Extinction Rebellion Youth (XR Youth), a growing network of young people campaigning against climate breakdown and biodiversity loss, will host a protest at HSBC in Birmingham City Centre on Wednesday 28 August 2019 at 1pm.
Members of XR Youth Birmingham will stage a sit-in outside one of the world’s largest banking organisations to highlight its appalling environmental and ethical record. Those taking part in the protest will disrupt business as usual by sitting down outside HSBC New Street, with one participant using D-lock to secure their head to the premises.
One of the motivations behind the protest is to raise awareness of HSBC’s role in the climate breakdown and that it has poured £43bn into fossil fuels in the last three years[1].
XR Youth is part of Extinction Rebellion’s rapidly growing international movement that uses nonviolent civil disobedience to achieve radical change, in order to minimise the risk of human extinction and ecological collapse.
A spokesperson from Extinction Rebellion Youth Birmingham, said: “We are the inheritors of a broken system. We are the ones never to have known a stable climate. Despite this, organisations like HSBC continue to put profits above people and endanger the planet we will inherit. For too long our voices have not been heard, that’s why we have decided to take matters into our own hands. Whether it’s Greta Thunberg leading school strikes, or nonviolent direct action like this protest, we will not stop until we achieve climate justice.”
For more information on getting involved with XR Youth visit: https://www.facebook.com/extinctionrebellionbirmingham/
