The Assemblies Campaign is well-functioning happy team of people who are passionate about promoting assemblies to show how things can be done differently in politics, by actively deliberating issues of local concern.

Within Extinction Rebellion’s Self-organising System, The Community Assemblies Campaign sits in the Citizen's Assemblies Working Group

Group Scope:

• To support Extinction Rebellion Local Groups with planning, organising, publicising, setting up and running Community Assemblies alongside their local allies.
• To help Local Groups and alliances obtain, record and share required responses to Assembly recommendations from their councils, MPs, or others with relevant responsibilities.
• To advise and support local escalations until engagement is achieved.
• To help everyone involved in Extinction Rebellion to understand that Community Assemblies are a deliberative democracy pathway to our Third Demand - a Citizens’ Assembly on Climate and Ecological Justice.

There are three different types of assemblies - to understand the difference between Citizens’, Community and People’s assemblies, please read this explainer on the Rebel Toolkit

The key role of the Facilitator is to ensure the smooth running of the weekly team meetings so that:

1) They stay on track with the agenda
2) Decision-making processes are appropriately structured.

For more information on the Assemblies Escalation Campaign group, the Facilitator role and XR’s Decision-making processes, please select the links below:
Assemblies Escalation
Facilitator mandate NB click on the plus sign next to Facilitator.
Decision Making Processes explainer on the Rebel Toolkit