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Project Management : how to manage projects successfully
This book holds tips for anyone accountable for the success of a project, i.e. a project manager. A project is defined as a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result. Temporary means that a project has a clear beginning and ...
Heading for Extinction - Speakers
This book contains useful resources on how to publicise an XR Talk and speaker tips. Only trained HfE speakers can deliver the Heading for Extinction (and what to do about it) script and slides. If you want to deliver the Street Science talk (based on the HfE...
Supporting XR Remotely
We focus - understandably - on actions that take place in the public space. But there are would be Rebels everywhere who, because of their own personal/social/financial position can't travel or take part in mass actions. Some of our most important Rebels nev...
Organisational Structure of XR
A page for each Working Group (that wants it), explaining what they do.
Integrated Budget Group
What it does and how it does it
Action Design - How to Design an Action
All you need to know about action design so you can design your own action, deliver the training with slides and training notes.
Online Tools
How to use When2meet. How to apply for a your-group@extinctionrebellion.uk email address. For the XR-specific tools, see Shelf 1.
XR Youth
Are you curious about who these XR Youth are? Have you decided to join XR Youth but aren't sure where to start? Are you an experienced young rebel but need some support? The world of XR Youth can be a daunting one with lots of new terms and groups and w...
Street Speakers
STREET TALKS: All the XR street talks scripts - two versions - OnlyOffice and Google. Guidance for Street Speakers. Train Street Speakers - everything you need. Train the Trainer (for training Street Speakers - everything you need. Other support, includin...
A Guide to Group Chats on Signal, WhatsApp and Telegram
This book gives guidelines on how to set up and run a secure and effective XR Group Chat if your group refuses to use our XR hosted Mattermost chat. It mentions benefits and downsides of the different communication apps - Signal, Telegram and WhatsApp. The b...
Talks and Training Materials
Just a Climate and Ecology Crisis Quiz at the moment. This book is intended for any miscellaneous materials useful when giving talks or training.
Fundraising for Local Groups, Regions and Nations
Local groups have many demands on their time. This fundraising information below is not meant to be one more job for rebels, but it is support to save time for those who do want to get involved. There are fundraising sheets to print on page 18 in section...
Community Alliance Building
Resources for helping Local Groups to build alliances with community groups in their area.
100 Days
The Big Guide to The Big One! The climate, nature and humanity face disaster. We know it’s time to act. Do you trust politicians to do the right thing for us? For the planet? Gathering day after day in large numbers at the Nations’ seat of power - mean...
Dirty Water Campaign
Taking direct action to demand clean water.
Welcome To Extinction Rebellion [XR]
Resources for the national Welcome to XR talk, including the script, slides and key links.
Stewarding
Everything you might want to know about stewarding events, actions, marches.
Choosing Our Future With Community Assemblies
🤔 What now to organise locally in our communities? 🤗 With Community Assemblies, people can organise locally to experience the power of deliberative democracy for making progress on issues that are most important to their community. If we want to choose our ...
XR UK Constitution guides and resources
Guidance information that is referenced in the XR UK Constitution
Back Office Resources
This book will be split into chapters, one for each of the main pieces of Back Office documentation. The first guide to be moved here is the Guide to Arrestee & Legal Support [A&LS] Back Office for Back Office Volunteers [BOVs] and Police Station Support Coo...
Hope for the Future
A video of a talk describing how to engage effectively with your MP
Letter Writing Tips
It is of paramount importance that XR brings MPs onto the side of climate justice. It would be great if as many people as possible wrote to their local MP and encouraged them to support the CEE Bill. Rather than a simple template letter, people should write fo...
Group Admin Guides
All the information to manage your Group should be here but if you can't work out how to do something you can email tech@rebellion.earth.
User Guides
Useful Tools
Set Up Tools
Creating, merging, rebooting a group
Writing and Sending Emails on Action Network
This section describes how to write an Action Network email, insert dynamic text and create welcome ladders.
Reports and viewing activist data
Information on how to access and collect data on rebels in the Action Network system
Extinction Rebellion Peat Ban Letter Tips
George Eustice has announced that DEFRA is starting a consultation on banning the sale of peat-based composts with proposals for a ban within three years. You can use these templates to write to your MP supporting a ban on peat extraction.
Introduction
Risk management helps build resilience into your circle. “Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain!” — William Blake It also takes account of Murphy's Laws : 1. Anything that can go...
How do we do risk management?
How to manage your risks. You can learn that here and can also get help from the Risk circle.
Help available
What help is available? What is the Risk circle and how it can give support?
The Self-Organising System in more detail
How the SOS empowers rebels and enables us to operate within our principles of being based on autonomy and decentralisation, and of mitigating concentrations of power. How the system distributes power and makes decisions
Performance Groups
XR performance groups
Adding subscribers
The Basics, Creating events and accepting co-hosts
Error Messages and Problems
Advanced
Extra information for people wanting to dig a little deeper in to what Action Network is capable of.
What about Covid?
No rebels who may be more vulnerable to Covid 19 should feel at all pressurised to take part in physical actions. There are plenty of ways in which you can contribute as a Home Rebel. Most importantly, rebels should not participate in any actions if they, ...
How We Rebel
Let’s remind ourselves of the foundation of our rebellion. When have you last read our Principles and Values? How about the demands? What do they mean to you in our current time and context? Let’s also not forget that anyone who takes part in the rebellio...
Bringing people with us
August 30th is a day to connect with those outside of Extinction Rebellon. So many of our fellow citizens share our yearning for change. Now it’s time for us to reach out and connect with our fellow humans, with their desire for a better world. This Rebelli...
What's Your Plan?
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. All of you have in common, however, that you ...
How to Make Contact
Each XR Community of Identity (XR Lawyers, XR Buddhists etc.) has put together a letter framing the scale of the crisis according to that particular community. These letters will send the message that WE are the ones that will save us. No one else is coming to...
Who to Contact
Thinking about your current connections Get your LG together to identify local organisations and communities who you want to contact. Think deeply about the multiple layers of where you live: Who do we (rebels) already have links with? e.g., Maya’s moth...
Standing in Solidarity
Solidarity is a collaboration where both parties are working towards shared liberation, based on mutual respect and understanding of the challenge. Solidarity is an ongoing process and an essential quality for any activist to be developing. This guide is not...
Contact the Rebel Toolkit team
Contact the Rebel Toolkit project team: On Mattermost, the Rebel Toolkit Reception channel in the UK Team. It is a public channel, so you can join yourself to it. By email : LGsupport@extinctionrebellion.uk
Organising Inclusive Meetings & Activities
When considering an accessible and inclusive meeting, there are 3 aspects you need to think about: Planning and preparation The equipment and information The conduct of the meeting. Remember: There have always been disabled people engaged in po...
Accessible Documentation & Leaflets
Here are some tips on good practice: Offer a good contrast between print and background (e.g. black/blue on white/yellow) Avoid glossy or thin paper Aoid light type weights and unusual typefaces Keep information as concise as possible with short sentence...
Good Communication
Written Communication Do ensure that the letterhead and contact details are in clear, large, lowercase print use appropriate font size and script ensure that the subject of the poster/leaflet is clear, and that the header makes sense make the purpose of t...
Website Accessibility
Accessible website design 1. Text Use a sans serif typeface, like Arial as it is easier to read for visually impaired people. A large font equivalent to Arial 14 is a good size – the alternative is to have a Large Print button at the top of the home page. T...
Good Practice in Communicating with Disabled People
The following information is a guide to issues which affect different groups of people with impairments in terms of communication. It is important to remember each individual has their own needs and strategies – ask them what their particular needs or issues a...
Communication Checklist
Written communication Is text colour contrasted with background Is typeface sans serif Is text large enough for most people to see (Are community languages in large print) Is layout clear and easy to follow – avoiding columns and box inserts – (altho...
Glossary of Terms
We know that for a newcomer to Extinction Rebellion our resources and newsletters can appear full of jargon, acronyms and nonsense. First of all, we sincerly apologise for this. Jargon is useful shorthand within a group but can be unhelpful to new rebels and s...
General Terms and Actions
Since the mainstream media refuse to cover the majority of our work, the primary way we can share our message is through social media such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. We use social media for the following things: To Share the News, about our action...
Twitter - The Basics
Navigation Twitter has a fairly straightforward navigation. On the left hand side you have the links to the main sections. The main areas being: Home - where you see the posts of the accounts you follow. Follow some XR accounts by searching for them in th...
Facebook - The Basics
All the basics of making, boosting and sharing posts, hashtags and tips on dealing with trolls. Navigation Facebook has lots of different places you can go - timelines, pages, groups, profiles... it can be easier to get lost if you are new to the platform. B...
M&M How To Guides Stored Elsewhere
There is a folder of useful guides about Media and Messaging on Google Drive in the folder https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11kYUGQRZlHwFcyischYW6yVQ_SDGDtcE Here is a list of the titles. It is not easy to create direct links to the individual files he...
About Extinction Rebellion
The main public-facing site for Extinction Rebellion in the United Kingdom is https://extinctionrebellion.uk/. This has information and resources for rebels as well as the general public: look under https://extinctionrebellion.uk/act-now/resources/. The glob...