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Visioning Extinction Rebellion with Gail Bradbrook, Kofi Mawuli Klu, Roger Hallam & Clare Farrell

Extinction Rebellion (XR) UK
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Creating a culture of openness and embodiment of movement values. Recorded on the 30 January 2021, over 500 people attended this public zoom meeting, showing a new move towards big XR online gatherings, creating greater openness and accountability. ''The stakes are high when people assemble now. The mark of citizenship in a strange time is the willingness to be sorrowed aloud, and to carry yourself as if the kids are watching, the not-yet-born kind. Not what’s in it for you: what’s asked of you. That’s what radicalized citizenship has become: The willingness to proceed as if what’s happening is happening. But translating that: that’s the poetry of now. That’s the goods. There will come a time when the current undoings will be undone, and those people in those times will be on the other side of us and our example. They’ll decide who we were, what we did, whether we bore them in mind at all. We could end up as the cautionary tale they’ll never  …...more
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Visioning Extinction Rebellion with Gail Bradbrook, Kofi Mawuli Klu, Roger Hallam & Clare Farrell
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2021Feb 3
Creating a culture of openness and embodiment of movement values. Recorded on the 30 January 2021, over 500 people attended this public zoom meeting, showing a new move towards big XR online gatherings, creating greater openness and accountability. ''The stakes are high when people assemble now. The mark of citizenship in a strange time is the willingness to be sorrowed aloud, and to carry yourself as if the kids are watching, the not-yet-born kind. Not what’s in it for you: what’s asked of you. That’s what radicalized citizenship has become: The willingness to proceed as if what’s happening is happening. But translating that: that’s the poetry of now. That’s the goods. There will come a time when the current undoings will be undone, and those people in those times will be on the other side of us and our example. They’ll decide who we were, what we did, whether we bore them in mind at all. We could end up as the cautionary tale they’ll never want to be, or we could be a shard from an old chalice that has trace elements of a very fine wine, the rumour of a nobility that rose when the time came. We’ll continue to take from them, or we’ll leave some scent of ordinary courage in the teeth of an extraordinary storm, something they might yet believe in. We will be someone’s ancestors.'' - Stephen Jenkinson Frack Free Namibia: @FrackFreeNamibiaAndBotswana @iyxafrica7 @firstpeoplesouthernafrica @Qse7en @iyxafrica @frackfreenamibia @thebushmanq7 #frackfreenamibiabotswana #thesanwontmove #savetheokavangodelta #savethesan Help XR mobilise and donate: https://extinctionrebellion.uk/donate/ Extinction Rebellion UK: https://extinctionrebellion.uk/ International: https://rebellion.global/ Twitter:   / extinctionr   Facebook:   / xrebellionuk   1. Tell The Truth 2. Act Now 3. Beyond Politics World Map of Extinction Rebellion Groups: https://rebellion.global/branches/ #extinctionrebellion #climatechange #globalwarming [JL]

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Extinction Rebellion (XR) UK

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