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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...
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...
How to Develop Talks, Trainings and Workshops for XR
This handbook has been written by a group - Rebel Curriculum - which exists to support rebels who are developing or revising talks, trainings, and workshops (referred to as training from now on) for XR UK.
Online Tools for Communicating with Other Rebels
This book describes the tools you can use to communicate and collaborate with other rebels. In particular it focuses on Mattermost, UK Forums and UK Cloud, as well as the Hub that links them all together. If there is any information missing from these pages...
Action Network for XR
Email lists (via Action Network software) for local, regional, national groups and also for campaign groups. All lists form part of the network of email lists which means that new sign-ups anywhere on the system also join the UK list. This book contains doc...
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...
Nonviolent Direct Action (NVDA)
We choose to practice NVDA out of principle and because it is proven to be more successful in creating a stable transition than other kinds of resistance. NVDA is also more inclusive, attracting people from wider segments of society. Nonviolence makes it harde...
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...
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...
3. Engaging Communities
Engaging communities involves putting energy into understanding who is in your area, what their needs might be, and how you and local networks could support them. It is the act of reaching out to people, be they similar or different, of building connections an...
4. Community Assemblies
Community Assemblies are a structured and democratic way for a group of people to share ideas and feelings, discuss problems and generate solutions collectively. Assemblies are organised in such a way as to ensure that no one person dominates, and that all voi...
5. Community Organising
Community organising is about finding ways to put your ideas into action. It is about learning from the work of other community organisers, learning about the tools that exist to help empower communities to take action, and learning about how to create lasting...
Hope for the Future
A video of a talk describing how to engage effectively with your MP
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...
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...
FlyPosting
XR flyposting is putting up beautiful posters in public spaces to: advertise upcoming events; promote our name; establish our symbology in the public consciousness highlight our demands. Also, you are engaging with a mildly illegal action such as flyp...
Street Outreach During the Rebellion and at Actions
When Nonviolent Civil Disobedience has been most effective, it has taken place on a foundation of connected and organised communities. Actions are our primary way to get into the public eye but our actions alone are not enough. We need to use these actions...
Social Media Outreach: Facebook
Facebook Use Facebook to individually message as many people as possible, asking them to take action by clicking ‘going’ on the Facebook event, inviting other friends to ‘like’ the XR Facebook page, using the XR profile picture icon, and pledging to attend th...
Talking about the Crisis on the Street
Part of our job as rebels is to Tell the Truth so engaging with the general public during a Rebellion is vital, and those passers by might be a bit annoyed with you/Extinction Rebellion, so be prepared! What are your aims: Listen to them, find out what they ...
How to Host a House Meeting
What do you feel about the Climate Crisis? And what does it mean to you to be part of Extinction Rebellion? Then, there’s how do your family, friends, neighbours and colleagues feel, too? Sometimes, it can be hard to have a conversation about all this because...
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....
General Readability and Accessibility
Writing clear, readable emails with focus on readers with visual impairments, dyslexia etc. Please help edit this page if you have knowledge/guidance on any of these issues. Subject lines Ensure you include a relevant subject line. Text and Style guide Us...
Rebel Ringing
Rebel Ringing is phone based outreach for Extinction Rebellion and enables meaningful one-to-one conversations with rebels: no cold-calling! It allows us to inform and engage a selection of rebels on a subject of our choice and at scale is a hugely powerful to...
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...