Momentum from this weekend’s People’s Climate March carried over Monday as activists held a second protest, this time taking aim at Wall Street.
Ahead of Tuesday’s United Nations Climate Summit, hundreds of demonstrators are taking to the streets from Battery Park to the Financial District as part of the Flood Wall Street campaign.
Organizers say the goal of the march and sit-in is to draw attention to the role of big business in environmental issues.
“We need to ask the banks to stop funding fossil fuel companies, and we need to get serious about having a clean, clear, green, really energized future,” said one demonstrator.
“It’s the sense that it’s only about making money without any look at what you’re doing and what harm it causes,” said another demonstrator.
Sunday’s main event in Manhattan drew more than 300,000 people.
More environmental protests are expected to take place throughout the week.
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