DISABLED REBELS NETWORK

The XRUK Disabled Rebels Network invites D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent rebels to an online meeting:

📆 Sun 17 Nov, 14.00–15.30

Zoom link:

Meeting ID: 949 0459 6762
Passcode: 685688

A BSL interpreter will be present, and closed captions will be enabled.

📧 Please email any questions:
[email protected]

We look forward to seeing you!

CALL-OUT FOR TESTERS

🧰 XRUK’s tech team is working on our own version of , the software used to gather views expressed in people’s assemblies. And before it goes live, they need help to test it!

Join this session:
📅 Tues 19 Nov, 19.00–19.30

Zoom link:

Meeting ID: 895 2855 8324
Passcode: 278766

You don’t need to do anything beforehand, but if you’d like support before testing begins, please join the session at 18.45. The Tech team will help you with familiarisation and preparation so you feel confident to be a tester.

🌟 Please support the team in making our tools better! They look forward to seeing you.

For questions, use the Mattermost Tech Reception or email:
➡️
📧 [email protected]

SELF-ORGANISING SYSTEMS (SOS)

XRUK’s Self-organising Systems working group is offering:

🔹SOS Basics Training

📅 Tue 26 Nov, 11.00–12.00

Register here:


🌀 Basics Training is designed for and required of external and internal coordinators of XRUK-wide teams, but is open to anyone interested in learning about XRUK's organisational system.

🌀 The SOS team also offers basic training sessions designed for Local Group coordinators. Please message the team if interested.

🌀 Contact the team:
🔸in their Reception channel on Mattermost (for the quickest response):


🔸or by email:
[email protected]

PREPARE FOR ACTION

This inclusive workshop is intended for rebels planning to attend an action and for those who’d like a refresher:

📅 Sun 17 Nov, 10.00–11.30

Register here:


The workshop covers:
🔹 action skills: how to keep everyone safe and secure, and de-escalation
🔹 action support
🔹 up-to-date legal information, bust cards and protest-specialist lawyers
🔹 the action cycle

Closed captions will be used during the session.

If new to XR, we recommend you attend 'Welcome to XR' before joining this workshop:


📧 With pre-session questions or specific requirements, please email:
[email protected]

PREPARE FOR ACTION

This inclusive workshop is intended for rebels planning to attend an action and for those who’d like a refresher:

📅 Sun 17 Nov, 10.00–11.30

Register here:


The workshop covers:
🔹 action skills: how to keep everyone safe and secure, and de-escalation
🔹 action support
🔹 up-to-date legal information, bust cards and protest-specialist lawyers
🔹 the action cycle

Closed captions will be used during the session.

If new to XR, we recommend you attend 'Welcome to XR' before joining this workshop:


📧 With pre-session questions or specific requirements, please email:
[email protected]

OMBRA WORKSHOP

📅 Tues 19 Nov, 19.00–22.00

Join our online interactive workshop on oppression, movement building and our relationships as activists, covering:

🔸the structural nature of oppression (e.g. racism, sexism)
🔸how movements can be divided when oppression goes unaddressed
🔸practical tools to heal these divisions and enable us to work together effectively

Facilitators: Karl & Alima

Register here:


♾️ Facebook event:


📧 Questions? email:
[email protected]

PREPARE FOR ACTION

This inclusive workshop is intended for rebels planning to attend an action and for those who’d like a refresher:

📅 Sun 17 Nov, 10.00–11.30

Register here:


The workshop covers:
🔹 action skills: how to keep everyone safe and secure, and de-escalation
🔹 action support
🔹 up-to-date legal information, bust cards and protest-specialist lawyers
🔹 the action cycle

Closed captions will be used during the session.

If new to XR, we recommend you attend 'Welcome to XR' before joining this workshop:


📧 With pre-session questions or specific requirements, please email:
[email protected]

WELCOME TO EXTINCTION REBELLION (XR)

Come to an online introductory session to learn what XR is, what we do and how you can get involved!

⏰ Sessions take place every Tuesday, 19.00–20.30,
followed by Q&A until 21.00.

The next sessions will be on:
📆 November 5, 12, 19, 26

Register here:


💻 Learn how to use Zoom here:


📧 With questions, contact:
[email protected]

♾ Facebook events (5 Nov, with links to other dates):


💥 Join XR, and do something that makes a difference in the crisis faced by life on Earth!

CONNECTING THROUGH LIFE STORIES

Sharing life stories is a very powerful way of bringing people together. We can do amazing things when we come together as a united force!

Join our workshop:
📅 Wed 13 Nov 19.00–20.15 (+ 30-min optional training afterwards)

Open to everyone to try out this simple activity, and also stay till 20.45 to learn how to run 'Connecting Through Life Stories’ groups.

Register here:


Facebook event:


📧 Please email with pre-session queries:
[email protected]

NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION (NVDA) WORKSHOP

🔥 The climate and ecological crisis is worse than we feared, and the future is more uncertain than ever. The time to act is now.

🕊 Learn online about civil disobedience, theories of nonviolence, practical skills and how to use your support systems. NVDA training is important for your safety and that of everyone in the vicinity.  No prior knowledge or experience needed.

📅 The next session will be on:
Sun 3 Nov,
10.00–13.00

Register here:


Closed captions will be used during the sessions.

📧 If you have any specific requirements or questions, please email:
[email protected]

SELF-ORGANISING SYSTEMS (SOS)

An informal drop-in session

📅 Wed 6 Nov, 16.15–17.15
Register here:


🌀 Drop-ins are open to any rebels with questions about XRUK’s organisational system or about how to organise their team in line with XRUK's principles of autonomy and decentralisation:
▪️We actively mitigate power
▪️We are based on autonomy and decentralisation.

🌀 Contact the team:
🔸in their Reception channel on Mattermost (for the quickest response):

🔸or by email:
[email protected]

SELF-ORGANISING SYSTEMS (SOS)

XRUK’s Self-organising Systems working group is offering:

🔹SOS Basics Training

📅 Tue 5 Nov, 13.00–14.30

Register here:


🌀 Basics Training is designed for and required of external and internal coordinators of XRUK-wide teams, but is open to anyone interested in learning about XRUK's organisational system.

🌀 The SOS team also offers basic training sessions designed for Local Group coordinators. Please message the team if interested.

🌀 Contact the team:
🔸in their Reception channel on Mattermost (for the quickest response):

🔸or by email:
[email protected]

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS TRAINING

The Rebellion Academy offers recently updated training in Know Your Rights (KYR), on demand:


⚖ KYR training is essential for anyone going to an action, even if not expecting to be arrested. It covers basic advice about taking part in civil disobedience, as well as English legal information.

🎓 The Rebellion Academy is an online learning platform where you can:
🔹 Find out more about XRUK
🔹 Discover your place in the movement
🔹 Prepare for different roles.

The platform offers information via audio, video and text, as well as interactive features.

🐘 Check out the Rebellion Academy – there's something for everyone!:


With questions,
📧 Please email:
[email protected]
🐘 or contact the Rebellion Academy Reception on Mattermost:

WHAT IS THE REGENERATIVE CULTURES THING?

🦋 All are welcome to an introduction to regenerative cultures, offered by the Regenerative Cultures Circle:

📅 Thurs Nov 7, 19.00–20.30

Register here:


📹 The session will be recorded, to provide a resource for the movement.  Future sessions will not be recorded.

📧 With pre-session queries, please email:
[email protected]

SHORT-TERM PROJECT MANAGER ~ XRUK TALKS & TRAINING

The Talks & Training team urgently needs project management support for the creation of a schedule of talks, training and workshops for XRUK’s Upgrade Democracy mass occupation.

This is a short-term remote role – the occupation will be August 30–September 1.

A background in training is not necessary, and full support will be given by the team.

ℹ️ For more information and how to apply:


⌛️ Closing date: end of 19 July

📧 With pre-application questions, please email :
[email protected]

🙏🏼 We look forward to hearing from you!

OUTREACH TRAINING WORKSHOPS

Growing the movement is a key task. In the build up to XRUK's big Windsor occupation at the end of the summer, join one of our workshops to learn how to speak to and engage the public.

⏰ All workshops are on Wednesdays at 19.30–20.30, on:
📆
17 July
31 July
14 Aug

Register here:


💬 These interactive workshops will provide an overview of research into how activists can speak about climate change and biodiversity loss with a cross-section of the British public – with the aim of moving them towards nonviolent direct action. Coverage will consider the messages that resonate best with different UK demographics; and how they can be incorporated into outreach conversations.

💚 All are welcome – including those without experience or skills and those who want to brush up and refine their methods.

🦸🏼 Become an outreach hero and help our rebellion to flourish!

OMBRA WORKSHOP

📅 Thurs 25 July, 19.00–22.00

Register here:


Join our online interactive workshop on oppression, movement building and our relationships as activists, covering:

🔸the structural nature of oppression (e.g. racism, sexism)
🔸how movements can be divided when oppression goes unaddressed
🔸practical tools to heal these divisions and enable us to work together effectively

Facilitators: Karl & Alima

♾ Facebook event:


📧 Questions? email:
[email protected]

DISABLED REBELS NETWORK

The XRUK Disabled Rebels Network invites D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent rebels to a protective online space where we can discuss our plans, ideas, experiences and needs as disabled activists.

📆 Sun 21 July, 14.00–15.30

Zoom link:

Meeting ID: 949 0459 6762
Passcode: 685688

A BSL interpreter will be present, and closed captions will be enabled.

📧 Please email any questions:
[email protected]

We look forward to seeing you!

SELF-ORGANISING SYSTEMS FOR LOCAL GROUPS

Learn how self-organising systems (SOS) can be used to benefit your local or community group, and how to understand the structure of XRUK; and ask questions:

📅 Thurs 11 July, 19.00–20.30

Zoom link:

Meeting ID: 975 0938 7292
Passcode: 968209

🌀 XRUK’s SOS can seem radically different from other organisational systems. It defines how we organise, communicate and make decisions, including how we distribute decisions about how we organise.

ℹ️ For more info, please message the SOS team:
🔹 for the quickest response, in their Reception channel on Mattermost:

🔹 or by email:
[email protected]

SKILLS, BOUNDARIES & SUSTAINABLE ACTIVISM

Come to one of our online workshops if you're considering joining an XR working group:

📅 Wed 31 July, 19.00–20.30
Register here:


📅 Wed 28 Aug, 19.00–20.30
Register here:


🔹 Identify your skills and what you want to offer
🔹 Explore how to tailor a role to fit your individuality
🔹 Learn how to give back tasks and to set your boundaries

🎓 This workshop forms part of the XRUK Foundation Programme, but is relevant to all rebels.

Facilitators: Gemma and Jenny from the Foundation Programme team

🌱 Find out how XR's regenerative culture can work in practice!

♾ Facebook event (31 July, with link to event on 28 Aug):


📧 With pre-event queries, please email:
[email protected]