Action! Action! Action Camp!
I’ve been in Germany for SFT’s Free Tibet! Action Camp VII since Friday morning and now is the first time I’m having a moment where I can sit down and reflect about all that’s going on around me.
As I said, I arrived with five other staff and volunteers from New York Friday morning. We spent the weekend setting up the Pauenhof Center for the start of Action Camp. It’s our second year here in Sonsbeck (about 40 minutes away from Dusseldorf), so we know the area well, which has made shopping, airport runs, and the tracking down of supplies much easier. That said, it takes a tremendous amount of work to put on our camps and the staff and volunteers have been pulling 18-20 hour days the last few days and are looking forward to another week of more of the same!
Right now the first day’s trainings are coming to a close. Most of our students arrived last night. It’s great for me to see many familiar faces from last year’s camp. This year our returning students are either in our advanced track “Training for Trainers” or working as volunteers. We’re also lucky to be joined by even more fantastic climbing trainers from here in Germany – activists who have a a true wealth of knowledge about direct action skills, tactics, and strategies. Throw in the old SFT stand-bys and our new students are in for the week of a lifetime.
Hopefully we’ll be able to post some pictures of camp soon. My camera batteries ran out after three pictures – poor planning from a logistical standpoint.
I’m also hoping that we’ll be able to have some of our students and volunteers posting on their feelings about camp on this blog.
Stay tuned for future updates!
Matt
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its kusho how is going u guys.good luck
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1348 – You make no sense.
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As such, we will happily delete any malicious, hateful, ignorant, or propaganda filled comments as we deem fit. We might even disemvowel them. Deal with it.
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Ehhhh guys!!! You can’t imagine how much I miss you all and how much I hate the fact that I have to be heare stuck in my office in this damn heat instead of spending my time with you and committing my sleepless nights for FREE TIBET!!!
I’m looking forward to more news abou the Camp.
Take care guys,
Piotr