Localize This! Action Camp is where veteran and novice change agents, and young climate activists 13-17, come together to deepen their skills at effecting social change. 

Coming for a day, a couple days, or the full week? - Click HERE to Apply Today!

Are you a member of the Lumbar Club or do you Volunteer at our art builds? - Click here to come for some select workshops. 

Bios for many of the workshop facilitators are found HERE

Partial Schedule of Confirmed Workshop Offerings:

Monday the 24th is Setup -  Volunteer to Help! (call/text 805-776-3882 or email [email protected])

Tuesday the 25th

• 9AM - Welcoming & Opening Circle
• Anti Oppression Practices (w/ Jenna Peters-Golden of the Anti-Oppression Resource Training Alliance, AORTA)
• Tours of Tracks: Blockades and Climbing, Kayaktivism, and Artful Activism
• Briefing on Indigenous-led Resistance to PSE's Fracked Gas Infrastructure in the Port of Tacoma.
• Asset-Based Community Organizing (w/ Jim Diers)

Wednesday the 26th

• Grand Strategy and Theory of Change (w/ Bill Moyer and Special Guests)
• Tips for Making an Action Video (w/Daniel Lee)
• Resisting Divide & Conquer Tactics (w/ Jenna Peters-Golden of AORTA)
• Strategic Campaign Design Panel, Training and workshopping of your campaigns.
• Ballot Initiative Organizing (w/ Cindy Black of Fix Democracy First)
• Corporate Pressure Campaigns - When Asking Nicely Isn't Enough (w/ Amanda Schemkes)
• Personhood and Power, Rights and Racism (w/ Daniel Lee).
• Climb Training
• Kayaktivism
• Train the Trainer workshop (w/ Jenna Peters-Golden of AORTA)
• Technical Blockade Building Workshop (w/ Gedden)
• Know Your Rights: A Legal Primer for Activists (w/ Amanda Schemkes)

Thursday the 27th

• Escalation of Creative Tactics, Action Design, Pitching Actions and Action Planning
• Climbing 
• Kayaktivism
• Non-Violent Direct Action
• Facilitating Challenging Conversations (w/ Meg Wade of 350Seattle)
• Security Culture (w/ Amanda Schemkes)
• Exploration of Distributed Organizing Models - Facilitated Discussion of Solidarity Brigade Network and a Panel with Community Supported Organizers
• Speaking Your Truth to Power - Challenging Institutionalized Agism (w/ Amanda Blaine)

Friday the 28th

• Climbing
• Kayaktivism
• Movement Action Planning model for Social Movement Organizing (w/ Mary Lou Finley)
• How to build a Meaningful and Lasting Coalition between POC and White Allies (w/ Zarna Joshi of Women of Color Speak Out)
• Non-Violent Communication (w/ Amanda Blaine)
• Building Ginormous Inflatable Puppets, Stitching 101 (w/ Riki Ott & friends)
• Radical Consent: Protecting Your "Yes" with a Powerful "No" (w/ Amanda Blaine)
• Giant Banner Building and Guerrilla Light Projection (w/ Phil, Eric and friends)
• Song & Dance Flashmobbing (w/ Bill Moyer & friends)
• Solutionary Organizing Panel
• Ant-Racist Organizing without Enemy Images (w/ Amanda Blaine)

Saturday the 29th

• Kayaktivism
• Skill-shares and Participant-led Workshops
• Intro to U.S. Environmental Law & Politics
• Climbing
• We Almost Didn’t Make It - Exploring uncertainties about the future from the perspective of our descendants (w/ Beverly Naidus and Carol Rashawnna of ARTifACTs)
• Tripod Blockades (w/ Gedden)
• Equity & Environmental Justice
• "The Way Out Is In" - Healing the Fragmentation from Ourselves and Others (w/ Dr. Fatmeh Kassme)
• Drumming for Demonstrations
• Working with our Fear Responses
• Tactical Communications / Radios (w/ Gedden)
• Youth Climate Action in the Pacific Northwest & Worldwide Panel

Sunday the 30th

• Prep Day for Final Action  - Come Help Make Art!
• Kayaktivist War Games (on-water role play)
• Climbing
• International Environmental Law & Politics
• Youth Climate Campaign Strategy Session

Monday the 31st

• Final Action

Now, more than ever, we need to come together to vision, strategize, and skill-up in order to create the world we yearn for!

Don't miss Localize This! Action Camp. APPLY TODAY!