Daily Action Plans

Overview

Actions take place from Monday to Wednesday in the City of London. Each day will start at 11am in Trinity Square Gardens (EC3N 4DJ). In addition to this there is an early action starting at 7.30am on Tuesday. 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.

Briefing video for London actions (30mins)

Get ready to take on the Fossil Fuel Death Star!
With BSL interpretation and closed captions.

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 interpretation, 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 Trinity Square Gardens, EC3N 4DJ (nearest underground station is Tower Hill). Join a march to visit some of the insurers, demanding they cut ties with the fossil fuel industry. 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. There will also be a die in.

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, 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, using performances and images to convey the insurance industry's complicity in climate breakdown. There will be a focus on food shortages with a giant ‘Last Potato’ with a huge price tag being paraded around.

What to wear/bring? - come as you are or wear business attire if you feel comfortable doing that. 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!

7.30am - Already in London? - meet early for this exciting ‘early shift’ - please make it if you can. Meeting location is the gardens at the corner of St. Mary Axe and Leadenhall Street (next to the Leadenhall/’Cheesegrater’ Building).
Location on map: What3words tender.valve.deck or Google maps pin

11am11.00am - Join us later in Trinity Square Gardens, EC3N 4DJ (nearest underground station is Tower Hill).

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 or wear business attire if you feel comfortable doing that.

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

1.30pm Letter Delivery Action - Under the Leadenhall Building, EC3V 4AB Details of the action here

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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. The look of the action - Zombie die-in with flashmob, zombie insurers stumbling around.

Meet 11am - Trinity Square Gardens, EC3N 4DJ (nearest underground station is Tower Hill).

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. Face-painting will be available.

1.30pm Letter Delivery Action - Under the Leadenhall Building, EC3V 4AB Details of the action here

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

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 in this recorded briefing call - watch here.