How We Work
We work through collective decision-making, where everyone gets an equal say in an open and transparent way. No one is paid and we reject all forms and systems of domination and discrimination. The way we are building towards the camp is made up of three basic parts:
The monthly meeting.
These meetings generally last two days with the purpose of getting working groups together and making decisions that require the input of everyone. The meetings use consensus decision-making and will have facilitators whose role is to help the process rather than taking on a leadership role.
Working groups
This is a large undertaking and the process is divided into sections to make it more manageable. Working groups are trusted to make autonomous decisions which fit with the camp's overall aims, or to bring decisions that affect the wider process to the monthly meeting. The camp will largely be organised by these working groups. They cover everything from plumbing, toilets, legal and welfare to workshops and entertainment.
Local groups and neighbourhoods.
While the main priority of the meetings and the working groups is to organise aspects of the camp that require some kind of collective process, it is equally important that the process supports and encourages the formation of local groups and groups committed to taking on neighbourhoods. The camp itself will be a combined effort of working groups, neighbourhoods and local groups. We hope that all these various groups will help the formation of networks that take action on climate change long after the camp is over.
The camp itself will be a combined effort of working groups, neighbourhoods and local groups. We hope that all these various groups will help the formation of networks that take action on climate change long after the camp is over.
There is plenty to do and believe it or not, you don.t have to go to endless meetings to get involved.
What will a social movement for climate justice and against the fossil fuel economy look like? We don't know, but if we get together with the people who've made a start, if we can take experience and mix it with the ingenuity and energy of the new, if together we can engage with the issue in both word and deed then we can be a powerful moment, a pulse, in what has to be a growing local, national and international movement.