SummaryHow does a climate change activist movement such as Extinction Rebellion (XR) chose among strategies and tactics on the spectrum between more 'radical' actions such as civic agitation, (nonviolent) disobedience, high-profile stunts that may lead to arrests and more 'mainstream' actions that may (or may not?) help them build a more broad public base?How does Extinction Rebellion (XR) see the distinction between insider and outsider strategies in climate change activism?Is it necessarily the case that 'radical 'activism by nature is cyclical, i.e. that it cannot be maintained on a long-term basis because of the intensity of this activism model?And how does Extinction Rebellion deal with internal as well as external equity dimensions of the fact that low-income people and/or those who face discrimination tend to get hit harder by the impacts of climate change? In this NGO Soul+Strategy podcast episode, I interview Coos van Est, a young Extinction Rebellion activist in the Netherlands (my original home country), on how she sees Extinction Rebellion tackle all these choices and trade-offs. Bio of Coos:Coos is a student at Erasmus University College, Rotterdam, the Netherlands She's been involved with XR since her high school, but more intensively so for the last year or so, for about 0.5 -1 day a weekCoos happens to be part of my extended family - and I am very proud of how she embodies engaged citizenship! We discuss: How climate change fights and climate justice issues need to be interlinked to both benefit from sustained civic actionThe nature of the three global XR  demands: 1/ Tell the Truth; /2. Act Now; 3/ Decide togetherHow environmental activism in the global south has a history of white elite-level advantage, how it rightfully has been critiqued for suffering from white elitism and how it is now trying to overcome this by focusing on embracing everybody’s contribution and being expressly inclusiveClimate change requires both civil disobedience and broad public support. Collaboration between social movements such as Extinction Rebellion (XR) and formally registered NGOs is therefore importantGroups like Greenpeace are better than XR at drawing in the media, examples such as the Netherlands NGO Milieu Defensie (Environmental Defense) are good in online petitioning, while movements like XR are good in mass mobilization. They need to complement each otherThe sustainability of engagement in XR-type activism, with its typical peak-type activities, fairly time-intensive forms of self-organization and democratic decision making styles may be challenged; XR expressly tries to compensate for this through encouraging collective self-care Resources:Instagram Extinction Rebellion (XR) account:@xr.rotterdam (local account of XR in Rotterdam, the Netherlands)@extinctionrebellionnl (national account of XR in the Netherlands)XR's Twitter handles:@XR_Rotterdam (local account of XR in Rotterdam, the Netherlands)@NLRebellion (national account of XR in the Netherlands)An example of media analysis of the efficacy of ‘radical’ climate change activism and its trade-offs: