Eco-Justice Actions Camp: Apply Today!

[Madeline Gardner]

 

Hey RAN supporters-
It's time for camp!

Rainforest Action Network is partnering with the Ruckus Society on their annual Action Camp.  This camp is focusing on advanced skills to give our movement the boost it needs to produce more action-ready activists and action coordinators. We're calling it the Advanced Action Boot Camp for Eco-Justice, and it's coming up quick, September 15-21!


CAMP DETAILS:

What: Advanced Action Boot Camp for Eco-Justice

Where: Harmony Park, Clarks Grove, MN (about 1 hr south of Minneapolis)

When: September 15-21, 2010 (full 7 days of training; participants should plan to arrive the evening of the 14th)

Who: Direct Action experienced activists working on ecological and environmental justice issues.  Experience and skill-levels can vary; however, participants should have received some nonviolent direct action training in the past, and have action experience of some kind under their belts. 

CAMP CURRICULUM:

Participants will be placed in one of the following tracks:

1. Advanced Action Climbing
2. Blockades & Occupations
3. Arts & Action Communications (includes Media, Messaging, Action Communications & Tech, Creative Resistance Arts)

And all participants will receive full-camp trainings in:

-Action Prep & Planning
-Scouting
-Action Strategy & Campaign Planning
-Action Roles
-and more!

We will be tent-camping outside, and have 3 gourmet meals per day prepared by long-time camp chefs!

Click here for the camp webpage:  http://ruckus.org/advancedcamp
Click here for the camp application:  http://ruckus.org/campapplication

We're excited to partner with Indigenous Environmental Network and Rainforest Action Network on this year's camp.  If your group is also interested in co-sponsoring the camp at some level, please let us know!  We'd be happy to discuss options with you for your group to reserve participant slots by covering participant costs, etc.

Camp will be here before we know it.. applications due by Friday, August 13th!

The Ruckus Society
PO Box 28741
Oakland, CA 94604
510-931-6339
866-778-6374 Fax
www.ruckus.org

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* actions speak louder than words *

Make a donation today!  http://www.ruckus.org/donate

--
“The arc of history is long, but it bends towards justice.”
- Martin Luther King Jr.

Madeline Gardner
skype: madeline.gardner
(612) 807-0981