Modeled on the annual Localize This! Action Camp held in the NW, this dynamic Cross-Movement Artful Activism, Strategy, Creative Tactics & Community Organizing Intensive Training Camp is coming to the Midwest!
Everyone can contribute to stronger activism! Perhaps you are an organizer or activist who wants to be more strategic and effective in the work you do for social justice. This camp is for you! Perhaps you support social justice, but you don’t have the time or energy for action camps. You can support activists who do have time and energy but not the resources by donating to the scholarship fund.
What’s Localize This?- Find out in 2 minutes or less watching this video:
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Tips for Crowd-Funding your camp participation- HERE
Friends Don’t Let Friends Miss Great Lakes Basin Action Camp
Bring your action buddy or your whole affinity group
All year long, the Backbone team appears in our region and across the country, but only one time per year does the country come to us. For the past four years this gathering has been at the cusp of movement innovation, a source of numerous collaborations, and a spark for countless creative actions from viral Flash Mobs to Giant floating buttocks. Our giant 1% arrows banner and light projections preceded Occupy. 2012’s camp lifted up Eviction Protection in the Seattle area and now our allies are celebrating a victorious Eviction Blockade. Our first camp even helped save an island!
ARE YOU CURIOUS WHAT HAPPENS AT ACTION CAMP?- SEE THE OFFERINGS AT LAST YEAR’S NW ACTION CAMP Below
Circle Pines Center near Kalamazoo, MI May 13th-19th
Cost: Sliding scale $200-$500 for week (No one will be turned away for lack of funds*) Per day $30-$75 (suggested)
All Camping, Trainings, and Delicious Locally-Sourced Food are included!
Bring a sleeping bag if you have one.
REGISTER TODAY!
We can help you fundraise for camp and your travel costs using our Crowd-Funding Tips HERE.
Contact Backbone Campaign if you have questions call 805.776.3882 or send us an email.
* FYI – Please consider helping cover the cost of scholarships for participants from impacted communities by increasing your payment to $400 or more. The real cost of camp for Backbone is over $350 per person.
Who’s Coming To Camp? – Build Connections & Train Alongside Allies Working on:
- Coal Trains/Coal Ports/Tar Sands/Fracking and Fossil Fuel Extraction Resistance.
- Eviction Protection and Foreclosure Defense.
- Student Debt
- Economic Justice and Austerity Resistance
- Immigration Reform
- Trade and Labor Justice
What Workshops Are Offered? – Get Skilled-Up To Act-Up with Effective Organizing Strategies and Expand Your Tactical Toolkit With These Trainings & More, All Offered In One Place. Full Draft Schedule HERE
Day 1
- Kayaking and Safety for Water-Based Tactics
- D.I.Y. Silk Screen Workshop
- Community Building Group Exercises Workshop
- Anti-Oppression Workshop
- Mapping the Coal Fight Panel & Discussion
Day 2
- Grand Strategy Workshop
- Strategic Campaign Design Workshop (Grounded in Resistance to Fossil Fuel Corridor)
- Forest and Urban Climb Training by EF! Climbers Guild
- How To Research Your Targets & Power Mapping Workshop
- Artful Activism Show & Tell and Creative Tactics Overview
- Youth Incarceration Resistance Panel
- Eviction Protection and Foreclosure Resistance Panel
Day 3
- Action Planning
- Intro to Relational Organizing Workshop
- Non-Violent Direct Action Workshop
- Forest and Urban Climb Training by EF! Climbers Guild
- Artful Activism and Creative Tactics Workshops
- Story-Based Organizing Workshop
- Intro to Blockades (Soft) & Advanced (Hard) Blockades Training
- New Society Pioneers & Emergent Economy Panel & Discussion
Day 4
- Non Traditional Alliance & Coalition Building Workshop
- How to Make an Action Video Workshop
- Forest and Urban Climb Training by EF! Climbers Guild
- Artful Activism and Creative Tactics Workshops
- Organizing 101 Workshop
- Tripod Training
- Skill Shares & Offerings by Participants
- Earning Media: How to Get Press & Make Breaking News Workshop
- Facilitation Skills Workshop
- Building Power and Leaders Through Community Organizing Panel & Discussion
Day 5
- How To Start a Affinity Group Workshop
- Artful Activism and Creative Tactics Workshop
- Know Your Rights Workshop
- Burn-out Avoidance Workshop
- Skill Shares & Offerings by Participants
- Prep for Final Action
- Projection As Protest Light Projection Action in Seattle
- Celebration
Day 6
- Day of Final Action
- Debrief
- Celebration
AND MORE being finalized…
This camp is made possible partially by the generous support of the:Nathan Cummings Foundation, Puffin Foundation West, and others.
Please Join them in supporting this movement building work. Donate TODAY toward scholarships for deserving emerging activist leaders from impacted communities. There are people from around the country who need your support to attend camp and we will not turn anyone away for lack of funds.
We can only do this thanks to the generosity of people like you. Contribute HERE Today
Partner with Us!
If you would like your organization listed as a Partner, please call the Backbone Campaign office 206-408-8058
Pitch-In To The Crowdfunding Scholarship Campaign!
Designate your contribution to go towards scholarships for front-line activists. (Write it in the dedication section)
There is nothing the Backbone Campaign does that is more crucial to preparing progressive change agents or weaving connections between them than our annual Localize This! Action Camp. Enable Change Agents from across the country and from diverse backgrounds and struggles to participate by pitching-in today!
