Climate Camp this year was settled in an agroforestry farm in the beautiful land of Cloontabonnive, West Clare. Thanks to our gracious hosts, we enjoyed green fields to learn in, native trees to camp under, rivers to swim in, and hills and woods to explore.
This land was situated in Clare, also home to the genocidal military stopover of Shannon Airport, the proposed gas terminal project Shannon LNG, the toxic Aughinish Alumina site, data centres aka. warfare hubs, and many more harmful planned and ongoing projects and corporations.
Each year, Climate Camp moves location to focus on different issues. We chose this location for camp to focus ourselves, physically and through the workshops programme, at an intersectional point where the polycrisis converges in one county. It’s time we see climate justice as part and parcel of global liberation from our current capitalist system, and act like it.
Go raibh míle maith agaibh to the attendees and supporters for their donations, to Gluaiseacht for their support with our infrastructure and funding, and the climate action grant from Patagonia, we wouldn’t be able to create this weekend of education and connection without the support of these people and groups.