[Sust-mar] Atlantic Eco-Warrior Training ages 13-30

[Kaleigh McGregor-Bales]

*Atlantic Eco-Warrior Training****-August 11-14 2011 at the Harold T.
Barrett Fun Forest Camp
Sierra Youth Coalition’s Youth Action Gathering + Canadian Youth Climate
Coalition’s PowerSummer*

When? *August 11-14 2011*, 4 days and 3 nights
Where? *Harold T. Barrett Fun Forest Camp*, Beaverbank, Nova Scotia
How much? $50 or *pay what you can*, bursaries available to cover
registration and transportation

Climate change is not just an environmental issue. When farmers’ crops fail
> from unnatural droughts, this is a livelihood issue. When our grandparents
> die from heat waves, this is a health issue. When the animals people
> traditionally hunt are no longer there, this is a survival issue. When
> children can no longer play hockey on outdoor rinks, this is a cultural
> issue. When job opportunities disappear because corporations and governments
> refused to listen to a changing world, this is an economic issue. It is our
> future at stake.
>
> The Atlantic Eco-Warrior Training will bring together youth aged 13-30 from
> around Nova Scotia. Participants aged 13-18 will focus on building a strong
> foundation in environmental and social justice and organizational skills
> relevant to high school student at the Sierra Youth Coalition’s YAG.
> Participants aged 19-30 will focus on movement building in the community and
> developing capacity in organizing around climate justice at the CYCC’s
> PowerSummer.
>
> The* **Youth Action Gathering (YAG)* is bringing together *13 to 18 year
> olds* that want to explore issues affecting the world today and learn
> tools to help build *healthy, sustainable, and equitable communities*.  At
> the YAG we inform, activate and empower youth to undertake projects leading
> to ecological and social well-being in their communities by talking about
> the issues, building the necessary skills for taking action, creating a
> youth-positive space, making music, playing games and hanging out. Workshops will
> be focused on global and local water issues, farm-to-table food production,
> pollution and poverty, migrant justice, *anti-oppression*, *media/communication
> skills, facilitation skills,action planning* *for sustainable high schools
> *, zine making, movie-making for social justice, cooking the local way,
> and more.
>
> *PowerSummer* is a set of workshops geared towards youth *18-30 years olds
> *, who want to *become empowered with the skills, connections, and
> confidence to become effective grassroots organizers*. Power Summer is a
> plan to create 6 regional camps across Canada to train grassroots youth
> organizers from *coast to coast*. PowerSummer Atlantic will include
> training in popular education, action & strategy, communications, messaging,
> campaign planning, and other quintessential organizing skills, while *building
> our understanding of climate justice and how we build a movement to get it.
> *
>
> To register for SYC’s Youth Action Gathering, go to www.syc-cjs.org/yag.
> To register for PowerSummer Atlantic go to www.powersummer.wordpress.com.
>
If you would like to volunteer for the Atlantic Eco-Warrior Training, please
> contact robin at ourclimate.ca or halifax.yag at syc-cjs.org. A wide range of
> volunteer positions are available -something for everybody’s passions and
> skill set! These positions include free camp attendance.
>
Volunteer tasks include:

   - Registration coordinator-keeping track of registration on the first day
   - Transportation God/ess -able to pick up supplies/people before, during
   and/or at end of camp
   - Interactive Workshop Leaders -passionate about an issue that you'd like
   to share in an interactive workshop?
   - Assistant cook -help to prepare delicious vegetarian meals from local
   ingredients


-- 
Kaleigh McGregor-Bales
Halifax Youth Action Gathering Coordinator - Coordonnatrice du Camps Action
Jeunesse d'Halifax
Sierra Youth Coalition - Coalition Jeunesse Sierra
tel. 902-489-0966
www.syc-cjs.org/yag