=\"How Journalists Can Stand Up to Trump\u2019s Bluster\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"collections__card-image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/trump-reporters-getty.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/trump-reporters-getty-275x173.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/trump-reporters-getty-768x484.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/trump-reporters-getty-810x510.jpg 810w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/trump-reporters-getty-340x215.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/trump-reporters-getty-168x106.jpg 168w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/trump-reporters-getty-382x240.jpg 382w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/trump-reporters-getty-793x500.jpg 793w\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/trump-reporters-getty.jpg\" alt=\"President Donald Trump speaks to the press upon arrival at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on February 2, 2025, as he returns to the White House from Florida.\"\/><br \/>\n        <\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"collections__card-content\">\n<p class=\"dek\">\nNewsroom layoffs make it harder, but reporters must keep telling the truth about climate change.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"knockout \">\n<p>                                                                <a class=\"collections__author\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/authors\/mark-hertsgaard\/\">Mark Hertsgaard<\/a>                                    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"collections__card   \">\n            <a class=\"collections__card-image-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/environment\/north-carolina-mutual-aid-hurricane-helene\/\" aria-label=\"The People in Charge Won\u2019t Save Us From Climate Catastrophe. 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