BANKING ON THE CAMP

Climate Camp have announced their intention to “Break the Bank” with this year’s action camp. Their target will be Royal Bank of Scotland.

RBS funds corporate climate criminals around the world. It helped provide E.ON with $70 billion to help build 17 new coal and gas power plants across Europe. It also underwrote $8bn in loans to ConocoPhillips, a company running riot exploiting the Peruvian Amazon and the Canadian tar sands.

After going cap in hand to the government for a £50bn bailout last year, RBS is 84% owned by Joe Public. But that hasn’t stopped them using (y)our cash - or more accurately, debt - to finance the climate destruction that threatens us all.

The basecamp will be swooped on and occupied on the 19th and 20th of August. That will be followed by four days of training and direct action before the real fun begins with a day of action against RBS on the 23rd. The camp will be packed up and returned to nature on the 25th.

A climate camp statement said, “Ecological destruction is built into the mechanics of the financial system, with communities disenfranchised from their own futures. This is why, in August, people from across the UK will be converging to take back the power and Break the Bank!”

* See www.climatecamp.org.uk