{"id":27562,"date":"2017-11-02T09:31:36","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T14:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27562"},"modified":"2017-11-02T09:31:36","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T14:31:36","slug":"divest-the-globe-protests-urge-banks-to-cut-ties-with-fossil-fuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27562","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Divest The Globe\u2019 protests urge banks to cut ties with fossil fuels"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Monday, activists in Washington, D.C. demonstrated outside the John A. Wilson Building \u2014 home to both the mayor and city council. (350 DC)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

While banking executives from over 90 of the world\u2019s largest financial institutions gathered in Sao Paulo, Brazil on Monday for the start of a three-day meeting on the environmental and social impacts of their infrastructure investments, activists in at least 15 U.S. states and several other countries staged protests under the banner of \u201cDivest The Globe.\u201d Their message to the banks was simple: cut ties with fossil fuel companies, or face major divestment campaigns.<\/p>\n

The demonstrations unfolded in over 50 cities \u2014 including Seattle, where at least six people were arrested<\/a> during a protest at a Chase bank \u2014 and are being called<\/a> the largest ever protest against banks\u2019 investments in fossil fuels. As the meeting continues in Sao Paolo over the next two days, solidarity protests are expected in more cities across Europe, Asia and Africa.<\/p>\n

The group largely responsible for organizing these Divest The Globe actions is the Seattle-based, indigenous-led divestment campaign Mazaska Talks, which means \u201cmoney talks\u201d in Lakota. They chose this gathering of bankers as their target because it\u2019s the annual meeting of the Equator Principles Association, which provides guidelines<\/a>, or so-called Equator Principles, \u201cfor determining, assessing and managing environmental and social risk in\u00a0projects.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to organizer Jackie Fielder, activists want to ensure the association gets its \u201cEquator Principles in line with the Paris Agreement, as well as internationally-recognized standards on indigenous rights upheld in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People.\u201d Fielder went on to cite \u201cthe spirit of the Standing Rock resistance camps\u201d as inspiration for the Divest The Globe protests, saying it \u201creally raised the consciousness of people to think about where their money has been going when it\u2019s sitting in a bank.\u201d<\/p>\n

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