Day to Day Action Plans
Information coming soon with more details of each day for the week of actions.
We follow the 'Rebel Agreement' to guide us whilst taking nonviolent direct action.
Monday 28th - Wed 30th Oct London
Key info for London actions
Overview
Actions start from Monday at 11am in the City of London and will run through to Weds afternoon.
There will be ways for everyone to get involved from mass participation actions to ‘spicier’ targeted disruption. Think visits to insurer HQs, holding space, performances, music, Flash Mobs, drumming, outreach - cheeky and fun, but focused and determined to get our message through.
Details of each day will be added to the sections below and posted on the Rebellion Broadcast on Telegram.
Food
Lunch will be provided by 'Food For All' each day at the mass actions.
Please remember your tupperware and spork to eat with, we will not be providing disposable plates.
💚 XR is supporting FFA and Euston Food Bank through our main fundraiser - please click here to donate.
Monday - Flooding
🌊 The climate crisis is rising – and so are we. It's time to take our message to those fuelling destruction.
Join us on Monday 28th October at 11am in City of London as we march to the insurers, demanding they cut ties with the fossil fuel industry. Exact location tbc - but note that Tower Hill Tube is the nearest underground stop. March leaves 11.30am!
🛶 The look of the action - Help us recreate a scene of flooding with inflatable life rafts, flood warning signs, climate crime scene and flood levels.
☔ What to bring/wear - Dressed up as if being evacuated in life jackets or extreme wet weather gear. Maybe life jackets, buoyancy aids, wetsuit and flippers. Or bring your umbrellas, waterproofs, wellies or souwesters... or water damaged family photos.
Placards suggestions
- Insuring Our Future? More Like Drowning It!
- Insuring Oil = Drowning Lives!
- Fossil Fuels Get Insurance, We Get Floods!
- Fossil Fuels = Floods. Thanks for the Uninsurable Future!
This is an emergency - and we are the response.
Tuesday - Food Shortages
After the floods, lives will be wrecked and we'll be linking this to global impacts.
Already in London? Meet at 7.30am! This is the exciting ‘early shift’ - please make it if you can. City of London (precise location will be released nearer the time)
Join us later Meet 11am - precise location will be released nearer the time. Tower Hill Tube is the nearest underground stop.
The look of the action - There will be a focus on food shortages with a giant ‘Last Potato’ with a huge price tag being paraded around.
What to wear? - No specific suggestions for this day, come as you are in your everyday clothes.
Bring a bowl and get a single pea (to bring to mind disaster-zone food distribution).
Placard suggestions:
- I predict a (food) riot
- Insuring Climate Chaos
Wednesday - Systemic collapse
Riots and social unrest.
Mass action - Zombie apocalypse!
Meeting 11am - precise location will be released nearer the time. Tower Hill Tube is the nearest underground stop.
The look of the action - Zombie die-in with flashmob, blood pouring, zombie insurers stumbling around.
What to wear/bring - Business attire with a zombie twist! No specifics items to bring for this day.
Thursday 31st Oct
Manchester
Let's keep the pressure on the Insurance Industry to stop insuring new fossil fuels!
Join XR Manchester and friends for an action in the city centre as part of the XR National Insure Our Survival week of action - exact date and location to be finalised.
For more information join our WhatsApp chat
Friday 1st Nov
Birmingham
Friday 1st November, start at 12:30 in Victoria Square, finish around 15:00
Please Join the public Signal group if you're planning on joining the march and would like to stay updated.
Volunteers needed - Mass participation performance actions with a theme of “Bringing the Climate Crisis to Them” (the insurance companies) are planned including a flood themed event, mass letter writing and a forest fire event.
What to do and how to contribute
1️⃣ Make a placard with your message on the front with an image of fire on the back.
2️⃣ Dress up in business suits.
3️⃣ Offer to be inside a giant monster.
4️⃣ Action support: stewards, well-being, de-escalation volunteers are needed - volunteer here.
5️⃣ Join as part of the drumming band (XR Rhythms).
More details will be given via an open Zoom call on Sunday 20th October, 7:30pm - register here.