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A climate protester was taken to a hospital bleeding on Wednesday, according to organizers, after a security guard at Citibank’s global headquarters in New York punched him in the face as campaigners assembled in the lobby of the building. The climate advocate, Eren Can Illeri, was taking part in an action organized by Summer of Heat, which is supported by a coalition including New York Communities for Change, Planet Over Profit, and Stop the Money Pipeline. Illeri was joining other campaigners in calling on Citibank executives to meet with them to discuss the bank’s funding of fossil fuel pro…

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