The Climate Camp is organised into neighbourhoods. These are mini-communities where the camp’s kitchens and living spaces can be found. They provide an excellent place to network and make new friends. Neighbourhoods run their own affairs at the camp through daily morning meetings. The neighbourhoods are formed on a regional basis, coming from right across the UK from Scotland to the South Coast, and they are open for all to join both before and at the camp. Many of the neighbourhoods continue taking decentralised action against climate change throughout the year.
The neighbourhoods are currently holding planning meetings camp. Click for more details. If you want any more general information about neighbourhoods email neighbourhoods@climatecamp.org.uk
Do you have equipment? Spaces activist groups can use? Skills you would like to share with others? ATC are currently doing an audit of grassroots movements to see what materials we have and what we have to offer each other. Please take part in our questionnaire, and help us create a strong network where we share skills and materials.
Devon and Kernow
South Coast
Oxford and Thames Valley
London
Westside
Wales
Eastside
West Midlands
North West
Yorkshire
Scotland
Devon and Kernow
We started this year as SoutWest neighbourhood, but realising that there are already a West Side and South Coast neighbourhoods as well, we wanted to reflect more efficiency.
We are very happy to be Devon & Kernow now!
We are just another piece of this big puzzle called Climate Camp. Together, our group efforts are giving body and energy to this important struggle.
If you live somewhere in Devon & Kernow, we'll be more than happy to have you along with your new ideas, experience, proposals,conexions or anything you want to offer to the Camp from this neighbourhood!
This space is maintained by local activists of these two areas, so we are always busy in our local actions! but ready now to start regular meetings.
For news about the meetings, please keep watching this space or get in contact on devonkernow[at]climatecamp.org.uk
Peace, Community and Resistance!
Devon & Kernow
The South Coast Neighbourhood is happening! After some stopping and
starting we think we actually have the thing running...
We are a friendly and passionate bunch of people - gathering folk from
across the South East for what we for what we believe is one of the most
important turning points in history.
Preparations are underway, but more bodies would make the thing run more
smoothly as we're getting together the last bits of nitty gritty.
Offers for transport would be ace!
Get in touch by email - particularly from other towns across the South
East - to build up the networks!
Neighbourhood Meetings:
Held weekly at The Cowley Club, 12 London Road,
Brighton BN1 4JA (for the time being)
Wednesdays 6pm-8pm
Email: southcoast[at]climatecamp.org.uk
Thames Valley Protesters are a diverse and friendly bunch of local folks who are taking action against climate change. We're also organising the Oxford and Thames Valley neighbourhood at this years' climate camp. To get involved, email oxford[at]climatecamp.org.uk or come along to our meetings --7pm every Monday at Oxford Action Resource Centre ( http://theoarc.org.uk/).
Welcome to the Westside neighbourhood page; Westside is made up of folks from a broad range of regions throughout the southwest, including Wiltshire, Somerset, Bristol and South Wales. If you're based round these parts, and feeling that radical solutions to climate change and social justice are in too short a supply, then we want you!
The Camp for Climate Action is divided into neighbourhoods not unlike our one, either geographically or idealogically arranged, and are a good tool for organising the people on site. Neighbourhoods have their own kitchen, their own renewable power supply, their own sanitation and facilities, and their own communal space for eating, meeting, making and playing. In the case of Westside, we also boast a proud array of rocket stoves and dogs!
If you want to get involved with the neighbourhood, then either send an email to Westside[at]climatecamp.org.uk, or sign up to the Westside mailing list, at https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/westsideclimatecampers. Our next meeting is at the Riverside Community Centre on London Road in Bath on the 20th June, from 6 til 8: if you can make it, drop us a line.
These are our prime communication tools, but local groups also meet up in their towns and cities to plan in person: if based in Bristol, head along to the fortnightly meetings of Bristol Rising Tide on Mondays at 7.30pm at the Kebele Kulture Projekt social centre, 14 Robertson Road in Easton - the next meeting is the 23rd June. If based in South Wales, South Wales Anarchists meet the first Monday of every month, though the venue differs - see http://southwalesanarchists.org/. If based in or near Bath, Bath Activist Network meets the first Thursday of every month downstairs at the Hobgoblin on St James Parade, 7.30pm.
Contact wales[at]climatecamp.org.uk
This is the third climate camp, and we think it’s time for a Wales Neighbourhood. We want activists from Wales to have a strong presence at Kingsnorth to idlect growing climate action in Wales, particularly as the main focus of this year’s camp is coal.
Coal is a fuel that has deep links with Wales, the Welsh landscape and culture. Old King Coal has left his sooty trace through Welsh history and into the 21st century. From the miners’ strikes to recent direct action on opencast sites, the social and environmental issues surrounding coal extraction have motivated and politicised communities in Wales through the decades.
Wales is now one of the main sources of indigenous coal in the British Isles with many new opencast mines planned or gearing up. By linking up at Kingsnorth this summer we can help join the dots of coal supply and demand. Let’s voice a big fat unified NO to new coal, and those in government and big business who seem determined to lock us into a dirty dependency for years to come. Runaway climate change sponsored by UK Ltd. and E:on? Dim Diolch!
Come and get involved and help create a positive hub for Welsh networks: share skills, make friends and participate in non-violent direct action!
We really need support, materials, skilled people, chefs, artists, engineers, toileteers, poets, truck driving poets, schemers, dreamers and pole-vaulting polar bears… get in touch if you want to get involved at this email address…
Check www.coalhole.org for an example of what’s been going on of late.
We’ll be organising a gathering sometime soon as centrally as possible once we’ve gauged numbers of the interested and willing.
"We are Eastside!
The ball is starting to roll for the Kings North Eastside Neighbourhood
which will consist Eastern English climate action groups working
together to create a space for us to live collectively and take action
to cut the burning of fossil fuels.
At present Eastside Climate Action incorporates groups from Nottingham,
Derby, Cambridge and Norfolk. If you are in one of these areas and would
like to meet people going to the camp, email or telephone us using the
contact details below and we'll put you in touch. If you are not in one
of those areas but would like to be a part of Eastside, get in touch
also, or come along to the Eastside Weekend in Nottingham on the 19th &
20th July.
Have a look at our Tat Top Ten, the stuff we really need - if you've got
it, get in touch! In no particular order:
1. At least two metal Kitchen Sinks
2. Wooden Stands for the Sinks
3. Pallets and Boarding for walkways and food storage
4. Tarpaulins and plastic sheeting, plus clamps
5. Rugs and old carpet for flooring
6. Cushions and seating
7. Flipchart paper, pens, pins and notice boards
8. Fog horns, air horns and megaphones
9. Tables and toilet seats
10. Lanterns, torches and tea-lights with jars/holders
Oh, and tools!
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Eastside Weekend
19th July - Eastside Neighbourhood meeting, 4pm
20th July - Eastside Garden Party, 1pm till 10pm
Come to the Eastside Climate Action 2008 fundraiser, the Eastside Garden
Party, at the Sumac Centre in Forest Fields Nottingham on Sunday 20th
July. Go to http://www.veggies.org.uk/arc.php?output=veg for more info
and directions. During this weekend there will also be a meeting to
clarify issues such as the setting up of the neighbourhood at Climate
Camp Kings North. Please come, it's a good opportunity to get involved
and make a contribution.
Contacts
general email: info@eastsideclimateaction.org.uk
if you have equipment: tat@eastsideclimateaction.org.uk
telephone: 07765 217118 or 07799 111 385
We're getting there!"
We are loose affiliation of people living in the West-Midlands region from many
different backgrounds, united in recognising the need for major social change to
effectively respond to the climate crisis. The first WM neighbourhood formed in
Birmingham in 2007 but drew in many from outside the city at the camp - Malvern,
Worcester, Telford, Stoke, Leamington Spa, West Wales - helping to create new
climate action networks across the area.
Our meetings to plan and organise for CCA 2008 have so far been held in central
Birmingham. The next meeting, which includes a film screening of last year's camp,
is being held on Thursday July 10th, from 7pm at the Spotted Dog pub on Alcester St
(not the one on Meridan St.!) in Digbeth, B12 0NH.
Anyone who is interested in helping out with WM neighbourhood preparations this year
then please contact the email below. All are welcome and encouraged to get involved
- there's lots of skills to learn in the process, and plenty of opportunity to share
them. Help is always needed - especially with transport to the camp.
As with other groups there is no central leadership and decisions at meetings are
made consensually.
CONTACT: wmclimatecamp@riseup.net or sign up to the e-list
wmclimatecamp@lists.riseup.net
North West
NORTHWESTERLY NEIGHBOURHOOD
combining folk from all over the northwest - from Liverpool, Lancaster, Manchester, Cumbria and anywhere in between; this year we're also being joined byBicycology
(www.bicycology.org.uk).
last year's camp at Heathrow gave the collective some good momentum, which has carried through into this last year, and we're now getting ready forKingsnorth, where our neighbourhood will be back and better than ever!
our neighbourhood planning meetings are on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of every month,8-9pm.
contact manchester[at]climatecamp.org.uk for more details
If you are interested please come along to our next event in Leeds (see below)
Or, if you cant make it or if you live far from Leeds, contact us by emailing yorksclimatecamp[at]lists.riseup.net
09/07/08 6.45pm Climate Chaos Café – and The Camp for Climate Action Yorkshire Neighbourhood Assembly double bill extravaganza….
The final Climate Chaos Café – and The Camp for Climate Action Assembly double bill will be taking place On Wednesday the 9th July at the Common Place in Leeds
We will start with a classic Climate Chaos Café with a speaker, starting at 6.45pm followed by a fantastic Vegan meal at 7.15pm and The Camp for Climate Action Yorkshire Neighbourhood Assembly at 8pm. All are welcome.
The topic of the night Climate Chaos Café will be – New Coal in the UK – with Paul Morozzo
Six new coal fired power stations are planned in the UK, with Kingsnorth in Kent leading the way. We have not built a coal fired power station in the UK for 30 years. So why, when everyone is talking about climate change are we starting now? Collectively these six power stations would emit around 50 million tons of CO2 a year. So why are they being hailed as ‘clean’ coal? And importantly, how do we stop this happening?
Then the final Camp for Climate Action Yorkshire Neighbourhood Assembly
Fittingly, the Camp for Climate Action will this year be held at Kingsnorth Coal fired power station , Kent, 3rd to 11th August. The Camp for Climate Action is all about coming together to build a mass movement to stop climate change and those profiting from its causes. There will be 100 educational workshops, a demonstration eco village, and opportunity for direct action against the coal industry. People from across Yorkshire have been planning to travel down to the event together, and to camp in a ‘Yorkshire Neighbourhood’ on the site. This is an opportunity to meet others going, to ask questions, make plans and help to put in place the practical arrangements. All are welcome whether they are thinking of coming of just curious.
Spread the word – and we hope to see you there.
directions to the common place at www.thecommonplace.org.uk
