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Cambridge RBS action

Seymour Change | 15.10.2007 14:27 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Globalisation | Cambridge

At lunchtime on Monday 15 October, around ten activists assembled outside the Royal Bank of Scotland branch on Trinity Street, Cambridge, as part of the national day of action against the UK's main bankroller of carbon emitters. The protesters put up placards next to the ATM, handed out leaflets, and engaged passers-by and customers in discussion.

ATM users read leaflets and placards
ATM users read leaflets and placards

Police help draw attention to the action...
Police help draw attention to the action...

... whilst taking everyone's picture.
... whilst taking everyone's picture.

The manager of the RBS was to only one tosuffer from camera shyness
The manager of the RBS was to only one tosuffer from camera shyness


Four police officers were also in attendance, one taking pictures of all the leafletters. A number of people who happened to be passing by wanted to know the reason for this. Among these were an American woman who got quite stroppy with the officers, and a young guy who wanted to have picture taken with one of the protesters (the police dutifully obliged). Although the police came across all friendly, they did play their usual intimidation tactics of dropping details of protesters into the conversation that they could only have lifted from FIT files. On the flipside, they asked for the placards to be moved away from the ATM, as "customers might feel intimidated."

Seymour Change

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FIT cop

15.10.2007 23:53

The cop with the blue shoulders on his jacket is FIT team from Northern Ireland. He gets around quite a bit...

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