Climate Camp Australia
Climate camp will be 6 days of inspiring workshops & direct action aimed a shutting down the world's largest coal port.
We invite you, your friends and family to participate in the Camp for Climate Action!
Newcastle, July 10 – 15, 2008.
Registration Now Open.
The Camp for Climate Action (www.climatecamp.org.au)
will be an inspiring five days of workshops and grassroots direct
action aimed at stopping the expansion of the world's biggest coal port
in Newcastle. The Australian Climate Camp is one of seven being held around the world in July and early August 2008.
Climate change is the biggest threat to our future, and coal is the
biggest cause of climate change, yet the Australian coal industry is
still expanding. We need real action to keep fossil fuels in the ground
- and we're running out of time! One thing is certain, we can't wait
for Governments or the fossil fuel industry to solve the climate
crisis. We must start to create the change we want to see ourselves.
The camp is a collaboration between environment groups, community
organisations, student groups, and individuals.- hopefully now
including you! Groups already involved include Friends of the Earth
Australia, Rising Tide, the Australian Student Environment Network and
individuals from local climate action groups.
The camp will include workshops, opportunities to learn, develop skills
and share stories. It aims to be an inspiring example of a sustainable
and participatory community and will culminate in a mass, non-violent
direct action focussed on the root causes of climate change.
In the spirit of the great global history of civil disobedience
(Gandhi's salt march, the American civil rights movement, the shutdown
of the Jabiluka uranium mine), the Camp for Climate Action will be a
chance for ordinary people to assert our right to a future free from
dangerous climate change. By being a part of it, in Newcastle - the
coalface of climate change - you will be part of creating a living
future for our children.
Whatever your background, there is a role for you. We need people to
help with the physical set up of the camp to make it as sustainable as
low impact as possible. We need help promoting the camp and spreading
the word, facilitating workshops, and we need people to come with their
own creative ideas and plans for direct action.
We are inviting you to start organising now with your friends, your
family, your Climate Action Group or your community collective or
organisation. At Climate Camp, we're calling them 'Action Teams'
(known to many as affinity groups) – teams of people who act together
at Climate Camp. Already people right across Australia are preparing
their contribution to the Camp for Climate Action:
There is much you can do, with or in forming your Action Team in the lead up to Climate Camp. Contact us if we can support you in preparing for the Camp for Climate Action or see www.climatecamp.org.au/action-teams for more information.
Check out www.climatecamp.org.au to register and see how you can get involved.
- Holly Creenaune, Nicky Ison, John Hepburn, Vanessa Bowden, George Woods, Jeni Reed, Tim Briedis, Damien Lawson and the Climate Camp organising collective.
