'We are now able to announce the location of the Camp for Climate Action.

It will take place on Barlow Common, about 3 miles south east of Selby,
and about 2 miles north west of the Drax perimeter fence. Directions and
further details of the location can be found on our website at
http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/location.htm

The camp opens on Saturday August 26, but if you're free before then, any
help putting together the site's infrastructure (compost toilets,
plumbing, whatever) will be greatly appreciated. No experience necessary:
there are plenty of people who can help you learn all you need to know! No
need to register in advance - just turn up and we'll be very pleased to
see you. See also the callout at http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/callout.htm'
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The London 'neighbourhood' of the Camp for Climate Action (where people from London and nearabouts will camp, eat, dream up future plans and hang out) is coming together nicely, with a kitchen and power sorted, as well as banners, Art Not Oil and the first sproutings of the London Rising Tide '(Co)Mutiny Garden'.

Please bring a plate, cup and cutlery. Email us ASAP if you'd like to travel up with us on Saturday morning (26th). If you would like more info, send us an email, (don't ring us up since we're waiting for a replacement sim card [23.8.06]).

Meanwhile, post-Camp plans are coming together, with the ongoing campaign to get Shell the hell out of the Natural History Museum (as sponsor of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award - send us your photos for our alt. exhibition, or look at www.shelloiledwildlife.org.uk)

There will be the first in a new season of monthly introductions to London Rising Tide on September 21st at LARC, where we will show the film 'The Power of Community', about the way Cuba dealt with a no-oil crisis, as well as more sproutings of the (Co)Mutiny Garden and ideas about growing food in the city. And there will be locally-sourced food and drink. See you here or there...

Your loyal web-footed LRTer

'Perhaps we cannot raise the wind. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.' (EF Schumacher)

PS. Our Art Not Oil workshop will run at the Camp from 12-1 on Friday 1st September, with the Rising Tide UK network workshop on Saturday 2nd at 12, and, at 4.30 on Wednesday 31st...'City Harvests - eat away...at those food miles': 'Come to this workshop and discover the myriad options available in becoming a sustainable food grower and forager in the city: from community gardens and guerilla gardening, liberating "trash" from skips to harvesting fruits from abandoned trees. Feel empowered by the possibility of increasing your self-reliance and turn the need of sourcing local food into a reality. Reduce waste by incorporating it into your garden in terms of compost and structural additions.'

PPS. Make a date in your diary now for the post-camp meeting on October 14th
and 15th in Manchester!
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Eco-operas and combating capitalism: Climate Camp plans released

Participants in the Camp for Climate Action will be able to learn how to
make their own biodiesel, grow their own food under environment-friendly
conditions, calculate their personal carbon footprint or even take part in
a 'carbon opera'! But they can also find out about the dangers of nuclear
power and aviation to the climate, about resistance to mining projects by
indigenous peoples in the majority world or pick up practical skills on
combating roadbuilding schemes or corporate damage to the environment.
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According to the plans released today, the Camp for Climate Action, which
will take place in Megawatt Valley near Selby in Yorkshire from the 26th
August - 4th September, will offer visitors a choice from over 150
workshops, ranging from practical art, building and gardening activities
to the advanced science of climate change. Workshops include both analysis
of the problems of climate change and how to confront it - practically and
politically.

Workshops' organiser Gabrielle Rickman said 'We want to provide a
place where people can inform themselves about all aspects of climate
change, but we intend to go beyond that. We also want to help build a
movement against climate change, so the camp will also be a place where
people can come together to learn the skills to fight it in their own
lives and, more importantly, by uniting to confront climate criminals such
as the British and US governments and many multinational corporations. The
camp will also be somewhere where people can bond and have fun together,
because people who have shared these experiences can work more effectively
together as campaigners.'

Further info:

The programme can be viewed online on our website
http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/programme.htm

The Camp for Climate Action runs from 26th August - 4th September and will
take place at an as yet undisclosed location in Megawatt Valley, near
Leeds, nearest train station Selby. Entry will be free but donations
towards the cost of running the camp will be greatly appreciated.

Workshop providers at the Camp are all providing their time and expertise
voluntarily. They range from grassroots community activists to
internationally-known academics, and from MPs to representatives of
environmental NGOs.

The Camp will also include a mass direct action against nearby Drax power
station, which is the UK's largest single emitter of CO2 emissions.

More information is available from www.climatecamp.org.uk,
info@climatecamp.org.uk, 07944 586036, or by post at: Box 10, c/o Oxford
Action Resource Centre, E.O.C.C., 44b Princes Street, Oxford OX4 1HU. For
press enquiries only, call 07944 586036 or 07901 802177.