Extinction Rebellion were there because Barclays are the biggest investors in fossil fuels in Europe. The bank finances fracking, coal and Arctic oil and gas extraction. To mitigate climate change, the use of fossil fuels has to be phased out, and the longer we wait, the faster it has to be done in order to prevent more chaotic weather - droughts, forest fires, floods, the melting of ice caps and glaciers, and so on.
Local activists chatted to customers as they went in, or came out, to ask them if they wanted their money to be used to fund fossil fuel investments.
The banner saying "Act Now For Today's Children" was made two years ago, and carried at the big Extinction Rebellion protests in London.
At about midday, an open letter was handed in to the staff in the Parish Hall, explaining why XR are protesting against the bank, and asking them to reconsider their investments.
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