Thread by @XRebellionUK

As the #ImpossibleRebellion draws to a close, the analysis will inevitably begin.
One of the things that has been clear though is a shift in the way XR is being covered in the 🇬🇧 🗞.
Like a samba-dancing mosquito🦟, our persistence is paying off. 1/7

ft.com/content/a92d70…

This piece by the @FT’s @henrymance discovers a quality long since thought extinct in the UK press: nuance – and it’s a joy to read. Henry *gets* us. And in a world of ‘but China’ 🇨🇳and ‘Gail’s car’ 💀🚙💨 that’s a step change in the narrative from the streets of shame. 2/7

We never started #ExtinctionRebellion thinking we were ‘right’🤓📚, that we had all the answers. Nor that we were going to be the people 👩🏽‍🚒🚑who sorted anything out. This shit is way too complex, interrelated and 🤯 for the kind of quick-fix activism of old. 3/7

And besides, nobody else was doing anything. Like really doing anything any more. It was as if the NGOs had made peace with the end of the world🌍, at the same time as political activists were still coming to terms with the end of the 20th century ☢️. We filled a vacuum. 4/7

Truth is, we’re rarely what people say we are. We’re more employable👔 and more diverse 🧕🏽👩🏾‍💼👨🏾‍🏭👳🏽‍♂️, less smelly 👃🏽💐and less old 🧒; we don’t fit the ✊✊activist stereotype anywhere near happily enough to be dismissed, as anyone whose spent any time with XR will attest. 5/7

But mainly, we simply don’t care. We absolutely don’t care that only 26% trust what we say about the crisis, as opposed to the 90% that trust David Attenborough. Because (trigger warning) we’re saying the same thing. We’re utterly fucked. ☠️🪦6/7

So thank you @henrymance and @FT for getting XR in it’s imperfect, autonomous, iterative experimentation. So much of your trade pomps and preens, desperate to be right. We’re just desperate to be heard 🚨

And we’re going nowhere. 🦟🦟🦟🦟 7/7
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