Daily Action Plans

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. 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.

We are committed to being as inclusive as possible.

March routes each day are step free. Current lengths:
Mon 1.8km several stops along the way.
Tue 1.1km stops along the way.
Wed 1.5km stops along the way.

There will be facility to charge power chairs and scooters.

Accommodation and travel information and support available here

To request BSL interpreter, other support or to discuss any access needs please contact wellbeing@extinctionrebellion.uk or call 07773 193704

The Floods Are Here - our actions, design and messaging will balance light and dark, death and hope, bright colours and black and white to dramatically show the public and media how insurers are greenlighting fossil fuel crooks to flood our homes and our lands.

Meet 11am in City of London - join a march to visit some of 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 - dress up as if being evacuated in life jackets or extreme wet weather gear. Maybe 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!
Stop Insuring Climate Chaos
Floody Hell
Flood Alert
The floods are Right Here, Right Now

This is an emergency - and we are the response.

After the floods - food crises and wrecked lives. Actions and messaging will drive home the impacts of the floods on everyday lives as the rising waters wreck farming lands, biodiversity and food supplies, homes and communities, rendering whole areas uninsurable and therefore uninhabitable.

Mass Action - holding space at iconic locations

Already in London? - early start - 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).

Or join us late morning - 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? - come as you are in your everyday clothes.

Bring a bowl - you will be given a single symbolic pea (to bring to mind disaster-zone food distribution).

Placard suggestions:

I predict a (food) riot
Stop Insuring Climate Chaos
Insure our Survival
No food, no future
Floody hell

We Predict a Riot - mass action.....a zombie apocalypse! A wide range of creative actions will highlight what social collapse will look like in the UK as the population begins to panic in the face of repeated floods and food shortages over the next decade.

Meet 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, zombie insurers stumbling around.

What to wear/bring - Business attire with a zombie twist! No specifics items to bring for this day.

🧟 Time to dance! - Driller Killer: Zombie Mass Dance Discobedience
This is the undead dance for life! - wear business suits with a zombie twist. We are the undead, dancing our way through the halls of power to expose the profiteers of destruction!
Watch the tutorial Video, join the Whatsapp chat and check out the zombies at COP26 for inspiration

Placard suggestions:

We predict a riot
No Food, No Future
Insure Our Survival

Tuesday 29th October
8.30am - Midday

Meet at: 144 West George Street, Glasgow, G2 2HG

Join XR Scotland as we protest three major insurance companies demanding they stop insuring fossil fuel projects.

After the protest, we will head to Quakers Meeting House, 38 Elmbank Crescent, for a warm vegan meal and community discussion.

Access: The protest will involve walking to other locations within the city centre, and the Quakers Meeting House has limited accessibility, see quakerscotland.org/Glasgow for details.

If you have any questions, or to discuss any access requirements, please email xrglasgow@gmail.com

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. The action will start at 11am and end by 3pm.

For more information contact north@extinctionrebellion.uk

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.

A noisy demo just outside the Howdens office

8.30am - 10.30am

20 The Triangle, Bournemouth, BH2 5RG

We'll have XR BCP Rhythms, a banner, placards and will generally make a noise that can't be ignored!

All welcome, just turn up!

Contact XRBournemouth@gmail.com for more info.