Reclaim the Fields and Climate camp 2013 in Colone, Germany

Reclaim the Fields and AusgeCO2hlt invite you to an action­camp in Rhineland, close to Cologne (Ger­many), from 23.8. until 6.9. 2013. For three days we will take col­lec­tive direct action against the open cast min­ing in Rhineland. Fur­ther­more there will be a pro­gram includ­ing dif­fer­ent prac­ti­cal and the­o­ret­i­cal work­shops, dis­cus­sions and a lot more.

 

http://www.reclaimthefields.org/camp2013

On the back­ground of the strug­gles in Rhineland we want to facil­i­tate an exchange of dis­si­dent knowl­edge and action.We invite to 14 days of net­work­ing, col­lec­tive learn­ing and dis­cus­sion as well as prac­ti­cal activ­i­ties to exchange knowl­edge and skills and to resist in the Rhineland.

Apart from the three days of action there will be a lot of space for Work­shops and get­ting to know each oth­er to cre­ate new links.The Camp is a par­tic­i­pa­to­ry process and waits for your con­tri­bu­tion! We are look­ing for­ward to your ideas, con­tents and skills to cre­ate a pro­gram togeth­er.

You are artists, activists, peas­ants, urban gar­den­ers, are liv­ing on a col­lec­tive farm or are active in polit­i­cal cam­paigns or groups? You want to share you expe­ri­ences, pass and broad­en your knowl­edge? Then you are wel­come to do this in the course of work­shops, dis­cus­sions, prac­ti­cal work or in oth­er ways.

We look for­ward to alter­na­tive ideas on top­ics like col­lec­tive and sol­i­dariy form of liv­ing and work­ing beyond cap­i­tal­ism and struc­tures of exploita­tion. Every­thing that strength­ens our diverse dai­ly and orga­nized resis­tance is wel­come.

Con­tact us at pro­gram (at) reclaimthefields.org

Some poten­tial themes for work­shops to inspire you:

food­sou­ver­eign­ty // right wing pol­i­tics in eco move­ment // ani­mal rights/animal Lib­er­a­tion // self-sup­ply/-suf­fi­cien­cy // self-organ­i­sa­tion // access to land // con­nect­ing urban and rur­al strug­gles // urban sup­ply of rur­al col­lec­tives (Com­mu­ni­ty Sup­port­ed Agri­cul­ture, Non-Com­mer­cial Agri­cul­ture) // per­ma­cul­ture // Pri­vate Prop­er­ties – Com­mons // His­to­ry and devel­op­ment of Agri­cul­ture: Agri­cul­ture and Cap­i­tal­ism (Green Rev­o­lu­tion) // land lib­er­a­tion through pur­chase of land (dif­fer­ent means of access to land: squat­ting, buy­ing, etc) // how to organ­ise strug­gles, „how to do resistance“/share and learn forms of resis­tance // ener­gy // botany/knowlegde of herbs and plants

What is Ausgeco2hlt?

Our Cam­paign sees itself as an open plat­form where dif­fer­ent groups and indi­vid­u­als can net­work with each oth­er, edu­cate them­selves and take col­lec­tive action. Our aim is to orga­nize a broad protest move­ment against RWE¹ and for the imme­di­ate shut down of the open cast mines in the Rhineland coal fields.

We see the protest against brown coal as part of a glob­al cli­mate move­ment against Coal-ener­gy, the exploita­tion of shale gas, Car­bon-diox­ide stor­age, etc. and stand in sol­i­dar­i­ty with ener­gy strug­gles against fos­sil-nuclear cap­i­tal­ism.

We are con­vinced that in order to facil­i­tate a true ener­gy trans­for­ma­tion, monop­o­lised pow­er struc­tures have to be ques­tioned and we have to change the rules of the game of the con­cur­rent econ­o­my, built upon lim­it­less growth and con­sump­tion of resources.Thus we sup­port ini­tia­tives for self-deter­mined ways of liv­ing as an alter­na­tive to super­flu­ous con­sump­tion. At the same time we demand a col­lec­tiviza­tion of ener­gy com­pa­nies and a decen­tral­ized ener­gy sup­ply with renew­able ener­gies.

What is Reclaim the Fields?

Reclaim the Fields is a europewide con­stel­la­tion of peas­ants, land­less and prospec­tive peas­ants, as well as peo­ple who are tak­ing back con­trol over food production.We sup­port and encour­age peo­ple to stay on the land and go back to the coun­try­side. We pro­mote food sov­er­eign­ty (as defined in the Nyéléni dec­la­ra­tion) and peas­ant agri­cul­ture, as well as alter­na­tive ways of life.We are deter­mined to cre­ate alter­na­tives to cap­i­tal­ism through coop­er­a­tive, col­lec­tive, autonomous, real-needs-ori­ent­ed, small-scale pro­duc­tion and ini­tia­tives. We are putting the­o­ry into prac­tice and link­ing local prac­ti­cal action with glob­al polit­i­cal strug­gles.

Seeds

The “Reclaim the seeds” work­ing group invites peo­ple to come with self­pro­duced seeds and any doc­u­ment they think would be nice to share. With the prac­tise of seed swap’s we want to reflect about the sub­ject of seeds col­lec­tive­ly.

A Camp wel­com­ing Chil­dren

The Camp is meant to be a chil­dren friend­ly space, where chil­dren and their affin­i­ty per­sons have a space and are includ­ed in actions, the pro­gram and oth­er camp activ­i­ties. We are aware that polit­i­cal actions and camps often con­tain obsta­cles for par­ents and affin­i­ty per­son of chil­dren and thus exclude them. Tak­ing into account the real needs of chil­dren and affin­i­ty per­sons we want to cre­ate a space for every­one. Please feel wel­come to come to the camp and par­tic­i­pate! We would be hap­py if you would get in touch with us before­hand in order to talk about an ade­quate arrange­ment.

No space for Racism or Sex­ism – Not at the Camp nor any­where else

The camp explic­it­ly takes a stand against Sex­ism and Racism as well as oth­er forms of dom­i­na­tion on the basis of hier­ar­chi­cal social cat­e­gories, the camp posi­tions itself deter­mi­nant against sex­ist and racist acts.

Costs of the Camp

We try to orga­nize the camp as low-cost as pos­si­ble but are depen­dent on your sol­i­dar­i­ty con­tri­bu­tions. Please get in touch with us if you want to come but the trav­el is too expen­sive for you. We want to make it pos­si­ble for every­body to come and share trav­el costs in a col­lec­tive man­ner, but can not guar­an­tee any­thing.

Visa

If you need a Visa to get to the camp an want to be sup­port­ed in that case, get in touch with us at – camp2013_AT_reclaimthefields.org

Infor­ma­tion and con­tact

More, up to date, infor­ma­tion about the pro­gram, how to get to the camp, food, camp­ing, etc. can be found at www.reclaimthefield.org/camp/2013

Through the mailadress camp2013_AT_reclaimthefields.org you can reach us with ques­tions about the camp.

For work­shops please write to program[at]reclaimthefields.org.

For more infor­ma­tion about RtF and Ausgeco2hlt vis­it: reclaimthefields.org and ausgeco2hlt.de

Reg­is­ter for the camp at: reclaimthefields.org/registration

The more peo­ple reg­is­ter the eas­i­er it is for us to plan!

Feel free to for­ward this call to indi­vid­u­als or groups you know and come to the camp!

Resis­tance is fer­tile!

Your Camp-Organ­i­sa­tion

 

¹RWE is Ger­manys sec­ond biggest ener­gy sup­ply con­cern, that keeps on using cole as th main ener­gy and has com­pared to oth­er euro­pean com­pa­nies a very low share of regen­er­a­tive ener­gies in the mix of ener­gies. RWE is being criti­sised of doing gree­wash­ing with “cli­mate cam­paigns” whilst through open cast min­ing a lot of nature and towns are being destroyed, aswell as low­er­ing the ground­wa­ter.