Daily Action Plans

Overview

Actions start from Monday at 11am in the City of London through to Wednesday. End times are likely to be towards the end of each working day.

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.

Food/water - lunch will be provided around 14.30-15.00, so bring some snacks to share and get your through!! Please remember your tupperware and cutlery; there will be NO DISPOSABLE PLATES. And remember to stay hydrated - fill your bottles up when you can!

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).

Food/water - lunch will be provided around 13.00. Please remember your tupperware and cutlery; there will be NO DISPOSABLE PLATES. And remember to stay hydrated - fill your bottles up when you can!

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.

Food/water - lunch will be provided around 15.00. Please bring some snacks to keep you going til then and remember your tupperware and cutlery; there will be NO DISPOSABLE PLATES. And fill your bottles up when you can.

🧟 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

8.30am - Midday
Meet : 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

11.30am - 1.30pm
Meet: Aon car park entrance, 100 Napier St, S11 8HD (near corner with Summerfield St).

All welcome, family friendly event. Please either come as you are, bring life-size-ish cuddly animal toys or skeletons if you have them ... or if you want to be some oil, wear black !

If you have a black sheet or similar please bring it !

You can hand out leaflets, be some oil, "die", or hold a banner or a placard (provided).

The aim is to ask Aon not to insure new fossil fuel projects. See you there, the more the merrier

Contact : xrsheffield@gmail.com

11am-3pm
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 contact north@extinctionrebellion.uk

2.30pm - 3.30pm
9/10 Market Pl, Banbury OX16 5LG

Short protest outside of Howden Insurance in Banbury. Contact : xrbanbury@protonmail.com

12.30 - 3.00pm
Meet: Victoria Square

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.

8.30 - 10.30am
Meet: 20 The Triangle, Bournemouth, BH2 5RG

A noisy demo just outside the Howdens office. 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.

10:00am - 12:00pm
Meet: 15 High Street, Colchester, Essex CO1 1DA

Public-facing event to highlight Howden's lethal insurance of the fossil fuel industry.

Contact : XRColchester@gmail.com

10:00am - 12:00pm
Meet: Howden Insurance, 10 Princes St, Harrogate HG1 1NH

Join us outside Howden Insurance, 10 Princes Street in Harrogate, 10.00-midday on Saturday 2 November. Howden Insurance insures ordinary things like building and contents but also oil and gas and Carbon Capture & Storage - a fake climate 'solution'. We will be outside the shop front handing out leaflets, taking photos with a banner and talking to staff and the public. If you're in that there London on 28-30 October, then you could join protests outside other fossil fuel insurers.

Contact: harrogate@extinctionrebellion.uk

10.00am - 11.00am Sushizen, 16 Bartholomew St, Newbury RG14 5LL

A noisy march with banners and placards through Newbury, accompanied by the fabulous XR drummers ending up outside a regional insurance office.

Contact : xroxfordactions@gmail.com