CLIMATE activists staged a demonstration outside a Barclays branch in the city centre to protest against the bank’s funding of fossils fuel projects.
Extinction Rebellion York protested outside the Barclays branch in Parliament Street at 12pm today (November 14), claiming that the bank finances the use of fossil fuels and the burning of trees.
Members handed out leaflets to advise the public to switch their bank, held up signs with messages such as: ‘Barclays – stop funding climate chaos’, and announced information to the public through a megaphone.
Adam, a spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion York, said: “Of all the banks in Europe, Barclays is the seventh biggest invester in fossil fuels and the biggest in Britain, so we’re trying to bring attention to that as part of a European widespread protest against Barclays.
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