About 50 interfaith environmental leaders and activists, including Catholics, gathered at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday (July 30) outside the Downtown New York main headquarters of investment bank company Citigroup to protest the group’s investments in fossil fuel industry projects.
About 40 NYPD units responded to quell the peaceful demonstration, which resulted in the arrest of 24 activists, mainly Jewish, Catholic, Quaker, Episcopalian and Methodist. The demonstrators blocked the entrance to the building for 40 minutes. About 300 Citigroup employees had to wait until the protests were over before they could enter to work
