Localize This! is the longest running annual Action Camp in the U.S. This annual week-long activism training camp has workshops, by trainers in Backbone’s network that will help you design creative interventions that keep the news cameras rolling and strengthen your organizing endeavors. http://info@backbonecampaign.org
- Puffin West supports this work as we must NOW
- Lock arms with passionate action-oriented change agents from across the country.
- Dive into a week of intensive training, strategizing, learning, and sharing of victory stories with some of the movements most effective organizers.
- Take action before everything we value or hold as sacred is extracted, exploited, and extinguished.
The workshops begin on June 21 on Vashon Island in Washington State. Speakers and trainers include:
Michelle “Shelly” Vendiola is our featured presenter for the opening day of camp on Tuesday, June 21 Michelle “Shelly” Vendiola – (Swinomish/Visayan) Ms. Vendiola is of mixed heritage both Swinomish and Filipina (an Indipina), she is a certified mediator, peacemaker, educator and community activist.
Mary Lou Finley is one of our featured presenters. Mary Lou Finley recently retired as professor emeritus from Antioch University Seattle having taught Sociology and public health and has a range of interests, including social movements and nonviolence studies; social change; poverty and homelessness; race, class, and gender studies.
Remy Fredenberg is our Featured Artful Activist at this year’s Localize This! Remy Fredenberg’s commitment to a life as artist, humanitarian, and green energy advocate.
Karen Coulter is one of our featured presenters for Thursday, June 23 Karen has been involved in Earth First! since 1984 and is the current director of the Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project, a grassroots organizations which monitors Federal agencies policy’s of logging and toxic herbicide-spraying on public lands in Eastern Oregon. She has been an activist on environmental, anti-nuclear and social justice issues since the 1980’s.
Jim Diers is all about building community. Jim Diers has a passion for getting people engaged with their communities and in the decisions that affect their lives. Since moving to Seattle in 1976, he put that passion to work for a direct-action neighborhood association, a community development corporation, a community foundation, and the nation’s largest health care cooperative.
Sarah van Gelder, Editor at Large at Yes! Magazine – Saturday, June 25 Sarah van Gelder is co-founder and editor at large of YES! and speaks on leading-edge innovations that show that another world is not only possible, it is being created. Topics include the new economy, climate solutions, alternatives to prisons, food, water, peacemaking, health care, happiness, and more.
Daniel Lee is our Allied Trainer from Move to Amend Daniel Lee has been a member of the Move to Amend National Leadership Team since March of 2012. An active member of Occupy Los Angeles and InterOccupy Daniel has participated in Occupy encampments across the country as well as done community organizing locally in Los Angeles.
See you at camp!
