Thread by @XRebellionUK

When the 68 uprising graffitied Paris with “Be Realistic, Demand the Impossible!” who thought this call to action would meet its alter ego years later in the UK?

For what is Insulate Britain if not: Be Impossible, Demand the Realistic?

🧵A #Thread.

In the face of the #climate emergency happening now, XR recognises the need for disruptive actions that highlight the severity of the crisis. Insulate Britain is playing a vital role in shifting the Overton Window around public awareness and urgent government action. #ActNow

The recent attempt to ban a form of protest from happening anywhere in the UK is a warning to all of us who dare to stand up for truth; the UK government is coming for us all. It is also a complete vindication of our resistance.

#RightToProtest #RightToCare #RightToLife

While there are people from XR in Insulate Britain, we are not the same organisation and we operate entirely separately.

But we share much common ground and continue to send love and courage to all those taking part!

#InsulateBritain #LoveRageRebel

Like Extinction Rebellion before them, Insulate Britain appears destined to be the latest in a line of nonviolent civil disobedience movements demonised for daring to do something about our society’s collective deafness to the #ClimateEmergency and ecological crisis.

Insulate Britain offers a perfect dilemma.

What could be more obvious than insulating people’s homes?

More logical than doing something about the climate crisis?

Something that will also create many decent jobs and save people money?

#ClimateAction #Budget2021 #COP26

Does it not seem obvious to politicians that action of this kind was coming?

Petitions, marches, demonstrations, writing letters, talking to MPs, standing outside Parliament doesn’t work.

Politicians don’t listen, companies don’t care.

#RightToProtest #CivilDisobedience

And what do we think is going to happen next, as floods and famines and fires increase?

As supply chains and labour and food starts to fail?

As concrete harvests fail to meet Mike Graham’s predictions?

All of this causes much more disruption than protestors on motorways.

Insulate Britain and Extinction Rebellion are reasonable responses to what’s going on.

No one should be surprised we exist or be angry with us for not always being polite.

Because what happens next is catastrophic: war over food, water and safety.

That’s why XR has tactics people don’t like. Why Insulate Britain is so annoying.

Both have travelled to the future and decided an alternative is needed.

It’s better to try & solve things through nonviolence: the alternative’s too terrible.

Now is the time to do the right thing. To get off the fence, face up to what is happening.

The @GOVUK has a choice: it can do something about the crises or it can stick its head in the sand & criminalise those who are clamouring for change.

#RightToProtest #KillTheBill

And you have a choice too:

Keep your fingers tightly crossed, say your prayers, and hope against hope that someone else will come and save you.

Or you can do your bit and be the ancestor your future family desperately needs.

#ActNow #RebelForLife #ClimateJustice

It will take fewer of us than we think to turn ‘annoying’ into ‘revolutionary’; imagination into paradigm shift. But tomorrow is too late.

Be Impossible, Demand the Realistic.

🧵#Thread inspired by our article in @BylineTimes:

bylinetimes.com/2021/10/27/ins…