This excellent blog was written by the Tipping point collective (@TippingPC) – A collective of climate justice activists organising at a global level, one of whom is Young FoEE’s very own Nathan Thanki (@n_thanki) from Northern Ireland. This blog was inspired by Eros Sana (@eros_sana) who recently gave an incredible workshop at the Young FoEE summer camp on …
Summer camp day 5 – open space, workshops and goodbyes
The fifth day at the summer camp was dedicated to many skill sharing sessions, discussions and creating concrete plans towards COP21 in December in Paris. Sadly,we also had to say goodbye to the first participants to leave, as our summer camp approaches its end. This time Jasmina from Macedonia and Carmen from Scotland share their …
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Summer camp day 4 – climbing a lighthouse for climate justice
Day four of summer camp 2015 saw all 100 of us head over to the nearby Ile de Sein to march in solidarity with islanders struggling to build community-run renewables on the island and become self-sufficient. After a very choppy boat ride there and back, Josef from the Czech Republic and Roxanne from the UK …
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Summer camp day 3 – race, intersectionality and action preparation
Thursday began with some challenging – but vital – discussions about the linkages between environmental and climate struggles, and those of race, class and gender – which Sydney from Ireland followed. After some time for reflection on what these truths mean for us and our movement, Kristina from the Czech Republic helped put together an …
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Don’t nuke our climate : Global struggle, local resistances
In the afternoon on day 2, we squeezed in a hike around a historic site of anti-nuclear activism on the coast, accompanied by the same activists who scuppered plans for a nuclear power plant in the 1970s. Dora from Croatia: After 2 days of spending the majority of our time sitting and exercising our brains …
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Summer camp day 2 – climate, migration and TTIP
It’s the second day of the Young Friends of the Earth summer camp in (somewhat) sunny Brittany, and with our wonderful guest speakers from around the world, we’ve had workshops on plans for activism at this December’s UN climate talks in Paris (COP21), the impacts of climate change on migration, and many more. Carmen from …
Summer camp day 1 – ‘Nous sommes la generation climat’
Young Friends of the Earth Europe’s annual summer camp is in north-west France this year, mobilising 100 youth from around Europe in the run-up to the UN climate talks in Paris this December (COP21). On day 1, Dora from Croatia and Mélody from France reflects on what’s happened so far… Dora from Croatia: The basic statistics: around …
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Launch of new documentary inspired by Young Friends of the Earth Europe activists!
This week, an inspiring new documentary featuring activists from the Young Friends of the Earth Europe network launches online. ‘Movement’, a film by two Dutch filmmakers, tells the stories of the different paths taken by four activists from Croatia, Germany, the UK and Norway. In their sights? Oil, coal, corporations and governments obstructing the UN climate …
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Take action: call for solidarity against Czech coal
The Czech government wants to sideline restrictions coal mining in North Bohemia and push ahead with destructive new projects. If they succeed, the two small cities of Horní Jiřetín and Černice will be destroyed. Since the 1960s destroyed almost 80 towns in North Bohemia have been destroyed because of coal mining. In 1992, the Czech …
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