Students Scrub Campus Bank in Quirky Protest

Yesterday a group of students from the People and Planet Society took mops to campus’s Natwest branch in an environmental protest.

Groups of bemused and curious students stopped outside the bank to watch the ‘clean up’. Students dressed in boiler suits mopped the windows of the bank and scrubbed the cash point while asking students queuing at the cash point to sign a petition.

The protesters from UEA People and Planet

The society’s aim is to raise awareness about the bank’s investment in dirty oil from Canadian tar sands.

“Our aim is to get UEA to stop investing with banks such as Natwest and Barclays who invest in tar sands” said Rosie Rawle, Ethical Officer for the Student Union.

She also told the Tab that the society aims to persuade students to switch their accounts to more environmentally friendly banks.

She said: “The oil extraction site in Canada which these banks are investing in is the size of England and Wales. We want to make this a tar sands free uni.”

To find out more about the cause have a look at the national ‘People and Planet’ website:

http://peopleandplanet.org/

Or check out the group’s Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/ueapeopleandplanet