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How we protect one another

Data Protection

  1. How we protect your data: DNAXR StrategyPrivacy -Policy. trainingFor onqueries Rebellionor Academyrequests about your data, please email dataprotection@rebellion.earth
  2. How we ask you to protect other people’s data: Volunteer Agreement.

This agreement gives some simple principles for treating data with care and respect. All new rebels should digitally sign this, but it is particularly important that organisers do so.

InBehaviour generally Rebels who help organise XR are asked to follow our Ways of Working. This guide covers how we expect people to act as individuals and within groups: not just how we talk but how we listen and not just who we work with but how we include them.

Behaviour at Actions Rebels who attend Actions are asked to follow our Rebel Agreement. This gives us a basis for trust in each other and between us and the public.

BasicPoor Trainingsbehaviour sectionAs of the Rebellion Academy, learn about the core theory and strategy behind Extinction Rebellion. How might we achieve social change? ThisXR is reallynot importanthierarchical, for anyone who is interested in strategy, tactics or the theory on which XR was founded.

DNA Structure (SOS basics) - training on Rebellion Academy

In the Basic Trainings section of the Rebellion Academy, this training is about how XR organises, communicates and makes decisions. SOS stands for 'self-organising system', whichit is the wayresponsibility thatof Extinctionall Rebellion is structured.

Building 2021 Strategy

The UK Strategy Assembly has been set upgroups to drawimpose discipline. Our Ways of Working show how groups can respond to people who behave badly, e.g.

  • accepting harm was caused and making agreements to prevent it happening again
  • asking people to take part in a conflict resolution process
  • asking people to leave a meeting or excluding them from thea experiencegroup
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  • asking expertisepeople fromto acrossleave the movement - a last resort, but one that we are prepared to use if necessary.

Conflict Conflict isn't necessarily a bad thing. In fact, it is to be expected when we're dealing with such difficult issues. But when conflict becomes harmful, it needs resolving. You may be asked to take part in a conflict-resolution process by your group if you're a party to the purposeconflict, or if you're outside it and may be able to help resolve it.

When misunderstandings and our egos get between us and our goals, we try to remember our important shared purpose and to hold things lightly.

Safeguarding Safeguarding is our duty to make sure everyone in XR is safe from exploitation or abuse (especially from those in a 2021position Strategy.of Thatresponsibility).

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You must disclose any safeguarding risks you may pose before you take on a role within XR, e.g a conviction for a violent or sexual crime (even if spent), failed DBS checks or other things in your past that may have caused harm to drawothers. outThese ourmay strategicnot goalsstop you volunteering for theXR, newbut year,we andneed provideto aknow frameworkabout bythem whichso that we can designprotect ouryou stepsand others.

We each have a responsibility to meetlook them.out for each other and report anything that worries us or makes us uncomfortable. If you encounter a situation that makes you uncomfortable either for yourself or someone else, please let your group organisers, and if necessary your wider circle, know so they can work to sort things out.

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