Later today, hundreds of environmentalists plan to “shut down” the New York Stock Exchange Monday to protest the relationship between global warming and Big Business.
This could get interesting! Traffic is at a stand still in lower Manhattan. These protestors are chanting for climate justice. Although it is good to see people standing together protesting for a united cause against big Business.
From CNN:
Their beef: the fossil fuels industry and other companies are profiting at the expense of the environment. The activists said they were willing to be arrested to drive home the link between global capitalism and worsening climate change.
“The climate crisis is fundamentally an issue of the economy,” one activist told CNN. “Flood Wall Street is an attempt to bring the problem to the doorstep of the people who are fundamentally responsible for the crisis we find ourselves in now.”
Organizers, who have not obtained permits, expect participants to be “arrested in droves.” Blue-clad protesters plan to unfurl a 300-foot banner and will inflate a 15-foot “carbon bubble,” according to a statement on the #FloodWallStreet website.
Activists plan to shut down NY stock exchange!! #floodwallstreethttp://goo.gl/bubS3Q http://2127news.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/index5.jpgLater today, hundreds of environmentalists plan to “shut down” the New York Stock Exchange Monday to protest the relationship between global warming and Big Business.
This could get interesting! Traffic is at a stand still in lower Manhattan. These protestors are chanting for climate...Later today, hundreds of environmentalists plan to "shut down" the New York Stock Exchange Monday to protest the relationship between global warming and Big Business.
This could get interesting! Traffic is at a stand still in lower Manhattan. These protestors are chanting for climate justice....
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