Week by Week
SUMMER OF HEAT
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SUMMER OF HEAT 🔥
Party in the Plaza
June 10-15
Since the Paris Agreement was adopted in late 2015, Citibank has been the world’s #1 financier of coal, oil, and gas expansion. So… to kick-off the Summer of Heat on Wall Street, we’re going to shut down Citi’s global headquarters in Tribeca every day, all week long.
Youth & palestine solidarity
June 17-20
Young people across the globe are rising up for a future safe from violence and death - whether it's caused by climate catastrophes or genocidal wars. The week of June 17th we’re taking our fight directly to the Wall Street elite who profit off of destruction to tell them to Divest from Death! Over the course of the week we’ll be organizing trainings, protests, and parties and we want you to join!
gulf south solidarity
June 24-28
During week 3 of the Summer of Heat, we’ll be joined 100+ community leaders and organizers from the Gulf South. We will organize a series of actions and a press conference at Citi’s HQ on Monday; an action at an insurance company on Weds, June 26th; and a Mass March and Mass Civil Disobedience on Friday, June 28th.
Why the Gulf South? One of the world’s largest build outs of new fossil fuel projects is happening in the Gulf South right now, along the coastlines of Texas and Louisiana, where dozens of new methane gas, crude oil export terminals and petrochemical facilities are slated to be built in primarily Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities. These fossil fuel expansion projects fuel not only the climate crisis, but also environmental racism, as they cause an upsurge in respiratory and cardiovascular illnesses and cancer in the communities where they are built.
In January, President Biden issued a formal pause on some fossil fuel projects in the region―but Wall Street banks, investors, and insurers are continuing to bankroll the buildout of oil and gas projects in the Gulf South that fuel environmental racism and drive climate chaos.
During this week of the Summer of Heat we will be taking civil disobedience to demand that banks, investors and insurers stop financing all fossil fuel and petrochemical facilities in the Gulf South.
We’ll be joined in New York this week by powerful community leaders from more than 20 Gulf South-based organizations, including the Vessel Project of Louisiana, the Gulf South Fossil Finance Hub, Rise St. James, the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribal Nation, Better Brazoria, Freeport Haven, Fisherville Environmental Action Now, Ties to La Tierra, Climate Conversations Brazoria County, Justice for Formosa Victims, Mossville Environmental Action Now, Ingleside on the Bay Coastal Watch Association, South Texas Environmental Justice Network, Micah 6:8 Mission, Concerned Citizens Table of Lake Charles, SAFE Diversity Communities, and Texas Campaign for the Environment, among others.
Road trip & arts actions
July 1-6
Even during a holiday weekend, there will be nowhere to hide for big backers of climate catastrophe, war and environmental racism.
On July 3rd, we will be taking a road trip to Malvern, PA, to visit the HQ of Vanguard, one of the world’s largest investors in fossil fuels, to support our friends at the Earth Quaker Action Team in a mobilization to demand Vanguard divest from fossil fuels and invest in a livable future.
Meanwhile throughout the week in New York City, we will be organizing dozens of smaller art-based actions―banner drops, mass postering, distributing stickering―to put the corporations funding the destruction of our future on blast! This week, we need your help blanketing the city in our demands and messaging!
elders
July 8-13
Elders Week will bring together older folks who are dedicated to safeguarding a healthy, livable future for coming generations. We are elders - retired union members, teachers, health care professionals, lawyers, as well as parents, grandparents, great aunts and uncles and now activists with decades of life experiences - who are backing up youth fighting for a peaceful, just, and healthy world. This “Rocking Chair Rebellion” will rise up during Elders Week to demand that Wall Street banks and financiers stop using our retirement savings to bankroll the climate crisis. We are “Fossils Against Fossil Fuels.” Elders Week is being organized by Third Act, Third Act Working Groups, and partners.
Wall Street, Stop Funding Death!
July 15-20
From Palestine to Haiti, Wall Street finances colonialism, genocide, war and death worldwide — funneling billions into bombs, surveillance, and weapons. Financing these wars also means fueling the climate crisis itself: wars spew pollution and destroy life-sustaining ecosystems worldwide.
We’ve seen a global movement rise up to hold institutions complicit in war and imperialism accountable. Join us to ensure Wall Street does not escape the heat!
In case you’re wondering about the Summer of Heat Campaign’s position on Palestine, see our statement here.
Fossil Fuel Fighters
July 22-27
Fossil Fuel Fighters around the world are the frontlines of the battle to end coal, oil, and gas. This week we are bringing that fight to Wall St! We are uplifting the demands of activists fighting fossil fuel expansion and making clear the ties between Wall St money managers and their destruction of communities and ecosystems. From the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) to Line 3 and Line 5 to Project Maple to Formosa Plastics, these expansions sit at the nexus of colonialism and racism. We honor the leadership and bravery of Black, Indigenous and Global South climate activists by joining together to take action and shut it down.
faith
July 28-August 3
People of faith recognize the moral imperative to protect our planet and its inhabitants from the ravages of climate change. Summer of Heat’s Faith Week is our moment to use the unique moral standing to demand that financial institutions divest from fossil fuels and invest in a sustainable future. During the week of July 29th, we will draw on our shared values of stewardship, justice, and compassion to lead peaceful demonstrations that compel economic leaders to abandon fossil fuels and invest in a healthier, more equitable world for all. We believe it is our spiritual duty to fight for climate justice. Will you join us?
road trip to the hamptons
August 5-10
We’re taking the fight to the Hamptons – the summer playground of New York’s ultra-rich elite. Join us to disrupt the vacations of Wall Street’s fat cat CEOs and executives making a killing off of killing the planet. If we can’t hide from climate chaos, they can’t hide from us!
justice for displaced peoples and migrants
August 12-17
From the borders to the streets, we amplify the calls of justice! As the climate crisis is worsened by corporations and Global North policies of extraction and exploitation, we are taking unified action to interrupt the destruction of our Global South land, water, air, peoples and non-human relatives. We take action to demand an end to the financing of heatwaves, floods, fires, droughts, food shortages, wars, militarization and criminalization of our bodies, homes and communities. We fight for the rights of the natural world, to stay in homelands, to migrate safely across borders when our homes are no longer liveable, and to thrive in community with people wherever we may build new homes. We denounce the increasing ecocide, genocide, fascism and racism in all its forms that target our people and communities. We fight for better lives for all families, communities, nations, peoples and our planet.
feminists fight fossil fuels
August 18-25
Globally, women are 14 times more likely to die in climate-related disasters than men. Yet, Wall St leaders like Citi CEO Jane Fraser continue to finance the coal, oil, and gas that fuel inequality, family separation, and environmental racism. This week we honor the women, femmes, and non-binary people of all genders who are at the forefront of fighting against fossil fuels and for a livable future. There is no feminism without climate justice!
Watch this Space
August 26 & Beyond
What we do after week 11, will be determined by a number of things, including whether or not our targets have made any commitments to end financing for fossil fuels and how much movement energy is on the streets.
Check back here later in the summer for our plans for Week 12 and beyond.
Here’s to organizing ― until we win.