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Climate change protesters block Madison Avenue with fake oil rig

From nypost.com

A horde of climate change advocates blocked traffic on Madison Avenue in Midtown on Thursday morning by setting up a 24-foot mock oil rig, with a protester clad in mountain climbing gear perched on top. “It’s supposed to represent an oil derrick,” Monica Hunken, a member of Rain Forest Action Network and Extinction Rebellion, told The Post. “Laurel Sutherlin has been up there just over an hour now. He’s suspended 24 feet above the ground to block traffic and protest Chase’s investment in fossil fuels,” said Hunken, who explained that the demonstration was intentionally put on in front of Chase’s flagship building ... (full story)

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