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What can help make a team healthy within XR?
Introduction It is often hard to put your finger on what exactly your team culture is or isn’t. We say we are transitioning to regenerative cultures, but what does that mean in practice? Here we will outline some activities you could bring into your teams to h...
Does a Citizen's Assembly on Water Make Sense?
We recently received the following question (shortened for brevity): The XR advocacy of Citizens’ Assemblies baffles me. There was one on Climate Change in 2019 and others on Adult Social Care, Future of Scotland, National Assembly for Wales, Congestion & Air ...
Getting Support from XRUK
There are hundreds of actions a month across the UK, so supporting and promoting every one is impossible. The UK teams also have their own strategies, messaging and comms plans, so will always be on the look out for actions that feed into that. XRUK can offer ...
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Multi-message velcro banner
How to make a multi-message banner Did you ever wish you could change the message on your banner? This page shows how to create such a resource. Free James Brown banner outside Bath Abbey Make the banner backdrop This was made from second hand cotton duvet c...
Massembly 2024
Over 450 people took part in our incredible Massembly at Upgrade Democracy, to discuss the question: "How can we take meaningful steps to Upgrade Democracy?" The 'Massembly' took place in-person at Windsor and also online and a second online 'massembly' took ...
Foreward
Original google doc version here Writing and designing the 2023-24 strategy for Extinction Rebellion UK has been a collaborative and iterative process, fueled by the passion, expertise, and dedication of countless rebels. It is the result of extensive discuss...
Summary
In the last four years, Extinction Rebellion has shifted public opinion on the climate and ecological emergency in a way that no other organisation or movement had managed before. Yet we remain locked in a dangerous and destructive status quo. We realise that ...
What we've achieved so far
Latest reaction and reaction to the Big One Media insider: “don’t underestimate how much has changed and is changing in newsrooms because of XR. Journalists are waking up and it’s not comfortable, but change is happening.” MPs re The Big One: “LOTO (Leader’s O...
Extraordinary Efficacy
Since its creation in 2018, Extinction Rebellion has become the largest and most impactful movement in the UK fighting for climate justice, ecological repair and genuine democracy. It has played a crucial role in transforming the awareness of, and conversation...
Our ambition for 2023-2024
Extinction Rebellion UK have launched this strategic period by meeting this moment head-on, with the audacious 100 Days Campaign, culminating in The Big One - the biggest action yet. Incredibly, over 100,000 people attended over the four days, and a broad spec...
Guiding Principles
We will be representative of the population at large: we cannot claim the mantle of ‘the people’, or drive true cultural tipping points, without the widest possible representation. In working with other groups, we will be open to different opinions on how to a...
How Extinction Rebellion UK will achieve our goals
We will shift to building Community Bases of Power, using The Big One as a springboard for relationship building with other groups and communities. This work will enable us to fulfil the criteria for a much higher level of impact with mass mobilisation. The th...
Storytelling: It Doesn’t Have to Be Their Way
Our April mass mobilisation, ‘The Big One’, the largest ever UK Climate protest, amplified these specific demands: The Fossil Fuel Era must end An end to all new licences, approvals, and funding for fossil fuel projects, to begin a transition to a fair society...
The Roles of Participatory and Deliberative Democracy
In line with our Third Demand, revised last year, we demand not just a Citizens’ Assembly on Climate and Ecological Justice, but a culture of participation, fairness and transparency. Politicians, even those willing to act on fair solutions to the biggest cris...
The Approach
Of all the ways the public encounters the crisis – whether it’s through news stories or nature documentaries, political attention or extreme weather events – nothing but sustained mass protest was found to leave a long-lasting impact on people’s will for polit...
The Moment
We find ourselves in a once-in-a-generation moment: a public awakening to the climate and ecological emergency coalescing with widespread social rage and a profound crisis of democracy. “Come as you are, not as XR” The Big One brought a wide variety of groups ...
Community
Building the Community From May 2023, Extinction Rebellion will build on the momentum of The Big One, doubling down on the coalition building work, building both power and resilience. This will be achieved by: Growing the movement through coalition-building: c...