¶    * Communication & IT
internal:
    * Signal : adhoc text messages
    * Mattermost : extended chats in groups (by channel)
    * Nextcloud : sharing & co-creation of doc's, file storage
    * The Base : archive & asynchronous organisation between branches
    * Protonmail : secure internal mailing
    * MailTrain : create lists based on tags, skills, rebel location etc
external:
    * General + local websites: 
        https://rebellion.earth/ (GLOBAL)
        https://rebellion.earth/act-now/local-groups/
        https://extinctionrebellion.be/en (BE)

¶    * Legal:
    (...)

¶    * Regenerative Culture:
    How to sustain activism / how to subsist as activist
    they provide loads of content, eg:
        *Action wellbeing checklists
        * Tips on how to support your own wellbeing and the wellbeing of your affinity group
        * Post-action Check-in and debrief guide
        * Self-soothing techniques
        * Useful contacts
        * De-escalation techniques
https://rebellion.earth/act-now/resources/wellbeing/
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gkUaykvne7suBlb6r3QgMaYbYTPYu6OlYAbFSFIyxOM/edit

¶    * Actions:
    * mass civil disobedience and escallation actions
    * non-violent
    * local groups can come up with context specific actions (like in Antwerp : "schaliegrasvrij", the port etc)
    see article on Activist Techniques - civil resistance
    but often leads to weird and very questionable actions like the 'die-ins', zombie-actions, parties ("let s dance like tomorrow might never come"), etc        

¶    * Finance & Funding:
    * OpenCollective: 
    https://opencollective.com/xr-belgium
    * Antwerp is part of a local umbrella ngo: 1 non-profit association that hosts many smaller organisations. This does not tie to XR!
    Name??? (> lies, ask nele!) 
    * how do they join? are they bound by interest, ... ?
    * the model: 1 ngo, 1 bankaccount - multiple organisations - 100% transparency in transactions.
    * administrative and financial consrtuction to overcome bureacratic proliferation 


Related Articles:
    Mass migration - technologyreview.com --> see also 🔗ecology - 'bad thing':  mass migration


XR - Logo:
    * made by ESP, London street artist in 2011
    https://ecohustler.com/article/the-origins-and-rise-of-the-extinction-symbol/





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¶  (david entry flow)

-1) Followed and posted the symbol ages ago, had it pinned for a long time on Twitter

0) Heard about XR in news

1) went to their site, found the Google Form

2) Somebody of them contacted me a month later

3) ???

¶Regeneration or Recreation?

... the privilege to resist, revolt and being arrested...

20191012 >Lies on the case of missing the first big belgian action "The occupation of the Royal Garden"
... I decided not to go but had to be on the same train to get to Brussels; so observed some "rebels on their way to-"


Observations, remarks, thoughts:
    
    * "Specatcle Activism":
        * XR-actions often feel like recreational activities with some "real dangers"
        (that make it even more exiting to be there...)
        ---> on the individual level those dangers are real (like being beated, arrested etc by cops)
        ---> on the level of a movement, like XR, those dangers are calculated, part of the strategy (or game) 
        
    * XR's Internal (unconscious) Emotional Drives: 
        * Community: not to be alone with their frustration, finding allies
        * Agency: getting some real action
        * Religion: being part of a bigger (global) movement / "ideology" (beyond politics... religion is also a system "beyond politics" but...)
        * [...]
    
    These "Internal Emotional Drives" are being fed by:
        * Secrecy - the communication channels:
            * the "we vs them emotion"
        * Sign language
        * Working groups wherein "everyone" can take part
        * Language: establishing "horizontal, inclusive and safe-space for all" vs its blindspots
        * Regenerative Culture and 
        * Symbols +style: very strong visual identity, people want to be part of this fasionable style...
        * Actions: beyond law, giving people the feeling to actually be doing something...
        * [...]






But also:
    * does being too critical and analythical about it, puts you in a position of outsider arrogance and / or paralising superiority? 
    * how to transcend critisiscm into relevant  organisational structures for masses? :
        * To go beyond the recreative activities
        * that are able to cover the 99% (and not a white-middle-class consipracy meet-up to bring back the "meaning for their lifes"
        (which is a thing we are supposed to have lost ...)
    * what is the relation between avant garde practices and mass movements??? 

¶20200908 - Post about XR's "ban", mocking P2P rightwing sentimentts

Study/links:

    _____________ !!!
    * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_justice
    * https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/08/extinction-rebellion-criminals-threaten-uks-way-of-life-says-priti-patel
    * https://p2pfoundation.net/the-p2p-foundation/structure-and-governance

    _____________ also
    * https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/daniel-pinchbeck-on-why-we-need-extinction-rebellion/2019/01/11
    * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21288210 :
        """It's good to see Basden come out and explicitly say that Extinction Rebellion is an anti-white group:"""
        → https://medium.com/extinction-rebellion/extinction-rebellion-isnt-about-the-climate-42a0a73d9d49
        → https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/dec/02/revealed-the-stark-evidence-of-everyday-racial-bias-in-britain :
            THERE IS BIAS. #PRIVILEGE IS BEING BORN TO BE WITHOUT THIS BIAS. PERIOD. 
    * https://extinctionrebellion.uk/the-truth/about-us/what-is-climate-and-ecological-justice/
    * https://londonstudent.coop/extinction-rebellion-have-alienated-me-and-other-people-of-colour-they-cant-succeed-unless-they-change/
    * https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/17/extinction-rebellion-canning-town-well-off-people
    * https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/19/extinction-rebellion-white-faces-diversity
    * https://extinctionrebellion.uk/2020/09/08/spine-chilling-and-stalinist-baroness-mps-and-former-counter-terrorism-policeman-speak-out-against-reclassifying-extinction-rebellion-as-serious-organised-crime/
    * https://extinctionrebellion.uk/2020/07/01/statement-on-extinction-rebellions-relationship-with-the-police/
    * https://extinctionrebellion.uk/event/what-does-climate-justice-mean-for-your-local-xr-group/
    * https://www.resilience.org/stories/2017-06-07/stopping-climate-injustice/
    * [...]


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