Climate Camp open meeting: Glasgow, next weekend

Cli­mate Camp − Open invite to a UK-wide deci­sion mak­ing meet­ing − Glas­gow 5th and 6th April
The next Cli­mate Camp gath­er­ing is head­ing north to Scot­land on April 5–6. The meeting/sleeping/socialising will all take place at Car­ni­val Arts Cen­tre, 34 Albion Street Glas­gow. This is in Mer­chant City and about a ten minute walk from Buchanan Street bus station/Queen Street train sta­tion. See map

Cli­mate Camp − Open invite to a UK-wide deci­sion mak­ing meet­ing − Glas­gow 5th and 6th April
The next Cli­mate Camp gath­er­ing is head­ing north to Scot­land on April 5–6. The meeting/sleeping/socialising will all take place at Car­ni­val Arts Cen­tre, 34 Albion Street Glas­gow. This is in Mer­chant City and about a ten minute walk from Buchanan Street bus station/Queen Street train sta­tion. See map

Pro­posed agen­da items should be in by Mon­day March 24th. For guide­lines on gath­er­ing agen­da items see the fol­low­ing page on the web­site

The venue and sleep­ing space are both acces­si­ble. Accom­mo­da­tion will be crash pad and avail­able from Fri­day night. Should you real­ly need a bed for some rea­son be sure to get in touch. If you do not let us know in advance, we can­not guar­an­tee we’ll be able to find you an alter­na­tive.

The organ­is­ing team is work­ing hard to make the gath­er­ing as kid friend­ly as pos­si­ble. There will be an ear­ly to bed sleep­ing space at anoth­er venue, and a kids space through­out the week­end. If you are plan­ning to bring kids, please get in touch so we can bet­ter plan activ­i­ties.

Break­fast, lunch and din­ner will be pro­vid­ed Sat­ur­day and Sun­day. Every­thing will be veg­an and most­ly organ­ic. Get in touch if you have aller­gy con­cerns.

We will be ask­ing for a sug­gest­ed dona­tion (unless you real­ly can’t afford it) of £5 to cov­er the venue and £10 to cov­er food. There will also be a trav­el pool. The idea is that peo­ple with more mon­ey or low­er trav­el costs con­tribute towards the costs of peo­ple with less mon­ey or high­er trav­el costs. Please con­tribute if you can afford it.

There will be a film night and intro­duc­tion to Cli­mate Camp on Fri­day evening. Also, excit­ing things are brew­ing for Mon­day. If you can stick around an extra day, bring your bike and join in on a crit­i­cal mass to a site of some impor­tance… Alter­na­tive trans­porta­tion will be avail­able for those who can’t or don’t want to bike.

It would be extreme­ly use­ful if any­one plan­ning on attend­ing all or part of the week­end could let us know. This will help in buy­ing food, booze and lots of oth­er things too. RSVPs and all oth­er queries/info should be direct­ed to gath­er­ing (at) climatecamp.org.uk That is ‘gath­er­ing’ NOT ‘gath­er­ings’ (the old email address has been nuked).

The Cli­mate Camp on its own did­n’t stop cli­mate change — but it’s part of a grow­ing social move­ment that can! Come and take the next steps for­ward at the upcom­ing UK-wide meet­ing on April 5th to 6th in Glas­gow. Every­one is wel­come, whether you came to the camp, or were sim­ply inspired by it. The Cli­mate Cam­p’s at Drax and Heathrow had 4 key aims: pop­u­lar edu­ca­tion, direct action, sus­tain­able liv­ing, and build­ing a social move­ment to col­lec­tive­ly tack­le cli­mate change. Region­al meet­ings have been hap­pen­ing up and down the coun­try, and the last nation­al meet­ing was in Not­ting­ham .We will meet in Glas­gow to col­lec­tive­ly share all our ideas for tak­ing our aims into 2008.