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June 2020
Learning from the Jabiluka Action Group
The Festival of Civil Disobedience aims to connect rebels with activists from earlier social change movements that used civil disobedience. In this third session we look at one of the most significant land rights and environmental campaigns in Australia's history, the protests by the Jabiluka Action Groups. This will be an interactive session with the opportunity to ask questions. Jabiluka Action Groups set up around Australia in the late 1990s to protest the development of a proposed uranium mine at…
Find out more »Oppression, movement building and our relationships as activists
Oppression, movement building and our relationships as activists. We are members of XR looking at how movements can be divided when oppression goes unaddressed, offering practical tools to heal these divisions which affect our relationships as activists. This workshop will address the importance of understanding the structural nature of oppressions (such as racism, sexism, classism, ableism, the oppression of young people, ...), as well as doing personal healing work – both of which are necessary if we are to work…
Find out more »Connecting with Extinction Rebellion: Affinity Groups
Would you like to hang out with your affinity group and meet others? Do you have questions about action organising, training, access to online resources? Are you concerned about conflict? Would you like to know more about mass mobilisation? Do you have questions about affinity groups? Come along, meet the new team dedicated to supporting affinity groups, and let’s answer questions and dream up some plans! Affinity groups are small groups of people who organise and take action together. They’ve…
Find out more »Online: DNA Workshop
Have you found the pulse of Extinction Rebellion yet? The XR DNA Workshop is essential for all rebels to attend so we can consolidate the organisation that is Extinction Rebellion into one organism with a single heartbeat. The growth of Extinction Rebellion has been explosive across the globe. Following from natural processes, Extinction Rebellion has a core ‘DNA’. This acts as the base for all our activities. The DNA includes: our demands, 10 principles and values, and our organisation structure.…
Find out more »Online: DNA Workshop
Have you found the pulse of Extinction Rebellion yet? The XR DNA Workshop is essential for all rebels to attend so we can consolidate the organisation that is Extinction Rebellion into one organism with a single heartbeat. The growth of Extinction Rebellion has been explosive across the globe. Following from natural processes, Extinction Rebellion has a core ‘DNA’. This acts as the base for all our activities. The DNA includes: our demands, 10 principles and values, and our organisation structure.…
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