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Climate Camp 2010 at the RBS HQ in Edinburgh: a Break the Banks action round up.
I've just got back from this year's Climate Camp in Edinburgh. We camped on the grounds of the global headquarters of RBS to highlight the financial links to the climate crisis, and took direct action every day. Here's my round up of the best actions I took part in.
Written by Amelia Gregory
All photography by Amelia Gregory unless otherwise stated.
Over the past few years I have become increasingly embedded in the process of Climate Camp, see so I am well aware that the run up to this year's Climate Camp has been more fraught with difficulties than ever - but as a spectacularly open grassroots non-heirarchical direct action organisation we would be the first to acknowledge this fact. We argued long and hard about whether RBS was an appropriate target for this year's activities, physician and we picked our spot without really checking in with Scottish activists who were not present at the meeting, information pills thereby alienating some of our allies... so it's a testament to the movement we've created that I left the Edinburgh camp feeling that
