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Climate Camp coming up! Newcastle, Australia!
Direct Action SkillsharesThe Camp for Climate Action will be a convergence of people from all over Australia who are determined to see real action on climate change. It will be held in Newcastle, the world's largest coal port that is set for a massive expansion. Australia is in a good position to switch to renewables and our failure to move away from coal is our society's greatest climate crime. We need a just transition from coal to clean energy – not an expansion of the coal industry. Climate Camp will be an inspiring gathering of people of all ages and from all walks of life coming together to take direct action for a living future.Where: ASEN Office, 19 Eve St, ErskinevilleIn the lead up to the Camp for Climate Action, members of the camp organising collective will be running monthly Non-Violent Direct Action (NVDA) skillshares in Sydney. We invite YOU to attend!
When: Last Sunday of every month 10am - 4pm
(Sun March 30 THIS SUNDAY!, Sun April 27, Sun May 25, Sun June 29)
Through these workshops we will explore:
- What to expect at Camp for Climate Action
- Why the Camp for Climate Action
- What we mean by non-violent direct action (NVDA)
- The history of NVDA. In particular, each month we will have a guest from a different campaign which has successfully used NVDA. In March we start with a Jabiluka activist, as it is the 10th anniversary of the start of the Jabiluka blockade.
- Skills to help you partake in non-violent direct action (NVDA) safely & with the support of those around you
- How to use NVDA strategically with define clear objectives for an action and to ensure that actions meets your objectives
- Role play of NVDA action scenario's
- Legal briefings on NSW laws and impacts of getting arrested (remember there are many many non-arrestable ways to be part of NVDA)
- Media and interview skills
- Police liaison skills and conflict de-escalation skills
- Forming of affinity groups before heading up to Newcastle/Hunter Valley
- Creating NVDA actions in the lead up to July 10 and the Camp for Climate Action.
These workshops are also a great place to meet people who are also interested in coming to Climate Camp!
If there are other areas you would like to see covered please email [email protected] and effort will be made to include those areas in the workshop series.
Things to bring - lunch, water bottle, pen and paper & wear comfortable clothes that you can move easily in.
Activities associated with Camp for Climate Action will be conducted in a non-violent manner and are open to all people wanting to take part in real action on climate change.
For more information on workshops and to RSVP contact [email protected]
www.climatecamp. org.au
"The sun shines. To hell with everything else!" - Stephen Fry
"As the world of the spectacle extends its reign it approaches the climax of its offensive, provoking new resistances everywhere. These resistances are very little known precisely because the reigning spectacle is designed to present an omnipresent hypnotic image of unanimous submission. But they do exist and are spreading.", The Bad Days Will End.
"(The) working class exists and struggles in all countries, and has the same enemies in all countries – the police, the army, the unions, nationalism, and the fake ‘socialism’ of the bourgeois left. It shows that the conditions for a worldwide revolution are ripening everywhere today. It shows that workers and revolutionaries are not passive spectators of inter-imperialist conflicts: they have a camp to choose, the camp of the proletarian struggle against all the factions of the bourgeoisie and all imperialisms." -ICC, Nation or Class?
