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March 21, 2022

Hollywood Celebrities Call on City National Bank to Divest from Coastal GasLink Pipeline
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In Los Angeles, climate activists joined Indigenous land and water
protectors Friday in a march on City National Bank, demanding it divest
from the Coastal Gas Link pipeline in British Columbia. Leading the
protest was Adam Mc Kay, director of the hit Netflix film "Don't Look
Up." Mc Kay and Hollywood A-listers including Meryl Streep, Mark Ruffalo
and Leonardo Di Caprio say they'll pull their money out of City National
unless its parent company, the Royal Bank of Canada, ends support for
the pipeline that is being built on sovereign Wet'suwet'en First Nations
land. Indigenous activist George Funmaker also joined Friday's protest.

George Funmaker: "This pipeline threatens their drinking water and the
air, and all the other detrimental effects of drilling and the pipeline,
like many other poor communities here in Los Angeles who's affected by
the oil, oil refineries and the bad air. So, just in that same sense,
the Wet'suwet'en people are fighting for clean air and clean water,
clean land."



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