http://www.fdsd.org/2009/08/climate-camp%e2%80%99s-direct-democracy-for-direct-action-not-far-enough/ working to equip democracy to deliver sustainable development Mon, 21 Nov 2011 02:06:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.fdsd.org/2009/08/climate-camp%e2%80%99s-direct-democracy-for-direct-action-not-far-enough/comment-page-1/#comment-18 We are toast Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:05:49 +0000 http://www.fdsd.org/?p=280#comment-18 Climate Camp had four years to become an organisation that was able to encourage and support non-violent direct action up and down the UK, against point sources of carbon. For various reasons- some insurmountable but never acknowledged/tackled, others shitty and easily overcome if there was some emotional and theoretical literacy knocking about- that never happened. The swoop "vote" was a desperate and desperately embarrassing gimmick in place of anything approaching a network of local autonomous actions by autonomous people with knowledge and ability to take local actions. It's an excuse for yet another national jolly, a lek (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lek) and a dry run for the tedium of the Copenhagen riots. Yawn. Climate Camp had four years to become an organisation that was able to encourage and support non-violent direct action up and down the UK, against point sources of carbon. For various reasons- some insurmountable but never acknowledged/tackled, others shitty and easily overcome if there was some emotional and theoretical literacy knocking about- that never happened. The swoop “vote” was a desperate and desperately embarrassing gimmick in place of anything approaching a network of local autonomous actions by autonomous people with knowledge and ability to take local actions. It’s an excuse for yet another national jolly, a lek (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lek) and a dry run for the tedium of the Copenhagen riots. Yawn.

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