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Better Without Barclays

Are you fed up with all this messaging encouraging you to look at your individual footprint? Because we are! Individual actions are great but are far from enough to solve the climate and ecological crises. Especially when only a hundred companies are responsible for most of the carbon emissions. That's why we're launching Better Without Barclays.

Barclays is funding the climate crisis by financing fossil fuels

Barclays is Europe's biggest fossil fuel funder. In 2021 they have lent £4 billion for new fossil fuels projects. They have doubled their funds into fossil fuels during the pandemic. This money is going to companies fuelling climate change quite literally. While they profit, we die.

This dirty bank also funds the world's biggest burner of forests: Drax.

Last but not least: HMRC are banking with Barclays, which means that they are using taxpayers' money to fund the fossil fuel industry.

This is infuriating.

And we would be better without Barclays.

XR Nottingham in front of Barclays

Take action

Join dozens of Rebels across the Midlands to make our message heard: Barclays must stop funding fossil fuels.

During February and March, we will target this company to make their executives, employees and clients that change is needed.

We designed an Action Pack to help you get involved with plenty of ideas to take action, both in the streets and online. You can even design your own action! This pack will provide many resources, including graphics to use on social media.

Share the news with your local XR group and friends, and sign up here to get the Action Pack

Capitalism is costing the Earth, planet repairs now!
London, UK. 1 August 2021. Pan-Afrikan Reparation Rebellion Groundings. Supporters gathered in Brixton to mark Afrikan Emancipation Day. Credit: Andrea Domeniconi/Alamy Live News

Timeline of actions

You can take action against Barclays whenever you want, we're Rebels after all, and autonomous.

If you'd like to follow the plan of action, here are the main dates to remember:

  • 1st February: Switch It Day (move your money from a dirty bank to a more virtuous one)
  • 7th February: Direct Action begins (local groups begin to take action against Barclays branches to demand end to fossil fuel funding)
  • 14th February: Break Up With Barclays (use Valentine's Day to encourage councils, MPs, big businesses and individuals to close their accounts)
  • 23rd February: BarcLIES (calling out the lies and greenwash of the company in their annual report)
  • Early March - Watch this space

Get all the campaign updates and a link to the action pack by and signing up here

Better Without Barclays campaign timeline
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