Cello-playing climate activist arrested at New York Citibank protest as crackdown escalates

Second activist also arrested during summer of heat' protest against second largest financier of fossil fuels

A 63-year-old climate activist and professional cellist faces up to seven years in prison after being arrested on Thursday while performing a Bach solo outside the headquarters of one of the world's largest fossil fuel financier Citibank in downtown New York.

John Mark Rozendaal, a former Princeton professor, and Alec Connon, director of the climate nonprofit group Stop the Money Pipeline, were arrested for criminal contempt in the public park at the bank's global headquarters as the crackdown against nonviolent climate protesters escalates.