Wild Earth Rendezvous
June 1 - 7, at a forest camp in BC
The Wild Earth Rendezvous is a week-long training camp in the BC
forest. Since 1999, more than 800 participants have learned new
skills, strategies, and contacts for forest action. Wild Earth has
hosted more than 75 workshops with native and non-native
environmentalists, students and retirees, veteran campaigners and new
volunteers. The goal is bringing diverse people together to plan
strategically and strengthen our movements with new volunteers and
networks This year, we're once again preparing folks in BC and across
North America to defend the land.
This Year's Workshops:
- Media Tactics for Activists
- Survival Skills
- Protect Clayoquot Sound
- The Great Bear Rainforest compromise
- Climate change action
- Activist Security 101
- Green Scare update
- Wild Women Circle
- Eco-war in Tasmania
- Herbal Healing
- Non-violence Training
- Tree-climbing and Tree-sitting
- Grassy Narrows First Nation vs. Weyerhaeuser
- Legal Rights for Arrestees
- Secwepemc Nation vs. Sun Peaks
- Mt. Elphinstone campaign
- Banner-making
- Anarchist Action
- Natural Selection Forestrys workshops:
The Wild Earth Rendezvous is set for June 1 – 7, and the location will
be announced before then. We are looking for a free,
vehicle-accessible forest campsite on the BC Coast with good water.
We have been working with Rainforest Action Network and with First
Nations groups in BC in recent years and this year looks stronger than
ever. We have a great group of volunteers and several key
environmental leaders have already signed on as presenters, including:
- Chief Qwatsinas, hereditary chief with the House of
Smayusta, Nuxalk Nation, Bella Coola. He will be discussing the Great
Bear Rainforest Agreement and indigenous rights.
- Mike Roselle, founder of Earth First!, Rainforest Action
Network, Ruckus Society and many more eco-action groups. He will talk
about direct action and civil disobedience.
- Joe Foy, national campaign director for the Western Canada
Wilderness Committee, will bring us up to date about grassroots
campaigns for endangered species, old-growth forests, and provincial
parks.
Wild Earth is similar to the Ruckus Society and Rainforest Action
Network activist training camps, but with a DIY flavour. Folks are
signing up to get involved and to volunteer for carpooling, kitchen,
childcare, and coordination. The cost of the gathering is by donation,
volunteers get in free. Wild Earth is all-volunteer, but once our
funding is confirmed, we can offer travel scholarships ($150) to help
cover presenters costs.
Folks will have a chance to learn tree-climbing, participate in
non-violence training, find out about legal rights, discuss tactics
and strategies, and find new supporters and allies. We expect at least
150 people and two dozen different workshops and discussions this
year.
Check the Wild Earth blog at wildearth2007.blogspot.com for
location, fcontact, more event info, and tons of photos of last year's gathering.
See you there!
June 1 - 7, at a forest camp in BC
The Wild Earth Rendezvous is a week-long training camp in the BC
forest. Since 1999, more than 800 participants have learned new
skills, strategies, and contacts for forest action. Wild Earth has
hosted more than 75 workshops with native and non-native
environmentalists, students and retirees, veteran campaigners and new
volunteers. The goal is bringing diverse people together to plan
strategically and strengthen our movements with new volunteers and
networks This year, we're once again preparing folks in BC and across
North America to defend the land.
This Year's Workshops:
- Media Tactics for Activists
- Survival Skills
- Protect Clayoquot Sound
- The Great Bear Rainforest compromise
- Climate change action
- Activist Security 101
- Green Scare update
- Wild Women Circle
- Eco-war in Tasmania
- Herbal Healing
- Non-violence Training
- Tree-climbing and Tree-sitting
- Grassy Narrows First Nation vs. Weyerhaeuser
- Legal Rights for Arrestees
- Secwepemc Nation vs. Sun Peaks
- Mt. Elphinstone campaign
- Banner-making
- Anarchist Action
- Natural Selection Forestrys workshops:
The Wild Earth Rendezvous is set for June 1 – 7, and the location will
be announced before then. We are looking for a free,
vehicle-accessible forest campsite on the BC Coast with good water.
We have been working with Rainforest Action Network and with First
Nations groups in BC in recent years and this year looks stronger than
ever. We have a great group of volunteers and several key
environmental leaders have already signed on as presenters, including:
- Chief Qwatsinas, hereditary chief with the House of
Smayusta, Nuxalk Nation, Bella Coola. He will be discussing the Great
Bear Rainforest Agreement and indigenous rights.
- Mike Roselle, founder of Earth First!, Rainforest Action
Network, Ruckus Society and many more eco-action groups. He will talk
about direct action and civil disobedience.
- Joe Foy, national campaign director for the Western Canada
Wilderness Committee, will bring us up to date about grassroots
campaigns for endangered species, old-growth forests, and provincial
parks.
Wild Earth is similar to the Ruckus Society and Rainforest Action
Network activist training camps, but with a DIY flavour. Folks are
signing up to get involved and to volunteer for carpooling, kitchen,
childcare, and coordination. The cost of the gathering is by donation,
volunteers get in free. Wild Earth is all-volunteer, but once our
funding is confirmed, we can offer travel scholarships ($150) to help
cover presenters costs.
Folks will have a chance to learn tree-climbing, participate in
non-violence training, find out about legal rights, discuss tactics
and strategies, and find new supporters and allies. We expect at least
150 people and two dozen different workshops and discussions this
year.
Check the Wild Earth blog at wildearth2007.blogspot.com for
location, fcontact, more event info, and tons of photos of last year's gathering.
See you there!
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