A day of protest against “tar sands funding banks” in Seattle and beyond started on Capitol Hill Monday morning as a small group arrived at the Broadway Wells Fargo only to find the branch locked-up — with a few customers still inside.

The Divest the Globe effort included an afternoon rally at Westlake before a planned set of protests at “100 SEATTLE BRANCHES OF THE TAR SANDS FUNDING BANKS: Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, TD Bank and US Bank.”

On Broadway Monday morning, the group chanted outside the Wells Fargo in the lobby of the Broadway Market. One protester read a letter to bank employees and a few customers behind the branch’s roll-down security gate. “We are taking this action today as a result of Wells Fargo’s financing of new tar sands pipelines,” he said.

“As with the Dakota Access Pipeline, these pipelines lack free, prior, and formal consent from all the impacted indigenous nations.”

After leaving a copy of the letter with a bank representative, the group left the lobby and one member said the plan was to begin visiting other banks in the area.

No police were called to the Monday morning protest and the bank reopened once the group was gone.

UPDATE: Organizers say there were six arrests during the day’s protests in Seattle:

Activists in Seattle disrupted business at all 103 of the city’s branches of the banks that fund tar sands pipelines. Tar sands extraction is widely opposed by indigenous communities, and is extraordinarily carbon-intensive. At most sites, the disruption was minor, with staged readings of a letter to the bank CEO’s indicating a broad boycott if they don’t cease funding catastrophic projects.