Extinction Rebellion is an international movement that uses non-violent civil disobedience to achieve radical change in order to minimise the risk of human extinction and ecological collapse - here's how you can help...
Step into the shade.Standing above the crowds in Oxford Circus, in the pink Extinction Rebellion boat, Daiara Tukano spoke of existence as resistance. Coming from the Tukano indigenous nation of Brazil’s Upper Rio Negro, a community enduring severe human rights abuses and under sustained environmental attack, she told us that indigenous nations protect 82 per cent of the Earth’s biodiversity.
So what is your place in these times? Have you felt the call to join Extinction Rebellion? Which of your gifts are needed right now? Maybe you feel ill equipped. Bring your uncertainty, together with a willingness to learn. You may feel your gifts are simple. Simple offers, made with true love, are the stuff of life. Do you feel the call to be with us on the streets? Come along and remember the power of togetherness, when the people are determined and strong.
These are times of unravelling, dissolving, transformation. Don’t expect to be the same person as before you took part in this journey. For each of us there is an individual challenge, there are waves of difficulties, obstacles, challenges that can be hard to anticipate and hard to name.We have shown in the UK something of what we are made of – which is perhaps fitting for the nation that unleashed this incredible and destructive industrial society on the world.
This is an extract from This is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook, published by Penguin Books.
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