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XR Wandsworth meet and greet

Hi all, The Wandsworth branch of Extinction Rebellion are having a meet and greet session at Battersea arts centre on the 1st of October at 6:30PM.It's a great opportunity to meet us and see whether we're all unshowered loonies like Nick believes! Of course you might be pleasantly surprised and realise that we're just normal people with a determination to force the government to take climate change seriously.The next rebellion starts on October the 7th, please come along if you want to find out how to be part of itThanks, Matt

Matt Palmer ● 2601d19 Comments

Will you be drenched in cologne Matt?😉

Sue Hammond ● 2601d

ha! i'm hoping for a big downpour of rain tonight Sue, i'll just go stand in that, wouldnt want to waste any water!

Matt Palmer ● 2601d

Practicing what you preach.😉👏🏻xx

Sue Hammond ● 2601d

must remember to take my recycled cardboard sandals off first though....

Matt Palmer ● 2601d

Absolutely. I'm sure they are very fetching when intact ...

Sue Hammond ● 2601d

They're a bit plain if i'm honest but Clare has blue ones with yellow stars all around ;)

Matt Palmer ● 2601d

Perfect!🇪🇺 I assume Clare has written Stop Brexit! on them? You could do too on yours.

Sue Hammond ● 2601d

Lets hope some random loon glues themselves to the doors and stops you getting in

Andy Pike ● 2601d

That would certainly be ironic lol

Matt Palmer ● 2600d

And if turns out to be Mr Pike?!

David Ainsworth ● 2600d

As I understand the Extinction Rebellion, we are all going to die in fire in 10 years time!Why not have a jolly party at the Battersea Arts Centre on the 1st October instead of “a meet and greet session”?Let us enjoy our last 10 years not thinking about our demise in 2029, and ignore the people reminding us about reputable Battersea Funeral Directors, who already have discount deals available for 2019? We could drink green homemade ale, eat green homemade cakes, do some English folk dancing, sing folk songs and have a will reading competition, with the winner receiving a grand floral 1st prize.However if Extinction Rebellion proves  to be wrong, we can all remember, the very jovial party we all had at the Arts Centre on 1st October 2019. Jim,Melbourne.

James Slade ● 2599d

Great post Jim.  I suspect that in ten years' time, these same very unjolly people (backed by Momentum) will have found something else to be very angry about.

Chantal Blake-Milton ● 2599d

Hi Jim!Not true i'm afraid!XR don't claim that we're all be dead in 10 years time. The report from the  UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded last year that the world had 12 years for global warming to be kept to a maximum of 1.5C.So not dead in 10 years, just that there are basically 10 years left to limit the worst of climate change.Hope that clarifies things for you!

Matt Palmer ● 2599d

I'd love to see where you read that Chantal please.Having been to a number of meetings over the last weeks, I can tell you that i've never hung around with so many sweet old ladies - they certainly aren't members of Momentum

Matt Palmer ● 2599d

It's not down as a meet and greet on the main website it's calledA non violent training event.Will there still be tea and cakes ??

Andy Pike ● 2599d

There may well be two different events at the same time Andy but in different rooms, it's quite a big place :)I'm afraid I have no idea about the tea and cakes but if you come to our meeting and greet i'll happily buy you a beer, even if you have glued yourself to a door!I did the NVDA training last week, was very interesting so if you did prefer to go to that then perfectly understandable!

Matt Palmer ● 2599d

"It's not down as a meet and greet on the main website it's calledA non violent training event.Will there still be tea and cakes ??"Perhaps custard pies?

David Ainsworth ● 2599d

Just a little reminder on this!You'll get to meet me in my cardboard sandals (recycled of course) and hopefully get to meet Andy Pike, although if he's glued on you won't be able to shake his hand obviously.

Matt Palmer ● 2598d

Sorry. If I wasn't already booked up I'd have come along out of interest. Perhaps we could have photos of Andy glued to the door? (Don't tell the police your name Pike! Apologies in advance 😶)

Michael Ixer ● 2598d