Scotland Climate Camp 2007 Newswire Archive
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12-12-2007 00:25
What Better Time? Issue One out now!
What Better Time? is a free news sheet from the Scottish Climate Activist Network. Issue one is out now, get em while they're hot (actually after the demo on Saturday they're a bit wet and soggy).
28-11-2007 17:34
By Turbulence
At the beginning of 2007, the Turbulence collective commissioned 14 articles from around the global 'movement of movements', asking authors: "What would it mean to win?" We edited their responses into a newspaper and printed 7,000 copies, most of which were distributed at the mobilisation against the G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany, in June. A few months later, we want to return to the question of winning.
As we resume our search it's no surprise that we keep coming across the problem of visibility. When we think about winning, our eyes are drawn to things that are highly visible or easy-to-measure, such as institutional or legislative change, the opening of a social centre or an increase in membership. That's where the light is. But we also need to assess victories in the less tangible though just as real realm of possibilities. Winning in this realm may involve increased potential, changes in perception or patterns of behaviour. Yet these seem to exist at the very edge of the luminous zone.
This problem leads into another: our experiences create their own luminosity and consequently their own areas of darkness. When we think about winning we are drawn to movements, people and events that are familiar to us; and we have expectations about how things should turn out if they are to constitute a victory.
So how can we overcome our night-blindness once we move beyond the familiar?...
To download the new Turbulence booklet, "Move into the Light?", as a PDF go to:
http://www.turbulence.org.uk/Resources/postscript_1107.pdf
To help distribute the booklet, or to offer a translation, please write to:
editors@turbulence.org.uk
A web-banner linking directly to the article can also be downloaded from: http://www.turbulence.org.uk/Resources/banner_234x60.jpg
Copies of the booklet can be ordered via our website, www.turbulence.org.uk
And, as ever, we're keen for comments, criticism and feedback on the text.
The Editors
www.turbulence.org.uk
editors@turbulence.org.uk
Move into the Light?: Postscript to a turbulent 2007
"Move into the Light?: Postscript to a turbulent 2007"By Turbulence
At the beginning of 2007, the Turbulence collective commissioned 14 articles from around the global 'movement of movements', asking authors: "What would it mean to win?" We edited their responses into a newspaper and printed 7,000 copies, most of which were distributed at the mobilisation against the G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany, in June. A few months later, we want to return to the question of winning.
As we resume our search it's no surprise that we keep coming across the problem of visibility. When we think about winning, our eyes are drawn to things that are highly visible or easy-to-measure, such as institutional or legislative change, the opening of a social centre or an increase in membership. That's where the light is. But we also need to assess victories in the less tangible though just as real realm of possibilities. Winning in this realm may involve increased potential, changes in perception or patterns of behaviour. Yet these seem to exist at the very edge of the luminous zone.
This problem leads into another: our experiences create their own luminosity and consequently their own areas of darkness. When we think about winning we are drawn to movements, people and events that are familiar to us; and we have expectations about how things should turn out if they are to constitute a victory.
So how can we overcome our night-blindness once we move beyond the familiar?...
To download the new Turbulence booklet, "Move into the Light?", as a PDF go to:
http://www.turbulence.org.uk/Resources/postscript_1107.pdf To help distribute the booklet, or to offer a translation, please write to:
editors@turbulence.org.uk A web-banner linking directly to the article can also be downloaded from:
http://www.turbulence.org.uk/Resources/banner_234x60.jpg Copies of the booklet can be ordered via our website, www.turbulence.org.uk
And, as ever, we're keen for comments, criticism and feedback on the text.
The Editors
www.turbulence.org.uk
editors@turbulence.org.uk
19-08-2007 13:53
The Camp for Climate Action started last week as hundreds of climate activists squated land near Staines under threat from Heathrows expansion. People from Scotland came down to lend a hand...
Climate Camp Scotland Bario - Gettin in amongst it
The Camp for Climate Action started last week as hundreds of climate activists squated land near Staines under threat from Heathrows expansion. People from Scotland came down to lend a hand...
18-08-2007 06:44
North Pole ice thinner than ever
The ice layers on the North Pole are thinner than ever before. The melting is going far more rapidly than foreseen by the researchers, head of the Norwegian Cicero Center for International Climate and Environmental Research says.
14-08-2007 07:22
A lesson for the Camp for Climate Action on FIT
I was stopped by the FIT at a G8 protest. It revealed a tactic of the FIT to get real-time inteligence on the protests, by using up front close up harrasment to take messages, written or verbal from their infiltrators.
09-02-2007 12:59
The next national organising gathering will be in Leeds on Sat and Sun Feb 17th/18th. It will be at The Common Place in Leeds city centre and vegan food, accommodation and creche will be provided (please contact us with accommodation, creche or any other needs though so we can plan ahead).
Next national climate camp organising gathering Feb 17/18 in Leeds
Climate Camp 2007 will take place from August 14th to 21st. Planning is already well under way and we need everyone to get involved and make it happen.The next national organising gathering will be in Leeds on Sat and Sun Feb 17th/18th. It will be at The Common Place in Leeds city centre and vegan food, accommodation and creche will be provided (please contact us with accommodation, creche or any other needs though so we can plan ahead).
