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What do the Production teams do?
Production & World Build focuses on logistical and hands-on work and takes care of the practical and technical sides of rebellion. In short: we amplify actions! We make sure to provide the equipment needed to intensify any action. This involves sourcing, deli...
Art Factory
Art Factory We are the makers, painters, printers and sewists. We produce the hand-made objects used by XR on a massive scale, from factories across the UK. We produce patches by the thousands, we make flags, we paint banners and we encourage people to use th...
What does the Embedding nonviolence / Deescalation team do?
Nonviolent action is about confrontation. By acting, we engage in conflict with others, intervening in their daily lives and disrupting them. This raises tension, which can increase the risk that somebody gets hurt. Nonviolent communication grants us the abil...
What do XR Protest Liaison do?
If a protest action is assessed by the planners as likely to be more effective if the police are notified in advance, XR PL will contact the relevant force and let them know the details of the protest. At the protest itself, XR PLs will be wearing a burgundy ...
Rhythms
Rhythms are the thundering heart of the movement. We play simple percussion music inspired by Brazilian samba. Bands can help rebels claim and hold space for protest, attract attention and create a positive and fun atmosphere. Our groups can be large or small...
Arrestee / Back Office Support
There are many roles related to Arrestee Support and Backoffice, but on the day of actions, these are the ones required: Back Office Volunteer (BOV) role involves taking phone calls via 3CX, an online software-based private branch exchange phone system. P...
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...
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 ...
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...
Tidying up - physically and virtually
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...
Media for your action (public)
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...
Things to consider before you start
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...