Rebel for All Life
Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington
23 – 27 October
Join us for XR Spring Rebellion! Everyone who is aligned to the principles and values of Extinction Rebellion Aotearoa is welcome – we welcome your ideas, talents, and skills. We want to make this week of action as effective as possible but we also want it to be community building, fun, and a chance to share and learn new skills.
If you have ideas for actions or activities, resources, skills…anything at all you would like to share please complete this very brief survey.
Book your time off and get your thinking caps on. We are all XR Aotearoa Whānau.
There is a planning meeting on Wednesday 22nd September. Once you complete the survey you will get notification of the meeting details and link.
Keep your eye out for more details coming in the next weeks as months as plans develop.
Facebook event. Twitter (@ExtinctionNZ) and Instagram (@xr_newzealand) coming soon
Rise Up For Climate Justice!
South Taranaki
3 – 7 November
Māranga Mai! Join us in Taranaki, the ‘energy centre’ of Aotearoa and a major industrial dairy region, to take direct action against major climate polluters and demand urgent, just transformation of government and big business.
We have no more time to waste! The international climate negotiations (COP26) will be happening then, and we want to be clear that if they don’t take the actions required to keep temperature rise to 1.5, then we will.
We’re teaming up from across Aotearoa to hold four days of skill-sharing, wānanga, networking and non-violent direct actions with other concerned people from across Aotearoa. The 5th of November is the day colonial troops invaded Parihaka after 22 years of bloody war across the country for land and resources. A war which has never ended and links directly to ruling class oppression, white supremacy, extractivism and now global warming. The 6th of November is a Global Day of Action for climate justice.
Our demands are to:
- End extraction of fossil fuels
- Ban industrial fertiliser
- End dairy exports, and
- No false solutions (like hydrogen).
Rise Up for Climate Justice to halt global warming and transition to a regenerative, socially just world for all. Make plans to join us for this critically important event and help build the climate justice movement and deepen the conversation about causes and impacts of climate change and where real solutions exist. System change not climate change!
[Note accommodation will be on marae or there are several campgrounds nearby. More details will be posted soon.]
Facebook event. Twitter @RiseUp4CJA. Instagram @riseupforclimatejustice
Carpool: Te Waipounamu to Spring Rebellion & Rise Up for Climate Justice
Climate and Environmental Justice activists are converging at the Extinction Rebellion Spring Rebellion in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Oct 22nd – 28th and then Rise Up for Climate Justice in Taranaki Nov 3rd – 7th.
There is a new Facebook group for coordinating travel plans going to the events from a south-to-north direction and home again from north-to-south.
Please feel free to invite others, and use this group to coordinate travel plans, and help create a buzz. See you there! (or enroute)
XRŌ Heartbeat
7pm – 8.30pm Friday 24 September on Zoom
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/
Meeting ID: 876 4282 4482 Passcode: 560048
Heartbeat is XRŌ’s regular face to face where we karakia, share updates on what we’ve been doing, sing, welcome newbies, learn about XR, workshop knotty problems, plan actions, rave about possible new actions, grieve and rage over what’s happening, share food, make banners, do regenerative exercises, do drumming, learn non-violent communication and XR kaupapa….
As WEA is closed for renovations till level 1, we are meeting by Zoom
Want to know more? Contact Torfrida 021 107 3937 christchurch@
ECan and CCC vigils postponed till level 1
The weekly vigils outside ECan and CCC have been put on hold until we reach Covid level 1.
This campaign to keep pressure on both councils to act on their climate emergency declarations continues. However it makes sense right now to focus on the national XR Spring Rebellion gathering in Pōneke/ Wellington.
The vigils on Thursday lunchtimes are a great way of meeting other rebels, as well as talking with the public and council people – contact David Goldsmith if you’d like to be on his list for text reminders of the vigils – 027 222 5701
In love and rage
Rachel, Torfrida and Dave for XR Ōtautahi Christchurch
Anyone who’d like to donate to our XR Ōtautahi Christchurch group can do so at Kiwibank: XROtautahiChristchurch, ac. number 38-9002-0331592-07
