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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...

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? The Rebellion Broadcast provides key info on UK actions, strategy and Rebellion updates. The Movement Broadcast provides info on UK-wide events & training. The Events Map is handy for finding out what is happening by location. The Move...

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. Below are some mor...

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...

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...

Fake coal is obviously a really useful prop for fossil fuel focused actions. Lots of different types have been made: Edible fake coal Homemade Christmas Coal recipe Versions that can be thrown safely Sponges coated in thick paint Chunks of scrap polystyrene, ...

Practical Tips for disabled protestors Liberty has produced this helpful guide. It includes sections on: Preparing to attend a protest What are my access needs? What if I'm kettled and I'm disabled? How to complain about the police How to organise a more acc...

Here are some design ideas for newspapers for an action, we printed them off and glued them to large folded white card to look like a broadsheet. Examples from the Dirty Water Campaign Note these images have been generated from the PDF files and reduced in q...

Where possible our Legal Support team will deliver a Know Your Rights training either in person or via zoom. However as this is not always possible, we have collated key information within the guide below: https://informeddissent.info/knowyourrights There are ...

Extinction Rebellion UK, BoycottWaterBills.com and the Dirty Water campaign have teamed up to support the UK-wide wastewater bill boycott. Find out below how to do this quickly and with as little risk as possible – they can never cut off your water supply. Y...

Make your own theatre production with puppets or the children as actors. This could involve climate ‘villains’ and some interactive elements where the audience have to make choices to influence the play. The scale of this is up to you - this could be something...

Grab some colourful chalks and draw images or write messages about the climate crisis. This is a great way to get children involved on the street- as them to draw the things they love the most about our planet. Their parents may want to get involved too, but w...

A die-in is a peaceful, non-violent protest wherein participants lie on the ground for a specified amount of time: a solemn act that symbolises the kind of future we face without government action on the climate crisis. This can be spicy or not depending on th...