We decided to celebrate Christmas this year with some
divestment campaigning, by joining Red Leicester Choir to sing anti-fossil fuel
carols in three banks in Leicester.
In Barclays, we sang ‘We wish you would
stop drilling’, in HSBC we sang ‘Jingle bells, fracking smells’ and in
Santander we sang ‘Dirty energy, dirty energy’ to the tune of ‘Oh Christmas
tree’. All three banks invest
their customers’ money in dirty fossil fuels and we wanted to voice our
objection to this and encourage people to move their money. We hope these banks
will make a New Year’s resolution to clean up their investment policy!
