Movement Assembly #1

In Week One ...

Sat 28 June - Fri 4 July
Over 600 ideas were gathered from almost 480 people throughout the week.

Duplicated ideas for topics were edited out by Moderators to minimise overwhelm and frustration of participants. However, the breadth of issues people want to discuss means everyone will see many possible ideas to vote on. See Moderation info

In Week Two...

Sat 5 - Fri 11 July
Everyone voted on the topics that were submitted in the first week.

Some duplications were merged and some sentences rephrased to statements which left 588 ideas to vote on. You didn't need to vote on every idea. Polis worked its magic even if you only voted on 20 ideas.

You can read the Guide: Polis for Participants, so you understand the process followed so far and to make the most out of taking part in the next stage of deciding the topic for our first Movement Assembly by voting on everyone's submissions.

In Week Three...

• Polis identified the most popular ideas for topics which to be the basis for our first Movement Assembly.
• UK Assemblies [the Assembly Organisers on this occasion] then supported, coordinated and publicised this assembly.
• Results are shared on the Rebel Toolkit and publicised on the Rebellion Broadcast.

Polis Report

• The full Polis Report. Please note: you will not be able to download the 'raw data'.

Explainer: How Polis Works | Groups and Their Opinions

Polis takes the data and breaks the participants down into groups of people whose opinions differ significantly. This does not mean that they don’t agree on anything, but more that their priorities lie in different places.

In this case, it found three distinct groups (A, B and C).

Their opinions can be broadly defined as:

• A (43 people; 3%) – in general voted negatively on most issues and passed little, but showed support for discussing XR internal strategy, actions and reform.
• B (135 people; 11%) – in general voted positively on most issues and passed little; showed strongest support for discussing questions around structural and political change and engaging the public in the climate movement.
• C (1068 people; 86%) – in general voted positively on most issues, but passed regularly. They showed strongest support for discussing how to engage large numbers of people in the climate movement.

At the bottom of the report under the All Statements section, the results are displayed for all participants OVERALL and broken down by group for every statement.

You can select the drop-down arrow next to Sort by: and choose different options to display the info. Two of the most useful are Number of votes and % Agreed.

Overall Results

The Overall results are most closely aligned to those of Group C - which makes up 86% of respondents; those in Group B actually felt more strongly positive about the Top 10 statements, and Group A felt more negative/mixed.

The aim of Polis is to allow the statements upon which most people are likely to agree ‘rise to the top’. In this case, the themes that most closely align with the majority of those participating are around engaging the wider public in the climate fight.

Summary

• Based on these results, the UK Assemblies team have involved relevant teams to co-create the question for our first Movement Assembly.
• We will all then deliberate on that question at this first movement assembly.