northeast regional Climate justice gathering
August 8-10 2014
~ Presented by: Rising Tide Vermont, 350Vermont, and the Vermont Workers Center ~
Wheelock Mountain Farm, Greensboro Bend, VT
Tentative Schedule
Featuring Saturday Night Concert With Rude Mechanical Orchestra and Mostly Hank
Friday, August 8th
Workshops: 1:30-3:00 pm:
--Songs and the Movement with the Burlington Solidarity Singers, Nonviolent Communication, Facilitation and Consensus
Workshops: 3:30-5:00:
--Know Your Rights, Media Skills training, Impacts of Mega-Wind and Hydro Power
Weekend Welcome: 5:00-6:00 pm
Dinner: 6:00-7:00 pm
Opening Panel: 7:00-9:00 PM
Building A Movement for Climate Justice
Saturday, August 9th
Breakfast: 8:00-9:00 AM
Workshops: 9:00-10:45 AM:
--Anti-extraction Panel, Nonviolent Direct Action, Just Transitions
Workshops: 11:00-12:30 PM:
--Battle of the Story, Vermont Yankee, Environmental Racism, Nonviolent Direct Action (continued)
Lunch: 12:30-1:30 PM Lunchtime discussion groups:
--Fossil fuel divestment and Student Organizing, Creating Activist Media, Faith Communities and Climate Organizing
Workshops: 1:30-3:00 PM: Panel- Role of Labor in a Just Transition, Consensus Facilitation 101
Workshops: 3:30-5:00 PM:
--Perspectives on UN Mobilization, Pipeline Organizing Panel, Extreme Weather and Climate Justice
Free Time: 5:00-6:00 PM
Dinner: 6:00-7:00 PM
Victories & Mobilization Plenary: 7:00-8:30 PM
Rude Mechanical Orchestra and Mostly Hank Dance Party: 8:30 PM
Sunday, August 10th
Breakfast: 8:00-9:00 AM
Workshops: 9:00-10:45 AM:
--Organizing 101, Logistics for NYC Mobilization, Nonviolent Direction Action
Workshops: 11:00-12:30 PM:
-- False Solutions to Climate Change, New Economy, Media Skills training
Lunch: 12:30-1:30 PM
Workshops: 1:30-3:00 PM:
-- Peace Activism Essential for Climate Justice (Veterans for Peace), Action Coordination and Prep
Trip to Bread & Puppet Theatre: 2:30 PM departure
Monday Action Planning: 3:30-5:00 PM: Coordination for the Climate Carnival action
Free Time: 5:00-6:00 PM
Dinner: 6:00-7:00 PM
Monday, August 11th
Climate Carnival Action: 12:00-1:30 PM
Street Party at the Vermont State House in Montpelier. Featuring live brass bands and performances by Bread & Puppet.
Are you an Artist? Student? Activist? Farmer? Union worker? Indigenous land defender? Peace-maker? Our coalition invites you to the Northeast Regional Climate Justice Gathering – building power for a just transition away from unsustainable energy and toward community-based economies. Together we will enjoy a few days of August in Vermont while learning, training, and making friends. Come strengthen the power of the movement!
Let’s show up in NYC together this September for the People’s Climate March. At this convergence, we will collectively develop and coordinate art and actions for this epic event. We also want to discuss our own local and regional struggles, and build lasting relationships for mutual support and local climate justice work.
Contact: northeastclimatecamp@gmail.com
Click here to register!
Offering/seeking a ride to the gathering?
Click here for rideshare board.
Wheelock Mountain Farm, Greensboro Bend, VT
Tentative Schedule
Featuring Saturday Night Concert With Rude Mechanical Orchestra and Mostly Hank
Friday, August 8th
Workshops: 1:30-3:00 pm:
--Songs and the Movement with the Burlington Solidarity Singers, Nonviolent Communication, Facilitation and Consensus
Workshops: 3:30-5:00:
--Know Your Rights, Media Skills training, Impacts of Mega-Wind and Hydro Power
Weekend Welcome: 5:00-6:00 pm
Dinner: 6:00-7:00 pm
Opening Panel: 7:00-9:00 PM
Building A Movement for Climate Justice
Saturday, August 9th
Breakfast: 8:00-9:00 AM
Workshops: 9:00-10:45 AM:
--Anti-extraction Panel, Nonviolent Direct Action, Just Transitions
Workshops: 11:00-12:30 PM:
--Battle of the Story, Vermont Yankee, Environmental Racism, Nonviolent Direct Action (continued)
Lunch: 12:30-1:30 PM Lunchtime discussion groups:
--Fossil fuel divestment and Student Organizing, Creating Activist Media, Faith Communities and Climate Organizing
Workshops: 1:30-3:00 PM: Panel- Role of Labor in a Just Transition, Consensus Facilitation 101
Workshops: 3:30-5:00 PM:
--Perspectives on UN Mobilization, Pipeline Organizing Panel, Extreme Weather and Climate Justice
Free Time: 5:00-6:00 PM
Dinner: 6:00-7:00 PM
Victories & Mobilization Plenary: 7:00-8:30 PM
Rude Mechanical Orchestra and Mostly Hank Dance Party: 8:30 PM
Sunday, August 10th
Breakfast: 8:00-9:00 AM
Workshops: 9:00-10:45 AM:
--Organizing 101, Logistics for NYC Mobilization, Nonviolent Direction Action
Workshops: 11:00-12:30 PM:
-- False Solutions to Climate Change, New Economy, Media Skills training
Lunch: 12:30-1:30 PM
Workshops: 1:30-3:00 PM:
-- Peace Activism Essential for Climate Justice (Veterans for Peace), Action Coordination and Prep
Trip to Bread & Puppet Theatre: 2:30 PM departure
Monday Action Planning: 3:30-5:00 PM: Coordination for the Climate Carnival action
Free Time: 5:00-6:00 PM
Dinner: 6:00-7:00 PM
Monday, August 11th
Climate Carnival Action: 12:00-1:30 PM
Street Party at the Vermont State House in Montpelier. Featuring live brass bands and performances by Bread & Puppet.
Are you an Artist? Student? Activist? Farmer? Union worker? Indigenous land defender? Peace-maker? Our coalition invites you to the Northeast Regional Climate Justice Gathering – building power for a just transition away from unsustainable energy and toward community-based economies. Together we will enjoy a few days of August in Vermont while learning, training, and making friends. Come strengthen the power of the movement!
Let’s show up in NYC together this September for the People’s Climate March. At this convergence, we will collectively develop and coordinate art and actions for this epic event. We also want to discuss our own local and regional struggles, and build lasting relationships for mutual support and local climate justice work.
Contact: northeastclimatecamp@gmail.com
Click here to register!
Offering/seeking a ride to the gathering?
Click here for rideshare board.
Coming to the camp? Can't come but still want to support it? Click the button below to help us make the magic happen! All proceeds will go directly toward the camp.
The MAKE: Direct Action as Art & Performance
The Make is one of the main branches of the Northeast Climate Justice Gathering. It’s focus is to support activists and organizers who are interested in bringing more art & performance to their campaigns.
This session is designed specifically to support an artistic mobilization to the Peoples Climate March in NYC this September and other climate justice campaigns in the Northeast. We will share space, ideas, education, and energy with everyone at the larger gathering to create the exciting integration of inspiring artistry working alongside direct action training!
We welcome and encourage all levels of experience and artistic expression!
Come Join Us For:
The Make is one of the main branches of the Northeast Climate Justice Gathering. It’s focus is to support activists and organizers who are interested in bringing more art & performance to their campaigns.
This session is designed specifically to support an artistic mobilization to the Peoples Climate March in NYC this September and other climate justice campaigns in the Northeast. We will share space, ideas, education, and energy with everyone at the larger gathering to create the exciting integration of inspiring artistry working alongside direct action training!
We welcome and encourage all levels of experience and artistic expression!
Come Join Us For:
- Workshops on how to integrate performance, music, and song into direct actions
- Big & Small Art Builds: Enormous banners and puppets & cheap and tiny installations
- Space, Tools, Materials, Strategy and support for building out ideas