For the Wilderness takes place at the Sumac Centre on Saturday November 26th and Sunday November 27th Here's the workshop timetable

The Sumac Centre, Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, NG7 6HX

https://network23.org/autonomousnottingham/

Saturday
12- Introductions and Lunch. 1- Beehive Collective presents the True Cost of Coal 3- Short Film about Tazmanian Forests. 3.30 Tea Break. 4- Coal Action Scotland talk about campainging against coal mines in the Douglas Valley. With news from the Smalley Action group regarding the Shipperly open cast site. 7- Dinner and film showing of End Civ.

"END:CIV examines our culture’s addiction to systematic violence and environmental exploitation, and probes the resulting epidemic of poisoned landscapes and shell-shocked nations. Based in part on Endgame, the best-selling book by Derrick Jensen, END:CIV asks: “If your homeland was invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air, and contaminated the food supply, would you resist?” The causes underlying the collapse of civilizations are usually traced to overuse of resources. As we write this, the world is reeling from economic chaos, peak oil, climate change, environmental degradation, and political turmoil. Every day, the headlines re-hash stories of scandal and betrayal of the public trust. We don’t have to make outraged demands for the end of the current global system — it seems to be coming apart already. But acts of courage, compassion and altruism abound, even in the most damaged places. By documenting the resilience of the people hit hardest by war and repression, and the heroism of those coming forward to confront the crisis head-on, END:CIV illuminates a way out of this all-consuming madness and into a saner future.
 Sunday 11- Tree Climbing workshop. 1- Lunch 2- Wilderness education and forest schooling, 3-30- Earth First Puppet Show
6:00- Dinner and film showing 8:00 Discussion about the future of Ecological Defence.

"If a tree falls" In December 2005, Daniel McGowan was arrested by Federal agents in a nationwide sweep of radical environmentalists involved with the Earth Liberation Front-- a group the FBI has called America's "number one domestic terrorism threat." For years, the ELF—operating in separate anonymous cells without any central leadership—had launched spectacular arsons against dozens of businesses they accused of destroying the environment: timber companies, SUV dealerships, wild horse slaughterhouses, and a $12 million ski lodge at Vail, Colorado.

ith the arrest of Daniel and thirteen others, the government had cracked what was probably the largest ELF cell in America and brought down the group responsible for the very first ELF arsons in this country.

IF A TREE FALLS: A STORY OF THE EARTH LIBERATION FRONT tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of this ELF cell, by focusing on the transformation and radicalization of one of its members.

Part coming-of-age tale, part cops-and-robbers thrilller, the film interweaves a verite chronicle of Daniel on house arrest as he faces life in prison, with a dramatic recounting of the events that led to his involvement with the group. And along the way it asks hard questions about environmentalism, activism, and the way we define terrorism.

Drawing from striking archival footage -- much of it never before seen -- and intimate interviews with ELF members, and with the prosecutor and detective who were chasing them, IF A TREE FALLS explores the tumultuous period from 1995 until early 2001 when environmentalists were clashing with timber companies and law enforcement, and the word "terrorism" had not yet been altered by 9/11.

Autonomous Nottingham presents

“For the Wilderness”

A weekend of talks, films and puppet shows about ecological discovery and defence.

The planet is being destroyed at an ever increasing rate, air polluted, food and water poisoned, land brought up and destroyed by the wealthiest few to the detriment of everybody and everything else.

They are protected by the current social system and its many tentacles. At the same time all around the world there are those who seek to defend the earth and attack those who cause the damage.

At “For the Wilderness” we’ll ask why and how people do this. There will be those who share there past experiences, those who wish to plan for the future, and those who are unsure of where to go next.

Come along share your ideas, develop new ones, and meet others who want the same things you do.