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First Aid within Action Wellbeing
Whilts we encourage all in Action Support roles to have a basic awareness of First Aid, our designated First Aiders are all trained and certificated to the Level 3 Award in First Aid at Work, or its equivalent. Since such training is expensive, we aim to recru...
Nonviolence
Principle 9. We are a nonviolent network: using nonviolent strategy and tactics as the most effective way to bring about change. We choose to practice Nonviolent Direct Action (NVDA) out of principle and because it is proven to be more successful in creating...
How to find events using the Calendar
Click here to access the calendar on TeamUp. You can view it either in a browser, or in the TeamUp App on a mobile device. Below is a summary of the basic uses of the tool. For a full guide, see the TeamUp documentation Event Summary Hover your mouse pointer...
Adding Calendar Events - Submit a Form
You can submit entries to the Movement Calendar here Alternatively, you can request that the information is added by your area’s calendar admin (this may be your Regional Gardener, M&M Coordinator or someone nominated from your group or community). Visit the l...
Adding Calendar Events - Calendar Editor
Adding Calendar Events - Directly in TeamUp If you only rarely add events to the calendar, it is probably easiest to just complete the calendar form. If you regularly add events for your group/team/community then you will be assigned a private edit link for th...
Sharing Events, Calendars or Maps
Sharing an Event from the Calendar From within an event details window, click 'Share' and then 'As Page'. This will give you a webpage with all the event details on. Sharing More of the Calendar This is a useful feature if you want to share a pre-filtered ver...
How to find events near you using the Map
The events map shows events across the whole UK. It's helpful to bookmark this on your phone for use during Outreach. Finding Events On a mobile device click the down arrow to see search options On a desktop or mobile device click the down arrow again to see ...
Getting started on Zoom and troubleshooting
Helpful YouTube videos on all things Zoom! For accessing and using on your computer For accessing and using on phone Tech support direct from Zoom Zoom's technical support pages will always give you the most up-to-date information. If you need to learn t...
The Right to Protest vs. the Role of the Police
Whilst there is no specific ‘right to protest’ in law, everyone does have the right to peacefully protest. This right is enshrined in the rights to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, freedom of expression, and freedom of assembly and association, whi...
Communicating with the police
It is acknowledged and understood that the issue of talking to the police at all is a sensitive one, not least because of the findings in many reports (e.g. The Casey Review) that police forces are institutionally racist and misogynistic. It is recognised that...
Becoming an XR Protest Liaison - what does the role require?
The role of Protest Liaison is usually performed by an experienced rebel who has undergone the relevant training. The qualities needed are as follows: Embodies non-violence, calm, non-threatening Confident communicator with authority figures and rebels alike ...
Air Pollution
Resources for Air Pollution themed actions Graphics info and designs for making these signs like the one below Flyers to edit and print These flyers are in photoshop format - so you can add your own Local Group info. If you require support in editing these, ...
The Actions Community - Get help and advice
Don't panic! You have reached this page because you want to drive change through action - the very essence of Extinction Rebellion. You might have an idea and want help to make it a reality, or you might be looking for pre-packaged 'flat pack' action plans. T...
Initial action design
Outcome, audience, message, tactics, plan. So you have an idea for an action or you picked one up from Design Ideas for Actions or the Action Themes. And hopefully you’ve got a few friends to start planning with. You’ll want to start by agreeing some core elem...
Burner Phones
When on any action with a risk of arrest, DO NOT take your regular phone. This is because the police can (and will) seize the phones of most people arrested, and as well as ending up with no phone, if the security on the phone is not super tight, they can copy...
Logistics and scheduling
Timeline Do a full detailed timeline of the action- eg. from van drop off to debrief. Do this early as it gives people a really good idea of what the action will be like. And then revise it as you go. Work out where really precise timings are needed and where ...
Dealing with police and security
The Protest Liaison and De-escalation roles helps keep police and other authority or security figures calm, remind them of our nonviolence, and helps keep them occupied rather than information gathering on all the activists or organisers present. Civil-disobe...
Welcome to XR
Hello and Welcome! You may have been motivated to join us because you've decided that you must take action now. Or maybe you want to find out more before becoming involved. Still, we know that taking that first step can be a challenge. Thank you for being here...
Messaging Dos and Don'ts
Do's and don'ts for talking about citizens' assemblies Based on research done for a number of democracy organisations including XR. You can find more detail in Reforming the political system - A Messaging Guide Do say: "Politics" / "political system" Don't sa...
Common misunderstandings
Important messaging points to get right Do say: UK-wide citizens' assembly Don't say : National citizens' assembly Only the United Kingdom government can pass laws on the scale neeeded to address the crisis. The CA must include all 4 nations - Wales, Northern...