Category Archives: Press Release

CONTACT: Sarah Lasoff, sarahlasoff@stopthemoneypipeline.com, 818-929-8777 PHOTOS & VIDEO: ARRESTS AT COSTCO HQ DURING PROTEST OVER LINKS TO DIRTY CITI Six people were arrested at a peaceful protest at Costco’s headquarters in Issaquah WA today after they held a sit-in over the retailer’s links to Citi, the biggest funder of oil, gas and coal expansion since […]

Citibank orders NYPD to arrest 63-year-old grandfather for performing J.S Bach’s “Suites for Cello” Contact: Alicé Nascimento, 609.432.9561 or Alice Hu, 217.390.6725 Photos and Video: Available here by 12ET on August 8th. Content is free to use with credit to Summer of Heat on Wall Street.  New York, NY: Today, Citibank ordered the NYPD to […]

July 18, 2024 Contact: Ada Recinos, Deputy Press Secretary, ada.recinos@sierraclub.org (Pacific Time) Thousands of Vanguard Clients Ask New CEO to Center Climate Risk Some Clients Wrote Notes To Express Concern, Would Withdraw Money Unless Company Changed Course Valley Forge, PA –  Today, 8,056 individual Vanguard (VG) clients released a letter welcoming Salim Ramji to the role as […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Nancy Treviño, nancy@stopthemoneypipeline.com, (786) 201-8958 Mark Normington, mark.normington@sunriseproject.org, (971) 337-9781  July 10, 2024  Vanguard Customers and Civil Society Organizations Urge Vanguard’s New CEO Salim Ramji to Stop Investments in Fossil Fuel Expansion On the heels of a protest outside of Vanguard’s Headquarters last week in Malvern, PA where hundreds of Vanguard […]

  Statements In Response to Vanguard’s CEO Announcement from the Vanguard S.O.S. Network of Civil Society Organizations Contact: TJ Helmstetter on behalf of Vanguard S.O.S., tjhelm@gmail.com  In response to the news that Vanguard has hired Salim Ramji as its next CEO, members of the Vanguard S.O.S. campaign, which consists of civil society organizations focused on […]

Black and Indigenous Environmental Leaders Slam Citigroup for  Funding Fossil Fuels and Driving Environmental Racism  Actress and activist Jane Fonda and Sharon Lavigne, one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2024, joined the public hearing confronting Citigroup’s environmental racism  The hearing examined how the bank’s funding of oil, coal, and gas directly harms […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MARCH 6, 2024 Media contacts: Jackie Fielder, jackie@stopthemoneypipeline.com SEC fails to ensure transparency in corporate reporting as financial risks from climate grow    WASHINGTON, DC — Wednesday morning, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) passed a rule on climate disclosure that falls significantly short of the necessary measures to address the financial […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MARCH 5, 2024 Media Contact: Jackie Fielder, jackie@stopthemoneypipeline.com   As financial risks from climate grow, SEC fails to ensure transparency in corporate reporting WASHINGTON, DC — Today, in a last ditch effort, 79 organizations of the Stop the Money Pipeline coalition sent a letter to Chair Gary Gensler and other commissioners of […]

Media contacts:  Judith Crosbie judith.crosbie@sunriseproject.org  9295843344 In Issaquah: Caroline Henderson 6033557039 Climate action at Costco HQ to take place at: 8.45am (Pacific Time) 730 lake drive, Issaquah   MEDIA STATEMENT Costco to receive climate petition over links to Citi as new data shows spike in Costco’s carbon cash footprint Costco shoppers, shareholders and climate activists […]

Chaos at Citibank, as Global Headquarters Shut Down for Over an Hour, 24 Arrested  30 arrested in 2 days of protests against CitiBank and BlackRock, top financiers of oil and gas, in the lead up to Climate Week  [Click here for photos & video] NEW YORK — On Thursday, September 14th, protesters shut down Citibank’s […]