Our membership system is managed by Action Network. There is a national “parent” group within Action Network (Extinction Rebellion Aotearoa New Zealand) and we can also create “child” sub-groups for local branches. Anyone who joins a child group is automatically added to the parent group. However, anyone who joins the parent group isn’t automatically added to a child group unless our Action Network team set it up so they are.
Therefore, there are two ways a member of Extinction Rebellion can join a local group:
- Signing up to a local group, or
- Signing up to the national group and certain criteria are met
Signing up to a local group
An individual will join a local group when they sign up to:
- A local group sign-up form in Action Network, OR
- Any of the local group’s event of action setup in Action Network.
Note: RSVPing to a facebook event won’t add the individual to our membership system.
Signing up to the national group
The following criteria must be met for an individual to join a local group:
- The individual signs up to the national group through an Action Network form (i.e. https://extinctionrebellion.nz/act/join), AND
- The individual puts in their correct postcode, AND
- A local group exists in their region, AND
- The local group has a child group setup in Action Network, AND
- A “ladder” exists with criteria to automatically sign new national subscribers up to their sub-group.
A criteria of existing ladders are listed here.