Programme & Handbook

1 Welcome A very warm welcome to the 2015 Earth First! Summer Gathering from your organising collective. We hope you will find plenty here to interest and inspire you, to get you fired up about where we find ourselves and the rest of the planet, to make space to support each other, have fun, and that you leave feeling ready to take ecological direct action. Earth First!

If you’re still feeling uncertain where to pitch your tent now you’ve seen the map, or you’ve never been to such an event, do please ask the Welcome Tent for a wee site tour.

Come along to the daily Introduction to Earth First! and the Gathering sessions each morning, to help get your bearings and About the Large Print version of this ask questions, whether you’re new to the EF! Gathering, or haven’t been in a while. Gathering & handbook available During the Gathering, this year’s EF!SG organising collective will be continuing to Earth First! ‘otter away’ to create this incredible temporary at the Welcome Tent community…and come the end, in true The Earth First! Summer Gathering is a anarchistic fashion, we’ll dissolve ourselves chance for people and groups from across the in a dribbling/shimmering mess, to water and country and beyond to get together to network, nourish next year’s organising collectives! share practical skills, ideas and inspiration, Well, truth be told, we’ll be there to support the all to help our actions and campaigns be as 2016 collectives, and with any luck, some of strategic and effective as possible. We also us refreshed and renewed, may become part hope that there’ll be a fair amount of plotting of the all new singing dancing 2016 EF!SG or and planning, as well as fun and relaxation, so Winter Moot organising collectives. over to you…

We welcome people to get actively involved This is an annual gathering for grassroots in running the Gathering through the different ecological direct action, this year focusing working groups (come to the morning on welcoming people from impacted meetings to get hooked in), or lending a communities. It’s also a chance to act out a hand and learning the ropes with the overall little of our vision: organising without hierarchy, co-ordination (see timetable for How to run a diversity within community, and a DIY culture Gathering). that supports both individual responsibility and collective action, that builds trust, support, If you might be interested in being involved in respect and community, whilst enabling making next year’s gathering happen, do ask healthy debate and challenging discussion. questions throughout the gathering that might help clarify how involved you want to be, and The gathering is five days of workshops, come along to the sessions on Sunday to offer networking and planning actions at a low your skills and time. impact eco-living camp organised non- hierarchically. It’s run without leaders by 2 3 everyone who comes along, so come prepared to chip in! It happens generally during the school holidays, and often takes The Ethos of the Gathering place in August. Everyone is crew outlined in the safer spaces policy. This year has seen a huge increase in interest in Earth First! and what it can offer. Last year’s For most stuff that needs to be done, there will Journalism gathering workshop programme had about 30 already be coordinators; they’ll be introduced workshops, but this year there will be over 200 at morning meetings. To ensure things Journalists in the role of journalists are not workshops, a size not seen since the 1990s. run smoothly, work teams need to form for permitted at the gathering; as individuals who different tasks such as toilets, shuttle-bus runs, care and want to learn and contribute, you This exciting resurgence of Earth First! in water collection etc. Join a team and volunteer are of course welcome. We are not seeking Britain is being driven by the growing threats for one-off tasks – it’s how everything gets media coverage through this Gathering and from fracking, nuclear, bio-energy, GM, done. See something that needs doing? Do it’s important that the space, though public, road-building, incineration and more, which it if you can – there are tools kept on site and is conducive to planning and plotting. If you are focusing many people’s attention on the people who’ll show you how to use them. This notice someone on site taking photos or growing need to halt the destruction of our should all become clear at the first morning gathering news, let the Safety PIN team know battered ecosystems and start repairing the meeting you attend. right away. damage that has already been done. Morning meetings Police

Each day of the gathering will start with a 9am Police are not allowed or welcome on site. The Gathering Site Morning Meeting. These are short (no more However, under our bar license agreement than 30mins), but important as it’s here that they can do one check of the bar with prior The land we are on has been lived on at least Victorian one. The farm used to require 7-14 timetabling changes are announced, site co- notice. They will be escorted to the bar and since the Iron Age, and possibly since the workers, but now manages to keep two. Back ordinators introduce themselves and people back by the licensee. We will let the morning Bronze Age. The access track (Ridge Lane) then High Victorian farming was used; now it’s volunteer themselves for the jobs that keep meeting know that this is due to happen that is an Iron-Age ridge way, and also the old extensive organic. Two families in the site running smoothly. Attendance is very day. salt route to Nottingham. The track down the succession have occupied the farm for most of much encouraged! middle of both fields (the public footpath) is a the last century until now. Otherwise, they may be visible outside the site medieval holloway. In medieval times, ridge Mobile Phones/Mobile Internet Devices or even attempt to enter the site. If in any other and furrow style farming was used here. The cases, you do see police on-site, let others old 1660 farmhouse is still standing in another This is an issue of both courtesy and security. know immediately and ask them to leave. It’s field as an outbuilding, near the current early If you’ve brought a phone and/or a tablet to always useful to know your rights – please the gathering, please keep it in your tent and grab & read a stop and search guide from the switched off. If for emergency reasons you welcome tent. have to bring a phone or similar to a workshop or any space where there are other people Security (under cover or outside), ensure it’s clearly visible at all times and let people know. Be careful what you say! The EF! Gathering is no different from any other public space in that Cameras what you say might be over-heard by someone who isn’t on ‘our side’. This isn’t a big deal The Gathering site is a no-photo zone. The and it shouldn’t negatively impact on any part success of the gathering relies on it being as of the gathering, including story-telling and safe a space as we can make it and not taking organising. Just be cautious not to incriminate photos is a crucial part of that effort. We have yourself or others, regardless of the company had experience of journalists taking photos for you are in. Think about appropriate levels their exclusive in the past; this policy makes of security for the kinds of campaigning and them easier to spot! Please stop anyone direct action you are talking about. taking photos and ensure they delete them, except for the two consensual exceptions • • • 4 5 Making Workshops & Meetings Safer Spaces Agreement work Our Safer Spaces Agreement aims to help get things right for everyone at this gathering. Facilitation is the role of making workshops help you win an argument, but tend to silence Free and open discussion is key to this event. and discussions runs smoothly, and ensuring others. We want you to feel welcome, to be heard and that everyone who wants to participate can. be able to fully participate. Anarchy is about This goes beyond noting who wants to speak Only use any hand signals (such as putting people co‑operating with each other as equals. next or doing funny signals with your hands! your hand up to speak) that the facilitator has It’s also about facilitating continuity in the chosen to introduce. Why? discussion and keeping an eye on the many dynamics at play in any group. With some timetabled discussions, there may A safer space is a dream and a vision of a be people who have been asked to prepare better society, or what it could be like to feel However, though the role is held by the in advance, to introduce different viewpoints. supported and free. In a safer space we workshop facilitator, possibly aided by Some discussions will be for people who recognise and respect that we experience someone from our facilitation pool, everyone haven’t yet made their mind up firmly, so things in different ways and that we have is responsible for helping things flow. It’s easy please be sensitive to this in not trying to out- different ideas and ideals on how to make stuff done and figuring out how we get along, to create super-human expectations, and argue others till they agree with you, but giving changes in the world. If we want to create a particularly if we get more skilled at the latter. possible that they will need a hand. them space to come to their own conclusions. radical community, then we have to question We are all on our different political journeys, our learned behaviours and challenge This document is our current best thinking. Whilst there is a reality that some of us and though Earth First! comes from a radical ourselves and each other. We need to work If you have suggestions that may improve will know more than others, or have more perspective, we encourage diversity and towards acting in ways that are respectful, and it, please let this event’s organisers know, experience in one thing or another, we difference within that. build a community of trust and support. so the next organising collective, and other can keep an eye on our own and others’ campaigns, can build on the ideas here. participation and be aware of informal Do please volunteer for the facilitation pool if We recognise that whatever everyone’s hierarchies crystallising. you have experience, or want to gain some intentions, subtle, very unsubtle and Points 2-4 below are a condition of your through shadowing people – on Thursday sometimes shifting hierarchies, reflecting those participation in the EF! Summer Gathering Not everyone is comfortable speaking in and Saturday we have Facilitating Meetings in a lot of mainstream society, are usually 2015. If the collective intelligence of those groups, especially large ones. Some of us workshops too. around in all of our groups and relationships, present is unable to resolve the situation, think carefully what we are about to say if • • • in our collective discussions and organising. expect other participants to contact the we’re given the time to, and others speak ‘from Class, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and all the site’s Safety PIN team. If the situation still the hip’; we hope your workshop will work for other issues that can influence how we relate isn’t resolved, the Safety PIN team may well both types of people. It’s fine to participate in to each other, negatively or positively, will be exclude you from the site. Drug or alcohol use, whatever way that suits you, and hopefully the on site with us. or mental health issues are not an excuse facilitation will ensure time for talking in pairs for avoiding responsibility for oppressive and small groups, where appropriate for the Many cultures are present at this event and behaviour; we will however try to do it as workshop or discussion. we won’t all speak the same language, even supportively and sensitively as possible. In though we’ll mostly all be speaking the same short, don’t take the piss but don’t get scared Jargon, big concepts and abbreviations language – that doesn’t mean we should and start treading on eggshells either. can be needed, but be aware of levels of adopt what might appear to be the mainstream understanding and explain where needed by culture of this event! Other differences and Points 5-15 below are an invitation from this anyone. Also think about how tiring it is for diversity may be less visible, so try not to year’s organising collective. Don’t substitute people whose first language isn’t English. assume that everyone is the same, and we them for your own thinking though. What’s hope you can bring all parts of yourself with below is only as effective as the people you’re Do be constructively critical, but try to avoid you. in discussion with, the people who read this shooting down others’ ideas in flames, and what it means to them. especially when you’re not suggesting an How? alternative. ’That’s a stupid idea’, ‘everyone thinks’, ‘obviously’ and similar phrases can It doesn’t have to be a choice between getting

6 7 What? not everyone. Try and tell the difference and if the site has a Safety PIN team that may be you’re unsure, ask. No means no. 7. Try not to judge, put each other down or able to assist. 1. As always, you are responsible for your compete. own behaviour. At this gathering, we also ask 4. Leave your cameras, journalists or cops at 15. We ask you to not drink alcohol till after you to take on the collective responsibility of home! This Gathering is a space for learning, 8. Be aware of the language you use in 7pm, and to limit the quantity you drink not just seeing that things go well for people around networking and organising ecological direct discussion and how you relate to others. based on the impact to your own liver, but also you. action. Some of us have cameras or are Try to speak slowly and clearly and use on not people trying to sleep nearby. journalists – however, what is important at this uncomplicated language. Try not to use 2. Racism, ageism, homophobia, sexism, Gathering is that all participants do not have to phrases that give you extra rank or make what 16. Please respect the power-down times transphobia, ableism or prejudice based on worry about being photographed or quoted. So you are saying harder to disagree with, such in the programme – these are the cut-off ethnicity, nationality, class, gender, gender please don’t take photographs on site, don’t as “of course…”, “obviously…” “we all believe times for amplified music and loud noise, presentation, language ability, sexuality, carry your mobile with you (if you need to for that…”, “no-one here does…”, “history tells that help us all keep a productive focus for asylum status or religious affiliation is emergency reasons, ensure it is obviously us…” and similar generalisations. the Gathering and best allow us all to enjoy unacceptable. If you experience any of the visible at all times to others), and don’t gather ourselves, whether through socialising or above, we hope you are supported by those scoops! 9. The organising collective has, given the sleeping. around you in challenging such behaviour or location of this event, tried to make meeting beliefs. If you experience it but are not on the 5. Try and be aware of the space you take spaces as accessible as possible to the Though we have a no photographs or receiving end of it, challenge it; don’t leave it up, and the rank and privileges you bring with widest range of people. Tell the people you’re journalistic activities policy on the gathering to the person or people who may be impacted you – if you’re used to talking, try listening, with if something needs to change for you to site, you may be approached by someone by it. At the same time, think about how you and vice versa. Consider stepping aside if this participate more easily e.g. hearing issues, who has offered to do little drawings of constructively challenge it in a way that will means you and others like you are usually needing a chair, and please look out for workshops, activities, spaces and individuals be really understood, and doesn’t marginalise the first to step up. Think about how you can others. It’s not always easy having to keep (with consent). She may ask you why you’re someone else in turn. Respect the person – support other people if it looks like they might raising an issue yourself. here, what motivates you to take ecological challenge the behaviour. need your support. direct action, what you’ve learned or similar 10. Foster a spirit of mutual aid and respect. questions. Feel free to answer her, and then 3. Notice and respect each other’s physical 6. Try and avoid making assumptions about Listen to the wisdom everyone brings to the she might cunningly incorporate it into your and emotional boundaries. Some people are what the opinions, background and identities group. little sketch, which we’ll tweet @earthfirst_uk very happy with touch, kisses and hugs but of other participants are. 11. Wherever possible, give each person the Similarly, there are smartphone video time and space to speak. In large groups, or workshops – presume that if you are for groups using facilitation, raise your hand to participating in these it may involve speak. photography. The trainers and participants will also be practising their skills outside these 12. If you need to challenge someone’s workshop spaces, though only off-site or at the behaviour, try your best to be respectful and physical activity spaces (such as climbing) at constructive. Consider taking a deep breath the bottom of the bottom field, on the edge of and thinking about what wording might help the site, and with the consent of all those who you hear a challenge if you were on the other might appear in the videos. end of it. • • • 13. If you are challenged, listen, reflect on what you’ve heard, check you’ve understood correctly and try to manage all that defensiveness that most of us experience when this happens. Shame and blame won’t move anything forwards. Try to focus on creating equality and learning.

14. If you and the people, or wider group you’re in discussion with, are unable to resolve a situation where someone, or a number of people’s equal rights are not being respected, 8 9 About Earth First! What is EF!? group or as an individual.

On these islands, where wildness is scarce If you agree with the above and you are and the juggernaut of economic growth is not racist or otherwise discriminatory, if you strong, where can our passion and sense believe action speaks louder than words, then of social justice fit, how can we struggle for Earth First! is for you. Whether you think of EF! what is dear to us, for our very survival in an as a movement, a network, an idea or simply a interconnected and unjust web of humans, name to use for actions, get involved – you are other animals and plant species? Earth First! Earth First! is a network of people and campaigns fighting ecological destruction Earth First! does not accept a human-centred and the forces driving it. Our structure is non- worldview of ‘nature for people’s sake’. hierarchical, without formal leadership and Instead, we believe that life exists for its own we do it for passion, love and rage. To put it sake, that industrial civilisation and the ideas simply, the Earth must come first. behind it, of relentless economic growth and the fiction of human progress, are leading us Early History to hell in a handcart, and setting us against each other. People and environment cannot be In 1979 five friends hiked into the desert. All seen as separate, or we are doomed; we call it long term activists sick with careerism, legality ecological direct action because in an ecology and failure, they knew a new kind of group all things are seen as connected – it is within was needed. One that would break the law, this understanding that we say Earth First! push open the envelope, hit the corporations where it hurt (in the pocket) and most of all There are no ‘members’ of EF!, only Earth never ever compromise in defence of mother First!ers. When the law won’t fix the problem, earth. Around their camp fire Earth First! we put our bodies on the line to stop the was born. EF!s first act was one of sarcastic destruction. Earth First!’s direct action symbolism – and defection. In a land full of approach draws attention to the crises facing memorials to the genocidal victor, EF! raised the natural world, and it saves lives. a plaque commemorating Victorio, an Apache pulling down the dams and the powerlines. who wiped out a mining camp. EF! launched its proposal for a network of Within a year EF! moved beyond symbolism Earth First! was formed in the UK in 1991, vast wilderness preserves – half of Nevada to direct struggle. Around the country a in response to an increasingly corporate, The next EF! action was at the Glen Canyon for instance would be declared “off limits to combination of civil disobedience and compromising and ineffective environmental Dam, where a three hundred foot polythene industrial human civilisation, as preserves for sabotage halted logging and oil drilling. community. It is not an organization, but a banner was unfurled down the side of the the free flow of natural processes.” EF! didn’t Groups were setting up all over. What many movement. There are no ‘members’ of EF!, dam, looking for all the world like a vast crack want people to wait for the state to set them in industry had originally written off as a joke only Earth First!ers. We believe in using all opening up. The demonstrators chanted “Raze up. Instead the people themselves should was quickly becoming a nightmare. In 1985 of the tools in the toolbox, from grassroots the Dam”. People had campaigned in the past make them happen – direct action. If logging EF!ers published Ecodefence: A Field Guide and legal organising to direct action and against new dams but no one had campaigned needed stopping – stop it, blockade it, trash to Monkeywrenching. This was unashamed, monkeywrenching. to pull down those already built. The Glen the machines. If a road needed digging up – heads held high 350 page manual on how Canyon Dam in fact held special significance. Dig It Up! This militancy was a touchstone of to trash pretty much any machine with The general principles behind Earth First! In a sickening deal the big environmental even early EF!, but it wasn’t just its militancy which civilisation attacks the wild. Written are non-hierarchical organisation and the groups had accepted the damming of the that made it stand out globally. by over 100 contributors to the Earth First! use of direct action to confront, stop and canyon in return for the cancellation of a Journal, this book was information for action. eventually reverse the forces responsible for dam elsewhere. This was exactly the kind of All around the world groups were turning to Diggers trashed, forests occupied, billboards the destruction of the Earth and its inhabitants. compromise EF! was founded to resist. direct action in environmental struggles. In subverted, logging roads dug up, trees spiked, EF! is not a cohesive group or campaign, but both Britain and Germany, for example, anti- offices invaded, windows smashed, snares a convenient banner for people who share Thus from the very beginning EF!ers set nuclear mass action had been growing apace. disabled, computers scrapped – EF! was on similar philosophies to work under, as a local themselves not only the task of defending the What was really unique in the environmental the move. last fragments but of reversing the process: movement was EF!s militant biocentrism. 10 11 London; weekly actions taken to road builders 1997 GM products were unlabelled all over EF! In Britain and politicians: their gardens dug up, their the supermarket shelves and GM crop trials roof-tops squatted, their events disrupted; and were exploding all over our fields. By 2005 Inspired by vibrant EF! groups a generation radicalised in taking direct action we had successfully halted the growing of GM elsewhere, the first clutch of radical and creating autonomous spaces. The ‘biggest food in Britain, kicked out many of the biotech ecological Direct Action in Britain road building programme since the Romans’ companies, and limited the importation of GM happened in the early 90s. Actions was slashed three times by a third, and food to animal-feed. Fields were trashed by were mainly targeted at road- countless places were saved from the onward mass day time invasions and secret night time building, wilderness destruction and march of car culture. forays. ‘Crop squats’ included the now iconic logging imports coupled with the pink castle, a giant fortress of concrete, wood awareness that we were struggling As road-building waned due to the successes and canvas that prevented planting in a field against the underlying forces of the campaign, the late 90s saw increased for three weeks, before the farmer arrived behind the trashing of the earth. activism around globalisation both at home to sow backed up by seven tractors, eighty Though the timber actions were the and abroad. The Global Street Party against police officers and a helicopter. After this the first really big direct actions with the G8 meeting in Birmingham in 1998 had combined efforts of locals and other activists many hundreds of people invading not only forced the politicians to flee town destroyed enough of the crop that the trial But so now was the state. The FBI wasn’t for the day, but had also laid the foundations was abandoned. In 1997 Monsanto’s head dock-yards and timber merchants, plus the for June 18th 1999. June 18th took the form offices were occupied by fifty people who had about to let a crew of hippies, feminists, ‘ethical shoplifting’ of stolen hardwoods, the cowboys and desert anarchists continue of a masked Carnival against Capital, with a fun taking over the phone lines, and in 2004 huge campaign that EF! instigated was against series of kick-ass autonomous direct actions Sainsbury’s storage depots faced co-ordinated to hammer company profits. The late ‘80s the mega road-building programme. onwards saw a wave of reaction that included throughout London, and a co-ordinated blockades, preventing the movement of milk infiltration, set ups, conspiracy trials, raids, attempt to seal off the city through actions on from cows fed on GM feed. During 1991, Earth First!ers made links with roads, bridges, stations and the tube system in corporate directed anti-environmental hate residents opposing the M3 extension at groups and even assassination attempts on the morning. Huge disruption of and economic The growth of EF! Twyford Down. Activists and travellers set up damage to the corporate centre of the country ’leading’ EF!ers. This was a continuation of camp on the Dongas, ancient track-ways cut the FBI’s COINTELPRO (Counter Insurgency ensued! The first EF! Gathering was on a beautiful deep into the earth, home to rare Chalk Blue squatted site near Brighton in February ‘92. Programme) previously unleashed in the butterflies and orchids. EF! groups kept this ‘60s/’70s upsurge against the Weather The following year a mainly British, mainly EF! Already EF!ers had been active setting up the first road protest camp stocked with people bloc travelled to Prague for the World Bank first anti-road protest camp at Twyford Down, Underground, the New Left, the American and tat, and organised actions to obstruct work Indian Movement, the Black Panthers and the & anti-IMF summit protests – and through peat stripping machinery in Yorkshire had – locking-on to cranes, night-time flooding of preparation and guile, succeeded in getting been ’decommissioned’ and there had been Puerto Rican liberation movement. Now some the site, and regular disruption of construction. of the same agents that had destroyed those some people into the sealed conference shutdowns of timber yards, Carmageddon complex. We also experimented with ways (proto-Reclaim the Streets) road blockades, movements were overseeing the attack on EF! The first ever protest tripod in the UK (a of organising mass technique borrowed from the Antipodean protests made up of Pre-existing divisions over philosophy, Intercontinental Deluxe Guide to Blockading), many affinity groups, tactics and not least of all personality were later in ‘92, was made from a sycamore, and using a system of exacerbated by the crisis that engulfed EF! got a round of applause from the bemused scouts and decision- A split begun to emerge between supporters workers once we’d got it up fast…before they making on the move. of EF! co-founder Dave Foreman and long started desperately building new access roads term California organiser Judi Bari. All the round us, to try to save the concrete bridge Whilst all this big while both were under serious corporate/state they were half-way through building before it headline activism attack. Foreman was woken up one morning set! The first tree-sits in Britain took place in involved masses of with an FBI gun to his head and charged with 1993, organised by Jesmond Dene EF! and people and samba conspiracy to down power lines. Bari was car the Flowerpot Tribe. bombed. The split and state attacks seriously bands, many small groups of people were weakened US EF! and it would never fully In those days before the internet EF! posted busy in the fields of recover it’s accelerating drive. Nevertheless out info to every environmental, hunt sab, Britain, going out survive it did and at the beginning of the ‘90s it or peace group. This paid off in the massive there and trashing was still the kick ass environmental movement resistance to the roads programme, which GM crops. There is of the developed world. It’s actions, ideas saw protest camps springing up around the little question that and attitude would inspire a massive wave of country including at Newbury and the M11 in action across the Atlantic. ‘we’ won last time. In 12 13 and countless smaller actions by day and The question of what Earth First! is remains night. Later that spring, EF!ers went on a open today. It is partly this openness that roadshow round the country to stir things up. makes EF! continue to be a relevant, rare Start a Group! and radical concept. Some have attempted Against this backdrop people came up with to define EF! as a network or movement, but This is a fight we can only win together… a definition for EF! in Britain, and agreed however you see it, groups are autonomous to guidelines. Violence was defined as only do what they want, how they want. There is no Earth First! is an international movement against living beings, sabotage was to be national decision-making process. composed of small, bioregionally based “neither condemned nor condoned”, and EF! As long as you try to work non-hierarchically groups. They apply ‘direct pressure’ to stop groups were to be up for receiving anonymous and use direct action to stop the trashing of the bleeding, with a potent combination of ‘ecotage’ communiques and doing press work the Earth and its inhabitants, as long as you’re education, organising and action. Nothing on behalf of the night time elves (also called not a discriminatory fuckwit, you can call your is more empowering than standing defiant ‘Earth Liberation Front’). actions Earth First! Get together with a few against the destruction of the Earth with other mates, and do it yourself. like-hearted people. Throughout ’92 and beyond, a series of Earth Nights were called – “Go out and do • • • Start a Group! something for the Earth… at night!”. ELF through every door in your immediate area. took the label Terra 1st long before the state You don’t have to do it alone. There will be We have known friendly posties to help with dubbed them domestic terrorists. Their other other people living near you who are as this. It is also a great task for you to share with name – Earth Liberation Fairies was an concerned and willing to do something as any keen people you have already met up attempt to not fall into macho stereotypes. you are. While it may not seem like it from with. Similarly, sabotage became known as pixying. the media, few people are keen on the Valuable resources were published, like “Road idea of ecological crisis. Once you’ve found Getting Organised Raging”, a protest camp manual and the some like-minded people you can work with, Ozymandias’ Collective Sabotage & Direct anything you want to do will become a lot Visible, organised and active local groups Action Handbook, both still available on the easier. Here are some ideas that might help are a powerful force. There are some key- internet. you start a new group: things that can help your group be as healthy, functional and effective as possible: • Host a film screening – This is a simple and effective method of getting a decent • Regular face to face meetings – Organise sized group of interested people in one place. meetings that other poeple can easily attend, Preface the film(s) with a short introduction with a decision making process that everyone about the intention to start a group, collect in the group can contribute to. Create working contact details and have the date of a follow- groups for discrete tasks so that general up meeting booked so you can advertise it on meetings are not bogged down in detail. This the night. can make a big difference to engaging people in the campaign. • Hold a public meeting – Get in touch with the nearest existing group to you (or • Be easily contactable – Have a dedicated if the there isn’t one contact outreach@ non-personal email address that is regularly earthfirstgathering.org) and get them to give checked and made publicly available via a a short talk about the regional threat before simple website, as well as on group literature showing a couple of short films. Take contact (e.g. flyers, posters etc.). Get a non-personal details from those attending and have a follow- phone number (a cheap PAYG mobile) and up meeting (your group’s first meeting) already share responsibility for answering calls. arranged so that you can advertise the date on the night. • Presence in the local community – Have regular events and actions that people can get • Advertising with leaflets/posters – When involved with and attend existing community you have a date/venue/time sorted for your events. Generating local news stories (via public meeting/film screening or first group press releases) and publicising company/ meeting, print a stack of fliers and put them industry activity will help to raise the profile of 14 15 the issue in your community. drive a car or minibus? These are invaluable campaign skills that are useful and can be • Produce materials - a newsletter, shared with others and used in your group. Next Year’s window posters, flyers, badges, t-shirts, car stickers and signs, etc. • Get new skills & knowledge – Contact one Gathering: of the below training collectives • Have a social media presence – Facebook and Twitter are both • Seek out sympathetic local people – There Get Involved useful outreach tools. Update them may be people and businesses who are Earth First! needs you! These gatherings regularly with local/group news and sympathetic to your cause, who can not be can be incredible, unique places that offer try to include lots of pictures/videos. actively involved in the campaign. They may workshops and experiences you won’t find N.B. Social media companies can be able to contribute financially. They may be anywhere else in the UK. There is no set and will sell detailed information able to help by donating resources, loaning group of people that the make the EF! Winter about you and your group to equipment, advertising space, meeting space Moot & Summer Gathering happen – it relies companies you are fighting as or a venue. There are lots of ways that people on volunteers coming together each year as a well as to advertisers, in addition can be involved in supporting campaigns even new organising collective and getting it done to sharing information with the if they have little time. together. The more people get involved, the police – Organising is for face-to- easier the task is and the better the gatherings face meetings, the internet is for • Organise a group fundraiser – Quiz nights, gets to be. publicity. sponsored walks/cycles, raffles, gigs, bring and buy sales, etc. There are a multitude of If you’re web-savvy, into social-media, graphic ways to raise cash and increase the visibility design, writing (and ranting), organising, of your group/campaign, gain new members meeting other people that are committed to • Make connections with nearby groups this handbook. Follow links at the end of this and give existing members a chance to work radical ecological direct action or just want to – Regional networking, organising (consider section to training collectives with a selection together and socialise outside of meetings. try your hand at some of these things – get building a regional coalition of independent of guides and handy tips. involved! groups) and solidarity can save on repeating • Apply to sympathetic funding bodies – work. It will build the pool of skills you might be Skills & Resources Grass-roots community campaigning shouldn’t Don’t feel like you have the skills required? able to draw on, vastly increase numbers at be expensive particularly if you prioritise and Don’t sweat it. This process is ABOUT gaining big local events/demos/actions and intimidate Taking effective action & campaigning plan regular group fundraisers. However there new skills and experiences – you’ll be provided the industry. It can also inspire others to form requires a wide range of skills, resources and are some funding bodies who are sympathetic with support and skill-sharing sessions from groups. sometimes some cash. Gaining new skills and to the plight of communities threatened by those that organised the gathering this year. sharing what you already know with others, is environmental harm. Sometimes an injection Making the Winter Moot & Summer Gathering • Organise an Action – Direct action is a great one of the most rewarding and crucial parts of of cash can help increase the scale of you happen is a serious undertaking, but it’s also way for your group to start making change grass-roots organising. plans. incredibly rewarding. The sustainability of this happen. A well thought out campaign of action, movement relies on people who care stepping- both private (covert) and public (accountable), There are some great trainers in Britain & Training Collectives up and mucking in. can cause severe damage to your target whilst Ireland offering a broad range of workshops inspiring others to do the same. Covert actions designed specifically for those in the Seeds for Change Lancaster: Keen? Come along to the ‘Organising might allow you to remain anonymous and movement, including training aimed at helping www.seedsforchange.org.uk/contact the next EF! (Winter Moot & Summer) though they up the risk factor can have huge members of your group to share the skills they Seeds for Change Oxford: Gatherings’ session Sunday @ 2pm. See impact, whilst public or accountable actions have as effectively as possible. Here are some www.seedsforchange.org.uk/contact you there! can be great ways to introduce larger numbers ideas on how your group can maximise its Rhizome: rhizome.coop of people to the cause, reduce the vulnerability potential: London Roots: http://london-roots.org.uk of those involved and potentially increase Tripod Collective (Scotland): awareness of the issue amongst the wider • Find out what people can do – Your group http://tripodtraining.org population. Ecotage (ecological sabotage) is will already have lots of transferable skills you Turning the Tide: also an option you may want to consider with can use. People with good time management, http://www.turning-the-tide.org a proud and effective history, though not for or reliability, admin & organisational experience? as an open local group. Maybe you already use social media? Do you • • • have an eye for design? Fill out forms regularly Read the section on Why Direct Action? in at work? Is photography your thing? Can you 16 17 Methods for making a site as accessible as under common law. The ZAD – A French Grassroots Anti- possible, with few resources Aviation Struggle Wednesday Radical Views … Critical Thought? Weds 15:15 (60 mins) Campaigns/Issues Introduction To Earth First! & the Gathering Simple Site Plumbing An Introductory Workshop On Critical Learn about the campaign against the Weds 9:30 (30 mins) Earth First! Weds 11:30 (90 mins) Camp Skills Thinking, Ideology And Culture seizure of 4000 acres by the French state If it’s your first time or you’re curious about Basic principles, including soak-aways Weds 14:00 (60 mins) Critical Reflections for an airport project from the point of view how EF! and the Gathering works, come and Anyone attending this gathering will have, of a participant in this 7 year struggle, which ask questions and hear a bit about why Earth Off-Grid Electrics For Sites at some point, broken with the conventional has been occupying and cultivating the land First! and why people got involved. See how Weds 11:30 (90 mins) Camp Skills ideological wisdom of our culture. But does for 4 years. Including a brief history of the the EF! network can support your passion to Set up & basic principles that mean we have broken with ideology itself? more than 45 year project and the struggle fan the flames… Also at: Thurs 9:30, Fri 9:30, Have we managed to free our minds of all against it, beginning with the 2009 Climate Sat 9:30, Sun 9:30 How To Do Mass Catering ideology, or simply escaped from one set of Action Camp, through a large scale eviction Weds 11:30 (90 mins) Camp Skills rigid beliefs into another? This workshop will attempt that failed in 2012 and reinforced the Camp Hygiene A hands-on workshop. With over 25 years of provide a number of examples of the ways we struggle, which has involved a wide variety of Weds 10:00 (75 mins) Camp Skills vegan mass catering in fields and on protests, tend to slip into uncritical patterns of thoughts, people including farmers, citizen associations, General principles to keep people at camps come and learn how to feed the masses, and some tools to help us challenge those political parties, hobos, radical militants healthy and how germs spread wholesome, tasty and hygienic, with time to patterns. and others. The occupation is a collective ask questions and hear experiences – come experiment intent on establishing a permanent How To Set Up A Field Kitchen ready to chop! (Veggies) Also at: Weds 17:30, Emotional Resilience & Repression autonomous base, perhaps one of many which Weds 10:00 (75 mins) Camp Skills Thurs 11:30, Thurs 17:30, Fri 11:30, Fri 17:30, Weds 14:00 (60 mins) Solidarity and could supplant the system from the inside. Key practical and health considerations for Sat 11:30, Sat 17:30, Sun 11:30, Sun 17:30 Resilience However, the government is set on evicting field kitchens An opportunity to talk about the emotional us, destroying the preserved ecosystem, Headline-Grabbing Interventions impacts of repression in a safe, facilitated dismantling our experiment, building one more How To Put Up Marquees And Domes Weds 14:00 (60 mins) Campaign & Strategy space. We will share tools & strategies for airport and developing a huge area of land. Weds 10:00 (75 mins) Camp Skills Skills coping & recovering from repression so we International support is always needed and Learn how to erect structures & maintain them This workshop will be about small scale urban can stay engaged in social and ecological welcome! (La ZAD) against the elements activism. How can you gain a maximum effect struggles. (Free to Fight) Also at: Fri 11:30 with small interventions (urban acupuncture), Tools For Strategy Flat-Pack Compost Toilet Cubicles getting as much attention as possible. This Weds 15:15 (120 mins) Critical Reflections Weds 10:00 (75 mins) Camp Skills workshop will point out the importance of a Social change takes time! This workshop How to assemble, as well as their basic communication-plan and give useful pointers will introduce tools for helping campaigners principles on how to communicate effectively through plan campaigns that are strategic, work your actions. towards long-term goals, and to develop Learn About Laying Out A Site tactics that help achieve them. (War Resisters Weds 10:00 (75 mins) Camp Skills The Highs And Lows Of Working As A International) Best practice for laying out a site, including Coalition – The Example of Frack Free Dee legal requirements such as fire lanes and Weds 14:00 (60 mins) Skills For Working In Conflict Resolution licensing laws Groups Weds 15:15 (120 mins) Skills For Working In Hear how our coalition is structured and Groups How To Build Hands-Free Hand-Washing organises, adopt our successes into your Forming and maintaining groups requires Stations campaign and avoid our pitfalls. Then share skills to deal with conflicts that will inevitably Weds 11:30 (90 mins) Camp Skills your success stories and discuss how things come up in the process. I will present tools A must for camp hygiene, simple & low-tech could be improved with the luxury of hindsight. to deal with conflict that mainly originate from (Frack Free Dee) the concepts of Mediation and Nonviolent Help Make The Space Welcoming And Communication and offer some exercises to Beautiful Land Access And Traveller Law develop useful skills. Weds 11:30 (90 mins) Camp Skills Weds 14:00 (60 mins) Practical Skills Sprucing up the site, including welcome tent Introduction to laws regarding land access. Climbing For Action: With Ropes Covering private, common and open access Weds 15:15 (210 mins) Action Skills How To Make A Camp Accessible land and the right to roam. Discussion and A drop in session running all afternoon. If you Weds 11:30 (90 mins) Camp Skills knowledge sharing regarding traveller statutes have never climbed before, want a refresher or in the criminal justice act. Land access rights want tips on using climbing in action contexts 18 19 specifically, what we can do so all voices are climate camps with it’s mass actions to the valued equally. (London Roots) Also at: Fri Hambach forest squatters with their tree-sits Wednesday cont. 15:15 and blockades of forest-wrecking machinery, this session will give you basic skills for from concerned locals filing law-suits to night- staying safe at heights. Will include a range Capture The Media time ‘infrastructure-maintenance’, a broad of techniques from using modern expensive Weds 15:15 (120 mins) Campaign & Strategy variety of tactics are being deployed to bring equipment to ultra cheap safe ways to climb Skills a halt to the ever-consuming death machine rope. Also at: Thurs 14:00, Sun 15:15 How can we navigate the media? Learn how of the coal fuelled industry. A review on the to use it, and not be used by it. (Gathering actions happening in the Rhineland region and Direct Action? … A Critical Reflection On Place News) a call for more. Radical Politics Weds 15:15 (120 mins) Critical Reflections Direct Action? … A Critical Reflection On Rising Up & Letting Go Why do we do what we do? What do we Radical Politics Weds 17:30 (90 mins) Critical Reflections think it will achieve? How do we imagine our Weds 15:45 (90 mins) Critical Reflections A retrospective of land protection in Bristol. A movement growing, and what would happen Why do we do what we do? What do we brief history of the Rising Up campaign – what if it did? Within radical politics, there are many think it will achieve? How do we imagine our worked, what didn’t, and why it’s more vital fundamental beliefs about the world, and how movement growing, and what would happen than ever to reframe direct action. to change it. Although we critically reflect on if it did? Within radical politics, there are many the world ‘out there’, our own assumptions are fundamental beliefs about the world, and how Nature Awareness Practices And Games often left unquestioned. This workshop aims to change it. Although we critically reflect on Weds 17:30 (90 mins) Solidarity and to provide time, space, and tools for us all to the world ‘out there’, our own assumptions are Resilience really put our ways of thinking and doing to the often left unquestioned. This workshop aims Based on the work of Tom Brown Jr, this is an test – even if we come out believing the same to provide time, space, and tools for us all to introduction to some simple nature connection things as we did at the beginning, this can only really put our ways of thinking and doing to the practices and some practical and fun ways to help us be stronger and clearer in fighting for test – even if we come out believing the same practice them alone or in a group. Also at: Fri change. things as we did at the beginning, this can only 15:15, Sun 10:00 help us be stronger and clearer in fighting for change. Precarity Consciousness-Raising: Anxiety attending Also at: Thurs 17:30, Fri 15:15, Sat Tools For Strategy 15:15, Sun 15:15 Weds 15:15 (120 mins) Critical Reflections And Modern Life Brainstorm Your Video Idea Weds 17:30 (90 mins) Solidarity and Social change takes time! This workshop How To Do Mass Catering will introduce tools for helping campaigners Weds 17:30 (30 mins) Campaign & Strategy Resilience Skills This session will trial the precarity Weds 17:30 (90 mins) Camp Skills plan campaigns that are strategic, work A hands-on workshop. With over 25 years of towards long-term goals, and to develop Talk to the radical media crew one-on-one consciousness-raising method proposed by about your video project. (Gathering Place the Institute for Precarious Consciousness in vegan mass catering in fields and on protests, tactics that help achieve them. (War Resisters come and learn how to feed the masses, International) News / visionOntV) a series of articles in 2014-15. The approach is based on the hypothesis that shifts in the wholesome, tasty and hygienic, with time to Access To Land & Food Sovereignty, A structure of social control have led to forms ask questions and hear experiences – come Power & Privilege In Our Groups ready to chop! (Veggies) Also at: Weds 11:30, Weds 15:15 (120 mins) Solidarity and Reclaim The Fields Introduction of personal and social movement paralysis Weds 17:30 (90 mins) Campaigns/Issues arising from anxiety. There is a need to Thurs 11:30, Thurs 17:30, Fri 11:30, Fri 17:30, Resilience Sat 11:30, Sat 17:30, Sun 11:30, Sun 17:30 Whether you’re relieved to read that workshop This workshop will introduce the different construct perspectives on this process so as areas of struggle for Reclaim the Fields across to generate responses. The first part of the title, haven’t come across the phrase power Vegan Cake-Baking and privilege before, are irritated by it, Europe, including access to land and food session will involve small-group discussions sovereignty. There will also be an introduction of experiences of anxiety. The second half will Weds TBC Practical Skills or anything in between, this participative Perfect vegan cake-baking for the masses: workshop is for you. Our groups and to the action camp taking place in Wales the attempt to link these experiences to structures week after Earth First, with info on how people of contemporary capitalism and/or industrial chocolate, ginger, Bakewell. A hands-on not campaigns often unintentionally replicate the hands-in session. (Veggies) power structures many of us are trying to can get involved. (Reclaim The Fields) society. challenge. We’ll be talking Resisting Coal In Germon€y Daily Discussion Simple & Effective Sitting Posture Exercise about how race, culture, class, gender and For Screen Slaves other issues play out in environmental groups, Weds 17:30 (90 mins) Campaigns/Issues Weds 17:30 (90 mins) Earth First! For over three years, a movement of dedicated A series of discussion sessions on a topics Weds 20:00 Solidarity and Resilience how we talk (or don’t talk) about them, how This practical well-being workshop uses we get better at listening to each other and eco-defenders have been fighting the energy picked during the gathering based on the giant RWE on many fronts – from the annual suggestions and popularity among of those mindfulness and movement differentiation 20 21 Chance to network with individuals/groups from your region, build links, assess threats, Wednesday cont. initiate collaborations and build solidarity (Main to re-educate your habitual sitting posture space) so that your own system tells you when you Also at: Sat 10:00 are spending too long in an unhealthy fixed position. A written transcript of the exercise Bure Zone Libre: Land Occupation At A to practice at home is available. ‘Awareness Nuclear Waste Burial Mega-Project Through Movement’ is a group teaching Thurs 11:30 (90 mins) Campaigns/Issues approach using The Feldenkrais Method. The Learn about a new campaign to occupy a practitioner is keen to help individual activists planned nuclear waste burial site at Bure, in with specific problems, please contact him eastern France, which is hoped to become an anytime through the Workshop Coordinator. international place of gathering, to support the Also at: Fri 20:00, Sat 20:00 local opposition. The beginning of the digging is planned to start in 2017, but the railroad Cinema construction is supposed to start at the end Weds 20:00 Creative Activism of summer. The site (125 acres) where the Radical cinema space showing a wide variety camp is situated is an old military train station of full length and short films. See board currently owned by militants. The french state outside for details of films being shown. wanted to use that station as the entrance of Also at: Thurs 21:00, Fri 21:30, Sat 20:40, Sun the way down the project but they decided to 20:00 go around. A camp will be held 1st-10th August 2015, and will address many subjects: All the How To Run A Gathering toxic energies, Preparation for the COP21, Weds 20:00 Earth First! Decapitalism, Migrations, Segregations, our Holding Space A chance to join in with this year’s EF! Militant Pratices, Anti-Repression … Here is the programme. Of course you’re invited Thurs 11:30 (90 mins) Action Skills Restoration Ecology Summer Gathering collective and help Sometimes we need or want to hold a space. Thurs 11:30 (90 mins) Critical Reflections out for this gathering, plus learn how to to come participating to this new settlement before coming to the Earth First! gathering! Maybe the police are moving in and want How useful an idea is re-wilding? A quick run a gathering/camp. (This year’s EF!SG to clear you away. How do you stand your introduction to re-wilding and to the landscape Collective) Also at: Thurs 20:00, Fri 20:00, Sat ground? Maybe you want to occupy a roadway ecology approach, followed by discussion – 20:00, Sun 20:00 Social & Ecological Harm Of The Prison Industrial Complex or a building. A hands-on session to practice different points of view very welcome. different techniques to take and hold space • • • Thurs 11:30 (90 mins) Campaigns/Issues A workshop introducing the prison industrial with just your bodies. Solidarity Activism complex, its social & ecological impacts and Thurs 11:30 (90 mins) Solidarity and popular struggles against it. Learn about Houses Without Landlords, Work Without Resilience campaigns against prison expansion in Wales Bosses This workshop is a space for reflection on and London. (Empty Cages Collective) Thurs 11:30 (90 mins) Practical Skills our experiences of solidarity activism and Thursday An intro to housing and worker co-op’s, why thinking about how to work sensitively with Practical Knots & How to Remember Them they’re an effective alternative, how they work communities facing oppression/opposing and how to set them up. (Radical Routes) environmental destruction. The workshop is Introduction To Earth First! & the Gathering Thurs 11:30 (90 mins) Practical Skills not a training. It will not tell you ‘how to do Thurs 9:30 (30 mins) Earth First! An experiential “need” based knot workshop How To Do Mass Catering solidarity activism in ten easy steps’ but it will If it’s your first time or you’re curious about – the knots you need and most importantly Thurs 11:30 (90 mins) Camp Skills allow experienced and inexperienced people how EF! and the Gathering works, come and a way to remember them! Starting from the A hands-on workshop. With over 25 years of to raise and reflect on some issues around ask questions and hear a bit about why Earth simple overhand knot we journey across vegan mass catering in fields and on protests, how ‘we’ act in solidarity with communities that First! and why people got involved. See how related knots building a logical path and a way come and learn how to feed the masses, may be very different from us culturally and the EF! network can support your passion to to remember them. We will end with essential wholesome, tasty and hygienic, with time to politically, who may have very different ideas fan the flames… Also at: Weds 9:30, Fri 9:30, and useful knots for climbing, camping and ask questions and hear experiences – come about tactics and decision-making. Sat 9:30, Sun 9:30 action. An informal follow up and skill share practical session will be scheduled after this ready to chop! (Veggies) Also at: Weds 11:30, Weds 17:30, Thurs 17:30, Fri 11:30, Fri 17:30, Introduction To Radios For Actions Regional Meet-Ups & What Next workshop. Also at: Sun 10:00 Sat 11:30, Sat 17:30, Sun 11:30, Sun 17:30 Thurs 11:30 (50 mins) Action Skills Thurs 10:00 (75 mins) Earth First! 22 23 the very existence of most complex lifeforms. Basic Computer Security Workshop and topical issue. Experience how healing it This workshop will explore the threat of UCG, Thurs 14:00 (60 mins) Practical Skills can be to express instead of suppress! Expect Thursday cont. in particularly the projects which are underway A workshop for beginners on how to be more some use of games and roleplay. Cheap walkie-talkies can probably do a lot in Britain and how they can be resisted. (Frack secure online in your communication and more than you realise. Find out how to make Off) and utilise encryption to keep your files safer. Climbing For Action: Without Ropes the most of them on actions. Places limited – Please bring basic information about your (Industrial Structures) advance sign-up required. Engaging A Local Community In Activism computer so we can answer specific technical Thurs 14:00 (120 mins) Action Skills Over The Long-Term questions. (Free to Fight) Also at: Sat 14:00 When climbing industrial structures rope is Thurs 14:00 (60 mins) Campaigns/Issues often only necessary initially, not needed at Food Sovereignty for The People: From the The Case Of Grow Heathrow. A brief all or a dangerous hindrance. This workshop Roots Up Getting Nicked Abroad Thurs 11:30 (90 mins) Campaigns/Issues presentation about the history of this Thurs 14:00 (60 mins) Solidarity and covers some basic techniques for staying safe We all have a right to decent food, this is community project, and how we work Resilience whilst being mobile at height when ropes are the basic message of Food sovereignty. But with people who live locally, followed by a A skill-share with people from the Gathering not an option. Normally aimed at those with this has not always been felt to be the case. discussion about the bonuses and challenges about police tactics, language and arrest some basic climbing experience but will be Colonial British and European histories, when of this approach. A chance to explore if this processes in different countries. If you travel to run alongside standard climbing with ropes interrogated, demonstrate how and why so strategy might work on your issue where you mobilisations in other countries, this workshop session – newbies very much encouraged! many contradictions exist in today’s food live. (Grow Heathrow) will hopefully help you feel more prepared if Spaces limited! systems and the discourses around them, and you have to interact with the police. At the how the legacies of slavery and imperialism Making The Most Of The Planning System least you can learn how to say “Fuck the Climbing For Action: With Ropes are still being experienced today.by every Thurs 14:00 (60 mins) Campaign & Strategy police” in different languages! Thurs 14:00 (210 mins) Action Skills one who eats. Come and be immersed in the Skills A drop in session running all afternoon. If you story of how some of the foods we eat today Engaging with planning applications can seem Introduction To Guide To Public Order have never climbed before, want a refresher or traveled across continents to arrive on your like a waste of time – but they can be great Situations want tips on using climbing in action contexts plate and how the choice we experience in the opportunities to delay a company’s progress, Thurs 14:00 (60 mins) Action Skills this session will give you basic skills for west is borne of the shoulders of those who cost them big bucks and scare investors A chance to exchange info and experience staying safe at heights. Will include a range have no choice in different parts of the world. – they also act as great opportunities for from big protest situations and relevant of techniques from using modern expensive How can we move closer to a food sovereign, public engagement/growing your group. This policing, with a view to incorporating into the equipment to ultra cheap safe ways to climb household, community, nation and world that is workshop will outline the basics of effectively Guide to Public Order Situations. Depending rope. Also at: Weds 15:15, Sun 15:15 fair and just? Come and join the hot discussion engaging with a planning application. on time and interest, we may do small at Food Sovereignty for the people: from the practices on particular points and situations roots, Up! Working Together spotting police tactics and moving strategically. Thurs 14:00 (180 mins) Skills For Working In Groups Aids To Communication Security Art Space Drop-In Thurs 12:20 (40 mins) Action Skills Working in groups can be a very powerful way Thurs 14:00 (300 mins) Creative Activism Give your friends the maximum information to resist and build alternatives. Effective and Drop in to the Creative Resistance space to and your foes the minimum. Designed for sustainable action comes from healthy groups make visual material for actions (like banners, radio communication, but works well across that can work together cooperatively. The masks, posters, stencils, prints etc.), to other media too. Working Together workshop will explore group enhance the colourfulness, creativeness and dynamics and some skills to help us build clarity of your actions. You are welcome to inclusive and empowering groups. Whether work on props and visuals for any projects as Underground Coal Gasification (UCG): A your group is newly formed or you have been well. Also at: Fri 14:00, Sat 14:00, Sun 11:30 Lurking Monster Thurs 14:00 (60 mins) Campaigns/Issues collaborating for a while, this workshop can Underground Coal Gasification (UCG), while help you to work more effectively together. Expressing Or Depressing Yourself: How often lumped into the same category as Also at: Sat 14:00 To Deal With The 6th Era Of Extinction? fracking, is much more experimental but has Thurs 14:00 (60 mins) Solidarity and the potential to be far more damaging in the Map And Compass Resilience longer term. UCG could unlock trillions of Thurs 14:00 (60 mins) Action Skills Don’t you just love those lengthy tonnes of otherwise unmineable coal across Going into the countryside? Get the edge conversations at work and at the bus-stop the globe, unleashing a tidal wave of toxic over the bad guys with old-school map and about the emotional implications of living in contamination and carbon emissions which compass skills. Places limited – advance sign- this modern age where about 150 species would dwarf those from fracking, and threaten up required. go extinct every day? Not having these conversations? Come and explore this touchy 24 25 off. You will have to either nutritional and health benefits of wild foods workshop aims to introduce the fundamental already have experience and the ‘polyculture vs the monoculture’. concepts in an interactive and easy to using a map and compass, Consideration of wild and home grown food understand way, providing participants with or have attended the as a part of community self-sufficiency and the foundation they need to effectively begin relevant workshop. Places autonomy. Open discussion and knowledge resisting this growing threat. (Frack Off) limited – advance sign-up sharing. required. Includes briefing We’ve Been Here Before: Why The COP21 and drop-off. Come if Can Anarchist & Electoral Politics Mix? The Talks Will Fail you either already have Experience In Barcelona Thurs 17:30 (90 mins) Campaigns/Issues experience using a map and Thurs 15:15 (120 mins) Critical Reflections World leaders are set to descend on Paris compass, or have attended An anarchist squatter will share the journey this year to discuss Climate Change, it will be the relevant workshop. of Catalan social movements – including the the 21st conference of its kind; CoP21 This Indignados (the first Occupy) & ant-austerity workshop will take a look at the shambolic Working Together On eviction resisters – who have recently engaged history of the CoP process, the power of Actions & won Barcelona elections. Focusing on the corporate lobbying and the false solutions on Thurs 15:15 (120 mins) debates, tensions & opportunities. the table. This process will never provide the Action Skills answers we need for a safe and secure future Playing to your strengths Know Your Rights Workshop so lets look at people powered solutions. and meeting your needs. Thurs 15:15 (120 mins) Action Skills (Reclaim the Power and Global Justice Now) Affinity groups, roles, Police Officers often rely on the lack of legal quick decision-making and understanding of those participating in protest. Community Fire-Fight: Keeping Our understanding different This interactive session will give you the tools Communities Incinerator Free ways of working. to take action more confidently. (Green and Thurs 17:30 (90 mins) Campaigns/Issues Black Cross) Also at: Sun 15:15 Come along to find out more about the danger this invasive industry poses to us all, and how Radical Mental Health you can help, or might utilise some of these Thurs 15:15 (120 mins) Solidarity and communities tactics fighting unwanted toxic Hunt Sabbing – Practical Skills Resilience industries such as Fracking and Incinerators in Fundraising For Radical Groups Thurs 15:15 (120 mins) Action Skills Oftentimes, emotional crises are dealt with your area. We will also touch on also how the Thurs 15:15 (120 mins) Campaign & Strategy Want to save British native wildlife with the privately and many people feel unsure how toxin free community strategy may be useful Skills hunt saboteurs but don’t know how to get to support people who are in crisis. We will as a potential strategy for creating popular and Groups with radical aims are very limited in involved or what is expected? Join our two explore new ways to define Mental Health and powerful community engagement with issues funding options, but there are a few! We’ll hour fully interactive workshop and hear how Mental Illness to feel more confident about our around other toxic industries where mass look at where you can apply for funds and the it is done and then have a go. It’s going to experiences. We will also reflect on positive community engagement could be a game pros and cons of doing so, as well as sharing involve some quick thinking, travelling across actions during a crisis and how we want to changer ideas of other ways of getting the funds and country and practising common techniques. be supported by others. This workshop is a resources you need to run your group. Also at: We want to be as inclusive as possible but preparation for emotional crises but not the Sat 15:15 those with limited mobility are unlikely to be Facilitating Meetings place to deal with them. If you feel you are Thurs 17:30 (90 mins) Skills For Working In able to fully participate. (Two hour workshop emotionally very unstable at the moment, Groups Working With Conflict which will make far more sense if you are please bring a support person with you! With or without realising it, most of you will Thurs 15:15 (120 mins) Skills For Working In there for all of it). have learned loads about good facilitation Groups Extreme Energy, Or Why The World Is skills from the meetings you’ve been part of, An exploration of the skills and attitudes Foraging And Plant Identification including the ones that have been a bit of a needed to really hear different points of view Thurs 15:15 (120 mins) Practical Skills Going To Shit Thurs 17:30 (90 mins) Campaigns/Issues mess. Given the amount of time we spend in and move through conflict in groups and Tour of the site, identifying and collecting a Extreme Energy is a process which, while not them, we need them well facilitated, and we between individuals (Rhizome) variety of wild plants and discussing their uses widely understood or appreciated, is never the need more people sharing this role around in for food, medicine and other applications as less already having a growing influence over our groups. With good facilitation you can help Day Navigation Route well as folk lore and history. Introduction to all aspects of the world we live in. By its nature each other do your best thinking and get a Thurs 15:15 (180 mins) Action Skills some commonly foraged plants and foraging Extreme Energy will come to dominate our load of work done in a short space of time. So, A chance to practice your map and compass etiquette and personal safety. Countryside lives and therefore the whole planet in coming what is facilitation, what are facilitation skills, skills in teams. Places limited – advance management act is at applies to foraging decades, unless radical changes are made what works and why? Bring your questions sign-up required. Includes briefing and drop- will be briefly covered. Examination of the to the way human societies function. This and your experience. (London Roots) Also at: 26 27 Vegan Cake-Baking Thurs TBC Practical Skills Thursday cont. Perfect vegan cake-baking for the masses: Friday chocolate, ginger, Bakewell. A hands-on not Sat 15:15 Introduction To Earth First! & the Gathering hands-in session. (Veggies) Fri 9:30 (30 mins) Earth First! Murmurations For Activist Strategy If it’s your first time or you’re curious about How To Run A Gathering Thurs 17:30 (90 mins) Campaign & Strategy how EF! and the Gathering works, come and Thurs 20:00 Earth First! Skills ask questions and hear a bit about why Earth A chance to join in with this year’s EF! Play-test a fun strategy game being developed First! and why people got involved. See how Summer Gathering collective and help by and for activists. The game lets you use the EF! network can support your passion to out for this gathering, plus learn how to collective intelligence to creatively think about fan the flames… Also at: Weds 9:30, Thurs run a gathering/camp. (This year’s EF!SG social transformation. 9:30, Sat 9:30, Sun 9:30 Collective) Also at: Weds 20:00, Fri 20:00, Sat 20:00, Sun 20:00 Advanced Security Campaigns Round-Up (UK & international) Thurs 17:30 (90 mins) Action Skills Fri 10:00 (75 mins) Earth First! Twyford Down, where EF! & the anti-roads Looking in depth at tactics and techniques that Chance for campaigns to plug what they have movement began? ensure actions are secure; will also look at been up to in the last year & call out for people Thurs 20:00 Earth First! some practical counter-surveillance. (Activist to get involved! (Main space) Security Collective) Hear stories & see photos from an inspiring In a campaign, it is easy to spend all our time time for Earth First! and the wider ecological Reflections On The Student Movement with our noses to the ground focusing on the direct action movement. Readings from the Picture your Story 2010-2015, Strategies, Tactics, And Ideas next crisis! This workshop will help you take a forthcoming book and question & answer Thurs 17:30 (90 mins) Campaign & Strategy For The Future step back to consider the big picture, and think session. How did things start? What’s different Skills Fri 11:30 (90 mins) Campaigns/Issues through how to come up with a long term plan now? What can we learn from these times? How to create your video narrative. (Gathering In November 2010 thousands of students that gives you a better chance of winning. Hopelessly naive or inspiringly hopeful? Place News / visionOntv) stormed the Conservative Party headquarters, Rebel & Revolutionary Song-Singing and a new life reinvigorated the student Thurs 17:30 (90 mins) Creative Activism Cinema Direct Action Assault Course movement. Over the coming months and A chance to learn political songs from radical Thurs 21:00 Creative Activism Thurs 17:30 (90 mins) Action Skills years, dozens of occupations took place and movements around the world, including Radical cinema space showing a wide variety Buddy up! This is a space for everyone hundreds of protests took place, presenting Catalonia, the Basque Country & other parts of full length and short films. See board (regardless of age) to test out some key a real challenge to the coalition government. of the Spanish State. Bring some copies of outside for details of films being shown. action skills. Face and break police lines, use How can we expand and develop these any songs you know and would like to sing Also at: Weds 20:00, Fri 21:30, Sat 20:45, Sun blockading techniques, climb fences, take struggles? What can the climate movement together. Also at: Sat 17:30 20:00 down corporate foes, change your identity learn from this movement? And how can we and climb a tripod! Watch out for those snatch take these tactics into the future? squads!!! Also at: Fri 17:30, Sat 17:30 Daily Discussion Night Navigation Route Thurs 17:30 (90 mins) Earth First! Thurs 20:30 (180 mins) Action Skills Direct Action Strategy A series of discussion sessions on a topics A chance to practice your map and compass Movement Building And Direct Action, A Fri 11:30 (90 mins) Campaign & Strategy Skills picked during the gathering based on the skills in teams. Places limited – advance sign- Belgian Example What is strategy and why is it important? What suggestions and popularity among of those up required. Includes briefing and drop-off. Thurs 17:30 (90 mins) Critical Reflections makes an effective strategy? How can we attending Also at: Weds 17:30, Fri 15:15, Sat Come if you either already have experience Examples of Belgian campaigns with direct choose why, where, when and what kind of 15:15, Sun 15:15 using a map and compass, or have attended action at their core. A campaign model with direct action we should take? a history in the anti-militarist movement was the relevant workshop. How To Do Mass Catering replicated in the anti-GM struggle. What are Tactical Organisation For Actions Thurs 17:30 (90 mins) Camp Skills Tales By The Fireside: Anti-Roads the challenges and successes for movements Fri 11:30 (90 mins) Action Skills A hands-on workshop. With over 25 years of Struggles & Reclaim the Streets working with a focus on civil disobedience? Worried about your plans falling apart on vegan mass catering in fields and on protests, Thurs 21:30 Creative Activism What is the strategy, why and what did it actions? Or decision-making will be too slow? come and learn how to feed the masses, Come and listen to stories of derring-do and achieve? Structures to make pre-action plans and wholesome, tasty and hygienic, with time to daft disasters. Bring your tales of actions gone during-action decisions quickly and effectively. ask questions and hear experiences – come by, learn from histories of ecological direct Are You Planning To Win? Key concepts: bricks, multiples, planning ready to chop! (Veggies) Also at: Weds 11:30, actions, laugh and get inspired. Thurs 17:30 (90 mins) Campaign & Strategy protocol, Mission Tactics. Weds 17:30, Thurs 11:30, Fri 11:30, Fri 17:30, Skills Sat 11:30, Sat 17:30, Sun 11:30, Sun 17:30 • • • 28 29 is happening, and whether or not we can or time with different individuals and groups, intent on spreading its influence across the should be doing anything to stop it. We feel and tell a unique story of climate change and globe into lives everyone on the planet. This Friday cont. that in order to have a useful discussion, these climate action. workshop aims to unveil the gritty reality of things should be taken as given for all those the unconventional oil and gas industry which Introduction To Direct Action attending. (Corporate Watch) Also at: Fri 14:00 How To Do Mass Catering lies behind the fracking hype, and convey the Fri 11:30 (90 mins) Action Skills Fri 11:30 (90 mins) Camp Skills fundamental knowledge which everyone will It’s Not About the D Lock! Are you new to A hands-on workshop. With over 25 years of need in order to effective resist this growing direct action? Come and find out more about it Emotional Resilience & Repression vegan mass catering in fields and on protests, threat to community and the wider ecosystems Also at: Sun 11:30 Fri 11:30 (60 mins) Solidarity & Resilience come and learn how to feed the masses, of which they are a part. (Frack Off) An opportunity to talk about the emotional wholesome, tasty and hygienic, with time to Public Order Mass Arrest & Interview impacts of repression in a safe, facilitated ask questions and hear experiences – come Climate vs Capitalism Practice space. We will share tools & strategies for ready to chop! (Veggies) Also at: Weds 11:30, Fri 14:00 (60 mins) Critical Reflections Fri 11:30 (90 mins) Action Skills coping & recovering from repression so we Weds 17:30, Thurs 11:30, Thurs 17:30, Fri Continued from previous session. A discussion Never been arrested, or has it been a while? can stay engaged in social and ecological 17:30, Sat 11:30, Sat 17:30, Sun 11:30, Sun about ways forward for the grassroots, anti- This workshop will give you a taste of the struggles. (Free to Fight) Also at: Weds 14:00 15:15 capitalist climate movement in the UK, part experience by role playing through the process of a series of workshops being held across of arrest, processing at the police station and Police Surveillance: Impossible To Avoid, Qi Gong With Sticks the country. We want to be clear that we are interview. Whilst obviously not the same as Very Possible To Resist! Fri 11:30 (90 mins) Solidarity & Resilience coming from a certain political perspective: the real thing, at least it may help you to have Fri 11:30 (90 mins) Solidarity & Resilience This form of Qi Gong uses a stick to perform a anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian, and that more understanding of what is happening, There are practical steps everyone can series of movements that follow the principles certain things will not be up for discussion: reduce the shock and surprises and hopefully follow, from stopping police photographers of traditional Chinese medicine to maintain whether climate change is happening, and help you be more prepared and empowered. from taking pictures of you or intelligence health. The stick is an extension of the body; whether or not we can or should be doing gatherers finding out your personal details, the circular movements activate the flow of anything to stop it. We feel that in order to Blockading With Tripods to action challenging the expansion of the energy. Also at: Sat 15:15, Sun 11:30 have a useful discussion, these things should Fri 11:30 (90 mins) Action Skills police ‘domestic extremism’ database. The be taken as given for all those attending. Constructing and using tripods safely and workshop, run by the Network for Police What Is Fracking?: An Introduction To (Corporate Watch) Also at: Fri 11:30 effectively in activist situations. Thinking Monitoring (Netpol) – a coalition of groups that Unconventional Oil & Gas strategically about how and when to use. Also monitor public order, protest and street policing Fri 14:00 (60 mins) Campaigns/Issues Coal In The UK at: Sat 17:30 – will also provide an opportunity to share Fracking is a word, and one that means Fri 14:00 (60 mins) Campaigns/Issues your individual experiences of surveillance, many different things to different people, Coal is the main energy source in the UK Aerial Walkways harassment and attempted intimidation by the but behind that word there is an industry (at 36%) and the source which produces Fri 11:30 (90 mins) Action Skills police. (Netpol) the most CO2. In the UK there are 23 active If done right making rope walkways between opencast coal mines, 12 power stations and trees, buildings or lamp posts can be an Waking Up to Climate Change only one remaining deep mine. Communities effective way of resisting eviction or blocking Fri 11:30 (90 mins) Creative Activism are fighting new opencast applications, whilst roads. Come and find out what they are, how A collaborative art project set up to help coal companies bully planning officials into to tie them and have a go walking on them on people learn about, discuss and act on allowing more. Opencast devastates the the ground and up high. It would be preferred climate change. The aim is to make a giant environment and local people are looking to if you have some experience of using climbing patchwork blanket, with each patch made by improve connections with the environmental equipment or have been on the Intro To a different individual or group; you can write a movement. Come and find out the latest and Climbing workshop. Also at: Sun 10:00 climate change message on it. The blanket is work out how together we can fight it. symbolic of the accumulation of greenhouse Climate vs Capitalism gases in the atmosphere as a result of Fresh Experiences From The “Ende Fri 11:30 (90 mins) Critical Reflections humans’ activities. Making a patch gives us Gelände” Action A discussion about ways forward for the time and space to think about climate change Fri 14:00 (60 mins) Campaigns/Issues grassroots, anti-capitalist climate movement and the impact it will have on our families Ende Gelände is trying to establish mass in the UK, part of a series of workshops and communities. The blanket also helps us civil disobedience against coal mining in being held across the country. We want to join together with others around the world germany. It is a heterogeneous coalition of be clear that we are coming from a certain to make our voices heard. Patches will be both grassroots and NGO’s and the first action political perspective: anti-capitalist and anti- hand-stitched together to make person-sized will take place from 14th-16th this August. At authoritarian, and that certain things will not blankets. The plan is for each blanket to spend the time of writing this text I cannot say how be up for discussion: whether climate change

30 31 to the tune of hundreds of millions of pounds Anyone with experience and knowledge morning for when you want to join in, to help a year until at least 2027. If spent on energy can share useful knots and rope skills in a plan the day. Also at: Sat 15:15 Friday cont. saving this subsidy could remove the need structured environment. This more advanced for this capacity for ever well before then. An practical session is open to everyone. Want A Strong Ecological Direct Action many people we will be and how effective overview and UK perspective and a look at Attending the beginners knots session is Group In Your Area? our blockade might be but at the time this what is being done and can be done to stop advisable for people new to knots or with little Fri 15:15 (120 mins) Earth First! workshops happens I’ll know more! this nonsense. experience. This workshop is for you if you are thinking about starting a new ecological direct action Nuclear Will Cost the Earth Field Exercise Activist Talkshow: Let’s Talk About group or getting more people into your existing Fri 14:00 (60 mins) Campaigns/Issues Fri 14:00 (210 mins) Action Skills Elephants In The Room one. Come along to explore the challenges, While Fukushima continues to poison the To practice skills from Tactical Organisation Fri 14:00 (60 mins) Creative Activism assess different ways of organising and Pacific Ocean closer to home Sellafield workshop. Places limited – advance sign-up You will learn some things on indigenous search for possible solutions. For example: continues poisoning the Irish Sea, posing required. Come if you attended the Tactical struggles but this is not a lecture – this is a how do you get more people involved if you “intolerable risks to people and the Organisation workshop. group exercise using improv theatre games! are worried about security? How do you build environment” (government public accounts Are you shy in public? No worries … you enough trust to take risks together when lots of committee). Meanwhile having removed any Introduction To Climbing Skills For Actions all get to wear masks of your favourite people are squeezing their activism into limited pretence of democracy from the planning Fri 14:00 (60 mins) Action Skills environmentalists & bad politicians. Plus all time? Also at: Sat 15:15 process for nukiller waste dumps, the A drop in session running all afternoon. If you participants in the talkshow win an elephant- government are developing their plans to have never climbed before, want a refresher medal for talking about elephants in the room Counter-Surveillance Corner: Information dump their waste in a community near you. or want tips on using climbing in action (e.g. power & privilege, solidarity, climate Security For The Discerning Anarchist Come along & find out what we can do about contexts this session will give you basic skills justice)! Fri 15:15 (120 mins) Campaign & Strategy it together! for staying safe at heights. Includes using Skills harnesses, cows-tails, and prussiking. Art Space Drop-In Stop being paranoid – take action. Explore Bio-energy – The Biggest False Climate Fri 14:00 (300 mins) Creative Activism scenarios where your security is in danger, Solution Advanced Computer Security Workshop Drop in to the Creative Resistance space to identify what you need to protect, the threats Fri 14:00 (60 mins) Campaigns/Issues Fri 14:00 (60 mins) Practical Skills make visual material for actions (like banners, and suitable counter-measures. The state Bio-energy, particularly biomass (foreign trees) A workshop for existing users of encryption masks, posters, stencils, prints etc.), to does not have infinite resources – let’s exploit burnt for electricity at max 38% efficiency is and computer security practices. This enhance the colourfulness, creativeness and that! This workshop will be drawing on real the biggest part of the UK renewable energy workshop is to share tools and techniques clarity of your actions. You are welcome to world experience of high risk situations where strategy, now and for the future, that nobody around encryption, secure communication and work on props and visuals for any projects as compromises are inevitable and the human is talks about! It drives deforestation and safe storage of data. (Free to Fight) well. always the weakest link. biodiversity loss, pollutes local people and is Also at: Thurs 14:00, Sat 14:00, Sun 11:30 worse for the climate than fossil fuel. It is a Applied Knots Skillshare Smartphone Video Activism 1 – Walk The dangerous false solution – yet it is subsidised Fri 14:00 (60 mins) Practical Skills How To Build A Treehouse Talk Fri 14:00 (60 mins) Action Skills Fri 15:15 (120 mins) Campaign & Strategy Treehouses are a popular way to defend land Skills from developers. Learn the whole process The one-take interview template from our from deciding where in the tree to constructing revolutionary course. Please bring a charged the main frame work, then looking at floor, roof smartphone. Free cartoons! (visionOntv) and further defences. No climbing involved in this as we’ll practice at ground level. Bring a Group Dynamics – What’s Under The penknife if you have one. Also at: Sat 14:00 Surface? Fri 15:15 (120 mins) Skills For Working In Building A Treehouse: Drop-In Session Groups Fri 15:15 (120 mins) Action Skills A group is made up of individuals, and its We’ll be building a treehouse all day and also something else than the sum of its parts. you’re welcome to join us for as long as you Some people say that groups are living want. You can help with or without climbing. organisms, with a will of their own. You might You can do the climbing with little experience feel comfortable in one group, and alienated but beginners will find it easier in the in another. Why’s that? This workshop is an afternoon. It would help if you sign up in the introduction to some fundamentals in group

32 33 move and climb in. The fence will be around Daily Discussion for freedom. (Corporate Watch) all weekend to practice and share your skills Fri 15:15 (90 mins) Earth First! Friday cont. on. Also at: Sat 15:15, Sun 15:15 A series of discussion sessions on a topics Stop GM Crops picked during the gathering based on the Fri 17:30 (90 mins) Campaigns/Issues dynamics. Everyone is welcome – whatever Nature Awareness Practices And Games suggestions and popularity among of those A target of direct action for over two decades your experiences of being in groups – whether Fri 15:15 (90 mins) Solidarity & Resilience attending Also at: Weds 17:30, Thurs 17:30, now. What is GM and why do people oppose you love them, hate them, find them confusing, Based on the work of Tom Brown Jr, this is an Sat 15:15, Sun 15:15 so strongly? Links to climate, food sovereignty or something else. (Seeds For Change) introduction to some simple nature connection and corporate control. We’ll discuss some new practices and some practical and fun ways to Unconventional Fossil Fuels developments, and the industry’s discourse Legal Observer Training practice them alone or in a group. For young Fri 17:30 (90 mins) Campaigns/Issues pushing GM as ‘climate smart’ or ‘feeding Fri 15:15 (300 mins) Action Skills people - all ages welcome. Also at: Weds Capitalism and the endless pursuit of the world’. How is the industry lobby working Legal Observers play a key role at protests. 17:30, Sun 10:00 economic growth is driving ever more extreme in Brussels, and what is the role of the UK? Whether they are handing out key advice on forms of energy extraction. This workshop will Inspirational stories of actions and grassroots bust cards, or finding witnesses for arrests, Power & Privilege In Our Groups give an overview of fracking, tar sands and campaigns from a range of different countries. legal observers help to ensure that people Fri 15:15 (120 mins) Solidarity & Resilience other types of unconventional fossil fuels. This protesting do not face the legal system alone. Whether you’re relieved to read that workshop will be followed by a discussion on the growing How Can We Stop Airport Expansion? This workshop is an introduction to legal title, haven’t come across the phrase power resistance to these forms of ‘extreme energy’ Fri 17:30 (90 mins) Campaigns/Issues observing. (Green and Black Cross) and privilege before, are irritated by it, in the UK and around the world, and how we The government’s likely to give a green light or anything in between, this participative can build towards a world beyond capitalism to a new runway in the South-East, and likely Over, Under, Through: Fences And workshop is for you. Our groups and where energy is democratically controlled and growth at other airports. What can we all do Overcoming Them campaigns often unintentionally replicate the we exist in harmony with the natural world. about this? (HACAN) Fri 15:15 (120 mins) Action Skills power structures many of us are trying to (Corporate Watch) When trying to take direct action we are often challenge. We’ll be talking about how race, The New Road-Building Menace held back by fences. Come and find out about culture, class, gender and other issues play Fighting Incineration And Creating A Zero Fri 17:30 (90 mins) Campaigns/Issues different types of fences, and how to get past out in environmental groups, how we talk (or Waste World The evictions and the victories of the amazing them in a variety of ways. There is a practical don’t talk) about them, how we get better at Fri 17:30 (90 mins) Campaigns/Issues Combe Haven Defenders, the first and the element to this workshop so come if you are listening to each other and specifically, what ‘Waste to Energy’ incineration is being worst of a long-line of 720 miles of proposed wearing clothes and footwear that you can we can do so all voices are valued equally. heralded as a renewable way to tackle waste new roads chomping through ancient (London Roots) Also at: Weds 15:15 and generate ‘green energy’. However this monuments, woodlands and everything is far from the truth, hear about the true that is green. Hear about new security and History, Methods And Impacts Of impacts of waste incineration and learn government eviction tactics. How we got hear Undercover Policing & Infiltrators from the experiences of struggles against here & a brief history of quiet victories and Fri 15:15 (120 mins) Campaign & Strategy incineration in the UK and across the world. noisy defeats from the once vibrant anti-roads Skills Help plan strategies and tactics for moving movement, including Newbury and the No M11 For nearly 50 years radical political forward towards a zero waste world, free from Campaign. How we can be at worst a huge movements have had long term deep cover incineration and landfills. (Global Alliance for eco-tax, and at best a spanner in the machine! spies living among them. Since Mark Kennedy Incinerator Alternatives – GAIA) (Campaign for Better Transport/Combe Haven was exposed in 2010 we’ve learned a lot about Defenders/Druids against the Stonehenge who, how and why they work. Here’s what’s Solidarity With Ecological Movements In Tunnel) known about them and how we can resist. North Kurdistan (Campaign Opposing Police Surveillance) Fri 17:30 (90 mins) Campaigns/Issues Big Banner Design & Deployment The Turkish government is planning to build Fri 17:30 (90 mins) Action Skills Try Out A New Activist Strategy Game thousands of hydroelectric dam including the Making and deploying very large banners. Fri 15:15 (120 mins) Campaign & Strategy Ilısu dam, which will flood almost 200 Kurdish Keeping them compact, light and low Skills villages. We will discuss the strategic and wind resistance. Outdoors (possibly): rope Play-test a fun strategy game being developed militarist motivations for these projects and techniques such as ascending and abseiling, by and for activists. The game lets you use the calls for solidarity from Kurdish people deploying banners. collective intelligence to creatively think about struggling against them. The workshop will social transformation. also highlight the need for solidarity with North Direct Action Assault Course Kurdish ecological resistance movements Fri 17:30 (90 mins) Action Skills within the context of the wider Kurdish struggle Buddy up! This is a space for everyone

34 35 ‘Not seen, no heard: Moving about at night without being detected’ – a practical exercise Friday cont. in ways of dressing and moving that gets you Saturday in place for an action without raising the alarm. (regardless of age) to test out some key Yoga action skills. Face and break police lines, use Sat 7:30 (30 mins) Solidarity & Resilience blockading techniques, climb fences, take Cinema A guided session, whether you are a beginner Fri 21:30 Creative Activism down corporate foes, change your identity or already have a have a practice. Please Radical cinema space showing a wide variety and climb a tripod! Watch out for those snatch wear comfortable clothes. of full length and short films. See board squads!!! Also at: Thurs 17:30, Sat 17:30 Also at: Sun 7:30 outside for details of films being shown. Also at: Weds 20:00, Thurs 21:00, Sat 20:45, How To Do Mass Catering Introduction To Earth First! & the Sun 20:00 Fri 17:30 (90 mins) Camp Skills Gathering A hands-on workshop. With over 25 years of Sat 9:30 (30 mins) Earth First! vegan mass catering in fields and on protests, If it’s your first time or you’re curious come and learn how to feed the masses, Simple & Effective Sitting Posture Exercise about how EF! and the Gathering works, come wholesome, tasty and hygienic, with time to For Screen Slaves and ask questions and hear a bit Fri 20:00 Solidarity & Resilience ask questions and hear experiences – come about why Earth First! and why This practical well-being workshop uses ready to chop! (Veggies) Also at: Weds 11:30, people got involved. See how the EF! mindfulness and movement differentiation Weds 17:30, Thurs 11:30, Thurs 17:30, Fri network can support your passion to to re-educate your habitual sitting posture 11:30, Sat 11:30, Sat 17:30, Sun 11:30, Sun fan the flames… Also at: Weds 9:30, so that your own system tells you when you 15:15 Thurs 9:30, Fri 9:30, Sun 9:30 are spending too long in an unhealthy fixed How To Do Mass Catering position. A written transcript of the exercise Vegan Cake-Baking Regional Meet-Ups & What Next Sat 11:30 (90 mins) Camp Skills to practice at home is available. ‘Awareness Fri Practical Skills Sat 10:00 (75 mins) Earth First! A hands-on workshop. With over 25 years of Through Movement’ is a group teaching Perfect vegan cake-baking for the masses: Chance to network with individuals/groups vegan mass catering in fields and on protests, approach using The Feldenkrais Method. The chocolate, ginger, Bakewell. A hands-on not from your region, build links, assess threats, come and learn how to feed the masses, practitioner is keen to help individual activists hands-in session. (Veggies) initiate collaborations and build solidarity (Main wholesome, tasty and hygienic, with time to with specific problems, please contact him space) Also at: Thurs 10:00 ask questions and hear experiences – come anytime through the Workshop Coordinator. UK Direct Action Histories: What’s ready to chop! (Veggies) Also at: Weds 11:30, Also at: Weds 20:00, Sat 20:00 Changed & What Can We Learn? Campaign-Based Networking And Weds 17:30, Thurs 11:30, Thurs 17:30, Fri Fri 20:00 (90 mins) Critical Reflections Organising Sessions 11:30, Fri 17:30, Sat 17:30, Sun 11:30, Sun This session will look at the history of Earth Tales By The Fireside: Anti‑GM Crop Sat 11:30 (90 mins) Earth First! 15:15 First! with a focus on direct action in Britain in Campaigning? This workshop will start in the main marquee Fri 21:30 Creative Activism the 1990s. We will look at traditions of direct but split down into separate campaign The True Cost of Extreme Energy Come and listen to stories of derring-do and action in the UK and what can be leaned by sessions (in different spaces) after a very Sat 13:00 (60 mins) Creative Activism daft disasters. Bring your tales of actions gone comparison with previous generations. The brief introduction to the available campaigns. Visual storytelling using the Beehive by, learn from histories of ecological direct aim is to discuss what is similar and what has Each session will focus facilitating a space Collective’s stunning graphics of the actions, laugh and get inspired. changed over time and why it has changes where participants can network and organise connections between extreme energy, climate with an eye to learning lessons for the future. around their chosen issue. Campaigns will change, community action, social justice and • • • include Fracking, Coal, GM, Nuclear, Roads, an ever expanding economy. How To Run A Gathering Incineration, Climate and Bio-Energy. Fri 20:00 Earth First! Kayaking For Actions A chance to join in with this year’s EF! Woodland Crafts 1: Using Tools Sat 13:30 (135 mins) Action Skills Summer Gathering collective and help Sat 11:30 (90 mins) Practical Skills Basic activist kayak training. Familiarisation out for this gathering, plus learn how to Use tools including knives, hand drills, bill with inflatable kayaks and thinking strategically run a gathering/camp. (This year’s EF!SG hook, axe etc to make stuff! All ages welcome! about how to board a vessel and using Collective) Also at: Weds 20:00, Thurs 20:00, protective movements. How to do actions on Sat 20:00, Sun 20:00 Woodland Crafts 1: Using Tools the water. Places limited – advance sign- Sat 11:30 (90 mins) Practical Skills up required on Friday. Make sure you bring Night Time Skills Use tools including knives, hand drills, bill swimming costumes and a towel. Age: 16+ Fri 20:00 Action Skills hook, axe etc to make stuff! All ages welcome!

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8 Breakfast 9 Morning Meeting 9.30 Introduction to EF! & the Gathering Working Groups & Site Work Period Space 1 Space 2 Space 3 Space 4 Space 5 Space 6 Outdoors/Elsewhere 10 - 11.15 Camp hygiene – Learn about site layout How to set up a field How to put up mar- How to assemble How to do mass general principles to including legal require- kitchen – key practical & quees and domes flat-pack compost catering keep people at camps ments such as fire lanes health considerations with confidence & toilet cubicles & basic healthy & how germs & licensing laws maintaining them principles spread against the elements 11.30 - 1 Basic First Aid intro How to build hands-free How to make a camp How to do easy site Help set up off-grid Help make the space How to do mass hand-washing stations accessible plumbing including electrics & basic welcoming & catering – a must for camp hy- soak‑aways principles beautiful, including giene, simple & low‑tech welcome tent 1 Lunch 2 - 3 The highs & lows of Emotional Resilience & Headline-grabbing Land access & Intro to Radical Radical Views… working as a coalition, Repression interventions traveller law Eco-psychology Critical Thought? An the example of Frack introductory workshop Free Dee on critical thinking, 3.15 - 5.15 Capture the Media / Power & Privilege in our Tools for strategy The ZAD – a French Conflict resolution ideology & culture followed by 30 minute Groups grassroots anti- Brainstorm your video aviation struggle Followed at 3:45 by: idea (In)Direct Action?…a Critical Reflection on Radical Politics 5.30 - 7 Introduction to Reclaim Daily discussion Rising Up & letting go Resisting coal in Precarity How to do mass the Fields Germon€y consciousness- catering raising: anxiety & modern life Nature awareness practices & games 7 Evening Meal Meeting to set up ‘Safety PIN’ team 8 Evening entertainment: Evening programme:

Live Music 7:30: ½ hour debrief 8: How to run a 8: Cinema 8: Simple & Effective for today’s workshop gathering Sitting facilitators Posture Exercise for Screen Slaves Night Time Programme 11 Power-down (all amplified sound & loud noise to have ended)

38 39 Thursday 8 Breakfast 9 Morning Meeting 9.30 Introduction to EF! & the Gathering Working Groups & Site Work Period Space 1 Space 2 Space 3 Space 4 Space 5 Space 6 Space 7 Space 8 Outdoors/Elsewhere 10 - 11.15 Regional meet-ups & what next 11.30 - 1 Intro to radios Holding space Bure Zone Libre: Solidarity Social & Houses Restoration Picture your • Food Sovereignty for for actions and land occupation Activism Ecological without ecology How Story the People: from the Aids to at a nuclear waste harm of the landlords, work roots up (runs till 1:30) communication burial mega- project Prison Industrial without bosses • How to do mass catering security Complex • Beginners Knots & How to Remember Them 1 Lunch 2 - 3 Basic Computer Public Order Making the most Underground Working Together Expressing Getting Nicked Engaging • Map & Compass Security experience s of the planning Coal Gasification or depressing Abroad a local • Creative Resistance: Art Workshop skillshare system (UCG): a Lurking yourself: how community in Space Drop In 2 - 7 Monster to deal with activism over • Climbing for action: with ropes the 6th era of the long- extinction? term - Grow Heathrow 3.15 - 5.15 Working together Know Your Rights Fundraising for Radical Mental Can anarchist Working with Hunt sabbing • Day navigation route (3 on actions Workshop Radical Groups Health & electoral conflict - Practical hours) politics mix? The Skills • Foraging & Plant experience in identification Barcelona 5.30 - 7 We’ve been here Facilitating Are you planning to Extreme Energy, Daily discussion Community Movement Advanced • Direct Action Assault before: why the meetings win? or Why the Fire-Fight: building & Security Course CoP21 talks will World is Going Keeping our direct action, • How to do mass fail to shit communities a Belgian catering • Rebel & Revolutionary incinerator free example Song Singing 7 Evening Meal 8 Evening entertainment: Evening programme:

Pub Quiz 8: Twyford Down, 8: How to 7:30: ½ hour Night Following on from where EF! & the run a debrief for to- navigation Twyford workshop, Tales anti-roads move- gathering day’s workshop route* by the ment began? facilitators (8:30 -11:30) Fireside: anti- roads struggles & Reclaim the Streets 9: Cinema Schedule continues Night Time Programme 11 Power-down (all amplified sound & loud noise to have ended)

40 41 Friday 8 Breakfast 9 Morning Meeting 9.30 Introduction to EF! & the Gathering Working Groups & Site Work Period Space 1 Space 2 Space 3 Space 4 Space 5 Space 6 Space 7 Space 8 Outdoors/Elsewhere 10 - 11.15 Campaigns round-up (UK & International) 11.30 - 1 Mass arrest Intro to Direct Direct action Tactical Climate vs. Emotional Police Student • How to do mass catering & interview Action strategy Organisation for Capitalism Resilience & Surveillance: Movement: • Waking up to Climate Change practice Actions Repression impossible to Strategies, • Blockading with Tripods avoid, very Tactics, & • Qi Gong with Sticks • Aerial walkways possible to Ideas for resist! the Future 1 Lunch 2 - 3 Coal in the UK What is fracking?: Bio- energy: the Nuclear Will Cost the Climate vs. Fresh Advanced Activist • An intro to climbing for actions an intro to biggest false Earth Capitalism experiences computer Talkshow: • Legal Observer Training unconventional oil climate solution from the security Let’s talk • Creative Resistance: Art Space & gas 'Ende workshop about the Drop In • Field Exercise (runs till 5.30) Gelände' elephants • Applied knots skillshare anti- coal in the room action, Germany 3.15 - 5.15 History, Methods Counter- Want A Strong Daily discussion Smartphone Group Power & Try Out • Over, Under, Through: Fences And Impacts Surveillance Ecological Direct Video Activism Dynamics – Privilege In A New And Overcoming Them Of Undercover Corner: Action Group In 1 What’s Under Our Groups Activist • Treehouse building theory intro Policing & Information Your Area? The Surface? Strategy & drop in • Nature Awareness Practice & Infiltrators Security For Game Games The Discerning Anarchist 5.30 - 7 Paris How can we stop The New Road- Stop GM Fighting Big Banner Intro to un- Solidarity • How to do mass catering Mobilisation and airport expansion? Building Menace Crops Incineration Design & conventional With • Direct Action Assault Course Beyond? And Creating A Deployment fossil fuels Ecological Zero Waste Movements World In North Kurdistan 7 Evening Meal 8 Evening entertainment: Evening programme:

Open Mic Night 8 - 9.30 Direct 8: How to 7:30: ½ hour 8: Simple 8: Not seen, not heard: Moving Action UK run a debrief for & Effective about at night without being gathering today’s work- Sitting detected 9.30: Cinema shop facilita- Posture Exercise Schedule tors for Screen 9.30: Tales By the Fireside: Continues Slaves Anti GM Crop Campaigning Night Time Programme 11.30 Power-down (all amplified sound & loud noise to have ended) 42 43 Saturday 7.30 Yoga 8 Breakfast 9 Morning Meeting 9.30 Introduction to EF! & the Gathering Working Groups & Site Work Period Space 1 Space 2 Space 3 Space 4 Space 5 Space 6 Space 7 Space 8 Outdoors/Elsewhere 10 - 11.15 Regional meet-ups and what next 11.30 - 1 Campaign-based networking & organising sessions e.g. fracking, Paris, GM, • How to do mass catering roads, nuclear power, incineration, aviation, prisons & repression • Woodland Arts & Crafts with Tools 1 Lunch The True Cost of Extreme Energy 2 - 3 Resisting Basic Computer Fracking Direct Working Co-operation How To Hello The • Kayaking* 1st group 1:30-3:45. infiltration & Security Workshop Action: How To Together And Consensus Research Anarchism politics of 2nd group 3:30 till 5:45 undercover Shutdown A Drilling Companies technology • Zine-making drop-in until 5.30 police Rig And Other • Creative Resistance: Art Space Drop In until 7pm Useful Tips • Treehouse building theory intro & drop in until 7pm 3.15 - 5.15 Fundamental Intro to Building lock‑ons Facilitating Consensus Daily Want a • Lighting and cooking on fires skills for effective reconnaissance meetings that works! discussion strong • Foraging & plant identification media ecological • Qi gong with sticks direct action • Over, Under, Through: Fences group in your And Overcoming Them area? 5.30 - 7 Change happens Intro to security Perspectives from Reflecting on Smartphone Blags & Spiritual Organising • How to do mass catering in different ways for activists & anti-GM crop Burnout Video Activism Scams Activism Defendant • Direct Action Assault Course discussion campaigners protests in France 2 - Shoot and Support & • Blockading with Tripods Go Solidarity • Rebel & Revolutionary Song Singing 7 Evening Meal 8 Evening entertainment: Evening programme:

8:45- Ceilidh whilst light, followed by DJs 8: Roots of 8: How to 7:30: ½ hour 8: Simple 9.30 - midnight: Water-borne Resistance: 20 run a debrief for & Effective action practice at night years of Earth gathering today’s work- Sitting First! (puppet shop facilita- Posture Exercise show) tors for Screen Slaves 8.45: Cinema schedule continues Night Time Programme 1 Power-down (all amplified sound & loud noise to have ended)

44 45 Sunday 7.30 Guided Meditation Yoga 8 Breakfast 9 Morning Meeting 9.30 Introduction to EF! & the Gathering Working Groups & Site Work Period Space 1 Space 2 Space 3 Space 4 Space 5 Space 6 Space 7 Space 8 Outdoors/Elsewhere 10 - 11.15 Intro to the Re-invigorating Community Prisoner support – Fracking Defending Arms to Hello • Setting up 12V off-grid systems Climate Games radical media Resistance: the why & how Resistance in yourself in Renewables: Anarchism • Zine-making drop in until 1pm importance of Denmark court environmental • Nature awareness practices & autonomy, diversity action to Stop games • Aerial Walkways and solidarity in the the Arms fair! • Beginners knots & how to context of fracking remember them 11.30 - 1 Intro to Direct Blockading Street medic The UK’s role in Discussion Land Rigwatch: Surviving • How to do mass catering Action skillshare the global coal about anti- occupations keeping Capitalism • Qi Gong with Sticks trade gold mining in & taking tabs on the • Creative Resistance: Art Space Romania sites fracking Drop In industry 1 Lunch 2 - 3 Organising the next EF! (winter moot & summer) gatherings Growing Earth First! - local groups, web, publications and more

3.15 - 5.15 Fundraising for Know Your Rights Daily discussion Exploration of Smartphone Beyond Biodiversity Squatting • How to do mass catering radical groups Workshop Non-violence Video Activism Borders: an Crisis skillshare • Creative Resistance: Art Space 3 - Edit This! overview Drop In of Fortress • Climbing for action: with & without Europe & 4.15pm: 4.15pm: ropes the Migrant Antifascism Protest law • Over, Under, Through: Fences Solidarity and overcoming them & legal aid Network changes 5.30 - 7 Campaigna report-back/next steps & evaluation 7 Evening Meal 8 Evening entertainment: Evening programme:

Games Night/Quiz or Something More 8: Cinema 8: How to 7:30: ½ hour 8 - 9: Energy and Power: a radical history of run a debrief for resistance – a story telling gathering today’s work- shop facilita- tors Night Time Programme 1 Power-down (all amplified sound & loud noise to have ended)

46 47 For Working In Groups (Frack Off) Building A Treehouse: Drop-In Session Consensus decision-making needs co- Sat 15:15 (225 mins) Action Skills Saturday cont. operation, which is not always easy to find in Basic Computer Security Workshop We’ll be building a treehouse all day and only. Also at: Sat 15:30 a society built on competition. A fun session Sat 14:00 (60 mins) Practical Skills you’re welcome to join us for as long as you Hello Anarchism using group activities to explore what it means A workshop for beginners on how to be more want. You can help with or without climbing. Sat 14:00 (60 mins) Earth First! to co-operate, and how we can support secure online in your communication and You can do the climbing with little experience What is anarchism? What is its relevance ourselves and each other to leave competition and utilise encryption to keep your files safer. but beginners will find it easier in the today, both around the world and here in at the door when we sit down to do consensus. Please bring basic information about your afternoon. It would help if you sign up in the the UK? How anarchist is Earth First!? A (Rhizome) computer so we can answer specific technical morning for when you want to join in, to help participatory discussion. (Kebele Anarchist questions. (Free to Fight) Also at: Thurs 14:00 plan the day. Also at: Fri 15:15 Social Centre) Also at: Sun 10:00 Fracking Direct Action: How To Shutdown A Drilling Rig And Other Useful Tips The Politics Of Technology Want A Strong Ecological Direct Action How To Research Companies Sat 14:00 (60 mins) Action Skills Sat 14:00 (60 mins) Campaigns/Issues Group In Your Area? Sat 14:00 (60 mins) Campaign & Strategy The ultimate line of defence for any community What does a critical politics of technology Sat 15:15 (120 mins) Earth First! Skills threatened by fracking is direct action to mean in the 21st century? Presentation & This workshop is for you if you are thinking Corporate Watch’s ‘Do-It-Yourself’ training for disrupt the industry’s invasion of their area. sharing of experiences in different campaigns about starting a new ecological direct action groups, organisations and individuals who While a lot can be achieved by fighting and struggles including alternative visions of group or getting more people into your existing want to research companies in order to take planning applications, in the end applications social and technological development, and one. Come along to explore the challenges, action against them. It will explain how to find will be approved when they are appealed the transition to a sustainable and socially just assess different ways of organising and out key details about a company, including to central government. This workshop aims society; challenging the concept of progress search for possible solutions. For example: how to look into its actions and track record, to explore some of the weak points of the through technology. how do you get more people involved if you how much money it is making, its owners and fracking industry and potential techniques are worried about security? How do you build directors, links with government and public which can be used to exploit them. Including Resisting Infiltration & Undercover Police enough trust to take risks together when lots of sector contracts and licences. (Corporate how site occupations, road blockades and Sat 14:00 (60 mins) Solidarity & Resilience people are squeezing their activism into limited Watch) rig sitting, can best be used in the context of A discussion on what has been learned to date time? Also at: Fri 15:15 the fracking industry. Note this will provide a on infiltration and informers, and the upcoming Working Together general overview with pointers on where to Pitchford Inquiry. (Activist Security Collective) Fundamental Skills For Effective Media Sat 14:00 Skills For Working In Groups go for more information, not necessarily all Sat 15:15 (120 mins) Campaign & Strategy the skills you need to immediately take action. Zine Making Drop-In Skills Working in groups can be Sat 14:00 (180 mins) Creative Activism We will look at creating super snappy a very powerful way to Zines are a creative, powerfully DIY soundbites, crafting the perfect press release resist and build alternatives. communication tool for social history archives, and honing your interview skills. Effective and sustainable subcultures and social movements. The aim of action comes from healthy this workshop is to make a collaborative zine Facilitating Meetings groups that can work in a day – come with your passions, ideas and Sat 15:15 (90 mins) Skills For Working In together cooperatively. willingness to have a go. Also at: Sun 10:00 Groups The Working Together With or without realising it, most of you will workshop will explore group Art Space Drop-In have learned loads about good facilitation dynamics and some skills Sat 14:00 (300 mins) Creative Activism skills from the meetings you’ve been part of, to help us build inclusive Drop in to the Creative Resistance space to including the ones that have been a bit of a and empowering groups. make visual material for actions (like banners, mess. Given the amount of time we spend in Whether your group is masks, posters, stencils, prints etc.), to them, we need them well facilitated, and we newly formed or you have enhance the colourfulness, creativeness and need more people sharing this role around in been collaborating for a clarity of your actions. You are welcome to our groups. With good facilitation you can help while, this workshop can work on props and visuals for any projects as each other do your best thinking and get a help you to work more well. Also at: Thurs 14:00, Fri 14:00, Sun 11:30 load of work done in a short space of time. So, effectively together. Also at: what is facilitation, what are facilitation skills, Thurs 14:00 How To Build A Treehouse what works and why ? Bring your questions Sat 14:00 (60 mins) Action Skills Co-operation And Treehouses are a popular way to defend land Consensus from developers. Learn the whole process Sat 14:00 (60 mins) Skills from deciding where in the tree to constructing 48 49 nutritional and health benefits of wild foods Sat 17:30 (90 mins) Campaign & Strategy and the ‘polyculture vs the monoculture’. Skills Saturday cont. Reconnaissance For Actions Consideration of wild and home grown food If you have not thought about activist security Sat 15:15 (120 mins) Action Skills as a part of community self-sufficiency and before, or you want a refresher this session is A good plan for any kind of action usually autonomy. Open discussion and knowledge for you. A chance to think through processes involves checking out the site beforehand. sharing. Also at: Thurs 15:15 to keep you as secure as possible and how to This session will give you tips and practical integrate them into your life and campaigning. experience to help you know what to look out Daily Discussion for, and how to record the information without Sat 15:15 (90 mins) Earth First! Smartphone Video Activism 2 – Shoot And giving the game away too soon. A series of discussion sessions on a topics Go picked during the gathering based on the Sat 17:30 (90 mins) Campaign & Strategy Over, Under, Through: Fences And suggestions and popularity among of those Skills The one-shot news report. Please Overcoming Them attending Also at: Weds 17:30, Thurs 17:30, bring a charged smartphone. Free cartoons! Sat 15:15 (120 mins) Action Skills Fri 15:15, Sun 15:15 (visionOntv) When trying to take direct action we are often held back by fences. Come and find out about Qi Gong With Sticks Change Happens In Different Ways different types of fences, and how to get past Sat 15:15 (90 mins) Solidarity & Resilience Discussion them in a variety of ways. There is a practical This form of Qi Gong uses a stick to perform a Sat 17:30 (90 mins) Critical Reflections element to this workshop so come if you are series of movements that follow the principles Taking direct action. Going on marches. wearing clothes and footwear that you can of traditional Chinese medicine to maintain Going to protests at UN summits. Organising move and climb in. The fence will be around health. The stick is an extension of the body; locally. Lobbying local or national government. all weekend to practice and share your skills the circular movements activate the flow of Damaging the reputation of corporations. on. Also at: Fri 15:15, Sun 15:15 energy. Also at: Fri 11:30, Sun 11:30 Developing regional, national and international networks of activists, campaigners, and Building Lock‑Ons Kayaking For Actions organisers. These are some tactics that Sat 15:15 (120 mins) Action Skills Sat 15:30 (135 mins) Action Skills grassroots organisers get involved in, in the Learn how to build shit-hot lock ons Basic activist kayak training. Familiarisation attempt to make change happen. What kind for longer lasting blockades. with inflatable kayaks and thinking strategically of change are they creating? What tactics are Places limited – about how to board a vessel and using particularly useful in different campaigns at advance sign-up protective movements. How to do actions on the moment? What can we learn from past required on Friday. the water. Places limited – advance sign- movements? In this debate we will ask some up required on Friday. Make sure you bring of these questions, and more besides. You are Woodland swimming costumes and a towel. Age: 16+ warmly invited to share your opinions, and be Crafts2: only. Also at: Sat 13:30 curious about opinions different to your own. Making Fire and Cooking On It Perspectives From Anti-GM Crop Protests Organising Defendant Support & Solidarity Sat 15:15 (120 mins) In France Sat 17:30 (90 mins) Solidarity & Resilience the main frame work, then looking at floor, roof Practical Skills Sat 17:30 (90 mins) Campaigns/Issues and further defences. No climbing involved in Fire lighting & Since 2003, hundreds of ‘Faucheurs basic cooking (mmm… Volontaires d’OGM’ have worked to get dough sticks). All ages welcome! genetically-modified crops out of France, Consensus That Works! Sat 15:15 (120 mins) Skills For Working In in the fields, off the plates and out of the Groups Foraging And Plant Identification troughs. This has included mass ripping out Consensus decision-making has the potential Sat 15:15 (120 mins) Practical Skills of crops openly during the daytime, at night, to be a fantastic and liberating process that Tour of the site, identifying and collecting a and blockading of boats importing GM animal brings us closer to each other and closer variety of wild plants and discussing their uses feed. What can we learn from this approach to our ideals. But first we have to navigate for food, medicine and other applications as that has been very different than the UK the obstacles thrown up by blocks to that well as folk lore and history. Introduction to activist approach, and has also had notable process, by conflict, by polarised opinion. In some commonly foraged plants and foraging successes. this session we’ll explore, and practice, how to etiquette and personal safety. Countryside move beyond those blocks. (Rhizome) management act is at applies to foraging Introduction To Security For Activists And will be briefly covered. Examination of the Campaigners 50 51 A chance to learn political songs from radical movements around the world, including Saturday cont. Catalonia, the Basque Country & other parts This workshop is about how to organise of the Spanish State. Bring some copies of consistent emotional and practical support for any songs you know and would like to sing individuals and groups facing legal challenges together. Also at: Thurs 17:30 and repression following resistance; whether that is large numbers of people from anti- Direct Action Assault Course fracking camps, or one-to-one support. (Bristol Sat 17:30 (90 mins) Action Skills Defendant Solidarity and Free to Fight) Buddy up! This is a space for everyone (regardless of age) to test out some key Reflecting On Burnout action skills. Face and break police lines, use Sat 17:30 (90 mins) Solidarity & Resilience blockading techniques, climb fences, take Burnout is when someone experiences down corporate foes, change your identity physical, emotional and mental exhaustion and climb a tripod! Watch out for those snatch from which they may never fully recover. It squads!!! Also at: Thurs 17:30, Fri 17:30 is often accepted as a by-product of being involved in activism. There is always so much How To Do Mass Catering to do and not enough people to do it, that Sat 17:30 (90 mins) Camp Skills we just keep on working until we exhaust A hands-on workshop. With over 25 years of ourselves. Burnout also affects the groups vegan mass catering in fields and on protests, that we belong to and the wider social change come and learn how to feed the masses, movement. We will focus in this workshop on wholesome, tasty and hygienic, with time to how it affects us as individuals. ask questions and hear experiences – come ready to chop! (Veggies) Also at: Weds 11:30, Spiritual Activism Weds 17:30, Thurs 11:30, Thurs 17:30, Fri Sat 17:30 (90 mins) Critical Reflections 11:30, Fri 17:30, Sat 11:30, Sun 11:30, Sun What does spirituality have to offer the 15:15 activist? What insights can it bring into the destruction of nature everywhere? What Vegan Cake-Baking is the relationship between spirituality and Sat Practical Skills the religious traditions? What can we learn Perfect vegan cake-baking for the masses: How To Run A Gathering an animated zine. With live music and sound. from the spirituality of activists like Gerard chocolate, ginger, Bakewell. A hands-on not Sat 20:00 Earth First! (Otherstory) Winstanley, Julia ‘Butterfly’ Hill, Vandana Shiva hands-in session. (Veggies) A chance to join in with this year’s EF! and Alastair McIntosh? Talk, readings and Summer Gathering collective and help Cinema open discussion – all perspectives welcome. Simple & Effective Sitting Posture Exercise out for this gathering, plus learn how to Sat 20:45 Creative Activism For Screen Slaves run a gathering/camp. (This year’s EF!SG Radical cinema space showing a wide variety Blockading With Tripods Sat 20:00 Solidarity & Resilience Collective) Also at: Weds 20:00, Thurs 20:00, of full length and short films. See board Sat 17:30 (90 mins) Action Skills This practical well-being workshop uses Fri 20:00, Sun 20:00 outside for details of films being shown. Constructing and using tripods safely and mindfulness and movement differentiation Also at: Weds 20:00, Thurs 21:00, Fri 21:30, effectively in activist situations. Thinking to re-educate your habitual sitting posture Roots of Resistance: 20 years of Earth Sun 20:00 strategically about how and when to use. Also so that your own system tells you when you First! at: Fri 11:30 are spending too long in an unhealthy fixed Sat 20:00 Earth First! Water-Borne Action Practice At Night position. A written transcript of the exercise A show celebrating the rise of radical Sat 21:30 (150 mins) Action Skills Blags & Scams to practice at home is available. ‘Awareness ecological activism. From the treetops of Come if you have kayaking experience, Sat 17:30 (90 mins) Solidarity & Resilience Through Movement’ is a group teaching Newbury, to planting trees on the M11, to the or have come to the earlier workshop and Put in an expenses claim for your unpaid approach using The Feldenkrais Method. The tops of power station chimneys, it gathers shown competence on the water, and want to labour! Come to this skillshare with your tips practitioner is keen to help individual activists together the stories of many activists, bringing practice how that is in a more covert situation. for low-income survival in the 21st century. with specific problems, please contact him to life both legendary and forgotten victories. Simulated affinity group/night-time action. anytime through the Workshop Coordinator. It uses a magically simple technique: cut- Places limited – advance sign-up required Rebel & Revolutionary Song-Singing Also at: Weds 20:00, Fri 20:00 out drawings moved against a backdrop, on Friday. Make sure you bring swimming Sat 17:30 (90 mins) Creative Activism filmed and projected live – the effect is like costumes and a towel. Sign up in advance on 52 53 What is anarchism? What is its relevance a way to remember them! Starting from the today, both around the world and here in simple overhand knot we journey across Sunday the UK? How anarchist is Earth First!? A related knots building a logical path and a way Yoga participatory discussion. (Kebele Anarchist to remember them. We will end with essential Sun 7:30 (30 mins) Solidarity & Resilience Social Centre) Also at: Sat 14:00 and useful knots for climbing, camping and A guided session, whether you are a beginner action. An informal follow up and skill share or already have a have a practice. Please Introduction To The Climate Games At practical session will be scheduled after this wear comfortable clothes. Paris COP21 workshop. Also at: Thurs 11:30 Also at: Sat 7:30 Sun 10:00 (75 mins) Campaigns/Issues In December 2015, corporate power will play Zine Making Drop-In Guided Meditation a high-risk gamble with the UN climate talks. Sun 10:00 (180 mins) Creative Activism Sun 7:30 (30 mins) Solidarity & Resilience Fossil fuel lobbyists and the pedlars of false Zines are a creative, powerfully DIY A guided session, whether you are a beginner solutions are already conspiring to overwhelm communication tool for social history archives, or already have a have a practice. Please the COP21 summit in Paris. But it won’t be subcultures and social movements. The aim of wear comfortable clothes. business-as-usual this time: global movements this workshop is to make a collaborative zine Also at: Mon 7:30 will converge to obstruct their corrosive in a day – come with your passions, ideas and activities, intercept their influence, and chase willingness to have a go. Also at: Sat 14:00 Introduction To Earth First! & the Gathering them out of politics. Get ready for the world’s Sun 9:30 (30 mins) Earth First! largest non-violent civil disobedience direct DIY Wind Turbines And Off-Grid Systems If it’s your first time or you’re curious about action adventure game in the streets of Paris, Sun 10:00 (75 mins) Practical Skills how EF! and the Gathering works, come and in cyberspace and beyond. Find out more V3 Power have been hand-building Hugh involved in social struggle about how to make ask questions and hear a bit about why Earth about the Climate Games, a new breed of Piggot wind turbines for 8 years. Here they prisoner support more visible and effective. First! and why people got involved. See how creative mischief. talk about it’s design and manufacture as well (Bristol Anarchist Black Cross) the EF! network can support your passion to as giving an overview of off-grid electrical fan the flames… Also at: Weds 9:30, Thurs Aerial Walkways systems and how wind turbines can be The UK’s Role In The Global Coal Trade 9:30, Fri 9:30, Sat 9:30 Sun 10:00 (75 mins) Action Skills integrated into them. Sun 10:00 (75 mins) Campaigns/Issues If done right making rope walkways between 79% of coal burnt in the UK comes from Arms To Renewables: environmental action trees, buildings or lamp posts can be an Community Resistance: The Importance Of abroad. Almost all of this is from Russia, to Stop the Arms fair! effective way of resisting eviction or blocking Autonomy, Diversity and Solidarity In The Colombia and the US. Explore the Sun 10:00 (75 mins) Campaigns/Issues roads. Come and find out what they are, how Context Of Fracking consequences for the environment and the This September, the world’s weapons industry to tie them and have a go walking on them on Sun 10:00 (75 mins) Critical Reflections people who live near the points of extraction plans to arrive in London for a huge arms fair: the ground and up high. It would be preferred Fracking is highly distributed, but ultimately and coal infrastructure. Discuss the situation in Defence & Security Equipment International if you have some experience of using climbing pervasive, industry which needs unfettered relation to British coal power stations in terms (DSEI). The results of DSEI are felt around equipment or have been on the Intro To access to vast swathes of land, and the of EU law compliance, closure plans, a new the world as people are killed, economies Climbing workshop. Also at: Fri 11:30 communities which inhabit it. While at national power station and the clean coal lie. The time are devastated, refugees are traumatised level fracking may have the unswerving to act is now, before we are locked into the and peaceful protest is crushed. As military Reinvigorating Radical Media support of the institutions whose existence next generation of coal. delegations from around the world arrive to Sun 10:00 (75 mins) Campaign & Strategy depends on the fossil fuels it claims it can browse the latest killing technology, we will Skills provide, at a local level the numerous Defending Yourself in Court - Costs and be taking action to challenge them, and to In the age of likes, retweets, and 24/7 communities the fracking industry must get Consequences transform the space around the arms fair news, how can activists challenge passed are far less easily swayed. This Sun 10:00 (75 mins) Solidarity & Resilience to reflect the world we want to see. The UK corporate media hegemony? How can workshop will explore the strategy behind Reductions in legal aid and potential large spends 25 times more on weapons research we create our own independent media community resistance in the context for costs and fines can be a deterrent to taking than research into renewable energy, and networks that support activists and fracking, and the some of the tactics which action. This workshop looks at the legal government military spending far outweighs strengthen movements? Open discussion can allow communities to effectively defend aftermath if you should be charged with an that spent tackling climate change. On and creative workshop looking at the themselves, and support each other. (Frack offence. Topics include… minimising legal Wednesday 7 September, take action to call media we use and the media we want. Off) risk, dealing with the court process and legal for a shift from arms to renewables, and help system, possible costs and consequences, us stop the arms fair! Practical Knots & How to Remember Them Prisoner support – why & how representing yourself in court. Sun 10:00 (75 mins) Practical Skills Sun 10:00 (75 mins) Solidarity & Resilience Hello Anarchism An experiential “need” based knot workshop A workshop exploring why and how to support Fracking Resistance In Denmark Sun 10:00 (60 mins) Earth First! – the knots you need and most importantly prisoners. With practical ideas for everyone Sun 10:00 (75 mins) Campaigns/Issues 54 55 connection to anti fracking and anti GMO Organising The Next EF! fights. Winter Moot & Summer Sunday cont. Gathering Introduction To Direct Action Sun 14:00 (60 mins) Earth With test drilling currently in progress, Sun 11:30 (90 mins) Action Skills First! fracking resistance in Denmark has grown It’s Not About the D Lock! Are you new to Come learn about how you to an unprecedented level of grassroots direct action? Come and find out more about it can get involved in the exciting movement, involving rural and urban activists … Also at: Fri 11:30 resurgence of Earth First! in a new degree of collaboration. Meanwhile, in Britain. Get involved in corporations and national government largely Blockading collectives to organise next attempt to paint fracking as politically neutral Sun 11:30 (90 mins) Action Skills year’s (2016) Winter Moot & and rational, removing the issue from localized Practice using different techniques, equipment Summer Gathering – now is environmental and community impacts. After and your body to block access to something the time to start planning for presenting an overview of the situation and safely and effectively – a road, an office block, an even better gathering next resistance in this context, we will discuss how a fracking site etc. year! resistance groups challenge resource-driven narratives and organize strategically both Street Medic Skillshare Growing Earth First! – locally, nationally and internationally to resist Sun 11:30 (90 mins) Action Skills Local Groups, Website, fracking efforts. The First Aid at Work course does not mention Publications And More pepper spray, Wilderness First Aid does not Sun 14:00 (60 mins) Earth Nature Awareness Practices And Games tell you how to treat a casualty with a line of First! Sun 10:00 (90 mins) Solidarity & Resilience riot cops headed your way. This workshop is Come learn about how you Based on the work of Tom Brown Jr, this is an for people who already have first aid training can get involved in the exciting introduction to some simple nature connection to learn some action medic tactics and work resurgence of Earth First! in practices and some practical and fun ways through some common first aid scenarios that Britain. Get involved in helping to practice them alone or in a group. Also at: come up on protests. run the EF! website and talk Weds 17:30, Fri 15:15 about launching dynamic Land Occupations & Taking Sites new initiatives to engage and Rigwatch: Keeping Tabs On The Fracking Sun 11:30 (90 mins) Action Skills Industry A practical discussion on reclaiming space, Art Space Drop-In inspire new people. Sun 11:30 (90 mins) Campaign & Strategy Sun 11:30 (300 mins) Creative Activism occupying land, and what to do with it once Skills Drop in to the Creative Resistance space to you have it. Beyond Borders: An Overview Of Fortress The fight against fracking is partially a battle make visual material for actions (like banners, Europe And The No Borders / Migrant over information. The industry’s standard masks, posters, stencils, prints etc.), to Solidarity Network practice is to try to hide, obscure and diminish enhance the colourfulness, creativeness and Surviving Capitalism?! Sun 15:15 (120 mins) Campaigns/Issues the appearance of its activities until it is clarity of your actions. You are welcome to Sun 11:30 (90 mins) Solidarity & Resilience An overview of Fortress Europe and the No too late to effectively oppose it. Gathering work on props and visuals for any projects as A skill-share on how people are managing to Borders / Migrant Solidarity Network, including and distributing accurate information on the well. Also at: Thurs 14:00, Fri 14:00, Sat 14:00 sustain themselves financially while fighting two smaller workshops about Calais Migrant activities of the fracking industry is crucial to back. We will share experiences of how we Solidarity and No Borders Morocco / Interzone making resistance possible. This workshop are able to make the time to organise and How To Do Mass Catering Voices. What is happening at the border, how aims provide a concise overview of what the Sun 11:30 (90 mins) Camp Skills still subsist with the demise of the dole and have solidarity movements in those flashpoints industry does, the procedures and equipment A hands-on workshop. With over 25 years of increasing austerity. grown and developed, and where can we go it uses, and best ways of collecting useful vegan mass catering in fields and on protests, from here? information on it. (Frack Off) come and learn how to feed the masses, Qi Gong With Sticks wholesome, tasty and hygienic, with time to Sun 11:30 (90 mins) Solidarity & Resilience Smartphone Video Activism 3 – Edit This! Discussion About Anti-Gold Mining In ask questions and hear experiences – come This form of Qi Gong uses a stick to perform a Sun 15:15 (120 mins) Campaign & Strategy Romania ready to chop! (Veggies) Also at: Weds 11:30, series of movements that follow the principles Skills Sun 11:30 (90 mins) Campaigns/Issues Weds 17:30, Thurs 11:30, Thurs 17:30, Fri of traditional Chinese medicine to maintain Introduction to editing, witness video, The case of Rosia Montana, an old village in 11:30, Fri 17:30, Sat 11:30, Sat 17:30, Sun health. The stick is an extension of the body; screenings and more. Free cartoons! the mountains – Introduction to the context; 15:15 the circular movements activate the flow of (visionOntv) the beginning of an environmental movement; energy. Also at: Fri 11:30, Sat 15:15 tactics used by activists and lessons learned;

56 57 practically, legally and everything else, how How To Run A Gathering the ban on residential squatting has affected Sun 20:00 Earth First! Sunday cont. us and what we can do about it, and how to A chance to join in with this year’s EF! Know Your Rights Workshop resist evictions Summer Gathering collective and help Sun 15:15 (120 mins) Action Skills out for this gathering, plus learn how to Police Officers often rely on the lack of legal Biodiversity Crisis run a gathering/camp. (This year’s EF!SG understanding of those participating in protest. Sun 15:15 (60 mins) Campaigns/Issues Collective) Also at: Weds 20:00, Thurs 20:00, This interactive session will give you the tools It is becoming widely accepted that we are Fri 20:00, Sat 20:00 to take action more confidently. (Green and entering the 6th mass extinction of life on Black Cross) Also at: Thurs 15:15 Earth, precipitated by human activity. Are there Cinema any rational responses to this situation? A Sun 20:00 Creative Activism Over, Under, Through: Fences And discussion of this complex and daunting issue. Radical cinema space showing a wide variety Overcoming Them of full length and short films. See board Sun 15:15 (120 mins) Action Skills Protest Law & Legal Aid Changes outside for details of films being shown. When trying to take direct action we are often Sun 16:15 (60 mins) Solidarity & Resilience Also at: Weds 20:00, Thurs 21:00, Fri 21:30, held back by fences. Come and find out about A facilitated discussion about recent changes Sat 20:45 different types of fences, and how to get past to protest law and legal aid, and their them in a variety of ways. There is a practical implications. Hard copy information will be Energy And Power: A Radical History Of element to this workshop so come if you are provided to inform the discussion. Resistance wearing clothes and footwear that you can Sun 20:00 Creative Activism move and climb in. The fence will be around Antifascism A story telling. Three short stories, spanning all weekend to practice and share your skills Sun 16:15 (60 mins) Campaigns/Issues times from the Middle Ages to the modern era, on. Also at: Fri 15:15, Sat 15:15 Current status of the far-right in Britain and tell of the imposition of energy technologies as further afield, and discussions of effective vehicles for extending the economic and social Fundraising For Radical Groups opposition to it. power of elites, and the struggles of ordinary Sun 15:15 (120 mins) Campaign & Strategy folk to resist their introduction. Find out how a Skills many others. It refuses to play by the rules of How To Do Mass Catering ‘football match’ turned into act of insurrection Groups with radical aims are very limited in those who exert power over us, underpinned Sun 15:15 (90 mins) Camp Skills and learn why the paving of an abbot’s parlour funding options, but there are a few! We’ll as they are by violence against people and A hands-on workshop. With over 25 years of was a symbol of the subjugation of a whole look at where you can apply for funds and the the Earth. Instead it develops our collective vegan mass catering in fields and on protests, community. The stories will be followed by a pros and cons of doing so, as well as sharing power for change, based on connection and come and learn how to feed the masses, short discussion about the lessons to be learnt ideas of other ways of getting the funds and creativity. In this workshop we will explore, wholesome, tasty and hygienic, with time to for our current struggles. resources you need to run your group. Also at: in an active and practical way, the relevance ask questions and hear experiences – come Thurs 15:15 of Nonviolence to our own situations – ready to chop! (Veggies) Also at: Weds 11:30, • • • challenging and questioning it, and hopefully Weds 17:30, Thurs 11:30, Thurs 17:30, Fri Climbing For Action: With Ropes taking away ideas we can use. (Turning the 11:30, Fri 17:30, Sat 11:30, Sat 17:30, Sun Sun 15:15 (120 mins) Action Skills Tide) 11:30 A drop in session running all afternoon. If you have never climbed before, want a refresher or Campaigns Report-Back/Next Steps & want tips on using climbing in action contexts Daily Discussion Sun 15:15 (90 mins) Earth First! Evaluation this session will give you basic skills for A series of discussion sessions on a topics Sun 17:30 (90 mins) Earth First! staying safe at heights. Will include a range picked during the gathering based on the Feedback to the gathering & announcement of techniques from using modern expensive suggestions and popularity among of those of new plans or projects. Also a chance to equipment to ultra cheap safe ways to climb attending Also at: Weds 17:30, Thurs 17:30, evaluate how the gathering has been. (Main rope. Also at: Weds 15:15, Thurs 14:00 Fri 15:15, Sat 15:15 space)

Exploration of Nonviolence Vegan Cake-Baking Sun 15:15 (120 mins) Critical Reflections Squatting Skillshare Sun 15:15 (60 mins) Practical Skills Sun Practical Skills Active nonviolence is a profoundly practical Whether you’re new to squatting or a Perfect vegan cake-baking for the masses: approach to bringing about change, grounded seasoned pro lets share our knowledge and chocolate, ginger, Bakewell. A hands-on not in the work of Gandhi, Martin Luther King and get more people squatting. Topics to cover are hands-in session. (Veggies) an introduction to squatting for new people – 58 59 Contributing Groups

Activist Security Collective is a collective and to ensure such abuses do not continue. of activists that produce the Activist Security campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com Handbook & work around police infiltration in radical movements, amongst other security Combe Haven Defenders related issues. We are local people, determined to prevent activistsecurity.org the environmentally disastrous white-elephant that is the “Bexhill-Hastings Link Road” from Bristol Defendant Solidarity is an devastating one of Hastings’ and Bexhill’s independent group run by local volunteers, most amazing natural treasures. We demand formed after the Stokes Croft riots in April an affordable, sustainable transport system 2011. We aim to provide effective, lasting for our area, that improves the quality unconditional support and solidarity to anyone of all our lives without costing the earth. arrested or imprisoned as a result of demos, combehavendefenders.wordpress.com riots, direct action and escalating class war. bristolabc.wordpress.com/defendant-solidarity Corporate Watch Corporate Watch is an independent research Bristol Anarchist Black Cross is a prisoner group. We have been investigating the social support organisation based in the South and environmental impacts of corporations West UK. We practically support prisoners by and corporate power since 1996. writing letters, sending books and magazines, corporatewatch.org and where possible or needed financial we convinced climate change are themselves Ireland to resist the threats of extreme energy contributions to those inside. We publicise Druids against the Stonehenge Tunnel having to take into their own hands and to put extraction, in particular unconventional oil specific prisoners cases, campaigns and Campaign by druids against the building of the request with an over the protests of recent & gas extraction or fracking i.e. shale gas, struggles and support and publicise other a tunnel road under the stones as part of the years beyond civil disobedience action a coalbed methane (CBM) and Underground individuals, campaigns and resources involved governments New road building scheme. highly visible signal for a shift towards genuine Coal Gasification (UCG) frack-off.org.uk in prisoner solidarity and anti-prison work. stonehengealliance.org.uk climate protection. xn--ende-gelnde-s8a.org bristolabc.wordpress.com Free to Fight is a new anarchist collective Empty Cages Collective Faucheurs Volontaires that aims to help heal and rebuild the animal Bure Action Camp The Empty Cages Collective is a small The volunteer reapers movement is an liberation movement following the impact of 1 to 10 August is organized a self-managed group of people who have been imprisoned essentially French (but similar actions took ongoing repression. Free to Fight provides camp in Bure, thought to be both time and or engaged in prison-related struggle and place in 2007 in Germany, Portugal and Great financial, practical, emotional and political meeting as an opportunity to strengthen local prisoner support over a number of years. As Britain), who destroy parcels of test GM and support to defendants. We hope to encourage fight against Cigéo nuclear landfill project. individuals our lives have been dominated GM crops in open fields. a cultural shift in the way the movement vmc.camp/2015/06/30/droit-dans-le-bure and harmed by the prison system for the last organises, that will make us wiser, stronger decade. We have diverse political opinions Frack Free Dee and more determined and able to dismantle Campaign for Better Transport however we all identify as anarchists, sharing Frack Free Dee is a collective of concerned oppression and withstand State repression. For 40 years, working with hundreds of a desire to eradicate all forms of domination. residents groups, located loosely around the freetofight.net thousands of inspiring people, Campaign www.prisonabolition.org/about/who-we-are River Dee catchment in Cheshire, Wirral, for Better Transport has fought for better North East Wales and North Shropshire. Our GAIA public transport, walking and cycling, for the Ende Gelände aim is to peacefully campaign against all GAIA is a worldwide alliance of more than sake of communities and the environment. We are a broad coalition of people from the forms of extreme energy with particular focus 650 grassroots groups, non-governmental bettertransport.org.uk anti-nuclear and anti-coal movement, from on Coal Bed Methane (CBM), Shale and organizations, and individuals in over 90 the preparatory group of the Climate Camps Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) all of countries whose ultimate vision is a just, toxic- Campaign Opposing Police Surveillance in Rhineland and Lausitz, from the forest cast which are commonly referred to as fracking. free world without incineration. The Campaign Opposing Police Surveillance in Hambach forest, climate policy grassroots frackfreedee.co.uk no-burn.org exists to help co-ordinate, publicise and initiatives and citizens’ groups as well as support the quest for justice for people major environmental organizations, from left Frack Off is a collective focused on The Genetic Engineering Network (GEN) affected by political undercover police spying political groups and many others. Together empowering communities across Britain and was set up in early 1997 to act as a clearing

60 61 house for anti-GM information. hoc group of admirers of the Luddites, radical rhizome.coop genetwork.info Kebele is a radical social centre based in historians and activists on issues connected Easton, Bristol, and since 1995 has provided to technology. We are scientists, musicians, Seeds for Change Green & Black Cross (GBC) is an space for the development of radical ideas poets, environmental and social justice We are a network of activist training co-ops independent grassroots project. We are set and activities, community campaigns, and campaigners. providing training and workshops on group up in the spirit of mutual aid and solidarity to international solidarity. luddites200.org.uk and campaign skills. We support people who support autonomous social struggles within network23.org/kebele want to make our world a better and more the UK. Our main focus is legal support, Netpol seeks to monitor public order, protest sustainable place. including support for defendants. La ZAD and street policing, and to challenge and resist seedsforchange.org.uk greenandblackcross.org La ZAD – to the developers it is the Zone policing which is excessive, discriminatory or d’Aménagement Différé’, the differed threatens civil rights. SWAN Global Justice Now is a democratic social development zone and for us it’s a Zone À netpol.org South West Against Nuclear – resisting the justice organisation working as part of a Défendre: a zone to be defended. Either way, new wave of proposed nuclear reactors in the global movement to challenge the powerful it’s a part of the countryside close to Nantes No Borders / Migrant Solidarity Network UK. and create a more just and equal world. We in France, which according to the decision- The No Border Network refers to loose southwestagainstnuclear.wordpress.com mobilise people in the UK for change, and makers should make way for an international associations of autonomous organisations, act in solidarity with those fighting injustice, airport. Our goals, in coming to live here on groups, and individuals in Western Europe, Turning the Tide (TTT) is a programme of particularly in the global south. the proposed site of the airport, are many: to Central Europe, Eastern Europe and beyond. Quaker Peace and Social Witness (QPSW). globaljustice.org.uk live on a protest site, where we can be close They support freedom of movement and resist QPSW works with and on behalf of the to those who’ve been opposing the project human migration control by coordinating Religious Society of Friends in Britain to Grow Heathrow for 40 years and to have the power to act international border camps, demonstrations, translate our faith into action. Since March 1st 2010, Grow Heathrow has when construction happens; to make use of direct actions, and anti-deportation campaigns. turning-the-tide.org thrived on an abandoned market garden site abandoned spaces to learn to live together, to noborders.org.uk in Sipson; one of the villages to be completely cultivate the land and to be more autonomous Veggies is a volunteer-led, community-based, tarmacked to make way for a third runway at from the capitalist system. Radical Routes is a network of radical co-ops social enterprise, promoting vegan catering Heathrow. The site is a community space for zad.nadir.org whose members are committed to working for and supporting campaigns for human and skill-sharing and is frequently used by radical positive social change. The network is made animal rights, environmental protection and political campaigns/movements for gatherings. London Roots up mainly of housing co-ops of various sizes social justice since 1984. transitionheathrow.com/grow-heathrow We are a London-based group offering (none with more than 17 members), a few veggies.org.uk workshops and training to strengthen workers co-ops and a couple of social centres. HACAN campaigns to stop further expansion grassroots groups working towards social radicalroutes.org.uk VisionOntv aims for the widest possible of Heathrow and to cut the noise people hear change. We also organise skill-sharing events distribution of video for social change. We from the existing airport. We want everybody and provide meeting facilitation to help groups Reclaim the Fields enable anyone to embed and distribute the affected by noise to be get regular periods of create the change they want to see. We are determined to create alternatives to best radical news from around the world. respite from the noise. We want a complete london-roots.org.uk capitalism through cooperative, collective, visionon.tv end to night flights. Luddites 200/Breaking the Frame autonomous, real-needs-oriented, small-scale hacan.org.uk The Luddites200 Organising Forum is an ad production and initiatives. V3 Power reclaimthefields.org.uk V3 Power was set up in 2006 and is based in Nottingham, UK. We are in the interesting Reclaim the Power is a grassroots position of being both an engineering company organising network for taking direct action on installing, maintaining and servicing small environmental, economic and social justice renewable energy systems a well as an issues, working in solidarity with affected education provider running courses in schools, communities. universities and for members of the public. nodashforgas.org.uk v3power.co.uk

Rhizome War Resisters’ International We are a co-op providing facilitation, War Resisters’ International (WRI) works for mediation, consensus building and training a world without war. We are a global pacifist to community activists and co-operatives and antimilitarist network with over 80 affiliated across the UK, and to those organisations that groups in 40 countries. support activism in all its forms. wri-irg.org 62 63 Why Earth First? Why Now? Our Ecological Crisis most cases a new equilibrium arose from the chaos of the transition. Ultimately the problem It is only possible to fail to appreciate the stems from the ability of humans to change magnitude of ecological crisis we face if you far faster than most other creatures (with the have no sense of what has already been lost. possible exception of bacteria and viruses), Every day more ecosystems are destroyed, by changing, not their physical form, but their more species go extinct, and the populations behaviour, knowledge and technology. which remain dwindle. A few hundred years ago, when vast areas of wilderness still Long after humans had become incorporated remained in many parts of the world and into diverse eco-systems across the planet, populations of many large species were almost huge new upheavals due to agriculture/ uncountable, it was harder to imagine that civilisation, and later industrialisation, have human activity could threaten such diversity on continued to throw those eco-systems out a global scale. of balance, and in recent centuries a tidal wave of change has been unleashed by the Those days are long gone. Humans and their accessing of vast stores of fossil fuels. This livestock now account for well over 95 percent rate of change is now approaching the speed of the terrestrial animal biomass on the planet, of catastrophic global events, like asteroid/ and while that ratio is not yet as bad for plants, comet impacts or massive volcanic eruptions, there are only two large untouched areas of which have previously caused mass extinction forest left on the planet, in the Amazon and events. even our supposed leaders. all constraints, effectively becoming gods, this Congo basins, with 70 percent other remaining has just enslaved us all to a system, which forest within 1km of human development. Unfortunately, whilst humans are supposed to The fact that the seeds of these modern, unlike the eco-systems it is fast replacing, is Worse, far from slowing, in many cases this be the most intelligent creatures on the planet, world-spanning entities have their roots in not designed to last for much longer. destruction is accelerating, threatening to this intelligence rarely seems to extend to any much smaller societies where some petty consume much of what remains in a few short prior assessment of what the consequences of despot could wield a great deal of influence, The Road To Capitalism decades. the changes in behaviour which are unleashed and that some individuals benefit to greater might be. It is only when the forest has been and lesser degrees from the operation of these Fashionable though it is to blame the Beyond simple quantity, the diversity and largely chopped down and wood becomes systems today, clouds people’s perceptions continuing devastation of the planet on quality of most ecosystems and habitats are hard to obtain, that its destruction is lamented, as to how much control any individual or small capitalism, the reality is that these problems severely degraded from what they once were. as in the Epic of Gilgamesh, the first work of group can have. In the byzantine structure started much earlier. In fact a good case could Not only are most habitats highly fragmented, literature written over 4 thousand years ago. of modern industrial societies, billions of be made for the reverse, that capitalism has and ecosystems severely compromised, but decisions, large and small are taken by been caused by ecological destruction, rather waste from industrial and agricultural activity is A Machine Out Of Control individuals every day, but that is for the most than being the cause of it. The abuse of power poisoning land, sea and air, and destabilising part just noise which has almost no effect on and the drive to dominate and have power the climate on a scale previously unimagined. The reason for this apparent blindness to the the operation of the system as a whole. over others (in the widest sense) goes back The combination of all these effects is consequences of ‘our actions’ is not hard to a long way… The unsustainable centres of pushing the biosphere towards a crisis of diagnose, but it is one to which most humans This rise of these unthinking machines power (cities) which humans have built, were unprecedented proportions and threatening seem to have a deep psychological aversion. (states, corporations etc.) can be viewed as stripping their local environs of resources the survival of much of life on Earth. The reality is that human beings have little or the unintended side effects of attempts by at even in ancient Mesopotamia. The resulting no control over the course of human society, least some humans (elites) to free themselves resource crises either lead to expansion or The March Of Civilisation and have not done for many thousands of from the constraints of the eco-systems of collapse, and those societies which expanded years. This reality is sometimes alluded to, which they are a part, usually at the expense passed that expansionist culture on to others. The causes of this calamity are not hard to e.g. ‘the invisible hand of the market’, or in of most of the rest of society. The result has diagnose. While the spread of humans across the works of Kafka, but the reality of modern been quite the opposite, with the fate of the This need for expansion first found its outlet in the planet has had a significant effect on the human societies is something which is never whole of humanity and the other inhabitants militarism and empire building, and throughout ecosystems they encountered during pre- faced up to head on. We are trapped in of the planet chained to the fate of these history that has been the dominant means of history (as with many invasive species), in machines built out of human beings, over invented entities. Rather than escaping from overcoming resource limits. At the height of which no-one has any significant control, not 64 65 (however much they deny it). In their case the system’s activities, while humans scrape a collaborating in the destruction of what they fossil fuels are the food they require to living (or not) at the margins, and everything is should be defending. Meanwhile a tidal wave exist, but these finite resources are being destroyed around us for no other reason than of corporate greenwash, almost invisible it is depleted at a fantastic rate. to keep the destruction going. so prevalent, is seeking to confuse, distract and delay any resistance to an ever more The system, for obvious reasons, almost While the present incarnation of extreme aggressive push to monetise (and so destroy) always targets the easiest to extract fossil energy extraction is already a massive what remains of the natural world. fuels first, but as they are depleted is threat, this is a process that only leads in one forced to resort to progressively harder direction. When one resource is depleted a Unfortunately decades of compromise, and harder to extract resources. In the more difficult and destructive one is next in collaboration and indoctrination mean it is early days of fossil fuels exploitation line to be unleashed. Unless this out of control very hard for most people to see beyond the having to mine (or drill) a little deeper process is brought to a crashing halt pretty smoke and mirrors of politics and spin, to what or target very slightly less concentrated soon, the future we face will have no place for really needs to be done. We live in a fantasy resources made little difference. However, human beings, let alone any other life. world where almost everything that is deemed since US oil production peaked in ‘important’ is an illusion, and anything real 1970 and even more so since global Why Earth First!? has been buried under layers of abstraction conventional oil production peaked in until it has almost no meaning at all. Dragging 2005, the amount of effort being expended Earth First! arose at the end of the 1970s ourselves out of this morass of lies to face in fossil fuel extraction has sky rocketed as a result of the failure of mainstream the stark reality beyond is far from any easy as unconventional resources (tar sands, environmental organisations to have any real challenge, and one that will require a great fracking, bio-energy etc.) have become a effect on the ongoing destruction of the earth. effort of collective will. larger fraction of all extraction. While the multitude of environmental NGOs all started small, with high ideals and a can-do Without people who will take a principled The first effect of this process is pretty attitude, they soon foundered on the rocks of stand, tell it like it is and have a vision of a obvious, that as the amount of effort corporatism. Take any group of well-meaning world which is not centred on the system that expended on fossil fuel extraction grows people, put them in a big office and pay them is destroying it, we are all doomed. Currently the levels of ecological destruction reasonable salaries, and they will soon find it if there is anywhere that those people might many empires, a more sophisticated means of associated with that extraction grow in increasingly difficult not to make compromises, come together, be inspired and supported, it is expansion and domination, based on money, parallel. Massive open cast mines cause more to preserve the flow of money which sustains Earth First! trade and debt has emerged, to compete damage, in general, than tunnel mines and them. with purely militaristic solutions. This system coating a region with thousands of fracking At it’s best EF!’s style offers a way forward… (capitalism) builds the need for expansion/ wells will do more damage than the few dozen Unfortunately the present system is completely We aren’t rebelling against the system growth in to the very fabric of the system, conventional wells which would previously dependent on continual growth (and far too because we are sour on life…We are fighting rather than relying on decisions to go to war have produced the same amount of oil or large and resource-hungry in any case), and for beauty, for life, for joy. We laugh at our to drive expansion. In this light capitalism can gas. Simply drilling much deeper, in harsher that very growth can only be achieved by opponents and we laugh at ourselves…we are be seen not so much a new phenomenon but environments, results in more risk and worse consuming more and more resources and willing to let our actions set the finer points of a refinement of processes which are as old as accidents as we saw with the BP Deepwater producing more and more waste. Humans our philosophy rather than debating endlessly civilisation. Horizon disaster. may not need fossil fuels (and most other about our programme..we are willing to get resources, apart from food, clean air and started now, to make mistakes, to learn as we An Extreme Energy Future? The second effect is more subtle but no less water), but modern nation states, transnational go. important. In a society dependent on an corporations and similar entities could not exist The most modern incarnation of these energy source which requires some fraction without these massive resource flows. Saving In this particular time, when mounting mechanistic forces controlling our existence is of that energy to be use to extract it, the the planet, and ourselves, implicitly means threats from all sides are driving a renewed extreme energy, a process which seems set same fraction of all of that society’s efforts destroying the very system which mainstream awareness of the importance of defending to supplant capitalism as the dominant force must be channelled into energy extraction. organisations are a part of… and repairing our battered ecosystems, driving the destruction of the natural world. In the last decade the fraction of the global the resurgence of Earth First! in Britain is a As with any organism, the obtaining of energy economy devoted to fossil fuel extraction has Over three decades later, the only thing hopeful sign. Whether we can all make it live (food) is a massive influence over behaviour, exploded from under 5 percent to over 10 which has changed is that mainstream up to this promise is a question for the future, and the corporations and states which make percent, as the average effort needed for fossil environmentalism has become even more but right now it is a very small oasis in a very up modern human societies are as bound fuel extraction has grown. Without a radical compromised and ineffective, while the large desert. Let us drink our fill, and be more by the laws of ecology as any other entity change of direction we face a future where threats we face now ever more urgent. possible than they can powerfully imagine. energy extraction comes to dominate all of Some such organisations are now openly 66 67 What is Anarchism? Why Vegan Food? Animal Liberation, At it’s most basic, Anarchism it is the principle that any form of authority or domination has Ecology & Capitalism a burden of proof to bear. It doesn’t matter where this domination takes place – be it within a family, the workplace or between Radical Veganism organisations/institutions – if it’s a form of have an imperative that influences everything Veganism is often defined as the conscious authority, domination or coercion, it has to be they do: the maximisation of profit and decision to not consume products containing proven to be legitimate. If the form of authority, accumulation of capital. This overarching animals (meat, dairy, eggs etc.) or refusing domination or coercion cannot be proven to be worldview means that animals are objectified to purchase products produced through legitimate it should be DISMANTLED. and commodified. Economic efficiency is animal exploitation (fur, leather, animal tested prioritised with the embrace of technologies cosmetics etc.). Veganism is viewed as a People are at their very best when they are that can serve this function, for example lifestyle choice made by individuals intended living free of domination, co-operating and feed science, farm health technologies to benefit the animals, their wallets or their deciding things amongst themselves rather (such as antibiotics) and developments in health. When veganism is discussed it is than being ordered around. That’s what machinery. Animal agriculture was the starting often through purely economic terms with the word means: ‘without rulers’ or ‘without motor of primitive accumulation – primitive what we do or do not purchase often being government’. Government here is meant in accumulation being the embryonic stage of the definition of whether or not somebody is the sense of “governing over” and forcing capitalism around the world, the means by considered “vegan”. compliance through coercion. Such order consumer crap and unnecessary technology. which control of the means of production (i.e. is violent order. Anarchy, by contrast, is the land) is wrested from the ‘producer’ by This narrow view of veganism as purely a inherently cooperative – people relating to one The mythical Revolution is not something trailblazing capitalists with hordes of livestock. consumer lifestyle choice has created a large another as equals. that will just happen suddenly one day after we’ve polished some ideology long enough. demand for “vegan” products. Whole industries Our pattern of animal manipulation and have built up around the need for “cruelty-free” modification is now extending to applications Anarchy as a Vision Revolution is a process of individuals and collectives reclaiming what’s been taken from goods as capitalists, who would of once been such as agricultural biotechnology, genome hostile towards the idea of veganism, noticed Imagine living in a world where people were us, rediscovering our power and creativity a gap in the market and sought to make able to come together to create new, free together. Sometimes gradually, sometimes in money out of these individuals. societies, making their desires a reality. huge leaps during times of greater struggle. Tedious useless work would become This bright green future promised to us by the redundant and room was made for play and Anarchy is also about the small-scale vegan capitalists is a lie. By it’s very nature productive activities we can enjoy. Crime could everyday resistance, about individuals ignoring capitalism is inherently oppressive and exploits be reduced drastically by a return to living authority and coming together to improve animals (both human and non-human). If we in real communities where people look after their lives. Everyday, we can experiment are to ever achieve total liberation it will be each other. With a decline in profit-orientated with and learn ways of dealing with each necessary to abolish capitalism along with all industrial agriculture and economy, the rivers other without leaders or domination, with other forms of oppression and hierarchy. could run clear and forests grow again. mutual respect, building the world we want now — in our relationships, our interactions Industrial civilisation is quite blatantly showing and our resistance. In fact, you might just be Together Against All its flaws. A billion people are starving, our soils participating in such a vision here and now! There is more to being vegan that what you are dying, the majority of the planet’s species consume. Veganism should be a radical shift are in rapid decline, catastrophic climate “We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We in the way we view and treat interact with change looms and even in the richest parts are going to inherit the earth. The ruling class animals in our society. Humans’ perceived of the world most people are pissed off with might blast and ruin its own world before it dominance over all other species (plant and the misery and monotony of everyday life. leaves the stage of history. We carry a new animal) is what allows exploitation to go You have to spend most of your time working world here in our hearts. That world is growing unchallenged. your arse off to make profit for someone you this minute.” probably don’t like doing something you don’t We must recognise the links between care about, and then you struggle to pay - Buenaventura Durutti, Spain 1936 capitalism and animal exploitation. Capitalists the bills while being pressured to buy more 68 69 sequencing of animals and animal cloning. scale almost impossible to imagine. such as joints, hair or feathers and so on. In We need to see problematic industries (and The exploitation of animals is legitimised by statistical terms this the damage they cause) such as global a complex ideology which has come to be means that as a rule of finance, arms, energy and agriculture, as well known as speciesism. This means a way of thumb 10 times of the as cultural behaviours such as sexism, racism, thinking about animals that results from the land area is used to homophobia etc as being symptoms of the supposed necessity of their exploitation. A grow feed for a cow than same problem. Think of capitalism and the type of false consciousness about animals equivalent production current industrial civilisation that perpetuates is sold to us; that eating and exploiting of plant-based protein it as a massive gnarled tree; it’s very easy animals is normal, natural and necessary. The would consume. to atomise our grievances into single-issue consequence is we believe how we interact campaigns that don’t share a common with animals is unchangeable. Veganism & Ecology strategic goal. One campaign tirelessly hacking at one branch, another campaign Animal agriculture is inherently linked to • 1 calorie of animal tirelessly hacking at another – but the trunk patriarchy. The same patriarchical hierarchies protein requires 11x as continues to stand strong and continues to dictate in both the domination of women of fossil fuel as 1 calorie sprout new branches. and other gender oppressed peoples, and of plant protein in the domination of animals, as to how • Raising animals for It’s in the interests of those that benefit from their bodies are objectified, controlled and food accounts for 10% of the status quo for us to remain separated exploited. Animals are so pivotal to serving global water usage in our goals, to not see the big picture, to and sustaining capitalism because humans • A third of Earth’s land- not strive for actions and strategies that have the power to control and exploit the role mass is used to raise understand and strike at the root-causes of of reproductive labour of animals. animals for food. our grievances. And beyond fighting, a holistic • Cattle ranching understanding of the problem allows us to Animal Agriculture & Humans accounts for 80% of the deforestation currently create meaningful, positive spaces free from taking place in the Amazon the contamination of domination, coercion and Animal agriculture has been, and still is a tool • The animals-for-food industry is responsible sources of pollution are from animal wastes, illegitimate authority that the rest of society is of colonisation. The animal business steals for more greenhouse gas emissions than the antibiotics and hormones, chemicals from built upon. food from the poorest to provide luxuries to entire global transport sector tanneries, fertilizers and pesticides used the wealthiest. During the European famine in for feedcrops, and sediments from eroded Nature Domination the 1980s, clapped-out rock stars resuscitated Climate change: With rising temperatures, pastures. their careers raising money for aid, while rising sea levels, melting icecaps and glaciers, In capitalist economies, animals, like nature in more grain was exported from the country for shifting ocean currents and weather patterns, Biodiversity: Animal agriculture is the leading general, are merely commodities – resources livestock feed than was provided in food aid. climate change is the most serious challenge player in the reduction of biodiversity, since it to be exploited. The domination of nature Entire continents are routinely starved and facing the planet. The livestock sector is is the major driver of deforestation, as well as is the basis of industrial civilisation. The plundered to satisfy the trivial addictions of the a major player, responsible for 18 percent one of the leading drivers of land degradation, destruction of nature and with it the destruction rich. of greenhouse gas emissions measured pollution, climate change, overfishing, of the basis of human society are immediate in CO2 equivalent.… Livestock are also sedimentation of coastal areas and facilitation consequences of production relations that The use of animals in agriculture is expanding responsible for almost two-thirds (64 percent) of invasions by alien species. do not serve our needs but those of capitalist rapidly, there are three animals used in of anthropogenic ammonia emissions, which accumulation. The fact that capitalist agriculture per human being, increasing contribute significantly to acid rain and Beyond Veganism: Towards an Anarchist appropriation of nature does not follow the five fold from 1950’s. Already 50-60% of the acidification of ecosystems. Agroecology principles of sustainability, conservation or worlds grain is being fed to animals and the care is not the result of ‘environmentally ratio is increasing. Why is this an issue? Water: The livestock sector is a key player There are alternatives to global industrial unfriendly attitudes’ but is the consequence of Animals in agriculture can be described in increasing water use, accounting for over and animal agriculture. Small scale food turning nature into capital. as “reverse protein factories” meaning that 8 percent of global human water use, mostly producers, working with nature, orientated they will consume more protein and energy for the irrigation of feedcrops. It is the largest towards real-needs production (not serving The animal industry is one of the most than is stored in the products extracted from sectoral source of water pollution, contributing capitalism) are feeding communities all over ethically and ecologically offensive institutions them. Animals will need energy to move (the to eutrophication, “dead” zones in coastal the world. Agroecology is the science and of industrial society. It’s marketing persuades little space that is allowed in factory farming areas, degradation of coral reefs, human practice of worldwide movement of peasants us that eating animal products is healthy and conditions), to produce heat, produce things health problems, emergence of antibiotic and land-based people. necessary while hiding horror and waste on a which capitalists haven’t yet found a purpose resistance and many others. The major 70 71 the consumer-producer capitalist developments, such as fracking. coalition building, community organising, relationship and seeks to active attacks on the state and capitalist food build models that de- An anarchist agroecology confronts the last system, learning and re-learning practices and monetise the food system. 10,000 years of patriarchical agriculture. It tools to feed ourselves and restore landbases, seeks to compost gender and queer how food and more. We will bring about huge changes However it is not a is produced and consumed. The colour of through breaking bread and breaking sweat question of waiting for the food system is not ignored, racism in our together. a revolution or one day own movements as well as those systems achieving an anarchist that oppress our communities, is actively In summary, working towards an anarchist society. The work starts confronted. agroecology differs from other worldviews now and builds on and strategies around changing our food generations of those How and why knowledge is produced and system. The main premises are that the displaced from the land shared matters. An anarchist agroecological state is not our friend, but our enemy. That through capitalist coercion worldview integrates both indigenous and animals are not ours to ‘farm’, enslave, control, protected by the state. peasant-based knowledge of cultivation, with cage, slaughter, or accumulate wealth from. observation, action research and grassroots That multiple forms of oppression intersect How we produce and science (not controlled or dominated by and demand an analysis and practice that distribute food is a universities or industry). Knowledge is shared recognises the totality of different forms of fundamental issue through popular education models, such as domination. It recognises that anarchism that anarchists cannot grower to grower (campesino o campesino) cannot be achieved without models of food ignore. Agroecological networks, field and farm schools, open source production that support humans to live in practices are those journals and more. liberated relationships with each other, animals that support us to live or the land. in a more socially just The concept of property is rejected, with and ecologically sound working class appropriation encouraged, via • • • relationship with the land. land squats, occupations and more. In the We reject and actively long term process of social change, there resist the industrial and is a commitment to the re-collectivisation of capitalist agricultural land ‘ownership’ and the creation of space for models of monocultures, diverse patterns to be explored, suited to each pesticides and fossil community and bioregion. The re-appropriation fuel based fertilisers, of land will ignite huge state repression, as genetic engineering, such anarchist agroecologists must cultivate factory farming, plantation resilience to repression, build models of slavery and more. Our solidarity globally, and recognise the futility and dogma of nonviolent ideologies. The state Working towards an anarchist agroecology is commitment is to the freedom not only of and owning classes will not allow the means a commitment to creating not only a different ourselves, but also of the seeds, plants and of their economic production to be withdrawn food system, but a different way of life that animals, from corporate control. without a fight. transforms social, ecological, economic and inter-species relations. Agroecology in practice An anarchist agroecological worldview An anarchist agroecology recognises that underpins the actuality of achieving individual recognises the historical repercussions of humans do not have dominion of animals or and collective autonomy and freedom from agriculture and its role in creating patriarchical, nature and that animals do not deserve to be oppression. racist, colonialist and class-stratified societies commodified, exploited, abused or enslaved, and civilisations. It therefore engenders any more than their human counterparts. The Being able to live as human beings in a commitment to rewilding, confronting generation of radical solidarity across species relationship with the land requires resistance domestication and creating alternative models is the consequence of embracing an anarchist to, and dismantlement of, capitalism and the of living with inspiration from horticultural agroecology, which recognises speciesism as state. Anarchists recognise that lobbying is and gatherer/hunter societies. Anarchist harmful and an ongoing barrier to liberty, as futile, while the state’s function is to protect agroecology means de-colonisation. It means any other form of oppression. the propertied, owning and capitalist class. solidarity with Indigenous Nations resisting Anarchist agroecological thinking rejects assimilation and ecological genocide via Achieving an anarchist agroecology will take 72 73 myths, and challenging the people who think outcomes of different actions depending on that money and status buy them the right to your circumstances. Why Take Direct Action? do what they like to the rest of us. It means refusing to accept the power those people Always find out your legal rights before taking It’s empowering hold, and taking responsibility yourself for action. Knowledge is power, don’t let the the things that you know need to change, not authorities get one over on you because you Direct action means getting on with sorting pressurising existing power-holders to make didn’t do your homework. something out yourself, rather than asking better decisions on your behalf. someone else to fix it for you. There’s no Different approaches to DA better way to take back control of your own What about the consequences? life or to make change in the wider world. For From the outside, direct action might seem like many people it’s not just an effective campaign It is natural to be concerned about the quite a minority interest activity. On the inside, tactic, it is also the philosophy that underpins consequences of taking action. The authorities it involves a melting pot of people with strongly how they live. For example, you might not rely on it! They provide other avenues for our held, and differing ideas about what is ethical only obstruct building work on the new frustration and desire for change that aren’t and effective. This section provides a taster supermarket in your town, you might also start ‘illegal’. If enough of us buy the right stuff or for some of these ideas, and provides a bit of up community allotments so you don’t have to vote for someone different at the next election a jargon buster for some of the words that are depend on those supermarkets for your basic it‘ll all be OK. Yeah right! If you believe that used differently in an activist context. needs. these approaches will create real change, you’d better be able to hold your breath for a Violence It works very long time. Do we have that long? For some the decision to use nonviolent The use of direct action in ecological and Direct action doesn’t have to involve methods is a matter of believing that if you social justice campaigns in Britain has had breaking the law. However, if you want to want to build an ecological, peaceful and co- many successes. In the 90s actions and land challenge powerful vested interests, such as operative future you do it here and now using occupations cut the government road building corporations and governments, then you can ecological, peaceful and co-operative tools. programme by 80%, some 500 schemes were be sure there will be laws in place to protect Others might have a more tactical approach cancelled. In the late 90s and early 00s people them. If we are going to be effective then some to the choice of nonviolence. The state and pulling up genetically modified crops stopped people will have to break these laws. corporations are willing and able to use more the commercialisation of GM in its tracks, violence than we can, so it may be unwise to and helped remove GM products from shop The law says war and exploitation of people engage with them in a game they will almost shelves despite pressure from the worlds most and planet are fine, but dissent through certainly win. powerful seed and chemical companies. peaceful protest is not. The law is an ass. People taking direct action have many different Why direct action? Many of the world’s most celebrated people myths, and challenging the people who think definitions of “violence” and “nonviolence” . are ‘criminals’. Gandhi had a record as For instance, is breaking into a factory making When was the last time you felt you made that money and status buy them the right to long as your arm. Martin Luther King, the weapons of mass destruction and smashing it a difference at the ballot box? Or by writing do what they like to the rest of us. It means Suffragettes, Aung Sang Suu Kyi, the Dalai up as much as possible violent or non-violent? a letter to your MP? Over a million people refusing to accept the power those people Lama, Nelson Mandela – all of them are well It is important you can talk about your thoughts marched against war in Iraq, and still the hold, and taking responsibility yourself for known individuals representing the thousands on violence and nonviolence so you can find government didn’t listen. This isn’t a the things that you know need to change, not who made their struggle work. People just like a group to take action with that suits your reason for us to give up hope. It’s a reason pressurising existing power-holders to make you and me. beliefs. to raise our game. Direct action is common better decisions on your behalf. sense. If you see someone being mugged in What about the consequences?¶ It is difficult to second guess precisely the Accountable / unaccountable actions the street you don’t set up a petition to ask the Edit legal, economic and social consequences of mugger to leave. taking part in an action. One thing we can be It is natural to be concerned about the In an accountable action you plan to face the sure of is that they pale into insignificance legal consequences – the word ‘accountable’ We live in a world that assumes we need consequences of taking action. The authorities compared to the consequences of no one refers to the fact that this gives you the chance leaders and laws to keep us in check; that rely on it! They provide other avenues for our taking action at all. There are groups (see to justify what you did, to the courts, the media we’re incapable of making hard decisions and frustration and desire for change that aren’t the resources section at the back) who offer and your friends. For some actions this is implementing them without being told how. ‘illegal’. If enough of us buy the right stuff or advice, support and ideas about likely personal unavoidable: if you are planning to use your Direct action is a way of challenging these vote for someone different at the next election 74 75 body in a human blockade and the police scale depending on the level of risk involved arrest you on the spot then you have very few and what the aims of the action are. Equally, chances to claim it wasn’t you wot dunnit! For many people choose to be involved in more Upcoming Events & Actions some people being accountable is an ethical and less accountable actions depending on Reclaim the Fields International Action choice and even where it might be possible to the situation. Camp 2015 ‘get away with it’ they choose not to. Activist security 28th August – 2nd September An unaccountable, or covert action is one Borras & Holt Community Protection Camp where you do something illegal but plan not ‘Security’ in this context, means taking Borras Rd, Borras Head, Holt, Wrexham LL13 to get caught. For some people this can be a preventative measures so you can do your 9TG more sustainable way of working – it means actions without your target finding out you are you are free to carry on as an activist without coming, and in some cases, without anyone Reclaim the Fields (or RTF) UK was born all the time, money, and stress involved in ever knowing who did it. For some people, it in 2011, as a star in a wider constellation court cases. This isn’t always the easy option also involves making it harder for intelligence of food and land struggles that reaches though – you can get arrested without having gatherers to collect information about their day around the globe. Since 2011, camps and ‘planned’ to, and keeping secrets can involve to day life – who their friends are and where other RTF gatherings have helped support time, stress and money too. they travel to regularly, for instance. Avoiding local communities in struggle, share skills, Build Gardens this kind of long term profiling can make it developed networks, and strengthened the Open and closed groups and actions much easier to pull off secret actions in the resistance to exploitation. Not Prisons future. If a group or action is open then anyone can This year, an international gathering will join and it is widely publicised. This makes it Some security measures can take a lot of be held in in Wrexham, Wales to support much easier to involve new people, but harder time and effort, and may not be necessary communities resisting fracking and the North movements. to avoid unwanted police attention. depending on your situation. Also, be aware Wales Prison Project (Europe’s second that if security is badly handled then the biggest prison in-construction) The workshop will use participatory education If an action or group is closed then the inverse atmosphere of secrecy can lead to some www.reclaimthefields.org.uk methods and aims to facilitate reflection on our is true – new people can’t join in and often people feeling excluded while others get kicks personal histories and experiences of activism. don’t find out about it either. This can make it out of being part of the in crowd – in other Yorkshire Sustainable Activism Weekend This supports increasing self-awareness and possible to do things without the target finding words it can contribute to informal hierarchies greater capacity to learn from ourselves and out first, but in the long term doesn’t provide within your group. On the other hand, paying 18-20 September each other. entry points for new people. good attention to security can be what makes Feeling burnt out? In need of support? your action happen, and / or save you all the Join us for a weekend residential workshop The workshop will explore methods of working For many people open and closed is a sliding time and energy involved in court cases. in the Yorkshire Dales from 18th – 20th effectively with the personal dimension September 2015. of activism, helping us take better care of The decisions each individual takes about ourselves, equipping us to avoid burnout and security impact on everyone else they work There can be enormous challenges in to better empower ourselves for action. with – there’s no point one person being consistently facing and seeking to transform consistently and painstakingly careful if no-one pressing ecological and social problems. We are awaiting a response about funding for else is. The important thing, therefore, is that At one level we need to work out how we this course to cover accommodation and food. people share the information they have about maintain a livelihood, find material resources If we are unsuccessful we will need to raise security with the rest of their group, and that for our work, as well as dealing with repression this from participants. We want the course to members then come to collective decisions and sometimes drawn out legal processes. be open to all regardless of their ability to pay. about the security measures they think are At another level we find ourselves working If unsubsidised the course costs will be around necessary in the long term and for each with the sense that nothing we can do is ever £50 per person for the weekend. action. enough, of guilt, despair, anger and numbness that consistent openness and responsiveness Application deadline 1st September 2015. • • • to the state of the world can bring. For more information and an application form please email: [email protected] This workshop offers a space to reflect on how to make our activism more effective and Seeds for Change, Leeds Tidal and Green sustainable for us personally in the long- Action Leeds term and bring continuity to our groups and 76 77 London Anarchist Bookfair 2015 www.climategames.net

Saturday 24th October 10am -7pm UK Food Sovereignty Gathering Central Saint Martin’s, Kings Cross, London 23 - 26th October Bookfairs provide a space where like-minded foodsovereigntynow.org.uk people can come together to re-affirm old friendships, make new ones, discuss all things anarchist and anticapitalist and start planning Camps & Blockades the future revolution. They’re also one of the public faces of anarchism. Anyone unfamiliar Faslane Peace Camp with the ideas or wanting to know more about Website: faslanepeacecamp.wordpress.com the politics can come along, look through Email: [email protected] books, sit in or get involved in meetings, Telephone: 07511 793 227 or 01436 820 901 workshops and discussions or just chat to the Faslane Peace Camp, A814, Shandon near groups and organisations having stalls there. Rhu, Helensburgh, G84 8HL anarchistbookfair.org.uk Taking action against nuclear weapons the Faslane Peace Camp is a permanent peace #FloodTheSystem camp sited alongside Faslane Naval base in Scotland. It has been occupied continuously, Flood, blockade, occupy and shut down the in a few different locations, since 1982. The systems that jeopardise our future! camp welcomes visitors any time, though To stop climate chaos we need a phenomenal please tell us in advance if you are planning escalation in organizing, participation and to stay overnight or longer. We are situated on tactical courage. And we need to link arms with the A814 near Helensburgh. allies fighting for migrant justice, dignified work and pay, and an end to the criminalization and Upton Community Protection Camp brutal policing of black and brown bodies. Website: frackfreedee.co.uk/visit-the- community-camp This is not another protest. It is a call for a Camp Phone: 07597634947 massive economic and political intervention. Duttons Lane, Upton, Chester, Cheshire West It is a call to build the relationships needed and Chester CH2 2PE to sustain our struggles for the long haul. To Upton Community Protection Camp is a build popular power along the intersections of place where people can learn about fracking race, class, gender and ability. To collectively in the area and further afield. The camp unleash our power and change everything. itself is occupying the drill site prior to works floodthesystem.net commencing. It was the first fracking site in the UK where this tactic was employed and has Climate Games – COP21 since been replicated elsewhere.

December 2015. Borras & Holt Community Protection Camp Paris, France Website: frackfreewrexham.org.uk/the-camp Get ready for the world’s largest non-violent Camp phone: 07762 258121 civil disobedience direct action adventure Borras Road, Rossett, Wrexham, Wrexham game in the streets of Paris, in cyberspace LL13 9TF and beyond. Take part in the Climate Games, The camp was set up in October 2014 to a new breed of creative mischief where there protect the land in response to the overturning is no boundary between online and street – by the unelected and unaccountable action first developed by Groen Front (Earth Planning Inspector – of Wrexham council’s First! Netherlands) and being supercharged by decision to refuse planning permission for GP/ an international collective or activists, artists, Dart Energy/IGas to undertake exploratory coders and developers for the resistance drilling for ‘unconventional’ gas at Borras during COP21. Commonwood (Borras Head Farm). 78 79 About the Site Practicalities Everyone is crew! What this means is that for Illustrations the Gathering to run well, we need everyone This Earth First! Programme has been brought who can to get involved. For each area of to life by illustrations from Radical Artists all responsibility, there’ll be a co-ordinator and a over the world. working group – come to the morning meeting at 9am to find out who needs extra hands. Some images are anonymous. However we would like to credit those that are known. Gate Tent Including: The gate is the place to go when you arrive, to pay, for queries, for meal tickets, transport The Beehive Design Collective is a wildly motivated, all-volunteer, activist arts collective information, for lost and found property, First dedicated to “cross-pollinating the grassroots” Aid, and much more. Important information by creating collaborative, anti-copyright such as local hospital/doctors can also be images for use as educational and organizing found at the gate tent. The gate tent needs to tools. We work as word-to-image translators of be staffed throughout the gathering. Please complex global stories, shared with us through volunteer for a shift if you can. conversations with affected communities. beehivecollective.org Money We ask that everybody attending the gathering Never Alone is an annual collaborative art exhibition for June 11 International Day of makes a donation between £20-30, according Solidarity with Marius Mason, Eric McDavid to what you can afford. Unfortunately there and all Eco-prisoners are significant costs that need to be covered, https://www.facebook.com/neveraloneart including site hire, renting water bowsers, june11.org structures, transport etc.

Katharina Rot is a vegan artist and illustrator Food based in Hamburg, Germany. She has produced beautiful work for animal liberation Veggies are providing vegan meals for £7 per campaigns and struggles. (See below) day. Kids 12 and under £3 per day. Please katharina-rot.de purchase your meal ticket from the gate tent facebook.com/katharinarotillustration as far in advance as possible so that they know how many people to cook for. Meals should be ready at 8am for breakfast, 1pm for lunch and 7pm for dinner. Volunteers are always needed for washing up, chopping and serving. Please listen for announcements at the morning meeting, or ask directly at the kitchen tent .

Water

Water is being brought onto the site in ‘bowsers’ (tankers), having been filled up at the farmyard down the road. Transporting the water is time consuming so please don’t waste it. Don’t leave taps running, and fix leaks or find someone else to fix them. Drinking water

80 81 dogs. Dogs must be on leads at all times on running of the gathering. For example, people Site Practicalities cont. Power & Lighting site and all mess cleaned up immediately. have arguments, and that’s fine. However, if People bringing dogs will take responsibility they decided to have it just outside a workshop will be piped from the bowsers in blue piping. Power is all off grid and so limited, there will together for ensuring that this all works and that workshop got disrupted, that’s we we Drinking water will be available from the water be a cinema and evening lighting. There may smoothly, nimbly aided by a trusty co- might come in. points (see the site plan). be phone charging on site but we ask you to ordinator. 2. supporting people on the receiving end leave your phones in tents. of offensive or discriminatory behaviour that Washing up Vehicles makes them feel unsafe and where necessary Power-down and noise excluding someone from the gathering To reduce the risk of infections spreading There is limited space for live-in vehicles. site. We would work in tandem with the around the site, we ask that people do ‘batch’ Please be aware not to disturb workshops If you need to bring yours with you, please crew from the wellbeing space here. Whilst washing up rather than everyone washing during the day, so keep noise down. Power contact us first so that we can ensure there is understanding the challenges of staying their own plates. Please volunteer for a stint of down – no amplified music or loud noise – will space for you. Please don’t go in and out of sane and balanced in a world hurtling in the washing up during the gathering (unless you be at 11pm on Wednesday and Thursday, the site with your vehicle unless a necessity. opposite direction, we have to recognise are ill) – ask if anyone currently washing up 11:30pm on Friday and 1am on Saturday and our limitations and those of this temporary wants to leave, and make sure that you have Sunday. Please keep noise to a minimum after • • • community we’re all part of, and put the aims washed your hands carefully before you start! that, to help keep us all a happy well-slept of this Gathering first. community! Safety PIN Toilets Though working with other teams and keeping Accessibility Sometimes at gatherings and camps the Gathering Collective updated, we will We have dug toilets on site, including one for behaviours can happen that either make keep all detail of incidents and who’s involved wheelchair users. If there are any problems Accessibility camping is behind the work shop people feel unsafe or disrupt the flow of the strictly confidential to the Safety PIN. with the toilets or the handwashing needs spaces and will have an accessible toilet. We event. We are the team that is there to help as replenishing, please sort it out yourself or let are hoping for access boards and please ask needed, when this arises. Can I get involved? a member of the toilet crew know. And please at the gate if you have any specific needs. wash your hands! Please come to us if something happens Yes please. You don’t have to be formally First Aid (or you notice it’s about to) rather than the trained in mediation or conflict resolution Rubbish and Recycling EF!SG Collective and to avoid potential skills, though we welcome people who are. We have a first aid point at the gate tent – they lynch mob scenarios! We’ll meet briefly every What we’re looking for is people who can Recycling bins are provided; please use the will be able to contact a first aider for you. For day to discuss any issues that have arisen keep a cool head and are able to intervene correct ones. Clear up after yourself, including site safety please let someone know if you get in confidence, and to figure out how we’ll constructively in a situation when needed. bottle tops, fag ends etc. Keeping the site sick or have diarrhoea. If you are a first aider organise ourselves in terms of how we can be clean and tidy and using the recycling facilities please register at the gate tent so that your called upon and who’ll be on call when. You’ll There is a conflict resolution workshop on is our collective responsibility – don’t assume skills can be called upon during the gathering be able to see who at least one of us is during Wednesday afternoon, followed by an initial someone else will clear up after you and if you if needed. the morning meeting. meeting of this group over the evening meal. see something that needs doing, well, you get On Thursday afternoon there’s a working the idea… Fire Safety Why the name? with conflict session. If you’ve missed these, get involved and we’ll share skills and work Camping We have one fire pit on site. For safety Well, safety because we want to help this together to support each other. reasons we ask that no other fires are lit on gathering be focussed on learning skills, Camping space is split into 4 areas: site at all. getting inspired and forming groups and • • • Accessible Camping for people in tents with networks and we can’t do any of that if we feel mobility restrictions, so it’s close to toilets Smoking unsafe. PIN? Please send us suggestions for and workshops, Family Camping near the what this acronym might stand for on the back top of the field for easy access but away from No smoking in any covered spaces please. of a postcard! (Tranquility or Mediation don’t evening noise, Quiet Camping early to bed Take care not to set bales of hay on fire, and quite describe our role) so away from Bar, main marquee and family dispose of any butts in landfill bins. camping and Late Camping is for people not Can you tell us a bit more about your role? minding the late noise because they were the Dogs ones making it. Why certainly. We have two roles, both of Please contact us in advance if you want to which can involve de-escalation: bring a dog, as there are limited places for 1. mediating between people and the smooth 82 83 happening there too – see timetable for 7:30-11pm on Thursday and 7:30-12pm on About the Spaces details. Friday, Saturday and Sunday. There should be Prisoner Support no drinking on site before 7pm. Info-space Direct Action Assault Course There is a dedicated prisoner support space Entertainment in the Welcome Tent. It has materials for letter A sheltered space in the Welcome Tent for Buddy up! This is a space for everyone writing, making cards and banners, so we putting all your inspiring leaflets, with info to (regardless of age) to test out some key A variety of entertainment is scheduled can connect with our comrades behind bars. share and actions to get involved in. In the action skills. Face and break police lines, use after 8pm (see timetable), most in the main There is info and literature about prisons and past, people have written rants about what blockading techniques, climb fences, take marquee, bar or around the fire pit. Power prisoners. In the words of Earth First! in the they see as the key current issues in our down corporate foes, change your identity down will be at 11pm on Wednesday and US: movement(s) and brought them along with and climb a tripod! Watch out for those snatch Thursday, 11:30pm on Friday and 1am on enough copies to share – do feel free to do squads!!! Saturday and Sunday. Please keep noise to a “Prisoner support is integral to radical so if you’ve a burning issue on your mind, and minimum after that. movements because resistance breeds there’ll be space for these too. Any pamphlets, Tripods repression. We know that any successful how to guides and similar welcome too. Kids and youth movement that is making real gains will be Alongside scheduled tripod building and met with repression and people will face jail Well-being space erecting workshops, two pods will be there all There is a kids’ space coordinator and time as a result of their contribution to a better day every day to be climbed and explored. workshops for different ages, throughout the world. Not only do people within the movement A safe and quiet place to get a bit of space event, during workshop times only. Please have an imperative to support people facing from the busy energy of the gathering, an Climbing Space register your child at the kids space letting incarceration as a result for their beliefs and/or opportunity to rest and reflect and, if needed, them know which workshop you’re in. We actions, but people who accept support from have a confidential conversation about some Climbing workshops and drop-in sessions cannot provide a creche. the movement while they are incarcerated of the emotional challenges of your activism. will be running throughout the gathering from have an imperative to respect individuals The wellbeing space is place focused on being these trees. All kit provided! No experience Bookshop within and the movement as a whole by rather than doing… for a short while at least! necessary. See programme timetable for not cooperating or testifying against co- details. The bookshop with a wide variety of radical defendants. Police and federal agents will at Therapies space literature for sale, can be found in the cafe least threaten to treat you worse if you do not Treehouse! opposite the kitchen. cooperate. Prepare for this by knowing one’s A quiet space where practiced therapists and rights and common tactics of the police to healers will offer a range of free physical or Who doesn’t LOVE treehouses?!?! A staple Tin can alley break solidarity within the movement. Keeping other treatments, to help you take care of of effective ecological action the world-over people feeling strong and connected will yourself. the EF! tree-house build is a great opportunity A safe space away from passing people greatly help them to stand up for themselves, to learn how to build a dry, safe temporary for you to practice your aim and vent your their rights and their ideologies, staying silent Cafe home amongst the leaves. Workshops and frustrations with a catapult at the tin can alley in the face of courts, interrogators and grand drop-in sessions will be running throughout of corporate scum. juries.” Veggies of Nottingham will be running a vegan the gathering. See programme timetable for tuck shop & cafe everyday offering all manner details. Cinema of hot drinks and fresh deliciousness including daily home-made cakes. Library Radical evening cinema space showing a wide variety of full length and short films. See board Creative Resistance: Art Space The cafe of our local health food shop ‘Sound outside for details of films being shown. Films Bites’, ‘Yafffle cafe’ have loaned some of their ranging from political information to poignant The creative resistance space is where political library, which will be in the bar space. escapist entertainment! Sorry no popcorn! you can make visual material for actions Please treat with care and you are welcome to and protests (like banners, masks, posters, take a book to your tent if you write it down. • • • stencils, prints etc.), to make protests more colourful, creative and clear during the drop-in Bar times. Some of the focus is on the upcoming Climate Games for the Paris climate summit in We will have 3 Vegan Ales from Bourough December, and you are of course welcome to Brewery, local ciders and The Old Tree make protest props and visual stuff for other brewery providing fermented soft drinks and projects as well. There are other activities elder flower champagne. The bar will be from 84 85 86 87 88