West Midlands Climate Activists Weekend (9th/10th June: training, party…)

Activists organ­is­ing for this year’s Camp for Cli­mate Action in the West Mid­lands are putting on a two-day event of dis­cus­sion, work­shops and par­ty­ing this week­end in Birm­ing­ham this week­end — Sat 9th June and Sun­day 10th June.

Activists organ­is­ing for this year’s Camp for Cli­mate Action in the West Mid­lands are putting on a two-day event of dis­cus­sion, work­shops and par­ty­ing this week­end in Birm­ing­ham this week­end — Sat 9th June and Sun­day 10th June.

The event has come out of dis­cus­sions with­in the West Mid­lands Cli­mate Camp process, which high­light­ed a need for train­ing in non-vio­lent direct action. Since those ini­tial dis­cus­sions the event has expand­ed into a two-day explo­ration of NVDA, prac­ti­cal low-tech ener­gy, con­sen­sus, cli­mate change and the Cli­mate Camp process. This will be the first in a series of sim­i­lar events lead­ing up to the Camp, and beyond.

On Sat­ur­day 9th June at 10am par­tic­i­pants will be meet­ing at the cafe at the Mid­lands Arts Cen­tre, Edg­bas­ton (see- http://www.macarts.co.uk/?page=visiting/locationMap.html. Bus­es 45 or 47 from the City Cen­tre); from there they will go the main venue. We will have a cli­mate camp sign in the cafe so peo­ple know where to con­verge. Sat­ur­day’s main focus will be NVDA train­ing, with guest train­ers from Seeds For Change along for the ride. Seeds For Change pro­vide train­ing and sup­port to grass­roots campaigners,NGOs, Co-ops and oth­er com­mu­ni­ty groups and organ­i­sa­tions in the social sec­tor.
Vis­it http://www.seedsforchange.org.uk/

Sun­day will be devot­ed to all the oth­er work­shops we want to do, and it is hoped that some of the events will take place in the park if the weath­er is dry.

The timetable pro­vi­sion­al­ly agreed so far is as fol­lows:

Sat­ur­day 9th June
10am Meet at the MAC, fol­lowed by brunch ice­break­er.
11am Open­ing ses­sion: par­tic­i­pants will dis­cuss togeth­er their needs and wants from the weekend.Includes intro to Cli­mate Camp.
11.30 NVDA intro­du­tion.
1:30pm Lunch
2pm NVDA train­ing.
5pm Reclaim Pow­er — a film about Cli­mate Camp 2006, fol­lowed by dis­cus­sion.
7.30pm Par­ty.

Sun­day 10th June
10am Brunch
11am Work­shops all day, inc. rock­et stove mak­ing (learn to make a stove out of an old oil drum), con­sen­sus deci­sion mak­ing, cli­mate sci­ence, debunk­ing myths and counter argu­ments, grey water sys­tems, 12 volt elec­tric­i­ty, vis­it to the allot­ment

There is no fee but dona­tions of any kind will be wel­comed. Please bring food to share if you can. Feel free to come by at any point or for the whole week­end!
Please note that times may change, as the event devel­ops.
This is a non-heirar­chi­cal­ly organ­ised event: par­tic­i­pants will get out what they put in. You can offer work­shops at the event or before­hand.

For more infor­ma­tion as to times and venue, to offer a work­shop, or for any oth­er com­mu­ni­ca­tion, please call or text 07904 529362.
You can also email west-mids[at]climatecamp.org.uk

The West Mid­lands Cli­mate Camp Neigh­bour­hood organ­is­ing group meet every
Wednes­day 7.30 at the Spot­ted Dog pub in Alces­ter Street, Dig­beth. Come
and get involved!