Anti-nuclear camp in Finnish Lapland
Youth for a Nuclear Free Finland (YNUFF) invites you to join and help create the ‘International Youth Exchange for Nuclear Free Sustainable Living’ to be held in Finnish Lapland from July 18 - 27, 2009. The Finnish youngsters are also looking for people to help organize this event, to give workshops, facilitate skill shares, and mobilize your local groups to come to Lapland!
This international, intercultural youth exchange aspires to encourage and empower youth participation in European energy policy, addressing climate change, non-sustainable energy (especially) uranium / nuclear power, while promoting positive alternatives, environmental justice and Indigenous Peoples rights. Project objectives are to facilitate understanding of these issues and developing wide-ranging skills to participate in local and European level civic democracy. In response to the ‘renaissance’ of the nuclear industry this gathering seeks to strengthen the ‘renaissance of resistance’ to new nuclear power stations and uranium mining.
Contact: Youth for a Nuclear Free Finland, ynuff2009@gmail.com
Climate camp in Copenhagen, Denmark
One of the bigger summer climate camps, held from July 11 to July 19, at the seaside very close to the Danish capital Copenhagen. International presence will be very welcome. Everything will be translated and internationalized. The camp is a major step in the mobilization towards the COP15 climate summit protests in December. The camp will host more than a hundred different workshops about everything. Climate, social issues, science, bike building, playing, learning and training for change. The organizers welcome more people concerned about the issue of climate and nuclear energy.
Contact the organizers via camp09@riseup.net. Check www.camp09.dk where more information will be put in the not-too distant future.
Friends of the Earth Youth summer camp in Croatia
This August Young FoEE (Friends of the Earth Europe) are running a week long summer training camp for 50 young activists from (but not only) the Foe network. The summer camp itself will be in Croatia, with a focus on capacity building and workshops on lots of skills and Foe related topics. It is a chance to get young FoEE introduced to and involved in other Foe campaigns, not just climate change, and to collaborate on future young Friends of the Earth Europe projects.