UK Climate Camp Protest 2009 - BBC

Climate change demonstrators chained themselves to the doors of the Royal Bank of Scotland in the City of London yesterday. Other activists stormed the trading floor of the bank in Bishopsgate, gluing themselves together and disrupting business for more than two hours.

The group was protesting against carbon trading and the banks investment in fossil fuels. Several more protesters, affiliated with the Climate Camp, chained themselves to the banks front doors in an attempt to blockade the building. The intrusion caused significant disruption, with RBS staff locked into the building for the morning. Client meetings were cancelled and many bankers stopped trading to watch the protest.

A section of the trading floor was cleared around the intruders.The demonstrations, just after 8am, formed part of protests around the City in which BP and Shell were also affected. Protesters removed the S from Shells headquarters, leaving it reading hell.The seven activists who entered the RBS building used superglue to attach themselves togetherbefore one of them was glued to a plasma television. They were eventually removed by police who used solvents to remove the glue.

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[Leeifac]

Great example of orgainizing a multi-tiered city wide protest.