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Last week, Tim DeChristopher and Peaceful Uprising called for more climate direct action. On Monday, Rebecca Tarbotton, Phil Radford and Bill McKibben echoed that call loudly.
Now after months of watching popular uprising from Tunisia to Wisconsin, the climate movement is experiencing its own small uprisings against corporate financiers and extractive industry. Yesterday, while our friends in Missoula were blocking Conoco’s heavy hauls, the Earth Quaker Action Team occupied PNC Bank’s PR booth at the Philadelphia flower show. They called for PNC executives to sign a “confession” admitting their investments in destructive mountaintop removal.
Nine Earthquakers were eventually escorted out of the flower show by police.
There are many targets and many campaigns in the fight against extractive industry and global warming. Smaller momentum building actions like in Philadelphia and Missoula working within a strategic framework are building the power of the climate movements. We’re on track for serious uprising against Big Coal and Big Oil. Stay Tuned!
Earth Quakers Escorted Out of Flower Show
PHILADELPHIA – 9 members of the Earth Quaker Action Team were escorted out of the Philadelphia Flower Show by Convention Center Security today after staging a protest at the PNC Bank Exhibit inside.
The Earth Quakers, who used police caution tape and banners to set up a “crime scene” around the exhibit, had pledged to stay until PNC Regional President J. William Mills came down to the Flower Show to sign a “confession,” admitting PNC’s investments in the destructive practice of mountaintop removal coal mining.
Instead, Jean Canfield, VP of Community Relations for PNC Regional, came down to the Flower Show to insist that the President would not come himself, and that PNC refused to engage in any dialogue around their environmental policy.
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When it became clear that PNC Bank had sent representatives specifically to refuse further dialogue, the environmental activists allowed themselves to be escorted out.
“Our goal today was to get PNC Bank representatives to come to the Flower Show and take responsibility for their investments in mountaintop removal. Although we are disappointed that Jean Canfield and a team of PNC Media representatives came all the way down here specifically to refuse to discuss this critical issue in front of the press, frankly we think that’s as good as a confession,” said Ingrid Lakey, Director of the Earth Quaker Action Team.
The Earth Quakers pledge to return later during the week and continue to shine the light on PNC’s criminal investments.
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