Dear Rising Tide supporters,

Please see below for your invitation to participate in Climate Camp 2009! Climate Camp will be a fun, inspiring, and effective community mobilisation against coal, taking place at Helensburgh, south of Sydney, from the 9th - 11th October. Rising Tide will be there, and we hope you will be too.

A couple of other things you might like to know about if you're in or near Newcastle:

• Come along and have some fun at the kid-friendly afternoon Climate Camp fundraiser gig on Saturday 26th September at the Lass O'Gowrie Hotel. More info below.
• Climate Camp 2009 is being organised in a "neighbourhood" system. This makes it easy for people who are new to this sort of thing to get involved, by joining a neighbourhood that camps and cooks together, and generally supports each other. There is a Newcastle and Hunter neighbourhood. To get involved in it, please email Zoe Rogers on zoetiarogers@gmail.com
• Local woman Kate Ross has organised a Newcastle demonstration for the global "Climate Wake-up Call" facilitated by Avaaz.org. It's happening at precisely 12:18pm this Monday at the Customs House fountain. See here: https://secure.avaaz.org/en/sept21_rsvp/?id=136312&cts=8nN72Fw. Actually, there's this one too.
  

Thanks, and see you soon,
Rising Tide Newcastle.

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Dear Friends,

I'd like to invite you to to Climate Camp '09 at Australia's oldest coal mine: where actions speak louder than words.

Last weekend, five hundred Victorians came together at Hazelwood, Australia’s single largest source of carbon pollution, to begin switching off coal and transforming the LaTrobe Valley into a renewable energy hub.

A sprightly bunch of locals, families, teachers, doctors, kids, scientists and more took part in a meaningful direct action to show their commitment to a just transition to a clean energy future. 

For the last four years, the Climate Camp baton has been passed from England to Scotland, Ireland, North America, Newcastle, and will be picked up in Helensburgh, NSW (40 minutes south of Sydney), with Climate Camp '09 beginning in a few short weeks.

You, your family, friends and colleagues are invited to be a part of it!

From October 9 – 11th, pitch your tent alongside hundreds of others at Climate Camp '09 – or stroll in for an afternoon – for great workshops, music, art, food and positive climate action.

Exemplifying sustainable living, Climate Camp '09 will be set-up among the trees nearby Australia’s oldest coal mine - Metropolitan Collieries - on Dharawal land in Helensburgh. Imbued with a festival atmosphere, it is an entirely sustainable solar-powered event.

Climate Camp is for all of us – because when it comes to water, climate and jobs; actions speak louder than words.

Find out what it’s all about, read Frequently Asked Questions, follow us on Twitter, and check out the great information and videos from last year’s camp on the Climate Camp '09 website.

 

You can invite your friends with the Facebook event; organise with other parents to bring along the kids for a school holiday treat; get together with a bunch of your mates to camp together; or just come along for the powerful and peaceful community action at Australia's oldest coal mine on Sunday October 11th.

We hope you'll join us at Climate Camp '09 - with our kids and parents, our neighbours and friends - so we can begin building solutions together. 

 

For climate justice,

Holly and Jess

For the Climate Camp '09 Organising Collective info@climatecamp.org.au

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Sat 26 Sept 1pm- 7pm - arvo gig