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Jan 2, 2020 12 tweets 3 min read Read on X
Reflecting on 2020 & how awesome it is to see #FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike #ExtinctionRebellion & more. Having been at this now for 25 years...I started thinking about what I have to share...so here is a New Years offering - top ten tips for successful activism THREAD
1. Focus. If you are about everything you are about nothing. Pick your piece of the puzzle. Set a clear objective for a set period of time. Dog meet bone.
2. Our job is to make a decision maker respond. Figure out who can make the change that needs to happen and focus on ways to engage them.
3. Activism is not just about designing good policy or ‘educating’. It’s about motivating and engaging by building power.
4. Your job is not done once the report is written. It’s only just begun.
5. It’s not enough to know what you are saying no to. We need clear tangible things that we are saying yes to. Without them we are not campaigning we are just complaining.
6. Most of the time the government or corporate decision maker will not be motivated by your facts or research but by your articulation of the good things that will happen (money or votes) if they do the right thing. Or the bad things (money or votes).
7. If you have come into work turned on computer surfed emails, news, blogged, tweeted & discussed opinions about policies in a meeting you are not campaigning you are issue swimming. In circles. Plan events. Do stuff that makes the world respond. Don’t just respond to the world.
8. Repeat repeat repeat. Yes it gets boring but without millions of dollars of ad budget it takes repetition to break through. Not one rally or march but years of them.
9. This moment in history requires us to be bold. Creative. To take risks. Aim high. You are likely less than six degrees from anyone you need to reach. Be clear about what you need from them.
10. Be kind. To yourself, your colleagues and especially those you are challenging to change. Give folks the benefit of the doubt and a clear pathway out. But don’t settle for less than is needed. Hard on the issues soft on the people.
Happy New Year all. Feels to me that 2020 is coming in hot. Literally. I read this morning about families evacuating in Australia and a half a billion animals dead...this year will require us all to be our best and most compassionate and effective selves. Don’t hold back.

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🧵 What we have been seeing in the #cop28 negotiations can be summarized as the good, the bad, and the ugly. 1/6 Image
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The results are profoundly disturbing. Humanity is *much* more vulnerable than we previously thought.

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Debunked!

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Let me get this straight.

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The oil companies themselves won’t get us there. Just look at their track record.
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The Amazonia is the midst of a tipping point crisis as deforestation and high degradation combined have already reached 26% of the region. This has generated violence with the assassinations of Indigenous leaders and environmental defenders.
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