The It Takes Roots Alliances (Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, Climate Justice Alliance, Right to the City Alliance, Indigenous Environmental Network), held it’s first It Takes Roots & The Ruckus Society, National Direct Action + Community Resiliency Camp at Wildseed Farm in Millerton NY from June 1-5, 2018. We trained our forces on an array of strategic + tactical & self and community based resilience skills to build across our alliances and prepare to continue to wage visionary opposition for our collective liberation.

What is an Action Camp?
A Ruckus Action Camp is an intensive 5 day, off the grid, full immersion training space that brings together leaders, organizers and community members from across many of our communities to do a deep dive into direct action skills, theory and practice. The camp created a space for participants to familiarize and practice and array of tactical skills, share collective community knowledge around strategy and provided opportunities for community members to share, practice and envision together.

Direct Action + Survival Skills – Resilience in the age of climate disaster
Together with Ruckus, this national camp was a groundbreaking and first of its kind. It provided in-depth training for our folks in both direct action skills and survival skills. As more and more of our communities are impacted by hurricanes, floods, fires and massive displacement, our need to deepen our capacities to survive amidst climate disaster is critical and move us toward a just transition.

Some of the skills & topics include: 

Direct Action Skills & Practice: 

  • Action Planning (all the roles and considerations of planning direct actions)
  • Scouting Skills during actions planning + survival scenarios (food, water, shelter)
  • Climbing Skills (in tree climbing and rescue settings. This also includes how to building platforms.)
  • Rigging + Knots (for banner rigging usage + as a survival skill)
  • Blockades (working with PVC Pipes, materials and preparing for blockades at actions OR to take control of our communities)
  • De-escalation during actions + time of community crisis
  • Affinity Group Structure (and neighborhood organizing structures)

Earth/Resiliency Skills:

  • Water Catchment / Purification
  • Plant & Food Identification
  • Passive Solar Cooking / Installing Solar Energy
  • Disaster Permaculture
  • Plant Medicine & Disaster First Aid
  • Physical Defense & Safety
  • Healing & Resiliency in times of trauma

The camp will also have deep political education, lots of team building and workshops to learn about each other’s work.

Much of the housing will be camping in tents, but there is limited cabin space available as well.

This camp will be one part of preparation for the Sol2Sol (Solidarity to Solutions) Week of Action from September 8-14 in the Bay Area. Click here to learn more about how to get involved!

The It Takes Roots Alliances (Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, Climate Justice Alliance, Right to the City Alliance, Indigenous Environmental Network), held it’s first It Takes Roots & The Ruckus Society, National Direct Action + Community Resiliency Camp at Wildseed Farm in Millerton NY from June 1-5, 2018. We trained our forces on an array of strategic + tactical & self and community based resilience skills to build across our alliances and prepare to continue to wage visionary opposition for our collective liberation.

What is an Action Camp?
A Ruckus Action Camp is an intensive 5 day, off the grid, full immersion training space that brings together leaders, organizers and community members from across many of our communities to do a deep dive into direct action skills, theory and practice. The camp created a space for participants to familiarize and practice and array of tactical skills, share collective community knowledge around strategy and provided opportunities for community members to share, practice and envision together.

Direct Action + Survival Skills – Resilience in the age of climate disaster
Together with Ruckus, this national camp was a groundbreaking and first of its kind. It provided in-depth training for our folks in both direct action skills and survival skills. As more and more of our communities are impacted by hurricanes, floods, fires and massive displacement, our need to deepen our capacities to survive amidst climate disaster is critical and move us toward a just transition.

Some of the skills & topics included:

Direct Action Skills & Practice:

  • Action Planning (all the roles and considerations of planning direct actions)
  • Scouting Skills during actions planning + survival scenarios (food, water, shelter)
  • Climbing Skills (in tree climbing and rescue settings. This also includes how to building platforms.)
  • Rigging + Knots (for banner rigging usage + as a survival skill)
  • Blockades (working with PVC Pipes, materials and preparing for blockades at actions OR to take control of our communities)
  • De-escalation during actions + time of community crisis
  • Affinity Group Structure (and neighborhood organizing structures)

Earth/Resiliency Skills:

  • Water Catchment / Purification
  • Plant & Food Identification
  • Passive Solar Cooking / Installing Solar Energy
  • Disaster Permaculture
  • Plant Medicine & Disaster First Aid
  • Physical Defense & Safety
  • Healing & Resiliency in times of trauma

The camp also included deep political education, lots of team building and workshops in which we learned about each other’s work.

This camp was one part of preparation for the Sol2Sol (Solidarity to Solutions) Week of Action from September 8-14 in the Bay Area.