That many people in xr haven’t read “this is an uprising”, or our Theory of Change and that
we need ways to have open, empowering conversations.

Aye... it makes me wonder if it's be smart to have a clearer 'onboarding' (use whatever word you like) process for new rebels, as most of us didn't go through one, other than probably attending a local group meeting.

Perhaps some kind of shiny badge of honour people can wear or some kind of initiation or ritual for people who've demonstrated they actually understand XR's theory of change, could make it clearer who's just jumped onboard wrongly assuming they 'get it' and who has actually understood. I think there can be some shared responsibility if there's lots of 'out of touch' rebels who are just following without really understanding (and some of them suberting/ co-opting/ just getting mad that XR isn't what they expected) as this is surely partly a failure of how we onboard..

A significant and growing proportion of rebels in Cornwall have had XR inductions and probably still would see the Canning Town action as working against the ToC.

That people who planned this action are too much in their XR bubble, they worked out the practical necessities, but ignored the local demographics.
We are constantly entreating ourselves to decolonise, to be more accessible to working class and BAME background people whilst putting white, middle class people on top of trains in working class areas.
There is the hypocrisy that is unavoidable in our economy, and then...

The Tube Action was an example of where we need to be if we wish to be taken seriously. The main problem with that action was that
a) it was in the suburbs - shold be in central London
b) it was an a too small scale - needs to include several lines, each disrupted and an AG in central London and in several waves so that the disruption continues after arrests. AGs alone should choose the stations to ensure no leakage of information.

The tube action was an abuse of power by individuals in XR UK circles, who used XR UK facilities to recruit, plan, publicise and execute an action, without using the procedures put in place to make sure the action was in line with XR UK policy, and then pretended the whole thing was done by independent Affinity Groups to avoid having to take any notice of the opinion of the vast majority of the members.

It attacked the greenest transport system in London. It attacked the working class, the people least responsible for the emergency, least able to do anything about it, and the very people we want to support us. The only reason it got on television was that one of our rebels got into a fight with members of the public.

Where in theory of change does it say we should ignore the elite who are 90% the cause of the catastrophe, and concentrate our efforts on easy targets?