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Events

In response to the need for social distancing, a number of our events are postponed, our meetings are moved to online platform ‘Zoom’ and our working groups will continue to communicate by email and Telegram. Please email us to find out more. We will endeavor to pick up our activities as the lockdown eases, initially with out door social events where we can keep to social distancing.

Here you can find all of the forthcoming events taking place in and around Reigate and Redhill. You can also stay up to date by following us on facebook.

There are 5 types of events listed below:

Actions: Events directed at highlighting issues. They can include non-violent acts of civil disobedience and could take the shape of anything from a bike swarm to a bank protest or a die-in to a flash mob. Locally to Reigate, Redhill, Dorking and Gatwick Airport, we are also engaging in actions to publicize our concerns without causing disruption, such as through stalls, leafleting and performances.

Training: Learning opportunities, covering introductions to XR and its core principles and understanding of different roles to support actions. We also hold training in out meetings, as well as online using platforms such as Zoom.

Socials: We need times to regenerate our energies and get to know each other!

Non-XR events: We support events held by organisations with shared goals (e.g. Dorking Climate Emergency and UK Student Climate Network). Let us know if you want us to publicize an event.

Regular events

Climate Café: We meet on the first and third Monday of each month at 7.30pm at The Yard, at Reigate Station, 3A Holmesdale Rd, Reigate RH2 9QN. During the pandemic, these meetings moved to zoom fortnightly. 

We have some time initially to chat then have our group’s meeting to share information, for example about upcoming evens and feedback from the working groups. We sometimes have trainings at these meetings.

Faith at the Gate: First Sunday of the month, 3.30pm, at Horse Hill Protection Camp, at the junction of Horse Hill and the A217, postcode RH6 0HU.

Horse Hill Rebel Alliance welcomes people of all faiths and none to join a peaceful candlelit vigil to shine a light on the climate crisis and the climate battleground at Horse Hill. Bring a tealight in a jar, a high viz jacket if you have one, a small prayer flag, and a torch. Afterwards, join us for a drink at The Black Horse Pub opposite the camp. During the pandemic these monthly meetings are being held on the Zoom with some limited face to face where possible

Fortnightly Pause for the Planet  – are paused! Join our public vigil on alternate Fridays in Dorking (usually on South Street opposite Waitrose). Drawn from the vigil held in Parliament Square during the September Rebellion, this has shown to be a powerful way of drawing interest from passers by, curious at our socially distanced group meditation publicly. Requires those meditating and someone who talks with passers by.

Monthly Banner Drop over M25 – – are paused!  We have huge banners that we suspend safely on the bridges over the M25. The action is co-ordinated with other XR groups in the SE on other motorways. To do this safely we need 3 rebels at put up and put down and 2 rebels the rest of the day, minding the banners. Please do sign up to the rota. It is a great way to get our message out to large numbers of people. And an opportunity to get to know each other a bit better.

Upcoming events – see emails

30/11/20 – Monday Reigate and Redhill Climate Cafe on Zoom – link by email

Past events (excluding regular events)

1/11/20 – Sunday Faith at the Gate – All Souls and Remembrance Day for lost species – in person and on zoom – see the POST for more details.

9/10/20 – Banner drop over M25, to continue monthly.

31/8/20 – Dorking Vigil 7.30pm to start off Rebellion – in conjunction with Vigil in London

2/8/20 – Greta the boat visits Redhill, on route from Brighton to Dunsford.

1/8/20 – Start of September Rebellion – 2 weeks of protests in London

28/8/20 – Banner Drop action over M25 near Reigate

29/8/20 – Madhatters Tea Party at Gatwick South Terminal

4/7/20 – XR Reigate and Redhill are supporting a BLM event in Horley

25/6/20 – Deliver letter to Crispin Blunt office about RBCC Climate action

17/3/20 – Surrey County Council – Full council meeting. XR presence

3/20 – Surrey County Council Pension Fund Meeting, Kingston. XR Action. www.xrguildford.org/surrey-pension-act-now

7/3/20 – Dorking, Reigate and Redhill Social 3-7pm.

26/2/20 – Air We Grieve – action to highlight air pollution in Reigate

22/2/20 – XR stall at Climate Fair, Dorking, https://dorking-climate-emergency.net/

22/2/20 – ‘Enough is Enough’- Together we march, 1pm Russell Square. National XR

14/2/20 – Valentines Day stall on Dorking High Street

 

Previous regular events – paused during the pandemic:

Clear Skies – Gatwick: 9.30am meeting at Costa Coffee, South Terminal, Arrivals. This is a peaceful, friendly, non-disruptive leafletting, trying to engage he public with a message of flying less. Extinction Rebellion (XR) Clear Skies is a network of XR groups and individuals taking action to get airport to cut flights and also to encourage the public to reduce the number of flights they take by increasing awareness of the climate emergency. See facebook page here or email xr-clearskies@protonmail.com. Currently on hold due to the corona virus – watch this space.

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