Peaceful protest training for climate rebels
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Description
Calling rebels! With less than a decade to implement BIG CHANGE we need to step this movement up. Extinction Rebellion has inspired many world-wide, and there is growing local front-line resistance to the Adani mine, and other mining projects. We need big, bold actions with climate JUSTICE at their heart.
This full day training is for people interested in Extinction Rebellion, School Strike and the movement to stop fossil fuel extraction, and work for climate justice. Old and new activists welcome. It will include:
* What makes for an effective action? Theories of successful action design, plus practical roles and action planning.
* What are your legal rights? We will explain how to navigate the legal system
* How do we get our story out there... so you have designed an awesome, creative and colourful action? How to manage media and boost your story on socials
* Learn more about powerful nonviolent resistance and how peaceful protest has been part of successful campaigns and social movements worldwide
* What is nonviolent conflict, and how do we de-escalate and keep things peaceful if we are stretching out of our comfort zone
The event will be facilitated by Nicola Paris who has been a key organiser in the largest climate focused civil disobedience events in Australia.
Please bring food to share for lunch, a water bottle and a note book. Wear comfortable clothes for practical exercises.
The event is suitable for people old and new to social change, grassroots activists, people working in organisations involved in any type of progressive change who want to create better, bolder events and actions and care about climate and social justice.
This training is being subsidised by CounterAct. We are aware some training has been offered for free. We are asking for some small fees to support our work. Please contact us if money is an issue and you need a scholarship placement.
We support family friendly events - child care is not provided to keep the costs low priced, but children may be welcome, pending available space.
Aboriginal people are always welcomed to our events at no cost. Please contact for a "pay the rent" scholarship code. We pay respects to the traditional custodians, on whose land this event takes place. Sovereignty was never ceded.
Organiser CounterAct - Building People Powered Action
Organiser of Peaceful protest training for climate rebels
CounterAct was launched to build capacity in communities taking effective, creative, strategic action on issues of environmental and social justice.
Coordinator and trainer, Nicola Paris has nearly twenty years’ experience in community campaigning and civil resistance, and has had wide knowledge on participating in, and training for direct action across the country.
She supported the successful campaign against the Kimberley gas hub, and to protect the Beeliar Wetlands in WA, has trained and supported at climate camps on the east coast, supported major climate justice convergences at the Maules Creek coal mine in NSW, coordinated the facilitation for Break Free - the largest climate focused direct action in Australia's history - with 2000 people shutting down Newcastle coal exports for a day, and has run workshops for the Wilderness Society, Quit Coal, Lock the Gate, Australian Youth Climate Coalition, 350.org, Centre for Australian Progress, United Voice, the East West tunnel picket and refugee rights campaigns.
