2025 Chapter Strategy Discussion Part 1

This event will run for 2.5 hours and there will be food served at the end

Since the chapter's inception nearly five years ago, XR Boston has seen powerful successes: our direct actions have raised awareness, disrupted the powerful, and spotlighted the climate and ecological emergency. Crucially, however, our chapter is not yet the mass movement that it set out to become. To achieve the system change we need, we must grow from a small organization to a mass movement that can mobilize tens of thousands into the streets and disrupt “business as usual.”

Our upcoming strategy session is dedicated to taking the learnings of the past five years and laying a pathway to more effectively building a mass movement. We will think through: 1. Building a movement (in the broad sense) and 2. Planning for the maximum mobilization possible by Earth Day 2025 (a specific target and deadline).

After reviewing insights and consensus from our last two strategy sessions, the organizing team will present a rough framework for building toward mass mobilization—a draft that we’ll collectively refine into a final proposal. In mid-January, we’ll reconvene to create an implementation plan and take on next steps, ensuring we have a concrete path to achieve our shared goals.

• Part 1: Workshop a Proposal to Build towards Mass Mobilization (Sunday December 8th at 3 pm)
• Part 2: Finalize the Proposal and Create and Implementation Plan (~second weekend of January)

Together, we’ll continue to push toward XR’s guiding principle of mobilizing 3.5% of the population to achieve system change. Bring your ideas, your energy, and your commitment as we strategize and take the next step toward a resilient, mobilized future.

To help ensure this session’s effectiveness, we ask that participants have attended at least one XR Boston protest or community event in the past.