EF! Summer Gathering 2022

Prac­ti­cal info
Overview info
Anti-oppres­sion
Kids Space
 
 
 
Loca­tion infor­ma­tion:
 
Bridge Farm, next to Old Flaxmill, Flax­dray­ton Farm, South Pether­ton, TA13 5LR
 
https://maps.app.goo.gl/D1k9b24QXwAmKFLb9
 
The near­est train sta­tions are Yeovil Junc­tion, Crewk­erne and Cas­tle Cary. (Check for bus replace­ment on Sun­day if you’re bring­ing a bike)
 
Pub­lic trans­port info:
 

Train to Yeovil Pen Mill (on Bris­tol-Wey­mouth line) or Yeovil Junc­tion (Water­loo-Exeter line)

Num­ber 68 bus from both sta­tions to Yeovil bus sta­tion (Pen Mill is also easy walk­ing dis­tance from bus sta­tion, Junc­tion is 2 miles south of town), this bus is half-hourly except Sun­days when it does­n’t run

Num­ber 81 bus from Yeovil bus sta­tion to Nor­ton-sub-Ham­den, clos­est vil­lage to site (1 mile), runs hourly week­days, 2‑hourly Sat­ur­days, not at all Sun­days.

Nation­al Express in the­o­ry have a coach stop in Yeovil, but don’t seem to be run­ning any­thing there at present.

Berrys Coach­es run a ser­vice (Super­Fast 2) from Lon­don to Taunton serv­ing South Pether­ton, this has to be booked (and this does run Sun­days). You could then get the 68 bus from South Pether­ton to Nor­ton, or just walk it.

Please send a mes­sage to our site phone (07706 017355, after 5pm on 29th August) if you need a lift — there will be irreg­u­lar shut­tles from Crewk­erne sta­tion. Make sure to let us know plen­ty in advance (day before arrival ide­al­ly) so that we can make this hap­pen!

Bus times:

Hel­lo, here is the timetable for the 81 bus:

https://images.southwestcoaches.co.uk/images/pdfs/81service-public-sept2020.pdf

Also Yeovil sta­tions to bus sta­tion:
http://wyndham.gettingaroundsomerset.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Service-68-June-2018-Bus-Timetable.pdf

 
Call­ing all defend­ers of the wild! You are warm­ly invit­ed to five days of work­shops, skill shares, plot­ting and plan­ning, sol­i­dar­i­ty and social­is­ing in a beau­ti­ful camp out. This year’s Earth First! Sum­mer gath­er­ing will be from Wednes­day 31st August till Mon­day 5th Sep­tem­ber and will host a nation-wide and inter­na­tion­al cam­paigns roundup, work­shops on organ­is­ing secure­ly, facil­i­ta­tion and prac­ti­cal Direct Action skills, avoid­ing burnout and more. The gath­er­ing is a great oppor­tu­ni­ty to meet like-mind­ed peo­ple and form con­nec­tions with oth­ers fight­ing the good fight up and down the British Isles and beyond. So come along!
 
VENUE: near­est train sta­tions are Yeovil Junc­tion, Crewk­erne and Cas­tle Cary. You can get in touch via earthfirstuk@riseup.net.

 

  • www.earthfirst.uk
  • twitter.com/earthfirst_uk
  • FB: Earth­First UK
  • Ins­ta: Earth.FirstUK
What to bring: tent, sleep­ing bag+mat, cup, plate and cut­lery. Cash for cake and dona­tions. Your friends and com­rades. More info here.

What to expect when you arrive

A wel­come tent with peo­ple in to give you a warm wel­come and tell you about the site, where the loos are, where to camp, things you can get involved with straight away, and take dona­tions for the cost of the camp (£0–50), and the meals each day (£0–10/day). Depend­ing on how ear­ly you arrive, mar­quees will be ris­ing or risen for work­shop spaces, peo­ple will by scur­ry­ing about on mis­sions to build or clean com­post toi­lets, find that ham­mer that dis­ap­peared, paint­ing signs, chop­ping veg­eta­bles for the next meal, whis­per-plan­ning a secre­tive action, hav­ing loud polit­i­cal debates with some­one they’ve just met… or hav­ing some qui­et time with a book in a cor­ner of some mar­quee. No one is in charge. We are all crew here, putting col­lec­tive liv­ing into prac­tice, cre­at­ing a tiny tran­sient vision of the world we want to cre­ate and defend. The more you par­tic­i­pate in this camp, the more you will get out of it.

Get in touch

The site phone will be on from Mon­day 29th, 5pm: 07706 017355

Community and eco-anarchism

At this gath­er­ing we are work­ing towards a dif­fer­ent kind of liv­ing-togeth­er in nature – non-hier­ar­chi­cal­ly, low-impact and in sol­i­dar­i­ty and com­mu­ni­ty. We want to chal­lenge the mul­ti­ple sys­tems of oppres­sion – patri­archy, white suprema­cy, trans­pho­bia, ableism, speciesism and oth­ers – and work towards new rela­tion­ships with the earth, non­hu­man nature and one anoth­er.

By demon­strat­ing green/e­co-anar­chist ways of organ­is­ing and liv­ing in order to con­front, halt and reverse eco­log­i­cal destruc­tion, we can build a cul­ture of active, non-hier­ar­chi­cal, grass­roots eco­log­i­cal resis­tance. EF! and Ani­mal Lib­er­a­tion Gath­er­ings pro­vides a plat­form for shar­ing infor­ma­tion, prac­ti­cal direct action and cam­paign­ing skills. In the next few days, we are also prac­tis­ing the kinds of skills that you may need when occu­py­ing land to defend the earth, and our­selves, against the kind of so-called devel­op­ment that involves extract­ing resources from the earth, cut­ting trees, con­struct­ing dams, killing non-human ani­mals, or build­ing large infra­struc­ture projects in the name of moder­ni­ty or progress. This involves keep­ing the site safe from the police by run­ning effec­tive gate pro­tec­tion, organ­is­ing kids’ spaces, mak­ing sure we are all fed healthy veg­an food, and learn­ing from each oth­er.