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DESCRIPTION:The day before BlackRock's Annual General Meeting for shareholders, join 
 frontline leaders, elected officials and activists in discussion on 
 solutions to BlackRock's big climate and human rights problems.\n\nWHEN: 
 Wednesday May 20 @ 10:00 AM PT (1 PM ET)\n\nWHERE: Zoom\n\nWhy a People's 
 Assembly? \n\nSince the financial crisis of 2008 asset managers have 
 quietly become the biggest owners of the global economy. The largest, 
 BlackRock, has $6.4 Trillion in assets under management. As the world’s 
 biggest investor, BlackRock is also the world’s biggest owner of fossil 
 fuel companies. BlackRock owns more coal, oil and gas, and rainforest 
 destruction than any other US company. \n\nAmidst shelter in place orders 
 due to the pandemic, companies are moving their \nAnnual General Meetings 
 (AGMs) for shareholders online.\n\nAGM’s are the one time in the 
 financial year when communities could speak to senior executives and hold 
 them accountable for the impacts of their businesses. However, this year 
 community and Indigenous leaders can’t be there to speak directly to 
 leadership and in many cases we’re seeing digital platforms used to 
 silence or sideline questions\n\nThat’s why we’re organizing this 
 People’s Assembly on BlackRock. Help us ensure that these voices, 
 questions, and demands are heard loud and clear by 
 BlackRock\n\nSPEAKERS:\n\nHelena Gualinga\nIndigenous environmental and 
 human rights activist from the Kichwa Sarayaku community in Pastaza, 
 Ecuador (Ecuadorian Amazon)\n\nWrays Perez\nIndigenous Wampis leader from 
 Peruvian Amazon\n\nEloy Terena\nHuman rights lawyer from the indigenous 
 Terena peoples of Ibague, Brazil. \n\nSheldon Whitehouse\nU.S. Senator, 
 Rhode Island\n\nJesús G. "Chuy" García\nCongressman, Illinois 4th 
 District\n\nBill McKibben\nWriter and climate activist, co-founder 350 dot 
 org\n\nDallas Goldtooth\nIndigenous Environmental Network\n\nMODERATOR: 
 \n\nMichelle Chen\nVice President of Programs for Friends of the 
 Earth\n\nHOSTS: BlackRock's Big Problem \n\n BlackRock's Big Problem is a 
 partnership/coalition of \n--Sierra Club\n--Friends of the 
 Earth\n--Divest/Invest\n--Amazon Watch\n--The Sunrise 
 Project\n\nhttps://www.blackrocksbigproblem.com/about\n\nThis event is 
 supported by #StopTheMoneyPipeline\n\nFor more information on BlackRock 
 funding fossil fuels, go to: 
 https://692d0276-4137-47cc-867a-adbe4fea1f9a.filesusr.com/ugd/811c4a_f9cf66cb4b294113a0deaa81ddcc095d.pdf\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/16/18833081.php
SUMMARY:People's Assembly on BlackRock to Demand Defunding Fossil Fuels
LOCATION:Online 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/16/18833081.php
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