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CLIMATE change activists used hammers and chisels to shatter the windows at a Barclays building in London’s Canary Wharf today, in protest against the bank’s investment in fossil fuels.
The seven women from Extinction Rebellion (XR) put stickers on the glass that read “in case of climate emergency, break glass,” before breaking the windows. They then sat down and waited to be arrested.
The protesters wore patches on their clothes saying: “Better broken windows than broken promises,” echoing the 1912 suffragette action across west London.
They also wore the colours of the suffragette movement to highlight the disproportionate impact the climate emergency is likely to have on women, particularly those who are poor, indigenous, of colour or who live in the global South.
They are demanding immediate action on the climate emergency, a year-long, legally-binding citizens’ assembly, and that all local councillors engage in necessary civil resistance against the central government, the party said.
It added: Burning Pink has sent 12 demands to Norfolk County Council, South Norfolk District Council, Norwich City Council, Ipswich Council and Cambridge City Council, as well as other councils across the UK. They have yet to engage with us in any meaningful fashion.
Notices left by a Burning Pink protester on the building housing the offices of South Norfolk District Council in Long Stratton.
- Credit: Burning Pink Norwich