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. | FRIDAY JULY 11th | | | | | | | | | |
. | Time | Main Marquee | Marquee 2 | Marquee 3 | Marquee 4 | Actions Tent | Facilitators' Hothouse | Marquee 7 | Marquee 8 | Marquee 9 |
. | 8:00:00 | Breakfast and Tour of onsite renewable energy - meet at the solar panels! With Maurice Wells (Sydney Energy Co-operative) | | | Site
Logistics and Safer Spaces check-in. Come to the Organisers Tent with
any queries, concerns or suggestions. Not everyone has to go, talk
amongst your neighbourhood and send a delegate.
| | In
the Facilitators' Hothouse: Program check-in and Facilitators'
preparation and briefing. For people already scheduled to or interested
in facilitating forums or workshops during the Camp - come along to a
quick morning check-in, allocation of sessions and preparation. No
experience in facilitation, but interested? Come along and we'll find a
'buddy' for you to have a go! Volunteers welcome. | | | |
. | 9 – 10:30am | Your
legal rights and obligations when protesting in NSW. This workshop will
outline some of the key laws that protestors need to be aware of when
protesting or taking direct action. With the NSW Environmental
Defenders Office. | Being a good ally - Protocol and acting in solidarity with Yoree (indigenous) people. With Peta Ridgeway | Media
workshop on message development (purpose, emotion, logic, credibility),
consistency at an action, confidence and empowerment in media work,
writing media releases, media alerts, political alerts. With Anna
Keenan | Street Theatre – Interested in learning
how to use clowning and theatre skills to create positive and effective
direct action? Roll up to hear about the colourful history of Rebel
Clown Army movements in the UK and learn the art of clowning with
Dangerboy and the crew.
| Direct Action
workshop: All Climate Camp participants are encouraged to attend a
direct action workshop during the camp – to learn the basics or refresh
your knowledge, to prepare with your Action Team and to share your
thoughts and experiences with others. There will be a variety of
workshop activities for a diversity of participants and experiences.
These workshops are also a great place to form or strengthen Action
Teams, and to get prepared to take direct action to stand up for a just
climate future! | Workshop: Facilitation: task and
maintenance with the Change Agency. This experiential workshop helps
participants facilitate meetings that address both the task and
maintenance dimensions of group life – meetings that achieve results
and build groups that are sustainable and enjoyable. Who would benefit:
people new to facilitation, experienced facilitators keen to refresh
and extend their skills and community group members keen to develop the
skills and confidence to facilitate. 25 spots only, sign up on the
board at the Hothouse if you're interested! | Human
Rights Monitors training - Climate Camp Legals Collective. A Human
Rights Monitor (HRM) attends protests to monitor and record police
misbehaviour and misconduct. The presence of HRMs can be an important
check on police behaviour and helps to protect our right to protest.
There are many important roles in a direct action movement outside of
action roles, and the role of HRMs is one of these. Come along to this
training to learn about being a HRM during the camp, especially on the
action days, and for future protests. | Developing a
sustainable activism and avoiding burnout. Many activists work with
lots of passion to bring about positive social and/or environmental
change. That passion can also contribute to burnout (a state of
psychological and/or physical exhaustion). The activist community can’t
ignore the human cost of burnout: We need to practice sustainable
activism, which means adopting effective techniques of self-care. We
will share techniques we use to deal with burnout as individuals and
look at developing a practice of sustainable activism. With Patricia
Preston. | Think bigger than our backyard - Cara
Bevington from Oxfam Australia. Climate change is a major threat to us
all. But it is poor people in developing countries who are, and will
continue to be, hit first and hardest by climate change. Hear first
hand accounts from communities in Asia, the Pacific, and South America
where people are already taking drastic steps to adapt to climate
change, and discuss the role that Australia needs to play as a climate
leader. |
. | 10:30 - 11 | Break | | | | | | | | |
. | 11 - 1pm | What
is radical climate action and why do we need it ? Adequate responses to
climate change are radical. We need swift and far-reaching changes to
our economy and society to solve this crisis. This is a participatory
forum to collectively explore the nature of radical climate action, its
role and its future in the Australian climate change movement. With
Adrian Whitehead (Target 300), Kamala Emanual (Socialist Alliance),
Peter Gray (Rising Tide) and Emma Brindal (Friends of the Earth). | Forests
and Carbon. Trees the forgotten solution to climate change. Recent
research reveals the irreplaceable role forests play in mitigating the
effects of climate change. Australia’s temperate forests are among the
most carbon-rich in the world. A shortcoming of the Kyoto agreement is
that forests are given no carbon value. There must be a recognition
about the role forests play, how they are accounted for, and whether
emissions from logging will be measured. Amelia Young, The Wilderness
Society
| Corporate Campaigning and responding to
spin - the greenwashing of climate change. With Lauren Caulfield
(Corporate Watch Australia) | Making regional
connections - planning with people from your state or region for future
climate action! With group discussion and planning from Melbourne,
Sydney, Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane and hopefully elsewhere! Nicky Ison
(ASEN) | Direct Action Skillshare - especially for
people looking to form or join an action team! Training in non-violent
action has been a strong feature of organised campaigning and
resistance since Gandhi and Martin Luther King. When we train for
peaceful direct action, we can learn skills and experiment in a safe,
fun environment. We can explore and express our fears, and prepare
ourselves emotionally, physically, and politically. Importantly, we
will consider what will make our actions successful. | Facilitation workshop with the Change Agency (continued) | Dealing
with state repression: the aftermath of the g20 protests: After the
Nov. '06 protests against the G20 economic forum 28 people were charged
with wide-ranging and extremely serious offences including riot, affray
and aggravated burglary. One person is currently serving a 28 month
prison sentence, 13 people will go to trial next year. This is an
unprecedented attack on political protest & dissent in Australia.
Hear an update, learn about the solidarity campaign and what you can
do. Presented by the Ongoing G20 Arrestees Solidarity Network. | Unions
and climate action - after the success and grassroots mobilisation
during the Your Rights At Work campaign and more recently the Power to
the People anti-privatisation campaign, unions are looking to take up
the issue of climate change. Join workers and climate activists in
exploring ways to better work together in the future. Facilitated by
Zane and Mark | Junk Percussion with Jacque and Kai, come drum up a revolution using recycled percussion and funk samba reggae beats |
. | 1 - 2pm | Lunch.
Not in an Action Team? Head to the Main Marquee for lunch to meet great
people, and form or join an Action Team. Action Teams will help provide
support and co-ordination throughout the camp and the days of action. | | | | | | | | |
. | 2 – 3:30pm | A
Just Transition: From fossil fuel economies to a clean energy future.
Coal is Australia's biggest contribution to climate change. Hunter
Valley communities and ecologies are at breaking point from the impacts
of the coal industry, and recoverable coal reserves in NSW are running
out. This forum looks at plans to fund and implement a just, timely and
orderly transition away from coal and towards renewable energy. Geoff
Evans (Greenpeace Australia Pacific), Daniel Wallace (Newcastle
organiser, AMWU), Anna Rose (national co-ordinator, Australian Youth
Climate Coalition), Graham Brown (retired mineworker) and Peter Barrack
(former Secretary Newcastle Trades Hall Council).
| Moving
away from a consumer society. Measuring progress by growth in GDP and
personal affluence is an accepted dogma in our society, yet
overconsumption is fuelling climate chaos, biodiversity collapse,
social disharmony and the mental health crisis. Fortunately, the
solutions to one are the solutions to the other! Learn why we cannot
solve climate change in the growth economy and discuss how a move to a
zero growth economy could solve many of our environmental and social
problems. Terry Leahy (Sociologist, University of Newcastle) and Glenn
Albrecht (Environmental Ethicist, University of Newcastle). | On
Sunday 21st September 2008 hundreds of cyclists from across Australia
will converge on Parliament to deliver 15 000 signed Climate Protection
Bill postcards to the 150 MPs whose support we need for the bill to
pass! Behind them will be the Climate Clock, that will track the
world's greenhouse gas emissions concentration, environmental impacts
and likely degree increases minute by minute. Whether you’re a rider,
an organiser, a punter or a parent, are in a climate action group or
just know how to ask people to sign postcards, come along to find out -
Climate Action Coogee (Australian Youth Climate Coalition and GetUp are
also involved in the project). | The campaign for
no new coal in Victoria - the proposed HRL coal-fired power station,
"clean coal" projects and more - Friends of the Earth Melbourne and
Corporate Watch Australia | Direct Action workshop:
All Climate Camp participants are encouraged to attend a direct action
workshop during the camp – to learn the basics or refresh your
knowledge, to prepare with your Action Team and to share your thoughts
and experiences with others. There will be a variety of workshop
activities for a diversity of participants and experiences. These
workshops are also a great place to form or strengthen Action Teams,
and to get prepared to take direct action to stand up for a just
climate future! | Coal mining, rivers, and water.
The issue of mining damage to our river systems is an extremely urgent
one. It is directly relevant to climate change, as most of the
destruction to our rivers is being caused because of corporate and
government greed for coal money, and our river systems are as important
as ever for our uncertain future. Plus a screening of new DVD 'Rivers
of Shame 2', With Mira Peart and Dave Burgess, Rivers SoS. | Student
convergence – Students have a rich history of mass mobilisation and
direct action in struggles for social justice. Join this participatory
discussion and planning for student organising around coal, just
transitions and building a movement at Climate Camp and beyond.
Participants from the Sydney Uni Enviro Collective, the Australian
Student Environment Network and more! | Anti-oppression skillshare-‘But I LOVE hip hop!’: White privilege, environmental activists and racial justice in Australia
This workshop is based on the premise that white people have to take some responsibility for dismantling white privilege
and structural racism in our society and in our activism. We will reflect on how to move from awareness through guilt to a
politics
of solidarity. Note: although this workshop is targeted at white people
doing self-reflective work, it is not an exclusive
space. There will be a caucus for people of colour who would like to participate, and all perspectives, contributions and
observations will be valued and appreciated. | Food,
agriculture, global warming and the environmental costs of meat
production – what change is needed? Amy Johnson and Katrina Byrne. |
. | 3:30 – 4pm | Break | | | | | | | | |
. | 4 - 5:30 SPOKESCOUNCIL | Main
Marquee: Spokescouncil - gathering of Camp Participants and Action
Teams to discuss actions during Climate Camp. Spokescouncils are a way
for a mass group of people to communicate effectively and make
decisions together through direct democracy. Climate Camp
spokescouncils will discuss and make decisions on camp actions and
other issues that may arise during the camp. This is one opportunity to
get involved in and participate in the running of the camp, the actions
we'll take, and to experience consensus decision making on a big scale. | | | | | | | | |
. | 6pm | Dinner | | | | | | | | |
. | 7 - 9pm | Main
Marquee: What kind of movement will it take? Join this relaxed and
informal conversation on creating and sustaining the grassroots climate
action movement by strengthening local groups and organising online.
Some objectives for this discussion are to identify existing resources,
help local groups access them, identify priorities for education and
training and explore ways to address them. Initiators: Meg Ivory
(Greenpeace) James Whelan (the Change Agency) | | | Marquee 2: films | | Marquee
3: Across the ditch - climate organising and direct action in
Aotearoa/New Zealand. Presented by Gareth Hughes, from the Green Party
of Aotearoa and the Save Happy Valley Coalition this workshop will
present an overview of the state of play of climate activism in New
Zealand, the community struggle against coal and the ongoing Happy
Valley occupation. | | Facilitators'
Hothouse: Program and facilitators' debrief. Quick check-in and debrief
to support people making the Program happen and facilitating workshops
and plenaries! | |
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. | SATURDAY JULY 12th | | | | | | | | | |
. | Time | Main Marquee | Marquee 2 | Marquee 3 | Marquee 4 | Actions Tent | Facilitators' Hothouse | Marquee 7 | Marquee 8 | Marquee 9 |
. | 8:00:00 | Breakfast and tour of onsite renewable energy - meet at the solar panels! With Maurice Wells, Sydney Energy Co-operative | | | Site
Logistics and Safer Spaces check-in. Come to the Organisers Tent with
any queries, concerns or suggestions. Not everyone has to go, talk
amongst your neighbourhood and send a delegate.
| | In
the Facilitators' Hothouse: Program check-in and Facilitators'
preparation and briefing. For people already scheduled to or interested
in facilitating forums or workshops during the Camp - come along to a
quick morning check-in, allocation of sessions and preparation. No
experience in facilitation, but interested? Come along and we'll find a
'buddy' for you to have a go! Volunteers welcome. | | | |
. | 9 – 10:30am | Come
to the Human Sign at Wickam Park at Climate Camp and tell the world
what needs to happen. Cutting carbon emissions can't wait until later –
we have to do it now. We need as many people as possible to make a
giant ticking clock – that's right, a ticking clock – and the words
“Cut Carbon – Now or Never”. Initiated by Clean Energy for Eternity
(Bega). | | | Radical
Cheerleading at the Human Sign – Brisbane’s (satirical) ‘Clean Coal’
Cheerleaders. All over the world cheerleading is getting seriously
weird. Garbage bag pom-poms, men in pigtails and skirts, and cheers
that cover topics ranging from gender politics to agriculture and trade
policy. Welcome to the wonderful world of radical cheerleading! You
will find passion, you will find politics, you will find fist pumping,
corporate gate-shaking action. And there won’t be a brain dead football
jock in sight! | | | (For
recent arrivals to the Camp) Welcome to the Camp – Why a Camp for
Climate Action? Program, making safer spaces, neighbourhoods, actions
and decision-making. Come to hear an overview of the program and
planned actions, about our participants agreement, making spaces safe
for everyone, and more detailed explanation for how the Neighborhoods
system will work. It's also an opportunity to ask questions and to meet
and greet the other campers! There will also be an introduction to
'Safer Spaces’. We will discuss what our safety needs and desires are,
and how they can be met through the week of climate camp. | | |
. | 10:30 - 11 | Break | | | | | | | | |
. | 11 - 12:30 | Forum:
Climate Code Red - the case for a sustainability emergency. With David
Spratt (author of book Climate Code Red, Carbon Equity) and Damien
Lawson (Friends of the Earth). Our Climate policy is characterised by
the habituation of low expectations and a culture of failure. There is
an urgent need to understand global warming and the tipping points for
dangerous impacts that we have already crossed. We are now in a race
between climate tipping points and political tipping points. | What's
Law Got To Do With Climate Change? This workshops asks the question: if
Australia was to introduce a Climate Change Act, what should it cover?
The EDO has examined climate legislation from around the world and
analysed its effectiveness in combating climate change. This workshop
will look at some of those measures and discuss their applicability to
Australia. With the NSW Environmental Defenders Office. | Why
should our neighbours homes disappear? Australians must accept
responsibility for Climate Refugees. The next step - winning
recognition of Climate Refugees in Australia. With Friends of the Earth | Breaking
coal dependency in Queensland - the Gladstone coal port expansion,
proposed coal-fired power stations, and the community campaign to cut
Queensland's coal addiction - Eleanor Smith | Direct
Action workshop: All Climate Camp participants are encouraged to attend
a direct action workshop during the camp – learn basics or refresh your
knowledge, to prepare with your Action Team and to share your thoughts
and experiences. When we train for peaceful direct action, we can learn
skills and experiment in a safe, fun environment. We can explore and
express our fears, and prepare ourselves emotionally, physically, and
politically. Importantly, we will consider what will make our actions
successful. | Workshop: Ed2 (educating the activist
educator) with The Change Agency. Activist education is conducted by
and with activists, is openly interested in the processes of change,
and utilises educational methods that bring about change toward social
justice. It builds a sense of personal agency in the learning
environment. Ed2 is for people who facilitate any learning
opportunities with activists or those with an interest in doing so.
This workshop has 25 spots. Please sign up at the Hothouse if you are
interested! | Militarism and the APDSE arms
conference in Adelaide. The Australia Pacific Defence & Security
Exhibition (APDSE) is a weapons and war technology exhibition being
held on the 11th-13th of November in Adelaide this year. This workshop
will be an informational session on the APDSE & who/what's behind
it, the growing Australian Military Industrial Complex, and how to
challenge them. With the anti-APSDE collective. | Self
Defence and Street Harassment. This workshop will explore ways that we
can keep ourselves safer. We will do exercises in which we establish
our personal boundaries, communicate them and learn how to defend them
when they are being crossed. We will also look at how both our bodies
and voices can be used as a weapon for defence and protection. There
will be opportunities to roleplay situations and train in effective and
empowering responses. No previous experience necessary. Queer and trans
friendly space. | Junk Percussion with Jacque and Kai, come drum up a revolution using recycled percussion and funk samba reggae beats |