Hope you are as well as you can be.
A quick note from me to let you know that our next meeting will be on Wednesday 15 September at 7pm at the Trinity rooms in Stroud.
So there will be no meeting this week, in order to give rebels who travelled to London some time to recharge.
Here’s how to find the Trinity rooms if you have not been there before.
Goodness, the weather we’ve had lately has been something. As a result we couldn’t complete all of our rebellion planning day, so instead I’d like to invite you to another in-person meeting happening this Wednesday 19 August at Stratford Park Bandstand at 6:30pm.
We’ll be meeting outdoors (but under cover) and following social distancing guidelines so please join us if you are able.
I’ve added a new page to the website which covers what’s happening and when over the August/September rebellion. We have a number of actions/key events happening between 28 August and 5 September. You can view all the information on what’s happening here.
It was wonderful to see you at last nights meeting. If you weren’t able to make it we’d love to see you on Zoom. Here’s how to come to next weeks meeting.
It’s a ~perfect~ time to come back to XR Stroud too because we’re starting planning for the upcoming local rebellion at the end of August culminating in a UK-wide action starting Sept 1st in London, Cardiff and Manchester. We need you to make our local actions in and around Stroud as good as they can be. We can’t let things slide back to business as usual. We need a considerate, sustainable future that works for all of us and not for some of us.
There’s still about a day left to register for the remote showing of 2040, an inspirational sustainability film. Please register on Eventbrite here, and you’ll be sent a link to the film to watch from your home on Friday 24. Following the film screening you’ll be sent a link to a Zoom Q&A panel featuring the following amazing guests:
Gail Bradbrook – Extinction Rebellion
Jojo Mehta
Sarah Lennon – Extinction Rebellion
That’s it for now, hope you see you soon.
We can’t wait to meet again as a big group in person, but until then we’re having meetings on Zoom every Wednesday starting at 6:30pm.
Just open this link to get started.
Please contact us if you need any support getting started on Zoom. There are lots of exciting actions coming up, but we need your ideas and your support to make them happen.
We’ll post details here when we are ready to start up meetings in person again, watch this space!
Here are the announcements for this week. Some events have been postponed this week due to Covid-19 (including our main rebellion in May, and Nailsworth Earth Day)
Please check our website for regular event information and latest news on meetings. We shall endure!
This will include Chris Packham, Gail Bradbrook and other speakers. Walk from Abbey Fields near Kenilworth to one of the Stop HS2 camps at Crackley. Contact Val 07817830990 to join. Even if you’re unable to make it today visits to HS2 camps are happening most weeks.
All are welcome to this FREE XR presentation covering what the science is recording and what this means for our climate and ecology, and what we can do about this. At the Imperial Hotel, Stroud 7 to 9pm. Please share this Facebook event too if you are able.
Anyone interested in running these welcoming sessions to new peeps, welcome to come and join the fun.
This is essential training for anyone wishing to take parti= in extinction Rebellion actions. It will provide you information on what actions involve, what your rights are and advice and support for if you get arrested. Contact training@xrstroud.org for more details.
All welcome to this FREE XR presentation covering what the science is recording and what this means for our climate and ecology, and what we can do about this! Please contact us for more information.
Lots of activities and some spiky actions planned Come and support.
Are you interested in learning to deliver high level de-escalation, from one-to-one to larger groups/crowds, including confrontational and ‘lively’ situations using Non-violent communication skills. Contact training@xrstroud.org for further details.
Landwise network are coordinating a week of events and activities based around Earth Day which is 22nd April. The weekend will be especially lively, with a range of activities, music, etc. XR is planning to have a presence – and looking for ideas, people willing to participate. Please contact us for more information. https://xrstroud.org/contact-us/
