3 results for month: 09/2018
Spirited demo exposes Bank of Montreal’s role in deceptive coal terminal financing
No Coal activists and supporters held a spirited demonstration in San Francisco on September 12, outside a meeting of Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), an organization that promotes socially-responsible investment. We demonstrated to alert investors that the Bank of Montreal (BMO) may try to invite them to invest in waterfront "infrastructure" that is actually the proposed Oakland coal terminal. Also, BMO sent a representative to the conference, which was timed to coincide with the Global Climate Action Summit, and we wanted to make sure he registered the community's strong opposition to the bank's deceptive plan to raise money for storing ...
NCIO Rises for Climate, Jobs, and Justice in San Francisco
On September 8th, 2018, No Coal in Oakland joined 30,000 marchers from around the Bay Area, California, the U.S. and the globe "to demand our elected leaders commit to no new fossil fuels and a just and fair transition to 100% renewable energy" at the coming week's GCAS and beyond. The San Francisco march -- Rise for Climate Jobs + Justice -- lived up to expectations, and the 50+ panel street mural at Civic Center was awesome. See 350.org's press release & photo albums on Flickr for a rich chronicle of the day; the full-size aerial photo of the murals surrounding Civic Center Plaza, shown in lesser-resolution at the top of this article, is from ...
Street mural in miniature: banner making at NCIO art party
On Sunday afternoon a group of No Coal in Oakland activists and artists gathered in a West Oakland backyard to organize the many pieces of next weekend's RISE March for Climate, Jobs, and Justice in San Francisco. To rehearse the layout and painting of NCIO's 35' street mural -- one of as many as fifty that will be chalked and painted at SF Civic Center on Saturday Sept 8th, at the endpoint of the RISE March -- artists painted the planned street mural in miniature onto cloth that will be carried as a banner from the meetup point at the Embarcadero to NCIO's place in the fifty-panel street mural (UPDATE: we'll paint our mural at the corner of Grove St. ...