The next national organsing gathering will be in Leeds on Sat and Sun Feb 17th/18th. It will be at The Common Place in Leeds city centre and vegan food, accommodationand creche will be provided (please contact us with accommodation, creche or any other needs though so we can plan ahead).
UK met in Leeds in January and decided to organise another Camp for
Climate Action this summer from 14th to 21st August. As many of you know,
for ten days last August hundreds of people gathered in the shadow of Drax
coal-fired power station in Yorkshire to share knowledge and inspiration
to tackle the greatest threat to life on Earth, live an example of more
just and sustainable alternatives, and confront one of the UK's biggest
polluters in a day of mass direct action.
Following on from this success, Camp for Climate Action 2007 will take
place near to a target relating to aviation or the coal or oil industries.
The location will be chosen over the coming months. Organising outreach,
fundraising, site practicalities and workshops is underway. Self managed
camping, eating and living neighbourhoods around themes and geographical
areas are also being planned, contact details are on the website.
There is loads to do, and everyone is invited to get involved - no
experience necessary! The next national planning meetings will be held in
Leeds at the Common Place, on the 17th and 18th February, and then in
Bristol on the 17th and 18th March.
See www.climatecamp.org.uk for more info. There areb lots of ways to get involved without coming to national gatherings, but coming to them is a great way of really feeling part of teh whole process, we work with consensus decision making and collective responsibility, everyone gets their say in how the whole thing goes.
For a 20min film of last years camp get
V For Video Activist - SchMOVIES DVD Collection 2006 OUT January 2007
- £6 (including P&P). Contact the SchNEWS Office 01273 685913 or schnews@brighton.co.uk
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"Following on from this success..."
06.02.2007 15:59
Or is it the "success" of a few ageing liberals getting to play 'Cock of the Walk' for a fortnight, get off their heads in a field, shag some naive young girls, and ultimately sacrifice others in a tokenistic lemming-like "action" in which they didn't participate themselves for fear of arrest?
Why is this silliness not only being repeated, but being presented as some form of blueprint for future actions?
Bored with the "Barrio"
Grow Up, Bored
06.02.2007 18:01
And as for the so called 'leaders', these prominent "old liberals" were some of the ones getting arrested along with the rest of us.
So stop trolling and get out on the streets - or better still: get your shit together and actually GO to a CC planning meeting.
Happy Camper
"Direct-action" or Sad Farce
06.02.2007 18:22
"And as for the so called 'leaders', these prominent "old liberals" were some of the ones getting arrested along with the rest of us."
That is a complete lie. The CC leadership considered themselves too important to risk arrest and didn't even go on the "action".
"So stop trolling and get out on the streets - or better still: get your shit together and actually GO to a CC planning meeting."
Why does questioning this bullshit make me a troll? I'm already "on the streets" - not sitting in a field surrounded by cops (who were effectively invited.) Why on earth would I want to waste a year, neglecting other political action, and raising funds, which could be much better used, to pay for another farce, being presented as "direct action" to the gullible?
Bored of the bullshit
Agree With the Bored
07.02.2007 10:52
If you want to shut down Drax, I suggest half a dozen of you, a set of bolt croppers, and a good plan is probably all you need.
Rudeboyo
the programme
07.02.2007 11:45
Charlie Farley
we'll see
07.02.2007 13:51
xxx
Like watching a car crash
07.02.2007 21:03
Sceptic
blimey...
09.02.2007 11:54
No, Drax wasn't shut down but a lot of people had a damn good go and a lot more people were inspired to take a lot more direct action - things aren't so black and white, to me an action isn't just about fucking something up it's about communicating and inspiring as well.
Oh, and the Guardian contacted us.
If we're not in the mainstream media how do people know what we're doing and why? Should we just stay in some tiny activist/indymedia ghetto where all half the readers ever do is post narky comments? My mum will never look at indymedia but she thinks what we did is amazing and it's changed her politics and habits - the world needs my mum on side, it needs everyone on side.
climate camper
Doh!
11.02.2007 11:03
So what can we learn from that? Maybe not do our actions on the day we're surounded by 5000 cops? Oh, but then they were invited there weren't they?! Doesn't seem very bright. Is it going to be learned from? I doubt it.
JG