The group are asking for input on how to handle the meeting
The Extinction Rebellion campaign has secured a meeting with Environment Secretary Michael Gove and other ministers.
The environmental campaign group is crowdsourcing its strategy for the meeting – asking supporters to fill in a survey letting them know how they should handle the meeting.
The multiple-choice survey asks supporters what Extinction Rebellion’s demands in the meeting should be and what outcomes they’re hoping for.
The meeting will take place at 11.30am tommorow and Extinction Rebellion have said it will be filmed and released to the public afterwards.
22-year old Sam Knights is a member of Extinction Rebellion’s political strategy team, who will represent the movement in the meeting. He said:
“The legacy of our political leaders will stand or fall by what they do now. Either they take steps to give our children the future they deserve or they do nothing. They must respond to the climate and ecological emergency with the clarity and urgency our children demand.”
“In order to protect life on earth, the UK Government must begin to tell the truth. The British people need to know the reality of what we face. It is time to declare a climate and ecological emergency and to commit to reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2025.
“The current political system is not capable of implementing such fundamental changes to the way we live. That is why we need the creation of a national Citizens’ Assembly on climate and ecological justice.”
Extinction Rebellion will also meet with Labour Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and, seperately, with Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell. The group have already met with energy minister Clare Perry.
Sadiq Khan supported Extinction Rebellion’s demand to declare a climate emergency last December but recently he asked the group to stop disrupting traffic and let London return to “business as usual”.
Extinction Rebellion said it would be using this opportunity to hold Khan’s feet to the fire.
The meeting will be led by Extinction Rebellion’s London Development representative, Hannah van den Brul who will discuss the group’s three demands and push for the creation of a Citizens’ Assembly for Londoners.
Over 1,000 people were arrested last week as Extinction Rebellion blocked roads and public transport and took direct action against targets linked to climate change.
The protest movement started in the UK but has since spread around the world.
Joe Lo is a reporter for Left Foot Forward
3 Responses to “Extinction Rebellion crowdsources strategy for meeting with Gove”
Domhnall
Gove will just re-run a variant of Cameron’s successful ‘hug a husky’ ‘greenest government ever’ as a front to secure votes while continuing corporate welfare and slash_and_burn capitalism. If he did set up a citizen’s assembly he would manipulate it. Don’t give him the fig leaf he wants out of this.
Grayan Adams
What on earth possessed you to insist that people have a google a/c in order to complete your survey?? There are those of us who flatly refuse to sell our souls to the devil. Completely unnecessary. Bad show.
Tom Sacold
More pointless middle-class virtue-signalling.