Scottish Climate Camp 3–10 August — details

“Glob­al ecosys­tems are in col­lapse, species extinc­tion is unpar­al­leled in human his­to­ry and dan­ger­ous cli­mate change is a real­i­ty affect­ing us all. There is no time to act but now. Join us 3–10 August for a week of low-impact liv­ing and high-impact direct action.”

Camp for Climate Action Scotland flier“Glob­al ecosys­tems are in col­lapse, species extinc­tion is unpar­al­leled in human his­to­ry and dan­ger­ous cli­mate change is a real­i­ty affect­ing us all. There is no time to act but now. Join us 3–10 August for a week of low-impact liv­ing and high-impact direct action.”

The camp will be set up some­where around the Firth of Forth in cen­tral scot­land — sur­round­ed by coal-fired pow­er sta­tions, gas and oil refiner­ies, coal ports, open cast coal mines, cor­po­rate HQs, an air­port, a nuclear pow­er sta­tion, a cement fac­to­ry and oil ter­mi­nals.

This camp will cut car­bon emis­sions. Cli­mate Camp Scot­land will raise the pro­file of direct action in Scot­land, show­ing that the nature of the cli­mate cri­sis is such that we no longer have time to wait for our polit­i­cal and busi­ness ‘lead­ers’ to act for us.

In addi­tion, we aim to rad­i­calise the polit­i­cal analy­sis of cli­mate change and its solu­tions, plac­ing it with­in a wider polit­i­cal con­text of social change and the reshap­ing of soci­ety towards more egal­i­tar­i­an and lib­er­tar­i­an val­ues.

Join us in August to take action against the root caus­es of cli­mate change!

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Fundrais­er 4th June:

2 DEGREES 2 HOT — A night of Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Hip-Hop!

Thurs­day 4th June, 11–3am at the Bon­go Club

Sup­port us by com­ing to the Bon­go Club in Edin­burgh (37 Holy­rood Road) on Thurs­day 4th June for great music, a great night out and rais­ing mon­ey for our sum­mer of direct action!

Acts con­firmed so far: Rad­i­cal per­for­mance and poet­ry by Tick­le, Burn­ing Bright, Mechan­i­cal Beast, Lifeshows, 1sp and DePTHS!

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Boil­ing Over — Scotland’s Gath­er­ing for Cli­mate Action: 11th — 14th June, The Phoenix Cen­tre, Glas­gow

Boil­ing Over will be a space for thought, analy­sis, learn­ing, move­ment build­ing, train­ing and cre­ativ­i­ty. Ulti­mate­ly, we hope to devel­op a strat­e­gy for stop­ping cli­mate change from with­in Scot­land.

Social Change not Cli­mate Change

Despite years of rhetoric about Cli­mate Change Bills, Kyoto Pro­to­cols, Tech­nofix­es and Sus­tain­abil­i­ty, CO2 emis­sions are still ris­ing, ecosys­tems are still col­laps­ing and soci­ety is as unequal as ever. This is tes­ti­mo­ny to the fact that we need to take mat­ters into our own hands and find bot­tom up solu­tions to cli­mate chaos.

What’s hap­pen­ing?

The pro­gramme will include four days of talks, film show­ings and dis­cus­sion, cul­mi­nat­ing in plan­ning and vision­ing ses­sions. We will skill-share prac­ti­cal skills such as cook­ing for large num­bers of peo­ple and direct action train­ings which will lay the foun­da­tions for the Camp for Cli­mate Action hap­pen­ing in Scot­land from 3–10 of August.

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Come along!

The space will be a safe, acces­si­ble and open envi­ron­ment, free from oppres­sion, hier­ar­chy and dis­crim­i­na­tion. Food and accom­mo­da­tion will be pro­vid­ed.

Reg­is­ter ear­ly!

Reg­is­ter and donate ear­ly to help us plan and fund Boil­ing Over.
Down­load the Reg­is­tra­tion Form from our web­site and post it back to us, or email your infor­ma­tion to climatecampscotland@riseup.net and make your dona­tion online.

If you would like to see a par­tic­u­lar workshop/discussion/filmshowing/etc hap­pen or would like to facil­i­tate one please get in touch and send an email to *cli­mate­camp­scot­land [at]
riseup.net*
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http://www.climatecampscotland.org.uk/