(London, England) A group of about 100 anarcho-warmists gathered at Blackheath Common Climate Camp 2009 and organized a direct action attack against the 32-story, name-in-neon Barclays Bank.
Led by a 30-something skittish woman called Blonde Leader, they were a rag-tag bunch, "with seasoned activists in dreadlocks mixing with middle-class couples in chinos" and shaven-headed anarchists.
"Departments" were designated and everyone was reminded that they don't have to legally reveal their names under any search power. Pens, paper and Post-it Notes were made handy for delivering an ugly mess of global warming, anti-capitalist messages on every available surface.
Spirited, the throng of 1960s throwbacks boarded the train to their destination, the strikingly-unmissable Barclays Bank.
The mood was buoyant. This was the big one.There's more ridiculousness at the link.
Each of us tried to stay focused, turning all our thoughts to how evil Barclays was investing in coal.
The concerns expressed during our training – one middle-aged lady in Calvin Klein sunglasses had been very worried about ‘getting arrested and not being able to get to work on Monday’ – quickly dissolved.
Then we arrived at our destination: the capitalist concentration of Canary Wharf in London’s Docklands. And it was here that things began to go wrong.
Blonde Leader moved purposefully to the target. Entering the skyscraper’s marbled first-floor reception, she beseeched her charges to ‘make as much noise as you like as it is very echoey in here’.
What began as yelling and shrieking soon turned to nervous whispering as one thought struck everyone in unison. Everyone, that is, except Blonde Leader.
By now whipped up into near-hysteria, she mounted a lone charge on the security barrier, only to be held back by the guards.
Suddenly, her resistance faded and her face began to flush. We were in the wrong skyscraper. Barclays HQ was two minutes down the road.
Tip: slwlion
Companion post at The Jawa Report.
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