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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 ...

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...

Great to have you here! This online 'book' aims to explain what Extinction Rebellion is, what we do and why, our aims, methods, principles and strategy. We are often asked why we don't offer any solutions to the climate and nature crises. This article explains...

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: UK-wide citizens' assembly Don't say: Na...

Use simple, positive language Do say: Selected like a jury and then sorted to reflect the population Don't say: Sortition/stratified sampling Do say: A group of people that reflects the diversity of our society Don't say: Demographically representative Do s...

Physical cleaning We work hard to minimise the environmental impact of our physical actions. This includes tidying up the site at the end. We are all crew. The packing up should not be left to those who have worked the hardest during the day. Encourage others...

It's very, very important to consider how your action will come across and prepare your public messaging. You need to get in touch with your local M&M team, or a create an M&M team for the action, well in advance, so that they can prepare a press release and s...

Start simple If you are new to action planning, don’t try to run before you can walk. Start with something simple, or get some experience helping another more experienced action planner out with their action planning first. Bounce it around When you have an id...

What can I do to start? Sign up to Rebellion Broadcast: Key info on UK actions, strategy and Rebellion updates. Sign up to Movement Broadcast: UK-wide events & training. Find out what's going on near me - the Events Map Find out what's going on particular da...

We are a XRUK team known as APC which is mandated to: Create and build the capacity of an ‘actions community’. Encourage and support increased participation in NVDA. Support improved quality of the planning, design, implementation, evaluation and disseminatio...

Now that you have your initial action design in place, you can work out what roles need to be filled, what skills are needed and how many of each role you need. In short, you need to start recruiting! You might be recruiting people to: Help with planning Take...

Hopefully much of your planning will kick in. Those with roles to coordinate the media, photographers, livestreamers & spokespeople will know what they're doing and your action will be perfectly captured and the news of it spread everywhere. Here are some more...

Designed to help locate and contact any local XR group in the UK The Local Group Map can be viewed directly or via the XRUK website The use the map: The key on the right allows you to select a nation or region. and/or ...

Become an expert CA communicator! You will be asked lots of questions about CAs. Here are answers to help you, and some sample answers for spokespeople. 1. We already have politicians that have been elected, why do we need citizens’ assemblies as well? Governm...

From Ireland's Citizens’ Assembly: ‘I think this issue in Ireland could never have gotten to the point we’re at today were it not for the CA. I think we would have been years getting there, if we ever got there.' Kate O’Donnell (serving member of Fine Gael) "S...

Most people (outside of groups like XR!) follow what they think is 'normal' behaviour. These 'social norms' are therefore powerful obstacles to change. Dynamic normative messages emphasise changing trends - to encourage people to become part of the new normal....

Producing maps using Google MyMaps mean that you can share the editing workload and then publish a public view for participants to use. Google Help on using the tool. Below are some examples. The Big One Rebellion The Big One Google MyMap Note the use of layer...

To format your role ads on the Volunteer Website, you need to use something called HTML. Without HTML, your role description will appear as one long block of text, which is hard to read and digest. To help with this, you can copy and paste one of the templates...

Managing your applications Keeping up with your account shouldn't be too much of a chore! The website is easy to use and you just need to remember a couple of key things to make things run smoothly and bring new people into your team: Make sure you regularly ...

This interactive quiz is designed to engage the public in thinking about the climate and ecological crisis and then taking action. It's designed to be used online via social media posts, or perhaps suggesting that rebels add it to their email signatures. But y...