21st Reclaim our BBC
Media & Messaging : Useful Info
This Friday, Extinction Rebellion will hold a peaceful demonstration to call upon the BBC to convey the severity of the climate and ecological emergency we are experiencing, and the urgent action needed to address this. The BBC, as a respected media voice in the UK, needs to play a key role in enabling the transformative change needed.
CANT MAKE THE ACTION TOMORROW?
WANT TO HELP CAUSE SOME DISRUPTION?
We are going to jam the BBC phone lines (phone numbers below) all day with calls about the climate emergency until it sinks in! Let the operator that you think the BBC needs to do more to cover the climate emergency and read out our demands (below)
Pick up the phone and help us out
BBC Contacts
Comments Phone Number: 03704 101060
Complaints: 03700 100 222
BEATING OF THE BOUNDS
The beating of the bounds is an ancient ritual performed to pray for protection.
We will be creating a humdrum of noise around the BBC building (drums, voices etc.) so our message cannot be ignored - it will soon be too late to act to prevent climate and ecological disaster - they must listen, and act with us, now.
LIGHTING OF THE CANDLES IN THE XR SYMBOL
LIGHT symbolises TRUTH
We are forming the XR symbol in candles outside the BBC building, to call upon our Public Service Broadcaster to convey the truth of the severity of the climate and ecological emergency we are experiencing, and the urgent action needed to address this.
WHERE TO SEND videos/photos/soundbites….
If you would like to send videos/photos/soundbites through to
National/London, please drop it in
this Google Drive in the folder:
15. Reclaim the BBC - 21.12.2018
If you’re sending to National/London, it would be really helpful if you could send an email to
jamie.xr.media@gmail.com with the
objective and
target audience of your content so we can sort through media sent in
Some general guidance on things to think about when taking footage/making films to post online:
What’s your story’s objective? What are you informing people of?
(some examples: outlining people's views on the BBC's inaction, calling for older people to get involved, telling stories of people doing actions etc.)
Who is the target audience? Who are you trying to recruit to the cause by showing them your video/photos? (older people, younger people, BBC officials…)
LONDON : Order of the Day
Time
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Event
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Person
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10am – 11am
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Start assembling on All Soul’s steps
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Invitees
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Move BBC– set up shrine – set up PA – set up placards
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11am
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Launch speech by keynote speaker
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11:10am
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Start of the Beating of the Bounds
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All participants except those guarding shrine
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12:00 – 2:30pm
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Rally
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Speakers
- young people
- former arrestees
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Choir
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2:30 – 3:30pm
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Music and Poetry
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3:30pm
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Start of ritual
Funeral procession
Lighting of candles
XR symbol formed in candles
Sprinkling of ashes
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4:30pm
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Closing ceremony (chant or singing)
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MOURNING
As well as protesting and peaceful non-violent direct action, the day will include mourning
for all those already dying from the climate emergency.
In 2009, the UN estimated that 315,000 people die every year from the impacts of climate breakdown. It is almost 10 years later, and still we are not hearing about this. We will take the necessary time to mourn:
The deaths of the 27 people burnt alive in a single group in the village of Mati, Greece this summer. The over 200 people burnt alive in Greece and California this year in unprecedented wildfires. It will also mourn all the animals, birds, insects and reptiles burnt alive in the same conflagrations.
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