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10. Using This Toolkit
As of mid September 2023 the Rebel Toolkit is being transformed in to a more curated and easier to navigate space for all the fantastic array of ideas, guides, tools and documentation that has been and continues to be created around the movement. This is a...
02. Group Building
Quickly and confidently taking on the values, qualities & intentions of an XR Rebel group can seem daunting Here on Shelf 2, are the resources you need to get yourself and your group up and running quickly and efficiently Start and develop your group into...
04. Street Legal
During an action on the streets, keeping you and your group legally safe, organised and connected is important Knowing what to expect if your actions are deemed illegal is very important On this, Shelf 4, are the resources you need to keep you and your gro...
09. Wellbeing
In XR we integrate what we call 'Regenerative Culture' into our everyday behaviour "Regen" as it is commonly known in XR, is quite simply taking care of ourselves and each other ensuring that we all take enough 'down time' On this, Shelf 9, we are gatherin...
07. Publicity
Media and Messaging (M&M) as we call it in XR. If you're taking any kind of XR action, the right people need to know about it You might feel Publicity is a dirty word sometimes, but we do need to get the word out The appropriate media, live streaming vi...
08. Politics and Beyond!
XR's website says "Beyond Politics" to distance ourselves from business-as-usual left-right party politics But Politics is one place where power is, and XR doesn't shy away from engaging politically On this, Shelf 08, you'll find Example and Template Let...
03. Community Building
XR groups almost always start with a small core of well motivated Rebels But we soon discover that to do what we need to do - for our actions to create an impact, we need more people On this, Shelf 3, you can find the resources you need to grow your group ...
01. Supporting XR
This is Shelf 1. - the starting point of the virtual "Rebel Journey" through this Rebel Toolkit. On this shelf you will find the thinking behind XR, its philosophy and intentions. You will also discover ways in which you and your group can begin to support X...
06. Art
An important and impactful quality of XR is the dramatic artwork we use Certain colour combinations and image juxtapositions are distinctively XR On this, Shelf 6; you will find the images you need to draw attention to the XR message of your action on the...
05. Talks and Training
Talks and Training can fit in at any part of the Rebel Journey, so we've put it in the middle as Shelf 5! They can be developed by you and your group: - using resources here - or accessed here using video recordings and documents here - or you can bo...
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Engaging Our Rebels
Ways to activate Rebels Momentum building and online campaigning Ideas for simple things you can ask rebels to do, to encourage their activism.
Mobilising the Community
Keep it simple, focus on mobilising energies where we know it’ll work – reaching and energising Local Group rebels, and bringing new people to the movement by sharing the science. The people we already know are the easiest to reach out to. We could double, tre...
How to contribute to the Rebel Toolkit
A new vision for the toolkit has arrived! Please read the first page of this book for latest information on how to contribute.
Upskilling Rebels
Trained rebels are confident rebels. Newer rebels, especially, can be truly empowered by taking advantage of the many amazing training opportunities available. Need an Interpreter for a talk, training, action or meeting? Email: xr.bsl@protonmail.com The ...
Connecting with the Community
So mobilising people to join the Rebellion is only one side of the coin. We need to offer an alternative so that those in our communities who don’t wish to engage in Direct Action can also have their voices heard. ALL of us need to come together to demand chan...
Looking after your Rebels
On the frontline of activism we are confronted with many feelings. The impacts of the events, both positive and negative, can have long-lasting and wide-reaching effects on the individuals involved. The action doesn’t end when you leave the site and go home...
Sandbox
A place to practice using the editor used for editing the pages here on the Rebel Toolkit.
Post-Rebellion
Rebellion is a powerful and beautiful time. We’ve shown the world our desire for change and we’ve brought new energy into our movement. Our new recruits need welcoming, yet we also need to rest. This handbook is designed to help us do both. We can look aft...
Rebel Starter Pack
The Rebel Starter Pack may be your very first link to Extinction Rebellion. It covers some of the basics of what XR is and a few tips about where to start. This handbook has been put together by the UK Rebel Pathway team.
Preparing for Rebellion
[This book was written for the 2020 rebellion, so please ignore the dates. It has been left here as it still has useful information.] It’s Rebellion time again! Excitement is growing all across the movement and rebels are asking themselves: What do I ne...
Explaining XR
Abbreviations. Terminology. FAQs. Building a new kind of organisation means that we need new words and new definitions. This book contains helpful clarification allowing you to understand the odd shorthand terms you'll hear in XR meetings and documents, a...
A Nervous Rebel's Guide to Social Media
Some of us just aren't as tech savvy as others. So here I am collating some resources to help those of us who are less confident at social media to be able to use it to boost outreach and support our rebels in online spaces. If you are social media savvy th...
M&M How To Guides
Dealing with the press, video, social media, stakeholder analysis, newsletters, photography, graphics, library. For graphic design and colours, see the Art shelf. M&M means Media and Messaging.
Community Building Tested Methods
Has your Group tried one of the ideas in the Toolkit or have you come up with your own to add? Please create a page in here outlining how it went, allow the movement to reflect on your experience and learn from it! Tell us what went well and what could have be...
Actions & Reports
Have you an interesting idea for an action? Can your Group report an unusual action? Tell us here! Please create a page in here outlining what it could be, or how it went, or both! Give rebel visitors here the chance to reflect on your ideas and your exp...
Regenerative Resources
Has your Group tried one of the ideas in the Toolkit or have you come up with your own to add? Please create a page in here outlining how it went, allow the movement to reflect on your experience and learn from it! Tell us what went well and what could hav...
Letters and Template Letters - Political
Letters and templates of letters which you can use to help you when you are writing to your Mps, Local Councillors, Mayors or the prime Minister
Social Media Strategies
Moving forwards on Social Media and getting noticed
Trust The People Workshops
Trust the People is a movement of community builders - open to everyone - sharing deliberative democratic tools to support local communities in dealing with global crises. We are building a real democracy from the bottom up. To find out more or sign up t...
Free The Truth - Connecting with our Media Sources
If you want to contact your local or National News outlets this is the book for you.
Designing an Activation Campaign
Consider your messaging narrative and timeline for the coming Rebellion, think about how it links to the actions you are planning, the story you are telling. Who are you talking to, what information do you need them to know, what are you asking them to do? ...
We are Everyone
We have all agreed upon joining XR to welcome everyone and every part of everyone, therefore there is a duty for us to do as much as we can to ensure everyone has access to our resources and that we are welcoming to a diverse range of people. We cannot be p...
Outreach Methods
Reactivating Rebels
With a Rebellion on the horizon your first step is to gear up the rebels in your local group! This can be done with Talks, Drop-ins, Campaigns, or Workshops among other things. The key is to get people talking! Start with a question and give them something sm...
Talking About the Emergency
Whether you have a crowd of people to host a talk for or you are starting conversations on the street with passers by it is good to have all the information at your fingertips.
On the Ground Roles
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Behind the Scenes Roles
Making Connections
Your local area will be made up of neighbourhood communities, organisations, businesses, and communities of identity. Polls show that UK citizens care about Climate Breakdown and a quarter of these believe XR is effective as a movement, but only a small po...
Maintaining Relationships
The strength of any community depends on good relationships built on trust, cooperation, caring and resilience.
Bringing the Community Together
Imagine bringing every centre of worship, charity, trust, research group, book group, parents association and local business together to discuss the future of your area. Imagine hearing the dreams of our children held up as goals for our neighbourhoods. Imagin...
Individual Resilience
We all have our own tools and resources to help support us in these different areas. Part of taking care of ourselves is reflecting on our capacity and pre-existing physical, emotional, mental, lifestyle situation as we enter into actions.
Group Resilience
As groups and communities we need to make sure to have support structures in place for rebels in the weeks before and after rebellion. Think beyond Action Wellbeing! Drop-in lunch hours, full debriefs, making sure every rebel gets a phone call to check in, ...
Looking Back
Over the past weeks we have shouted, we have sung, we have cried and we have made our voices heard. We are tired and we are full of energy, we are overjoyed and we are heartbroken, we are rebels and we are going home. Looking Back has been created to guide or...
Right Now
At the end of rebellion, we are welcoming our rebels home with care and support for each other and ourselves. We are reflecting, telling stories and taking the time to adjust to our needs as individuals, a group and a movement. We are also welcoming new rebels...
Looking Forward
When rebels and groups begin to once again grow their energy after rebellion, the next steps are to solidify relationships and return to visioning. Energetic rebels can get involved in campaigns and the group can take their next steps on their path of growth ...
We Want to Live - What you need to know
In this rebellion, we are asking everyone who has been betrayed by this Government to join us in the rebellion. Disruption, sacrifice and respect are still at the core of what we do. We know that emotions and actions will drive change, above stats and words. W...
Be Prepared! - What to do before Rebellion
Before you can prepare yourself for the rebellion, you should ask yourself: What will I be doing during the rebellion? What kind of information is useful for you will depend a lot on how you want to contribute. Once you have an idea of what you are going to...
We want you! - Contributing to the Rebellion
The thing that makes Extinction Rebellion so exciting and rewarding to be part of is that we don’t “just” turn up on the day of the protest, march down a road and then disappear again. Before, during and after our rebellions, there are 1,001 things that you ca...
1. Personal Processing
Personal processing is about taking time to connect with ourselves – to reflect on who we are, how we act, and how we relate to others and the world around us. Using a range of activities, this module seeks to provide opportunities to better understand ourselv...
2. Group Support
Group support is focused on enabling people to work with others in a supportive and empathetic way, and on creating group cultures which allow everyone to thrive, provide the emotional support that people need, and give people the skills to deal with conflict ...
Using Social Media
When using Social Media as a part of your campaign it is important to consider the platforms you are using and how this may alter your content. Check out the hashtags and links Here. If you find the idea of Social Media alarming check out our Nervous Rebel's...
Principles Of Inclusivity
In order to build an inclusive approach towards involving all sections of society in the struggle to highlight the Climate Emergence, it is necessary for XR to pay particular attention to five activity areas: Organisation and running of meetings The prod...
Online Outreach
See also the Social Media page. How to do ONLINE OUTREACH before Rebellion We are all crew and social media is an immediate and direct means of communication, so we need as many rebels as possible to use online outreach to help make this Rebellion a success....
Campaign Design
Consider your messaging narrative and timeline for the coming Rebellion, think about how it links to the actions you are planning, the story you are telling. Who are you talking to, what information do you need them to know, what are you asking them to do? ...
Doorknocking
Door Listening Why Door-to-door Listening? Approaching members of your local community to invite them to take part in Actions or Community Assemblies. The process of knocking on people’s doors and simply listening to what they have to say is both humbling an...
Editing Pages
Any rebel with a Communications Hub login can edit pages within dedicated 'wiki' spaces, but from Sep 2023 onwards, the overall Rebel Toolkit will being more curated with specific team (with the appropriated mandate) having exclusive access to curate and maint...
Reactivation Talk
No Time to Lose if we Want to Live Summer 2020, the world has been in lockdown, rebels have been isolated for months and yet their apetite for Action has grown! Lockdown has been tough. Our movement asked its rebels if they wanted to proceed with a Summe...
Email Campaigns
An email campaign is an excellent addition to any messaging campaign for your area! It allows you to send timed emails over a period, target your emails to specific parts of your mailing list, delay follow-up emails and send emails in response to actions ...
Rebel Ringing
Rebel Ringing enables us to call Rebels in our local area, check in with them and let them know about local actions/events/talks etc. It is a really effective way to re-engage dormant Rebels, spread the word about upcoming actions/events and strengthen the mo...
The Heading for Extinction Talk
Okay, so you’re in a conversation with someone who is open to XR - what next? Invite them to a specific event! One of the best talks is still the classic Heading for Extinction Talk (HfE). It remains one of XR’s most powerful outreach tools - it informs peo...
Don't be Afraid to Ask!
“The good news for organizers who want to help build the political revolution is that people really are just waiting for you to ask them to do something big.” ― Becky Bond, Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything Every event s...
Test Page
Feel free to edit this page in order to practice using the editor. Please leave this message at the top! Read the Editing Pages help page for more information.^[1] ^[1] Add More Below Here It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking th...
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Burnout Awareness and Prevention
WHAT IS BURN-OUT AND HOW TO AVOID IT? ‘Burn-out’ can be caused by.. ● Taking on a lot of projects at one time, ● Being in a constant state of high-anxiety/stress, ● Loss of external control and experiencing/witnessing traumatic events. After a prolo...
Introduction to Resilience
What is a Regenerative Culture? Creating cultures which are healthy, resilient and adaptable. Regenerative cultures are present in every bit of Extinction Rebellion and on every level. We have several strategies including encouraging the buddy system within ...
Guide to Community Assemblies
Community Assembly Manual How to Organise and Run Assemblies in Your Community ‘Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it’ - Goethe The past year has shown us that waiting for top-down democratic change is n...
Digital Team
Do you have a project in mind which has a digital side to it? See the Digital Team page for advice on how to get assistance.
Debrief
As the movement grows, it is important that we learn from our achievements and our mistakes. A debrief after an action gives us the opportunity to recognise our skills and weaknesses and to develop ourselves both as individuals and part of a team within the m...
Relationships and Solidarity
During rebellion, we may step on toes, upset or offend during our actions. After rebellion, there is a need for consolatory work, for us to come together with our communities and find common ground. We cannot achieve our vision alone. We must come together in ...
Clean Up
Rebellion is always messy, with people leaving their belongings in “safe” places only to find they have been moved by the time they return. Police often confiscate property large and small and once we leave the streets our logistics teams are left with piles o...