Outside Southwark Crown Court in London, climate activists are gathering to support the “Barclays 7” – a group of women who broke windows at the bank’s headquarters.
The women say they took the action to draw attention to Barclays’ role as the UK and Europe’s largest fossil fuel investor – and they have drawn their tactics from the suffragettes’ window smashing protests of 1911 and 1912.
As the crowd listens to speeches in support of the women, 78-year-old Jilly Yglesias shows me a picture on her phone of her great-aunt Gladys.
