At Protest of
Citigroup Funding Dakota
Access Pipeline, Indigenous
Call-Outs, Rev Billy
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS,
April 25 – As Citigroup's
annual general meeting of
shareholders began in Cooper
Union in Manhattan on April
25, outside a protest formed.
Casey Camp-Horinek spoke,
movingly; the Reverend Billy
Talen began a song. Periscope
here.
Inner City Press has covered
earlier Citigroup AGMs as
well, about CitiFinancial's
predatory lending that robbed
consumers and ultimately helped
trigger the financial
meltdown. What has changed
since? The day before this
protest of the bank for among
other things funding the
Dakota Access Pipeline, Inner
City Press at the UN on April
24 asked a panel of the Permanent
Forum on
Indigenous
Issues about
the protest
and more
generally
about
corporations which
the UN
blue-washes
through its
Global Compact
and otherwise.
Video here,
from Minute
39.
Willie
Littlechild a First Nations
Cree chief from Canada said he
wasn't (yet) aware of the
protest, but that he supported
it, that is it hard to protest
at the UN. That's putting it
mildly: the US First Amendment
does not apply to and is not
accepted by the UN, which bans
protests and evicts
the Press which covers there,
without hearing or appeal. But
Inner City Press, even confined
to minders within the UN
has it has been for 14 months
and counting, interviewed
other attendees of the
Permanent Forum, and will
continue to. Watch this site.
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