ACTION ALERT: Citi Standoff: Come Down or Shutdown

Citi is leaving frontline Gulf South leaders on read. For  months leaders from Louisiana and Texas who suffer from the impacts of  fossil fuel development have been trying to schedule a sit down meeting  with Citi Executives to discuss the harms their investments are causing  in communities across the Gulf South. Back in July several  representatives from Citi's PR department met on Zoom with Gulf leaders.  Since then Gulf leaders have reached out time and time again to demand a  sit down meeting with no success.

Gulf leaders have been left with no choice but to descend upon Citi's Global Headquarters in NYC to demand a meeting. On  Monday September 23rd about 50 community members in the fight against  fossil fuel expansion in the Gulf will approach Citi HQ in Manhattan in  hopes of finally sitting down face to face with Citi leadership. Their  desire is simply to discuss the health impacts and environmental  destruction that is happening in their communities as a result of Citi's  fossil fuel investments.

Organizers from the Summer of Heat Campaign are threatening  to shut down Citi HQ if executives refuse to meet with the Gulf leaders.  After months of sustained civil disobedience on wall street,  Summer of Heat has amassed an expansive coalition consisting of faith  leaders, migrants, scientists, youth, elders, and orcas! If Citi  executives refuse to meet with the delegation of Gulf leaders, Summer of  Heat organizers plan to unleash their coalition on the Citi HQ,  blocking the doors until Citi leadership concedes to a meeting or  instructs the NYPD to drag away the peaceful protesters.