Camp Programme 2025

Tuesday 22 July:

Everyone is crew

At Climate Camp, everyone is crew. Come to camp on Tuesday afternoon, bring a wee lunch and help us build Climate Camp Scotland!

Learn how to handle large structures, build sustainable compost loos, and chill at the bonfire with other activists singing songs.

Wednesday 23 July

Camp Opening Assembly 20:00

Come to camp anytime on Wednesday to help us build our structures and make the camp accessible to everyone. Join the camp opening assembly and start the fight against fossil fascism.

Thursday, 24 July

Resist the State

11:00-13:00 Workshops

Introduction to Direct Action

Envisioning Climate Reparations In Scotland

Connecting Climate & Migrant Justice - Building Local Solidarity

Radical imagination for hopeful futures

14:30-16:30 Workshops

How to support each other during actions

Direct Action for Young People

For the Earth to Live: Creeping Fascism & The Case for Ecosocialism

The Magical World of Poo

9:30-10:30 Morning Assembly

At Climate Camp Scotland, we work as non-hierarchically as possible. Our morning assemblies are our governing structure where we discuss issues around camp, assign tasks, and start the day together.

False solutions to the energy transition

Protest Liaison

The Body as Ally: Building Collective Power and Resilience in Climate Justice Work

Guerilla Guardening

17:00-19:00 Workshops

20:00: Movement Assembly - Resisting State and Police Oppression

21:30: Climate Ceilidh - with the Climate Chaos Ceilidh Collective

Friday, 25 July

The Age of Fossil Fascism

9:30-10:30 Morning Assembly

11:00-13:00 Workshops

Rosebank and the Far Right

Know Your Rights Training

People power! What is movement-building?

Naloxone training, drug harms, and stigma

14:30-16:30 Workshops

How to represent yourself in a Scottish Court

De-Escalation Training

Unjust energy pricing and what to do about it

Song Sharing - songs of resistance and resilience

17:00-19:00 Workshops

The Grangemouth Conversion: False Solutions or a Just Transition?

Writing the Future writing & storytelling workshop

Adivasi land rights

Writing Great Chants

20:00: Movement Assembly - What is Fossil Fascism and how do we destroy it?

21:30: Music!

Saturday 26 July

Climate Justice is Migrant Justice

11:00-13:00 Workshop

What's wrong with Geo-engineering?

9:30-10:30 Morning Assembly

Digital Security

Power to the people: intro to DIY electricity

Ecology and Antifascism in Rojava

17:00-19:00 Workshops

20:00: Movement Assembly - Taking Action in a World on Fire

21:30: Climate Cabaret

Climate Justice means Justice for Migrants

Sunday 27 July

Taking the Fight Everywhere

9:30-10:30 Morning Assembly

11:00-13:00 Workshops

Lessons from Antifascist School - what we can learn from theory, history and the now

Anti-Raids Workshop

Knit for Climate with the North Sea Knitters!

Legal Observer Training

14:30-16:30 Workshops

Defending Torry

Was Jesus a Rebel?

Ad-hack skill share

Supporting Each other During Action

Climbing for Activists

17:00-19:00 Workshops

Introduction to Direct Action

Fossil Fuels in Scotland: The Game!

Trans Mutual Aid

The Scottish Election and the Far-Right

Radical Foraging of the commons

20:00: Movement Assembly - How we fight back everywhere

21:30: Climate Party - Open Mic and More

Monday, 28 July

Despite everything, we're here

11:00-13:00 Workshops

Scottish Prison Abolition 101

The Body as Ally: Building Collective Power and Resilience in Climate Justice Work

ChangeWalk: imagining the future economy-in-nature and how to get us there

Identifying Species and Ecological Restoration

14:30-16:30 Closing Assembly

9:30-10:30 Morning Assembly

17:00-19:00 Start of Take-Down - Everyone is Crew!

Workshop Blurbs

11:00 Introduction to Direct Action

Come to our direct action training, both for seasoned activists as well as those new to it. Everyone welcome!

11:00 Envisioning Climate Reparations in Scotland

This workshop will talk about what climate reparations are and different approaches to it, how we can incorporate these demands into our campaigning, followed by group discussions and visioning exercises to explore what this could look like for Scotland.

11:00 Connecting Climate & Migrant Justice - Building Local Solidarity

Discussing the connections between climate justice and migrant justice - borders and the hostile environment. We will work on the ways in which climate and activist groups can build solidarity with migrant communities locally and support the fight for migrant justice.

11:00 Radical Imagination for Hopeful Futures

In this workshop we will use creative activities to expand and enhance our imagination in terms of possible hopeful futures. The workshop will involve collectively creating a piece of work which can go on display at the camp.

14:30 Supporting Each other During Action

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14:30 Direct Action for Young People

This workshop will chat about protest rights, direct action and some zine making. This is a great workshop for young queer people in Scotland looking for ways to get involved in direct action.

14:30 For the Earth to Live: Creeping Fascism & The Case for Ecosocialism

Meet the writer and activist Allan Todd, author of "For the Earth to Live: The Case for Eco-Socialism" to hear key ideas and discuss how we can resist the creep of fascism.

14:30 The Magical World of Poo

Learn the do's and don'ts in the magical world of poo - and how that stinky stuff from compost loos can be a resource rather than a burden for protest sites!

Thursday, 24 July

17:00 False solutions to the energy transition

17:00 Protest Liaison

17:00 The Body as Ally: Building Collective Power and Resilience in Climate Justice Work

17:00 Guerilla Guardening

This workshop will look at carbon capture and some of the other fossil fuel industry false solutions which deliberately delay a just transition, and think about ways that we could build a different system without these things.

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This workshop explores the emotional and embodied dimensions of the climate crisis and climate justice activism. It offers practical tools for preventing burnout, cultivating collective nervous system regulation, and fostering group cohesion. We will engage in practices that support emotional expression, communication, and resilience in the face of climate-related grief, rage, and urgency. The aim is to nurture empathy, reflexivity, and a sense of collective power among those engaged in climate justice work or affected by the climate crisis and related political (in)action. This workshop offers embodied tools for living with socio-ecological urgency—balancing regeneration with sustained engagement.

In this workshop, we will have a knowledge about methods of guerilla gardening that particularly support species at risk. We will also discuss what methodology of guerilla gardening will be the most effective, and try out some of the methods nearby ;)

11:00 Rosebank and the Far Right

The Stop Rosebank campaign is in the critical final stages ahead of the UK Government making a fresh decision to approve or reject the field, following our successful court case which overturned the original approval. The far right are using this debate to further their agenda, stirring up false and harmful narratives targeting migrant communities and marginalised people. This workshop will be a space to discuss and explore ways we can counter these narratives

11:00 Know Your Rights

"Whether you’re new to protest, or you’re an experienced activist wanting a wee reminder, SCALP welcomes you to join us for a ‘Know Your Rights’ workshop. This workshop is a legal briefing for activists in Scotland, covering important topics such as interactions with the police, your rights during ‘Stop and Search’ situations, and how you can best support yourself and others during actions and protests."

11:00 People power! What is movement-building?

Join Tripod to explore what is meant by 'movement building', and we might do it. We need social and climate movements with real power to have a chance at winning the future we want, and this requires working across political and identity differences. We'll explore the strategy and practise and draw on experience in the room to create ideas together of what we can do to organise collective power.

11:00 Naloxone training, drug harms, and stigma

Learn how to save lives, make your communities safer, and reflect on drugs in the face of inequality

14:30 How to represent yourself in a Scottish Court

This session provides an introduction to representing yourself in a Scottish court, with a summary of court process and how to engage with it without a solicitor. We will demystify the legal system using our knowledge and experience, so you know what to expect!

14:30 Unjust energy pricing and what to do about it

What are the drivers behind high electricity pricing in the UK? What are the solutions Fuel Poverty Action is campaigning for, and what actions can we take?

14:30 De-Escalation Training

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14:30 Song Sharing - songs of resistance and resilience

This will be a space for people to teach and learn songs that make them feel empowered to fight for a better world. Anyone is welcome to bring and teach something if they want to. You don't have to bring a song to take part - you can just come and sing along.

Friday, 25 July

17:00 The Grangemouth Conversion: False Solutions or a Just Transition?

17:00 Writing the Future: writing & storytelling workshop

17:00 The Struggle for Adivasi Land Rights

17:00 Chant Writing

This workshop will provide some background information on Grangemouth and issues surrounding it, and discuss pathways to coalition building and mutual support between local and national, workers' and climate groups, as well as visioning alternative futures for the community and the Scottish economy

This workshop will ask participants to imagine a future where climate justice has been realised. We will use tools from science fiction to imagine and write about how we will get to this future: and people will do some creative writing and/or storytelling about this, and about ways that we might live together – on a local and global basis - in a world where the current capitalist & extractivist systems are no longer relevant.

We are honoured to have with us C. K. Janu, from Kerala in south India. CK Janu is a prominent Adivasi (tribal) rights activist and politician. She is the founder of the Adivasi Gothra Maha Sabha (AGMS), a movement advocating for the redistribution of land to landless tribal communities in Kerala.

CK Janu began with 6 dedicated comrades who mobilised for 12 years, itinerant and committed. That lead to a mass movement and huge occupations. These direct actions successfully reclaimed land (5 acres each) for over 35000 indigenous families, and the struggle continues.

She believes this is possible and necessary in Scotland too. CK Janu advocates that everyone has a right to land as birth right. Equally that we have a duty to not exploit other bodies or lands for our needs. CK Janu is interested to talk about strategies, and also about the urgency, of our situation regarding land.

Learn how to write great chants against polluters, fascists and the useless government!

11:00 Geo- Engineering

Hear both about why Geo-Engineering may be a necessary step to take to prevent climate breakdown, as well as the vast downsides to it.

14:30

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Saturday, 26 July

17:00 Digital Security

17:00 Power to the people: intro to DIY electricity

17:00 Ecology and Antifascism in Rojava

17:00

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Become a radical sparky! Learn how to (literally) empower radical spaces with us in low-tech and renewable ways - for occupations, camps or raves!

Resisting fascism — both its attacks from the outside and its infiltration of the inside — requires a tight-knit social fabric leaving no one vulnerable. The Kurdistan Liberation Movement in North-East Syria has put in place a system of communes to reach this ideal, prioritising food and health autonomy at the local scale, with non-intensive and diversified agriculture, alongside a far-reaching philosophy of ecology as a pillar of its politics of social inclusion, women's liberation and anticapitalism. Not only is this position essential to a project of liberation, it is also a direct response to the attacks of Turkish fascism which systematically targets water supplies, as well as to the history of Baathist oppression which imposed an extractivist model on the region for decades. This workshop will explore the place of ecology in the Kurdish resistancea against fascism and invite a discussion on its relevance for the Scottish context.

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11:00 Lessons from Antifascist School - what we can learn from theory, history and the now

We will discuss five key points for antifascism, with illustrative stories from history and the now, and discuss what the climate movement can take forward to resist fascism today.

11:00 Anti-Raids Workshop

Want to help build a community that resists deportations? Protect people against discriminatory immigration raids?

Come join our workshop with Edinburgh Anti-Raids, an autonomous group that works to spot and stop immigration raids in Edinburgh. The workshop will cover everything from how to spot a raid, what to do when you see one, and actions to take best support others safely when they’re targeted.

11:00 Knit for Climate!

Knit for the climate with the North Sea Knitters!

11:00 Legal Observer Training

Legal Observers (LOs) are volunteers who monitor the police at protests and actions to help curb police violence and support activists. This training is for anyone who wants to provide legal support for their own group or community in Scotland, or join SCALP’s pool of LOs. LOs are a crucial part of a legal support infrastructure and work with back office and arrestee support volunteers to make sure people know their rights and are supported when taking part in protests and actions. This training will be part presentation, part optional interactive activities, to give you all the information you need to be an effective LO.

14:30 Defending Torry

With recent planning applications being submitted to begin the destruction of a large section of St Fittick's Park, the prospect of physically defending the park is looming. It could be as early as winter 25/26. This workshop will draw on the collective knowledge and power of climate camp and Torry residents to work out if physically defending the park is feasible and how to do. What are the strategies and tactics, both practical and political to secure the long term protection.

14:30 Was Jesus a Rebel?

This is a short talk with fun interactive moments and learning some civil rights songs that feel good and work for believers and atheists/agnostics alike. The talk focuses on the vision of Jesus the nonviolent rebel, Quaker stances, and actions and the late Pope Francis’ commitment to fighting climate change.

14:30 Ad-hack skill share

Sick of all the corporate advertising bullshit in our public spaces? In this workshop we initiate you into the cheeky world of adhacking/subvertising. Learn how to open up bus stop advertising spaces and replace toxic ads with your own protest posters and creations! This workshop will be a chance to learn the practicalities of opening bus stops, as well as providing a space and materials for you to make your own giant bus stop poster to take away.

14:30 Climbing for Activists

Come along to a friendly skillshare on climbing in activist contexts. We'll teach basic skills like tying knots, climbing up and down rope and setting up swings and workways. There will be space for practice and exchanging experiences and ideas.

Sunday, 27 July

17:00 Introduction to Direct Action

17:00 Fossil Fuel Scotland Game

17:00 Trans Mutual Aid

17:00 Radical Foraging of the commons

Come to our direct action training, both for seasoned activists as well as those new to it. Everyone welcome!

Try your hand at being a Dragon Ship, a jet plane, or Scotland’s First Minister in Fossil Fuels: The Game! An interactive wide-game that will get your feet moving as we act out and put in motion the role fossil fuels play in Scotland’s economy. Understanding big oil has never been so fun.

(NOTE: If you have mobility needs let the Workshop facilitator know at the start: we plan to be able to accommodate everyone)

A workshop by Resisting Transphobia in Edinburgh: analysing the links between the UK-wide rise in transphobia to the wider projects of global fascism, including those of the Christian far-right, "gender criticals", and European imperial powers. This discussion will be followed by a brainstorming session on the individual, communal and local steps that can be taken to resist both transphobia and fascism.

Radical Foraging of the Commons is a participatory workshop that blends seasonal plant identification with collective conversation about land justice, folk knowledge and the commons. Together we’ll explore what it means to reconnect with land through foraging, not just as a skill, but as a tool of ecological resistance and collective care.

14:30 Supporting Each other During Action

17:00 The Scottish Election & The Far-Right

Scotland's parliament will be elected in 10 months, and Reform is set to gain a dozen seats or more in Holyrood. It's the first time that Scotland will have far-right parliamentary representation, which will inevitably shift what is said and what is acceptable in political debates in Scotland. The arrival of Reform will make things more racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, and bring open climate denialism into Scottish discourse. This brainstorming session is for everyone, regardless of how much you care about parliamentary politics, to discuss what the climate movement can effectively do to intervene and limit both how many seats Reform wins, how far their rhetoric can shift the overton window, and what this moment means for our movement in the longterm.

11:00 Scottish Prisons and Abolition 101

Glasgow Prisoner Solidarity is a small grassroots organisation that works to support prisoners in Scotland from the outside in any way they can and provide education on the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) and prison abolition movement.

This workshop will in two parts. The first part will focus on the daily life and experiences of a Scottish prisoner, what they get to eat, how much time they get out of the cell, what activities they can have access to - basic stuff you might be curious about. We will also touch on the SPS, it's origins as an institution, how it runs, and highlight some of it’s most controversial failings. In the second part we’ll have a chat about Prison Abolition. What is it, how would we want it, why do we need it? We’ll hear what ideas about justice are already in the room and we’ll come together to discuss.'

11:00 ChangeWalk: imagining the future economy-in-nature and how to get us there

In this activity we will be working together to explore what an economy that has transitioned to a more biodiverse Scotland (an economy-in-nature) looks like and how society got there. The game progresses across a board that represents a walk from a desired future – that the participants will define – to the present day. In this walk, we will be going through the main events and milestones that participants think led Scottish communities to achieve that future.

11:00 The Body as Ally: Building Collective Power and Resilience in Climate Justice Work

This workshop explores the emotional and embodied dimensions of the climate crisis and climate justice activism. It offers practical tools for preventing burnout, cultivating collective nervous system regulation, and fostering group cohesion. We will engage in practices that support emotional expression, communication, and resilience in the face of climate-related grief, rage, and urgency. The aim is to nurture empathy, reflexivity, and a sense of collective power among those engaged in climate justice work or affected by the climate crisis and related political (in)action. This workshop offers embodied tools for living with socio-ecological urgency—balancing regeneration with sustained engagement.

11:00 Identifying Species and Ecological Restoration

Learn how to identify different species in the wild, and the importance of this skill for ecological restoration

Monday, 28 July