NOT shutting down the internet

Civil disobedience, non-violent direct action.

Self organised session: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2018/wiki/index.php/Session:Extinction_Rebellion_-_NOT_shutting_down_the_internet_-_civil_disobedience_(non_violent_direct_action)_on_a_massive_scale




Notes, hacks, ideas:

Question: Is it USA-centric?
  - If based on Extinction Rebellion, intentionally not USA-centric https://xrebellion.org/
  - very global, check the map: https://rebellion.earth/get-active/
  - let's not be fetishist of tools we should be using (Mastodon, Riot...) and simple solution (solutionism: local farms, local initiatives...) and focus on impact when reaching to people, pragmatism on the current power struggles.

Resources
 * Young Swedish speaker: Greta Thunberg, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFkQSGyeCWg
 * Extinction Rebellion comprehensive talk, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2VkC4SnwY0&t=384s
 * Mastodon: https://sunbeam.city/@ExtinctionR
 * Website: https://xrebellion.org/
 * Map: https://rebellion.earth/get-active/
 * Map of Environmental Justice fights: https://ejatlas.org
 * Tactics / principles / theories / methodologies for (creative) activism: https://beautifulrising.org/

Questions during workshop (28th)

Question: how can we be less European Centric? I am very worried with the extreme right getting in power in Brazil that promised to lift all protection that is now in place on the Amazon forest. 
    - Supporting existing initiative (see map above) by publicly supporting can be surprisingly powerful! Asking them how you can help also good.

Question: how do we deal with media if the revolution won't be televised? We already know we need to handle our own storytelling and do media hijacking. Election wins and protests will come naturally after that.

Question: how to comunicate and make clear to the general population that some aspects of their life are connected with Climate Change. For instance, immigration that ppl are so affraid of is caused by  Climate Change. Some simple, straight forward communication strategy. 

There is a skillsharing camp related to end coal mining close to Leipzig in Pödelwitz from 3. - 6. Janurary:
    https://aaapoedi.noblogs.org
    Maybe a good place to meet people, continue discussion, form groups, …
    Also they might need support and could use stuff that's left from congress.
    I'm going!

(Doug: feel free to talk to me about my xr experiences and 'user stories' for the people 'on the ground'. https://mastodon.xyz/@douginamug & at the Foodsharing Assembly)