Join Veggies and Seize the Day at
PEACE NEWS SUMMER CAMP 2011!
28 July – 1 August 2011
near Shrewsbury, Shropshire
More info: www.peacenewscamp.info
Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/pncamp
Twitter: pnsummercamp
Contact: peacenewscamp@googlemail.com
or call 0207 278 3344
PURCHASE TICKETS: http://tinyurl.com/summercamptickets
Strands include:
– Cuts and Community Organising: Building Stronger Communities of Resistance
– People Power & Solidarity: Learning from Movements in the Middle East and Beyond
– Building Skills, Sharing Skills: Including nonviolence direct action training
Sessions include:
– Lessons from the Animal Rights Movement
– The London Coalition Against Poverty and Dave Morris
(McLibel) on community organising
– Tim Street (UK Uncut) and Stop Kettling Our Kids
(http://stopkettlingourkids.wordpress.com) on anti-cuts activism
– A screening of Michael Channan‘s documentary film about the anti-cuts movement “Chronicle of Protest” (www.chronicleofprotest-thefilm.co.uk)
–Nonviolent Direct Action Trainingfor anti-cuts / anti-arms trade etc… activists
– Ewa Jasiewicz (Free Gaza, organiser for Unite) on organising with migrant and non-migrant workers
– Activist Security (http://www.activistsecurity.org) on dealing with movement infiltration
– Andrew Muncie (International Solidarity Movement) on “Nonviolence in Palestine”
– Guy Smallman (www.guysmallman.com) on Afghanistan
– Author and activist Greg Muttitt (www.fuelonthefire.com) on oil and politics in occupied Iraq
– Red Pepper’s Alex Nunns (co-editor of new book “Tweets from Tahrir”) on the Egyptian uprising
– Susan Clarkson (Oxford Catholic Worker) on “Harry Potter and Resistance”
– Milan Rai on “Chomsky’s Politics” and “Abolishing War”
– Penny Stone on “Singing for Social Change”
– John Stewart (Airport Watch / HACAN) on “How the Campaign to Stop the Third Runway at Heathrow was Won”
– visionOntv on how to be a citizen TV reporter
– Patrick Nicholson (Bicycology) on “Cars, Carbon and Capitalism”
– Artist Emily Johns (http://emilyjohns.org.uk) on “Conscious Oil” and “Drawing Paradise on the Axis of Evil”
PLUS: People Power: The Game of Civil Resistance (www.peoplepowergame.com)
Smash EDO (www.smashedo.org.uk)
Seeds for Change (www.seedsforchange.org.uk)
Rhizome (www.rhizome.coop)
Jubilee Debt Campaign (http://www.jubileedebtcampaign.org.uk)
Campaign Against Arms Trade (www.caat.org.uk)
Lessons from the Animal Rights Movement; Derek Wall
(The Rise of the Green Left); Hicham Yezza (www.ceasefiremagazine.co.uk);
and the UK Youth Climate Coalition (http://ukycc.org)
PLUS: masculinity and militarism; nuclear weapons; abolishing war;
DSEi 2011: resisting Britain’s biggest arms fair;
participatory entertainment; food from the wonderful Veggies
of Nottingham (www.veggies.org.uk);
Howard Zinn’s “Emma: A Play in Two Acts about Emma Goldman,
American Anarchist”; music from SEIZE THE DAY (www.seizetheday.org), TRACEY
CURTIS (www.myspace.com/traceycurtis),
the CARBON TOWN CRYER (http://www.myspace.com/carbontowncryer)
and much more!
Join people from across the broad spectrum of the British peace
movement and radical activism for five days of exploration,
celebration and empowerment.
ABOUT PEACE NEWS SUMMER CAMP
Bring your contribution to a hothouse of creativity, a small
self-governed society run by democratic camp meetings, a viable
example of the kind of world we are trying to bring about. The
Peace News Summer Camp helps build a radical movement for the
future by building a living community today.
We are camping in a family-friendly and renewably-powered way
from 28 July to 1 August in the beautiful grounds of Crabapple
Community, near Shrewsbury in Shropshire.
Activities include: workshops and discussions, practical skills
sessions, delicious vegan food cooked by Veggies of Nottingham,
music, film, fun and participatory entertainment, a bar,
campfires, and activities and facilities for kids and families.
NB Dogs (except guide dogs) are not allowed on site – sorry.
TICKETS & FOOD
The camp costs £15 – £65 depending upon income. Payment can be
made by cheque, online or by phone:
– http://tinyurl.com/summercamptickets
for on-line purchases
– 0207 278 3344 for purchases by phone
– Send cheques (payable to “Peace News” to Peace News, 5
Caledonian Rd, London N1 9DY), explaining how many tickets you’re
purchasing and which rates
Food (3 meals a day and drinks) will cost £6 – £11 a day for
adults, depending on income, and should be ordered before the camp
starts. Individuals meals will be available to buy at the camp.
For more info, including details of location, see www.peacenewscamp.info
WHAT PEOPLE SAID ABOUT LAST YEAR’S CAMP
“Wonderful workshops and a wide range of people with which to
exchange ideas”
“Safe, friendly, interesting, happy, useful, accepting, great for
networking, well thought out and set up. Thank you for organising
and creating a lovely village”
“It was a great holiday for me and I loved meeting new people. To
become aware of the work that people are doing all over the country”