Activists Plan To 'Flood Wall Street' With A 'Mass Sit-In' To Protest Climate Change
Colin Campbell
According to a press release sent out by organizers on Monday morning, #FloodWallStreet will include "masses of activists in blue sitting-in and risking arrest, accompanied by a 15-foot inflatable 'carbon bubble', a marching band, oversized puppets, a 300-foot #FloodWallStreet banner, and other large-scale art pieces."
The protest comes one day after Sunday's "People's Climate March" where over 300,000 people including many celebrities and politicians marched through New York to demand action to fight climate change ahead of United Nations' Climate Summit.
Business Insider's Colin Campbell is at the protests and this post will be continuously updated with his reports.
10:37 A.M - According to the press release, the protesters are currently gathered in Battery Park for "non-violent direct action trainings" and speeches. Business Insider estimates there are at least 200 people in attendance.
A female speaker, who used the call-and-response "people's mic" technique popularized during the Occupy Wall Street protests emphasized a connection to those demonstrations, which began on September 17, 2011.
"Three years ago, almost today ... a few blocks from here, the Occupy movement was born to put corporate capitalism on trial. The entire world listened and the debate about inequality opened up that rages until this day.," the woman said. "And now we are back. ... We never went away. We were organizing in our communities. And now we are back with the power of the water behind us to fight back like the Earth itself is fighting back."
Park officials are using yellow tape to keep the crowds off the grass. Police are already set up outside the park. According to the press release, the demonstrators are scheduled to begin marching through the Financial District at 11:30 a.m.
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