I broke Barclays’ windows in 2021 – I’m no terrorist and neither are the ‘Barclays 5’
Question: What’s the difference between cracking the windows of a Barclays bank in 2021 and doing the same thing in 2024? Answer: Up to 10 years in prison and being labelled a terrorist! Barclays battered Back in April 2021, myself and six other women from Extinction Rebellion (XR) cracked several windows at Barclays HQ in Canary Wharf. Three years later, five other people cracked windows at Barclays’ Burnley branch in northwest England. We were trying to shift the behaviour of this global bank in terms of their role in climate genocide and ecological collapse. (Barclays did announce some potential “positive” changes…

