{"id":125,"date":"2010-11-15T09:40:08","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T09:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/?p=125"},"modified":"2021-01-21T15:49:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:49:59","slug":"building-the-movement-from-below-meeting-in-leeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Building the movement from below\u2019 meeting in Leeds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The \u2018building the movement from below\u2019 meeting in Leeds yesterday was\u00a0attended by 20 people, including people from Schumacher North &
\nBradford, Sheffield Campaign against Climate Change, \u00a0Derby Campaign
\nagainst Climate Change, \u00a0Scarborough, Leeds Transition Town, Leeds
\nChristian Aid, Manchester Climate Camp, Leeds PCS, Kirklees, South
\nLake District, Manchester Climate Action, Tidal Leeds and Hull
\nGreenpeace. <\/span><\/p>\n

People in general said it was a very good meeting. For
\nexample, Jane from Scarborough texted me and said she ‘enjoyed the
\nworkshop very much and we are inspired to set up a Climate Alliance in
\nScarborough\u2019. Fiona Dear from Stop Climate Chaos said it made her see
\nthing differently and that there were ways other than the \u2018top down\u2019
\napproach adopted by SCC. Interestingly the Climate Connection events
\nlast weekend inspired by SCC had been taken by a number of the
\ngroups.<\/span><\/p>\n

Given the range of attendees and experiences, and the emphasis upon
\nbuilding from below, I was confident that the meeting would work. But
\nI wanted it to be more that \u00a0than just about \u00a0networking; that there
\nwas a need to build local alliances which respected the spaces of
\nothers, in particular offering a strategy for reaching to people who
\nare not coming from a green environmental background. I don\u2019t think
\nall the people there agreed with that and the way I expressed it, but
\nthere was a great deal in interest is seeing how we could connect with
\nthe movement against the cuts.The other area of contention was around the suggestion that all local
\ngroups alliances support the Zero Carbon 2030 agenda. Here my feeling
\nwas that people got locked into specifics and weren\u2019t aware of the
\nrichness and flexibility of the general argument. The lesson is to use
\nthe report as a way of seeing where we could go (the promised land),
\nto see what is possible, and to see what might have to give way in
\norder to go down that road. It would have been very useful to have
\nsomebody explain the thinking behind Zero Carbon Britain in some
\ndepth.One suggestion is that all networks and potential networks, and
\npotential alliance set up a Zero Carbon Britain meeting. (We did this
\nin Derby and attrated 95 people to our two meeting on that day). And
\nto do the same around a million climate jobs. It is important that
\nthese be done in partnership with various organisations, in effect as
\nan alliance.In my haste to report the fundamentals of the Leeds meeting I never
\nmentioned the importance of the lobbies of MPs around the Big Climate
\nConnection, organised by Stop Climate Chaos. Many of the people at the
\nmeeting had been involved in very successful grassroots lobbies the previous
\nweekend. It helped bring together activists who had been disconnected, for
\nexample in Scarborough, but in other places as well. I am told that across
\nthe country that many people said it helped rejuvenate their local groups.
\nFor me this demonstrates the need to work on the inter-connections between
\nthe local and the national, which was one of the themes of the Leeds
\nworkshop. And to recognise the continuing importance of Stop Climate Chaos.
\nAnd to continue exploring how local networks and groups can be strengthened
\nand built and rebuilt.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The \u2018building the movement from below\u2019 meeting in Leeds yesterday was\u00a0attended by 20 people, including people from Schumacher North & Bradford, Sheffield Campaign against Climate Change, \u00a0Derby Campaign against Climate Change, \u00a0Scarborough, Leeds Transition Town, Leeds Christian Aid, Manchester Climate Camp, Leeds PCS, Kirklees, South Lake District, Manchester Climate Action, Tidal Leeds and Hull Greenpeace. … Continue reading \u2018Building the movement from below\u2019 meeting in Leeds<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":928,"href":"https:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}