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International Reclaim the Fields Action Camp

When: Friday 6pm 28th August  – Wednesday 2nd September 2015

Where:
Borras Community Protection Camp, Wales

About:
Reclaim the Fields UK (RTF) was born in 2011, as a star in a wider constellation of food and land struggles that reaches around the globe. Since 2011, camps and other RTF gatherings have helped support local communities in struggle, share skills, developed networks, and strengthened the resistance to exploitation, in Bristol, west London, Gloucestershire, Nottingham and Fife among other locations.

Every two years there is also an international camp, where people from around Europe and beyond meet together to support a local struggle (from gold mining in Romania to open cast coal mining in Germany, for example). People share stories and ideas about resistance and reclaiming our food system beyond national borders. This year, an international gathering will be held in the Wrexham, UK.

Transforming our food system

Members will be attending this two day event, Transforming our food system in London on 8th/9th July. Organised by the UK Food Sovereignty Platform this event will bring together farmers, community food growers, NGOs and food activists to talk and plan for building a movement for food sovereignty in the UK. The registration form is…