Your take aways on Nafeez's critique of XR's strategy?
Luke Flegg
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"The flawed social science behind Extinction Rebellion’s change strategy"
"White privilege leads to cherry-picked misreadings of data on worldwide struggles of people of colour (and beyond)"
Curious about your feelings and questions on this article.
What are your take aways?
As always, use "Proposal" or "Poll" tools if you'd like to temperature check an idea for something we might collectively learn / take away from this.
Graham Snyder
Wed 30 Oct 2019 8:36PM
See post on thread
Linda D
Wed 30 Oct 2019 10:22PM
There needs to be ways for everyone to participate and I totally agree with what Ahmed said about needing long term grass roots community building. I think we need to reassess the emphasis on arrests, but we shouldn't do away with it just because not everyone can do it.
Luke Flegg
Thu 31 Oct 2019 1:23AM
Of course! (Assuming "working people" means "working class people"?) I have much more to say but will do so in a comment. But I'm agreeing because obviously failing to include these voices would be tragically missing their wisdom and insights, let alone reduce XR's legitimacy
Max CCT
Fri 1 Nov 2019 10:07AM
This question is meaningless in the absence of any specification as to what being 'integrated directly' might mean
Wolfgang Wopperer-Beholz
Sat 2 Nov 2019 9:22AM
While I fully agree with the statement per se, I also share @Max CCT's reservations described below.
Gemma Harris
Tue 5 Nov 2019 7:24AM
Afraid I don't understand what integrating directly means
Linda D Wed 30 Oct 2019 11:44PM
There is a research team I can reach out to, maybe they have some answers.
Luke Flegg Thu 31 Oct 2019 1:25AM
Badly need our best impact and trends analysis pulled together into nice resource and shared really frickin well 🔥
Nikki Locke Sun 3 Nov 2019 5:41PM
There has been no significant change to the number of people signing up to XR on action network before, during or after the October Rebellion. This data from the Action Network administrator.
Graham Snyder · Wed 30 Oct 2019 9:12PM
I'm interested in the assertion that the October rebellion was less successful than the April one and that XR is reaching a peak. It seems important to assess whether the existing strategy is still working or not. What data do we have on this?
Gail's talk on strategy and theory of change includes a couple of graphs on public support before and after the April rebellion. Is there similar data for October?
I guess there are probably "recruitment" numbers too, perhaps e.g. mailing list signups?