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"Nordic Climate Action Camp 2011" meeting
Sept. 18, 2010

End time:	Sept. 19, 2010 midnight
Created by:	Climate Collective
Place:	Stockholm, Folkskolegatan 32

Take part in creating a Nordic Climate Action Camp next summer!

After this year's success with the Nordic Climate Action Camp in Skåne, we want to continue building and strengthening our growing climate justice movement in the Nordic region.

This year's camp brought together activists from Denmark, Sweden, Finland and many other countries, for a week of direct action against Shell gas drillings, DIY alternatives and skill sharing, while strengthening the connections between different local struggles and Nordic activists.

Following the enthusiasm of these experiences, we have already started thinking about our next campaigns and goals for the future.

The next organizing meeting will take place in Stockholm on the 18th and 19th of September. Here we will share ideas and start planning our next year of activities. Practical information will follow on the homepage [www.nordiccamp.org] (www.nordiccamp.org)

In order to have a productive meeting, we strongly encourage groups that intend to participate to meet, brainstorm and discuss a few questions (see below).

We recognize that many political struggles are connected, and explicitly linking them gives us strength. Therefore, we invite groups that are not traditionally focused on climate justice (such as no borders folks, workers, queers, anti-militarists, etc) to take part and help linking the dots, bringing different skills and ideas into the discussion.

If you haven't been involved in this year's camp, this is our political foundation:

Our goals for this camp

• develop methods of action and share skills to confront opressive and destructive systems
• build a movement of action and create a grassroot’s alternatives in a nordic context

Why are we having a climate camp?

• established political leaders and systems can not and will not solve the climate crisis.
• it is up to us to stop climate change and we must organize and take action
• there is a need to create a space for resistance and self-organized alternatives
• we want to strengthen regional struggles against resource exploitation

Points of Unity for the Nordic Action Climate Camp

• capitalism is the cause of climate change, and it must be dismantled to fight the climate crisis
• we can not leave action to parliamentary structures, but must take action ourselves!
• we confront the causes of climate changes using direct action and a diversity of tactics.
• solving the climate crisis is not just an environmental issue, it is a social fight connected to all other struggles for justice.
• we encourage acts of active participation, solidarity, equality, own initiatives and thus we resist all forms of oppression and discrimination
• we embrace forms of non-hierarchical organisation
• our struggle is part of a global struggle for climate justice

Questions to discuss:

• What should be the focus of the camp? (Should it be nuclear? Fossil fuels? Deforestation? Anything else?).

• Which other struggles exist in the Nordic region that could be relevant for us to link to?

• How much do we involve other groups working on different issues? Do we invite them to participate and have workshops, or do we want them to organize with us?

• Which targets do you find relevant for next year's camp and for the campaign leading up to it? Discuss with your group and point out 2-3 possible targets, preparing a short presentation about who, what, why, where, pros and cons, etc.

• What kind of campaign would you like leading up to the camp? How could we set it up? What should it include?

• How big a part of the camp should be focused on direct action, and how much time should we use on action during the camp, compared to other activities? (discuss it compared to this year's program, if you were there).

• How many people do you think would be a good number for the camp?

• How do you think the preparation of the camp should be organized? Do we need a central organizing group or can we hand out different responsibilities to local groups?

• How broad should we mobilize for the camp? How do we reach a wider variety of age, nationality and ethnicity?

• Which dates would be good? (Discuss with your group, trying to map already existing local events and their dates)

• What resources could you bring? People, funds, ideas, materials, skills.

Bring ideas, get engaged and spread in your networks!

With love from the Nordic Climate Action Camp group.

The meeting will be held in Folkskolegatan 32, Station Hornstull on the red tunnelbana line. If you get lost or need information, you can also call the +46722020771.