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Indigenous Peruvian Leader Olivia Bisa Tirko on Calls for Citigroup to End Coal, Oil & Gas Financing
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APRIL 29, 2024
- interview video with Amy Goodman and spokeswoman - video in English with translator and Olivia Bisa Tirko
Climate activists blocked the entrances of the global headquarters of Citigroup in Manhattan last Wednesday to demand the bank stop financing coal, oil and gas companies. The protests came on the heels of a first-of-its-kind Earth Day hearing where environmental activists from around the world gathered in New York this week to condemn what they call Citigroup’s environmental racism. Citibank is the world’s second-largest funder of coal, oil and gas. For an update we speak with Olivia Bisa Tirko, President of the Autonomous Territorial Government of the Chapra nation in Peru, who joins us in studio while she is in New York City to participate in the week of action.
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/29/olivia_bisa_tirko