7 banks attacked ‘not to UK coal’ in Germany

“On the night of Thurs­day 14th August, in Berlin, we made 7 attacks on Deutsche Bank, Com­merz Bank, Allianz AG and Dres­den­er Bank. The locks to the banks and the card-read­ers were glued and ‘no to UK Coal’ was spray­paint­ed.

No to UK Coal at Bodge House“On the night of Thurs­day 14th August, in Berlin, we made 7 attacks on Deutsche Bank, Com­merz Bank, Allianz AG and Dres­den­er Bank. The locks to the banks and the card-read­ers were glued and ‘no to UK Coal’ was spray­paint­ed. Deutsche Bank is the sin­gle biggest Euro­pean investor in agro­fu­els in Latin Amer­i­ca — fund­ing projects by Agren­co, ADM, Brasil Ecodiesel, Bunge, Clean Ener­gy Brasil, Cosan and Sao Mar­ti­no. Agro­fu­els, far from being an envi­ron­men­tal­ly prefer­able alter­na­tive to fos­sil fuels, are respon­si­ble for defor­esta­tion, indus­tri­al agri­cul­ture, increased car­bon emis­sions and soar­ing food prices/starvation. Along with Allianz, Deustche Bank is also one of the biggest share­hold­ers in UK Coal who cur­rent­ly plan to build 7 new coal fired pow­er sta­tions across the UK. Com­merz Bank finances at least 3 agro­fu­el com­pa­nies: Agren­co, Bunge and Tere­os. Dres­den­er Bank is a sub­sidiary of Allianz AG. The tar­gets cho­sen are both cli­mate change and cap­i­tal relat­ed. Exploita­tion of the envi­ron­ment and peo­ple by State and indus­try go hand in hand. They can­not be sep­a­rat­ed and both must be attacked. This attack coin­cides with the end of the UK Camp for Cli­mate Action and the begin­ning of the Kli­ma Camp and Anti-Raciss­mus Camp near Ham­burg.
Social war not cli­mate chaos!”

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