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We demand banks stop financing repression of Indigenous rights, human rights abuses, and desecration of the earth.
On October 23rd, ninety-two of the world’s largest banks will meet in São Paolo, Brazil to discuss policies on the climate and Indigenous People’s rights to Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC). These banks include Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) financiers such as Wells Fargo, Bank of America, J.P. Morgan Chase, and many more. Mazaska Talks is calling on indigenous people and allies everywhere to join us for 3 days of mass global action that make it clear to the banks: Financing climate disaster and the abuse of Indigenous Peoples will result in a massive global divestment movement.
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***Sign the petition to the 92 banks here***
READ THE LETTER:
RE: Millions-Strong Boycott of Your Bank
Dear Gregory B. Braca, TD Bank, CEO —
On October 23rd, ninety-two of the world’s largest banks are meeting in São Paolo, Brazil to discuss environmental and social risk management policies regarding the climate and Indigenous People’s rights to Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC).
We are writing today to inform you that we are boycotting your bank. We are taking this action as a result of your financing of new tar sands pipelines ― including Kinder-Morgan’s Trans-Mountain; Trans-Canada’s Keystone XL; and Enbridge’s Line 3. As with the Dakota Access Pipeline, these pipelines lack Free, Prior, and Informed Consent from all of the impacted indigenous nations [See chart on Page 3], an indigenous right upheld by the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People. Over 150 First Nations that are party to the Treaty Alliance Against Tar Sands Expansion oppose tar sands mining at the source and throughout the pipeline route. We implore your bank to prohibit all financing for all companies with tar sands operations, as well as all finance for tar sands projects, with public reporting on implementation.
Furthermore ― given that tar sands is the most greenhouse-gas-intensive of fossil fuels ― the construction of these pipelines is entirely incompatible with achieving the goal of curtailing catastrophic climate change, as agreed to by 194 nations in Paris in 2015.
As such, not only shall we be boycotting your bank, but we shall also be encouraging individuals, institutions and cities around the world to move towards banks that place people and the Earth before profits.
Yours sincerely,
Rachel Heaton, Co-Founder Mazaska Talks
Matt Remle, Co-Founder Mazaska Talks
Jackie Fielder, Organizer, Mazaska Talks
Ladonna Brave Bull Allard, Founder, Sacred Stone Village
Tara Houska, National Campaigns Director, Honor the Earth
Joye Braun, Community Organizer, Indigenous Environmental Network
Bill McKibben, Founder, 350.org
Lindsey Allen, Executive Director, Rainforest Action Network
Todd Paglia, Executive Director, Stand.Earth
Stephen Kretzman, Executive Director, Oil Change International
Vanessa Green, Director, DivestInvest Individual
Denise Patel, Coordinator, Divest Invest Network
RL Miller, President, Climate Hawks Vote
Lydia D. Avila, Executive Director, The Power Shift Network
Aldo Seine, Wica Agli
Lucie Pinson, Finance Campaigner, Friends of the Earth France
Isabelle L’Héritier, Board of Directors, Alternatives
Ethan Buckner, Energy Campaigner, Earthworks
Alec Connon, Fossil Fuel Financing Campaign Organizer, 350 Seattle
Micah Parkin, Executive Director, 350 Colorado
Maeve McBride, Director 350 Vermont
Michelle Fournier, Organizer, 350 Maine.
Sandy Polishuk and Taryn Oakley, Divestment Team Co-Coordinators, 350 Portland
Gilbert Starkey and Roberta Tsukahara, Co-founders, 350 Austin
Melissa Brice, Founder, Chicago 350
Kate Jacobson, Program Director, MN350
Daniel Villa, Organizer, 350 Tacoma
Rebecca MacMullan, Coordinator, 350 Spokane
Jack Eidt, Co-Founder, SoCal 350 Climate Action
Patricia Hine & Debra McGee, 350 Eugene, Directors
Laurie Litman, President, 350 Sacramento
Griffin Sinclair-Wingate, Volunteer Coordinator, 350 New Hampshire
Alex Lukas and Kevin Fistanic, Co-Presidents, Oxy 350
Nicole Kemeny, President, 350 Silicon Valley
Lin Hagedorn, Steering Committee member/Divest Eastside WG,350 Eastside
Ed Chadd, Executive Committee member, Olympic Climate Action
Jill MacIntyre Witt, Organizer, 350 Bellingham
Alan Weiner, chapter co-lead, 350 Conejo / San Fernando Valley
Darcy DuMont, Coordinating Committee, MassDivest Coalition
Tracey Waite, President, Harford County Climate Action
Susan Evans and Bill Layman, Climate Conversations North Central Washington
Drew Foley, administrator, 350 Louisville, KY
Darcy DuMont, Coordinating Committee, MassDivest Coalition
Nancy LaPlaca, LaPlaca and Associates
Sulakshana, Organizer, Fossil Free Oxford University
Drew Hudson, Founder, 198 Methods
Daphne Wysham, Director of Sustainable Energy & Economy Network
Lee Stewart, Organizer, Beyond Extreme Energy
Dr. Bruce Amundson, MD, President, Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility.
Alfredo Quarto, Executive Director, Mangrove Action Project
