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Sick of all the #BlackFriday emails? Enter #CitizenFriday! The antidote to consumption is community. It's agency. When you repair something with a friend, when you lend to a neighbour, when you get outside - you're not just reducing waste. You're building the world you want to live in.
Guides
Want to screen ACTionism, the film, in your community? This downloadable guide will walk you through everything you need to set up your screening so everyone leaves inspired and ready to act collectively.
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Every significant change starts with someone taking a single action. Not a perfectly formed plan. Just one person deciding to do something different. This is ACTionism
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ACTionism is the art of finding your people and taking collective action. But how exactly do you find your people? Here's how others did it. We've talked to community members and groups to collate how they did it - so you can find your people!
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Taking your first steps towards collective action will be different for everyone. Here are some simple 'first steps' to inspire you, regardless of whether you have 5 minutes or 5 days.
Reflections
I want to know: what's your strategy? How do you make space to act when life gets in the way?
Events
Discover how social cinema and community workshops transform audiences into movement builders.
The art of finding your people and taking collective action
Every fortnight, this newsletter shares stories of people and communities doing exactly that. We show you what's possible, what's working, and how to start where you are. Each issue, you'll find something to watch, something to read, something you can try this week, and something you can join.
I invite you to join me on a rainy Sunday in October. Friends gather round an extendable table in a first-floor Brighton flat for a shared breakfast. We have gathered for the inaugural convening of the Slow Down Club.
A few weekends back, at the ACTionism Weekender, I found myself lying on the forest floor during a forest bathing session led by Jannine. Just an hour of quiet, an awakening of the senses, a settling of the noise. And when I stood up, something stayed with me: a message,
Citizen Friday – a grassroots campaign replacing Black Friday with community action. This year we're making it collective: crowd-sourced, citizen-led, built together in public. Join our call Wed 22nd Oct 1-2pm GMT to help shape it and build something bigger
So this is the start of my next creative journey. The time has come for me to take action and to live the reality of what I believe: that by learning to love where we live we can make genuine and lasting change.
How a question turned into a weekly act of resistance, repair, and reconnection. Citizen Friday didn’t start with a press release or a big plan. It began with a quiet feeling, the kind that creeps in slowly when the world feels out of step. A sense that perhaps, beneath
Something to join: "How To Save Democracy" at The Conduit Tonight live at the Conduit, at 7:30pm Jon Alexander meets Caroline Lucas and Ellie Meredith to ask if and how people power can still provide a meaningful response to the climate emergency. If you cannot make it
Next ACTionism Connection Call: 13th November, 12:00 GMT. No formal agenda - just good conversation, mutual support, and the chance to hear what's capturing everyone's attention.
Olivia recently returned to the core of the ACTionism community, after a short time away working on Citizens’ Assemblies, exploring fairness, politicians’ pay, and what it means to value public service, vital work. And now she's back to do something just as important: the work of reimagining belonging,
All across the world, citizens are coming together, not to campaign, not to protest, but to build. 'WE' are demonstrating alternative futures, from a space of possibility. Citizen collectives are stepping up to deliver what governments and markets are failing to provide: care, repair, food, energy, housing, meaning,
Fellow traveller, Heather Davies recently wrote about a BBC Academy event, with neuroscientist Kris De Meyer. Kris reminded us, that you can’t reliably drive action by trying to generate fear, guilt or anger in others. Emotions manipulated often backfire, polarising people, causing overwhelm, or shutting down possibility. Instead, he
Last week I headed South West… First stop: Bristol, to catch up with my crewmates from Re-Action - Matt, Zoe, and Lisa. Big love! Then onward to Falmouth, with the human who somehow puts up with all my quirks and still makes ACTionism magic with me - our brilliant filmmaker