Extinction Rebellion Scotland

BLACKROCK - STOP CRUSHING US

Extinction Rebellion Scotland, Mothers against Genocide, Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign and others held a creative, noisy Earth Day protest outside BlackRock offices in Edinburgh today

🪨 BlackRock is the world’s largest investment asset manager using the immense power of its algorithms and wealth to fund three crimes against life and humanity: AI, fossil fuels, war and genocide.

BlackRock must stop using its power to crush humanity, and stop funding death by algorithm. Google any distaster and inevitably BlackRock is funding it: arms companies in Israel, Big Oil, Big Tech, Palantir, surveillance - the lot.

🥁 It was great to see drummers from the Rhythms of Resistance network and Discobedience dancers joining us. Three corpses were dressed in shrouds labelled with the words: BlackRock Funds Climate Violence, War and Genocide, AI terror.

📸Mike Spring, Nathaniel Wyvern

💀 BlackRock's tec. platform Aladdin is the algorithmic engine of the entire financial system. Their algorithms have captured finance and are destroying life on earth.

🌍 Come and Join our protest against BlackRock on EarthDay 📣11am Wed 22nd April 📍Dundas House, 20 Brandon St. EH35PP

BlackRock operates a major iHub/AI Lab in Edinburgh, one of its few global AI centers outside the US, focused on integrating AI into Aladdin & financial technology solutions.

BlackRock is the second largest institutional investor in Palantir. Lethal applications of Palantir’s AI technology includes its role in Israel’s campaign of mass slaughter in Gaza and in aiding ICE in locating subjects for deportation.

BlackRock is investing billions in hyperscale data centre infrastructure, driving massive unsustainable energy consumption.

💀BlackRock is using the immense power of its algorithms and wealth to fund crimes against life and humanity.

💣BlackRock invests hugely in arms companies directly aiding the Gazan genocide such as Elbit Systems, Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Raytheon.

❗A UN report in July exposed BlackRock’s complicity in funding arms, surveillance and energy companies directly aiding the Israeli governments assault on the Palestinians. The report highlights BlackRock’s part in a “joint criminal enterprise” to profit from genocide.

🛢10m British pensions at BlackRock ‘helped’ Putin’s invasion of Ukraine via £1bn in oil energy dividends.

🌍 Come and Join our protest against BlackRock on EarthDay 📣11am Wed 22nd April 📍Dundas House, 20 Brandon St. EH35PP

BlackRockIsCrushingUs

BlackRock is using its vast power and wealth to fund three crimes against life and humanity: climate breakdown, AI, war and genocide. 📣🛢️💀🔥

Crime 1: BlackRock funding climate breakdown 💀

BlackRock is a top shareholder in major fossil fuel companies, including ExxonMobil, Chevron, and ConocoPhillips. It's also the second largest institutional investor in fossil fuels overall with $400 billion worth of investments in the industry.

BlackRock are greenwashing: investment funds the company was calling 'sustainable' really weren’t, as they have poured over a billion into fossil fuel companies including Shell and BP.

BlackRock has more than $5bn invested in agribusiness companies that have been implicated in Amazon, environmental and human rights abuses.

They really are crushing everyone and everything for profit. How many more trillions do you need?

🌍✊ Come and our join our protest against BlackRock on Earth Day 👉

11am, Wednesday 22nd April
Dundas House, 20 Brandon St, EH3 5PP
RSVP: https://actionnetwork.org/events/earth-day-protest-against-black-rock/

"Google any catastrophe...the names that pop up time and again are BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street."

Cathy Allan on why we need to protest at BlackRock at Edinburgh on Earth Day, Wednes 22 April. They are crushing everything and everyone.

https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/03/18/the-bleak-rack-that-is-black-rock-edinburgh-and-everywhere/

Find out more about the protest: https://actionnetwork.org/events/earth-day-protest-against-black-rock/

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