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Getting support from XRUK
There are hundreds of actions a month across the UK. 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 dif...
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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 Links
Thank you for taking part in the Massembly Please follow the links below to the following resources: Massembly Information Cards Click here to access Pol.is - Pol.is sometimes closed between assemblies or for an update See a summary of the Massembly results fr...
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...
Growing Stronger: Extinction Rebellion UK’s systems
There are three priority areas of focus in terms of growing stronger and improving XR UK’s internal systems, our SOS, data strategy, and fundraising. Extinction Rebellion has implemented a decentralised decision making system in the ‘SOS’ (Self-Organising Sys...
Gearing up for a changed world: The Bridge
Healthy societies are based on the value of caring not only for yourself or protecting your own, but caring about everyone. Fear and scarcity based beliefs are perpetuated within the current system of governance, which is widely recognised to be too easily cor...
Conclusion
Extinction Rebellion’s bridge building and collaboration with an ever-widening cohort of change movements and demographics will see the climate and democracy space transform. We will spearhead a complete sea-change. Our work thus far has been largely character...
Regular Action
We know that it takes regular action to shift insurers. You don’t always have to be on the streets, there are a range of tactics you can use to do this. Warning Shot All campaigns start by giving a target an opportunity to do the right thing before the campaig...