There’s a group of us going from Stroud, please get in touch to join our Signal group. I’m also updating our XR Stroud COP 26 guide as more information comes in.
Staying in Stroud for COP26?
There’s plenty coming up in the Stroud area.
✊ November 1 -Banner drops happening at key road bridge locations. Please reply or contact Val if you’d like to get involved.
💚 November 6 – Global day of climate action Gloucester. Vigil outside Shire Hall. Meet outside St Mary de Crypt Southgate Street for 2 pm. Check in then walk to cathedral (route to be decided) to arrive at around 3pm. There will then be a gathering in cathedral grounds for talks etc. The event is under the COP coalition banner inviting all groups. A single drummer has been requested for a slow beat while the vigil happens, please get in touch if you can help.
🚲 November 6 – A mass bike ride is also planned in Gloucester along a different route, details TBC
Save the date – next Heading for Extinction talk in Stroud
🌍 November 30 – Heading for Extinction talk & discussion post COP 26. Meet at Silver Rooms Stroud for 6:30pm. Talk begins at 7pm.
We’re meeting weekly on Wednesdays at 7pm in the Trinity rooms, but would you prefer to dial in? We can setup a zoom call for people who can’t meet in person, please reply to this email if you’re interested!
There’s still one more ethical banking action planned at the Cheltenham branch of Barclays on 9 October at 12pm to 2pm. This will be to encourage people to switch to ethical banks. This will likely involve a die-in and leaflet outreach. Please get in touch if you’re interested in some outreach.
Difficult conversations with loved ones about climate?
This climate conversation book might help. It explains the climate crisis and answers key questions in plain English. It also has pages left blank in the book to explain why you’re involved in direct action and your own personal story.
We’re planning another action to encourage people to switch to ethical banks. This will likely involve a die-in and leaflet outreach at around 12 to 2pm on these two dates:
🏦 Saturday 25 September – Barclays Gloucester
🏦 Saturday 9 October – Barclays Cheltenham
Preparing for COP 26
There are a group of us planning to travel to Glasgow in November. If you’re interested in taking part we’ll be preparing an affinity group for Stroud. NVDA operates differently in Scotland so there is free know your rights training being held on Zoom on September 30 and 7 October to help rebels going to Glasgow.
Firstly, love to everyone heading to London for the impossible rebellion. Some information to help you follows, but even if you’re not going to London we have some actions and info for those of you staying at home.
If you like to join the signal group for Stroudies other XR Gloucestershire rebels going to London. Please let me know your phone number so I can get you added.
Our next meeting
Our next in-person XR Stroud meeting is pencilled in for Wednesday 8 September. Venue TBC (as it’s going to get colder). We’ll post information on our next meeting in this newsletter and on the website.
Call out for Landing Crew in Weston-super-Mare Tuesday 7th September 11am
Come and join a Landing Crew action as part of a day of action around the public inquiry considering Bristol airport’s appeal against refusal of their expansion plans, as evidence is presented inside the building about carbon emissions and climate effects. Climate scientist Kevin Anderson will be giving evidence, amongst others.
Landing Crew is a silent and slow action, drawing on Chi Gung grounding energy, spelling out words like ‘Extinction’ and ‘Rebellion’ in a made-up version of semaphore, and creating a visual spectacle. Here’s a brilliant video of what that looks like.
Boiler suits, hi-viz and paddle bats provided. Ideally you need to your own dark baseball hat, ear defenders, dark glasses and mask, but we may be able to provide some of that stuff. We’ll do a training session before taking to the streets, and there are videos to learn the semaphore in advance – but you can copy the people in front on the day. If you’re interested contact Bill (newly moved to Nailsworth from Bristol) billroberts@blueyonder.co.uk or 07932 623672.
Speak at Bristol airport public inquiry – in person or online
There’s also a call out for more people to speak to the inquiry in September – the more people speaking out against expansion the better!
Email Joanna.vincent@gateleyhamer.com giving a couple of bullet points of what you want to say – individualised contributions are best to avoid repetition. You can speak in person in Weston, or via Teams (like Zoom).
Don’t forget we‘re meeting weekly on Wednesdays at 7pm to get ready for the next rebellion which starts on August 23 in London. Here’s information on our next meeting.
Your August rebellion guide
If you’re looking for information on how to get involved in the London rebellion you can find all the information you need in this XR Glos rebellion guide.
There are a lot of links in there, so if you do one thing use the Telegram links which will send you information on the plans for London actions and keep you in the loop with what’s going on.
Staying in Stroud during rebellion?
We’re in the early stages of planning some actions for rebels that are not going to London, please let us know if you’d like to be involved, or come along to next weeks meeting if you have any action idea.
Rebirthing our resilience, connectivity and efficiency. Tooling up for uprising without getting caught in conflict. Maintaining our own power in body, mind and yes, spirit – keeping things light because the road ahead involves some heavy lifting.
Session to run in parallel with Wednesdays meeting after the intro and check-in, due to time being short before the August rebellion. Includes practical skills to orientate yourself whilst on an action; ‘Buddies’, affinity groups and wellbeing monitoring; before and aftercare; then a Q&A. Mari and Fergus to host.
