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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
World
Nina Lakhani Climate justice reporter

‘Wells Fargo is complicit’: seven arrested at climate protests outside bank’s offices

people hold a banner that reads 'oil Wells Fargo funds death'
Activists protest outside Wells Fargo’s corporate office in New York City on Wednesday. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

Seven people were arrested as hundreds of climate and Indigenous rights activists participated in non-violent demonstrations at Wells Fargo’s corporate offices in New York City and San Francisco on Wednesday, in what marks the launch of a summer of civil disobedience against billionaires and corporations accused of cowering to Donald Trump.

In New York City, dozens of protesters stormed the lobby of the bank’s corporate offices, disrupting employees by blocking the entrance and calling out what they describe as Wells Fargo’s complicity in the climate crisis.

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