DEEP WATER RISING TO COP26

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This is a warm invitation to join Deep Water Rising To COP26

We’ve created an inclusive, community led, global action gathering the voices of people from across the world, culminating in a call of alarm on the 30th October. We want to unite the world

in a single timed action of outrage and alarm.

This is an Emergency

Across the world Extinction Rebellion members are reaching out to you and all organisations, groups and

communities with members who are concerned about and affected by climate change. Will you join us and help to

create a massive collaborative call to COP?

Join us and make COP26 a turning point for our planet.

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Here is an introduction to our DEEP WATER RISING plans

With rising sea levels and flooding, wild fires and unprecedented global temperatures it’s clear that human-made climate change is here and its escalating fast.

Deep Water Rising is an inclusive global action calling out governments, fossil fuel investors and industries on their damaging greenwash tactics. And in addition, we intend to pressure governments across the world to act now and make meaningful changes at COP26 in November 2021.

Why focus on greenwashing? Because it’s lying and causing massive damage. If companies and organisations are up-front about what they’re doing we know how to tackle it. But, if their activities make people think they’re concerned about the environment, when in fact they are hiding their real intentions to continue the harm behind a smokescreen, it’s much harder to spot. And they can continue to devastate our planet unchecked.

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Why focus on flooding? Because flooding affects millions of people, and it's the UK’s equivalent to the forest fires, droughts and extreme weather events that are ravaging other countries. Flooding is on our doorsteps and its horrifying impacts immediately engage people in the wider climate change conversation.

WHO:

• EVERYONE! We all need protection from the effects of the climate crisis and we ask youto join in our demand that COP26 responds now with meaningful actions.

WHAT: DEEP WATER is an action and campaign group that aims to:

• raise public awareness of the connection between global heating and our increasinglyextreme weather and rising sea levels

• demand that governments urgently reduce carbon emissions by 2025 in order to limitatmospheric temperature increases to 1.5 C.

DEEP WATER RISING is a global action focussed on COP 26.• At home - Pandemonium• Public gatherings and protest - Call the Alarm

WHERE: • PANDEMONIUM - on your doorstep• CALL THE ALARM - on bridges and along waterways - from the source to the sea

including, sea walls, beaches, rivers, canals, jetties, reservoirs, by flood defences andplaces that have been flooded.

WHEN: • PANDEMONIUM - 30 Oct and timed to coincide with the Call The Alarm action.• CALL THE ALARM - 30 Oct

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PANDEMONIUM: Takes place at home in the evening of Saturday 30th October. It’s something that people with children or caring responsibilities, people with disabilities, or those who do not have access to transport, can still join. People will stand on doorsteps or at windows with candles and torches and with pots, pans and wooden spoons, ready to join with Call the Alarm for the 2 minute silence and the noisy call for COP action afterwards.

CALL THE ALARM: Takes place in the evening of Saturday 30th October.On bridges, sea walls reservoirs, flood zones. It needs to be seen and heard from the source of the rivers to the sea, along the coasts, around the globe, to flow to Glasgow and be heard by COP.

Here’s the CALL THE ALARM timetable.

Start - 16:30 hrs UK (UTC+1) and time zone calculator across the globe.

The themes are- • Welcome - for groups and individuals at 16:30 who have joined on the bridge.

• Sound - singing, practising drumming patterns for people with pots and pans, communitymusic groups - a time for everyone to join to feel connected and have a warm-up.

• Light - candles, torches, lanterns. 17:30 light the lights!

• Countdown to silence begins at 17:55 ready to start the next stage - the 2 minutesilence. People may be asked to reflect on those who’ve lost their lives to climate changeand the harm that’s being done to the planet.

• 2 minute silence - lights out and darkness at 17:58 timed to coincide with people joiningin at home with Pandemonium and groups across the world.

• Call the Alarm - 18:00 voices, sirens, alarms, car horns, fog horns, whistles, church bellstolling, pandemonium, lights projected, flares, drums, pots and pans.

• Words to COP - Speakers from communities, children, rebels and groups and messagesread on behalf of people in the Global South.

• Thanks - more bridge building.

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Another action is planned which is separate from the events on the evening of the 30th October.

It’s called Floody Hell! Drowning in Greenwash and is happening on Sunday 31st of October.

FLOODY HELL! DROWNING IN GREENWASH

We will be targeting financial institutions and fossil fuel industries such as banks and petrol stations

however, XR groups may want to identify their own local targets to call out for greenwashing. It will be spectacular and fun and the details will be decided

by the local groups.

Why not contact them to find out more and get involved? Here is a link to find out where the nearest group is to you. We also have Hubs for COP, so if you’d prefer this route check out your local Hub here. And here is a link to a short video that explains why XR does what it does.

WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT FLOODING?

We have a series of recorded short talks which you might find useful.

1. The reality of being flooded and a global perspective2. Types and causes of flooding, the state of our rivers, our defences and food security3. Arctic ice melt, the jet stream, extreme weather events and how we are being failed4. Why XR works, our demands, NVDA, behind the headlines.

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