Guillermo Mash welcoming you to a special Imagining Community segment on the October 29th, 2021 defund climate chaos action outside the San Fransisco office of BlackRock Corporation. From KQED: Climate demonstrators gathered outside the San Francisco headquarters of investment management company BlackRock on Friday, as part of a global day of action. Demonstrators came out to demand financial institutions end their funding of corporations perpetuating climate destruction — actions took place in at least 100 cities around the world in an effort to "defund climate chaos." The worldwide day of action was timed ahead of COP26, the United Nations climate conference beginning in Glasgow on Sunday. BlackRock, Inc. is an American multinational investment management corporation based in New York City. Founded in 1988, initially as a risk management and fixed income institutional asset manager, BlackRock is the world's largest asset manager, with US$9.46 trillion in assets under management as of 2021. BlackRock operates globally with 70 offices in 30 countries and clients in 100 countries. A contingent of Butte County residents including , filmmaker Allen Myers, Camp Fire survivor Carrie Max, Micro-biologist Wendy McCall, PHD candidate Meleiza Figueroa, Mary Kay Benson with Butte 350 and muralist and Traditional Ecological Educator Ali Meders-Knight stood tall in painting an "Indigenous Leadership ~ Climate Action Now" mural outside BlackRock's San Francisco office. Blackrock is the largest investor of fossil fuel projects and PG&E, which caused the wildfire deaths of 100 people in Butte County. The group painted their mural with the sacred ashes and charcoal collected from the burned properties of their Paradise participants. Plz like, follow and share Imagining Community as we bring you the stories that make our collective imaginations sparkle and engage.