Climate Assemblies and their Impacts - Workshop at Rebel For Life

Start: Friday, March 15, 2024• 9:00 AM

End: Friday, March 15, 2024•11:00 AM

"Upgrade our Democracy: Climate Assemblies and their Impacts"

Extinction Rebellion's third demand calls on governments to create citizens' assemblies on climate and ecological justice and be led by their decisions. Citizens' assemblies are a form of participatory-deliberative democracy with a focus on consensus-building. They include randomly selected people from all walks of life and have had huge success in changing long-embedded policies in many countries.  

Hear from Sonia Randhawa (from Coalition of Everyone) about citizens' assemblies: what they are, how they can help us fix the climate crisis, where they have already been implemented and their impacts.

Sonia is extremely engaging as a presenter and very knowledgable. Her previous workshops at Occupy for Climate and December Rebellion last year really grabbed people. We are very lucky to have her at Rebel For Life to share her wisdom and get you thinking about the importance of XR's 3rd demand in the comfort of the Drill Hall.

Covid safety
Covid still hasn’t gone away so, if you’re coming to the Drill Hall, we are asking you to take a RAT test and to seriously consider wearing an N95-or-higher mask indoors.  N95 masks and surgical masks, RATs and hand sanitiser will be available at the Welcome Table.

Let's keep each other safe to keep on rebelling for life.

Extinction Rebellion Victoria acknowledges that we rebel on First Nations lands. Country has never been ceded. We offer our respect to Elders, past and present. As we face the climate crisis, we honour the first custodians: activists for land, water, culture and life.

Level access is via the Victoria Street exit/entrance which unfortunately must be opened from inside the building. Please call Judy G on 0400 582 343 to request access. Apologies for this clunky system.