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Let's be friendsEdinburgh's Royal Mile sees action card action
Students from Edinburgh University hit the historic streets of Edinburgh's capital to take their message to the people. With the 28 February deadline looming for RBS action cards being returned to the People & Planet office, more than 150 signed up to the campaign to stop RBS misusing public money.
Edinburgh students with action cards
Image © Veronica Lopes de Silva
Students on The Royal Mile with action cards & Plarard
Image © Veronica Lopes de Silva
People & Planet members took the RBS question to the people of Edinburgh this Saturday: “Should RBS be funding climate change with public money?”. The answer from streets was a resounding ‘NO!’. With action cards in hand the students approached people on Edinburgh’s Medieval Royal Mile and asked them to support the campaign to stop RBS using public money to drive wars, human rights abuses and climate change around the world.
The action cards are entitled Bailed out Banks - check the small print. They highlight a number of devastating projects RBS have financed with public money and call on the Chancellor, Alistair Darling, to stop this abuse of taxpayers money. The group of students discussed these issues with the public, and in the shadow of statues of Adam Smith and David Hume, got more than 150 Edinburgers to join the campaign to clean up RBS.
Louise Hazan, who heads up climate change campaigning at People & Planet, said:
“It’s great to see groups up and down the country taking our message to the streets. Bonuses are only the tip of the iceberg - we cannot allow RBS to continue to misuse public money in this outrageous way. Action cards are a fantastic way to win and demonstrate public support for the campaign.”
The deadline for getting signed cards back to the office is the 28th February - People & Planet will then be delivering them to the Chancellor along with campaign partners World Development Movement and PLATFORM.
