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Attending the Camp For Climate Action 2008 - The practicalities, fun, and fears.

voices | 28.07.2008 13:18 | Climate Camp 2008 | Climate Chaos

Views, reassurance, clarification, and enthusiasm from people who attended in 2007, and a little bit of the magic in their words and eyes.

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Video on Climate Camp For Action website:

http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/node/346

Attending the Camp For Climate Action 2008 from Alined Gif on Vimeo.

Video On Vimeo:

http://www.vimeo.com/1415949

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Homepage: http://www.climatecamp.org.uk

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This looks like a very bad liberal impression of the camp and diverging of some of the more progressive and confrontationla ideas that people going to the climate camp have i..e that it is an radical anti-capitalist event not some sort of yogurt weaving, hippy, vegan holiday.

das

Middle Class

28.07.2008 22:35

Is it me or are most of the folks in this film middle-class, where are the " working class " don't they give a fuck about the environment? I hope i am wrong!

Workin Class camper

working classes

29.07.2008 17:02

That's odd as a couple of the people in the video who I know are working class. Or are you a troll who things that all working class people are inarticulate and dress badly?

The camp is what the people who go make it. What it does not do is set out to fetishize any one economic grouping, or claim it has all the answers. If you dont like the video, why not make one yourself?

I thought the video was excellent and reached out to a broad range of people which was good.

Radical, vegan, working class camper

Another working class camper

Middle, Working, Business, Squatter

29.07.2008 21:15

I've been watching the comments on this issue and can't beleive this talk.

Working class, middle class, business owner, squatter, we're all getting hit by this issue and all other issues, from privatisation and globalisation to evironmental issues.

There is only one thing you need to know. A divided community is a conquered community.

Get over your winging, get off your computer and do something about it.

I'm in the streets every day looking at one issue or another and I don't see you there with me.

Participate, don't procrastinate.

Common Enemy

badly dressed

30.07.2008 07:42

Actually most w/class people are actually better dressed than your average activist tbh but thats another issue. I wasn't trying to be decisive, I was just embarrassed by the video, knowing that I will be at the camp and it not representing my views.

The camp and the radical anti-capitalist movement have to look seriously to what extent it is dominated by middle-class ideologies and to what extent this is a problem to the development of a radical working class anti-capitalist movement.

see you all on Sunday

das

eh?

30.07.2008 08:07

"Working class, middle class, business owner, squatter, we're all getting hit by this issue and all other issues, from privatisation and globalisation to evironmental issues.

There is only one thing you need to know. A divided community is a conquered community. "

There is only one thing you need to know. The interests of the working class are not shared by businessmen and the middle classes. It is the working class that will bear the brunt of any crisis brought on by climate change not the middle classes.

A divided community is a conquered community? News for you bub we live in a society that is divided along lines of class and the only way to overcome class divisions is to destroy the class system and for that to happen we need a revolution.

Miserablist

Break away

30.07.2008 20:06

I'm with Common Enemy on this.
Also, we've got to stop living by the labels the original ruling group gave us (working class, etc ) and if we have to make lines and barriers so that we recognise our enemies (I don't personally think we do but...) then let's re-draw them : those that are exploiting the people, land and animals and those of us that think that's wrong. It may be semantics to some, but I always think we reinforce the class system by repetition at a time when many of the old lines about 'class' are blurred and confused.

seebo

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