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smokedout said:
XR – Rebel – eXtinction Rebellion

Hmmm, do you think they know what happens when a state of emergency is declared?
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hint for extinction rebellion
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mojo pixy said:
We demand the UK ... creates a national assembly of ordinary people ...

super cute. a demand!
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Good critique of those demands here
Why I'm sceptical about the Extinction Rebellion initiative (and why I hope I'm wrong) | Peace News

In his latest book, How We Win, veteran activist George Lakey (who's been involved in quite a few winning campaigns over the last five decades) writes that:

‘Winning requires choice.

‘Some people seek to mobilize people around a general concern, like climate or war or poverty, but such mobilizations are like one-off protests—they don’t win anything. Martin Luther King, Jr., discovered this in Albany, Georgia, where the campaign goal was to “end segregation.”

'In 1961 the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and other groups started the direct action campaign. It was joined by Dr. King late in the year and continued well into 1962 before giving up.

'King’s reflection on the loss reinforces the importance of choosing goals carefully: “The mistake I made there was to protest against segregation generally rather than against a single and distinct facet of it. Our protest was so vague that we got nothing, and the people were left very depressed and in despair.”'

Lakey continues: '[W]e make progress on our concerns when we campaign with a clear demand. Multiple campaigns on that concern build a movement. Multiple movements can then join and become a movement of movements, opening the door to a whole new level of justice impossible
previously.’ [1]

While Extinction Rebellion does have three demands, these strike me as either pretty vague (‘That the Government must tell the truth about how deadly our situation is’) or almost impossibly [2] utopian (the Government enacting ‘legally-binding policies to reduce carbon emissions in the UK to net zero by 2025’ and the creation of ‘a Citizens’ Assembly to oversee [these and other] changes’).
 
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Their blog seems to have been written by some kind of millenial typewriter monkey.

The purposes of XR blog:
1)

Using literature to uphold the ten principles and values of Rising Up!beginning with the first principle: ‘We have a shared vision for change’. XR is founded upon and guided by these principles.

2)

Giving every-day supporters of XR around the world a chance to increase solidarity in the movement through self-expression and healthy debate within the common aims of the movement.

3)

Building regenerative culture more widely. Encouraging a diversity of literature which normalises healthy narratives of human existence; ones which are caring of living beings and radically challenging of the Earth-destroying neoliberal status quo.

4)

Exploring and documenting the unfolding of the global ecological crisis, on a scientific basis, and the global response to it.
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Two questions:
1. What?
2. Seriously, what the fuck are you on about?
 
SpookyFrank said:
Their blog seems to have been written by some kind of millenial typewriter monkey.

Two questions:
1. What?
2. Seriously, what the fuck are you on about?
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First rule of XR is you don't :hmm: at the corporate values or mission statement of XR.

A mate of mine has invited me to a local XR meeting - seems they are easing people in with the carrot of "lots of non-arrestable positions to be filled".
I'm not too sure what to make of it yet.
 
:hmm:
Read the timetable of rituals... Can't copy from phone
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Tbf I don't think this is part of official XR activity
 
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Waterloo's definitely blocked. London Bridge was still open a few minutes ago. Anyone know which bridges are affected?
 
It's Lambeth to Blackfriars I think. So Vauxhall, London and Tower Bridges not targetted. Don't know if they felt they didn't have the numbers to do them all.
 
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