Minutes 2nd June 2021
AGENDA:
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Current Campaigns and Project Updates
National Fuel Blockade
Money Rebellion -
Relationship between XR Aus Actions group and state / regional / local actions groups.
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Group coordination and support roles (Max needs help)
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Janeās Strategy Proposal
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Regenerative organising and burnout
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Action and Trainings integration
CUURENT CAMPAIGNS AND PROJECT UPDATES
NATIONAL FUEL BLOCKADE
Brad: Victoria has been approached by Blockade Ironmarc which intends to blockade the conference due in September
Julie: WA Small actions around APPEA.
Kelly: Fuel blockade not appropriate so just outreach. No blockade of refinery. Maybe some arrestable actions in during APPEA conference 14-17th
June https://www.appeaconference.com.au/
John: Sydney going ahead on 10th with Fuel Blockade.
Brad: Westside - If lockdown they will reschedule Fuel Blockade
Brad: Exxon Mobile Community meeting scheduled for Wednesday XX September (sorry I missed the date - John) - XR going to ācook something upā for it. Previously Exxonās open day was shut down when they heard that XR was going to turn up.
MONEY REBELLION
John: Sydney had colourful successful action at Wynyard against NAB with about 30 people.
Sarah: Small NAB action in Adelaide
Brad: Postponed local action. Donāt NAB being embraced by local groups.
Julie: Some people saying it is not really an XR action style.
Brad: The action can always be amped up.
Julie: There is a challenge in communication about the NAB action. How do we solve this? MatterMost should be used and that Signal might be the problem.
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN XR AUS ACTIONS GROUP AND STATE/REGIONAL/LOCAL ACTIONS GROUPS
Max:How do we best interact without too much duplication? How are the various groups at a state and local levels communicating with each other. How do we best
BREAK OUT GOUPS
Brad Tim Kelly Sarah (State)
- National group helps to keep the actions coordinated and āon brandā.
John John Sam Danny (Local)
- Need to have national actions being more prominent in the State Newsletters to get better communication and coordination between the states.
Julie Max (National)
- National groups help to keep cohesion and learning and training. Learning and training needs to be part of our actions.
- What states need is training from the National group. National helps to coordinate actions across the country.
- The induction process has broken down a bit.
ā¢ General conversation arising from breakout groups.
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Kelly: wA starter pack might be a way of resolving these issues.
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Tim: Training really is about how to do actions and then demystifying it. It is a failure to have prerequisites for doing other trainings. National sub group is delivering talks online once a month. Working groups are operating ad hoc. Many people doing multiple jobs. Local groups good at organising actions but not good at coordinated actions which SA and WA have been. National T&T is filling the gap when states are failing to provide training.
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Max: National Trainings doing a great job. We need to coordinate trainings with the actions. Trainings and actions need to be seen as a part of a campaign.
ā Brad; Jamesā conception of the National Fuel Blockade is that it would become and ongoing campaign.
ā Max: Next few months we should have several campaigns that we should stick to and build.
GROUP COORDINATION AND SUPPORT ROLES (MAX NEEDS HELP)
Max: Needs help with scheduling fortnightly meetings. Tim agreed to do it for him.
JANES STRATEGY PROPOSAL (not discussed)
REGENERATIVE ORGANISING AND BURNOUT (not discussed)
ACTION AND TRAININGS INTEGRATION
This was addressed in the conversations above.
OTHER BUSINESS
COMMUNICATION AND PLATFORMS
Julie: Communication has moved away from MatterMost onto chat apps. Mattermost is more inclusive.
Tim: Mattermost is less secure.
John: Trying to move XR Inner West onto MatterMost and away from Signal.
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