Peace camp in Karlskoga!

The Swedish arms exports to wars are greater than ever... but so is the resistance! We gather now by the arms factories and change reality!

On June 14-19 2007 the network Ofog - for a demilitarised and nuclear-free world - invites you to a peace camp in the town of Karlskoga. This will be a week crammed with workshops, civil disobedience, celebrating, music and seminaries.

Program

All participants are welcome to arrange their own items, workshops and meetings. Just add your event to the schedule in the infokiosk at the camp!

Thursday
15.00 registration and opening of infokiosk
16.00-17.30 seminar on Swedish arms exports
18.00-19.00 seminar on the Bofors companies and their arms systems
19.00 Dinner
20.00 Camp inauguration; speeches, fire show
21.00 hanging out, café night, film screenings, get-to-know-eachother-games

Friday
09.00-10.30 breakfast
10.00 morning gathering
10.30-11.00 meeting time
11.30-13.00 Nonviolence and action training
13.00-14.30 Lunch
14.30-16.30 Nonviolence and action training, continued
17.30-19.00 workshop: manufacture and learn to use your own fire sticks.
17.30-19.00 workshop: "Arrest, custody, jail". Nonviolent activist and writer Pelle Strindlund talks form his experience of being locked up after acts of civil disobedience. What does that entail? Can it be politically good to be in prison? How fun can you have in a cell? What can be tough?
17.30-19.00 "Fines, damages, living in personal bankruptcy" Nonviolent activist and writer Annika Spalde talks about the economic consequences of civil disobedience and how to deal with that as individual and community.
19.00 Dinner
20.00 Representatives meet
21.00 Films, open stage, hanging out etc.

Saturday
09.00-10.30 breakfast
10.30-11.00 meeting time
11.30-17.00 Info shop on Karlskoga main square
12.00 Panel debate on Karlskoga main square with Bofors and politicians
11.30-13.00 Workshops: writing songs and creative slogans
11.30-13.00 "Peace cooperation" with Karla Lopez, Green parliamentarian
11.30-13.00 Seminar on the ploughshares action Seeds of Hope and on enduring activism/how to combine activism and a good private life
13.00-15.00 Lunch
14.30-16.30 Trial simulation. We roleplay an entire proceeding in a Swedish basic court against three activists who pretend they have disarmed three anti-tank launchers.
15.00-16.30 Lecture on women´s struggle for peace in the 20th century. Aase Berg.
17.00-19.00 media workshop
19.00 Dinner
20.00 Representatives meet
21.00 Consert, Fest!

Sunday
09.00-10.30 breakfast
10.00 morning gathering
10.30-11.00 meetings
11.30-13.00 practical action training
13.00-15.00 Lunch
15.00-19.00 Preparations in affinity groups, poster making, song writing etc.
15.00-17.00 Lecture: The nonviolent peaceforce in Sri Lanka
17.30-18.30 Lecture: On civil disobedience in the Middle East by Shimri, war resister from Israel
19.00 Dinner
20.00 Representatives meet

Monday
Action day

17.00 meeting
19.00 dinner

Tuesday
09.00-10.30 breakfast
10.00 morning gathering
10.30-11:00 Camp evaluation
11.30-13.00 presentation of future campaigns, Faslane, Belgium, Fig and Vine Tree planting
13.00 lunch
15.00-18.00 Discussion on the movement and the future
17.00-17.30 evaluation
19.00 dinner
20.00 slideshow of pictures from the week, mingel & mys

Wednesday
09.00-10.30 breakfast
10.00 morning gathering
10.30 cleaning up


Your contribution is needed!

Obviously the camp will be greatly enriched by non-Swedish speakers and guests from foreign counties. Everything from comments and ideas, information and research material to direct participation in planning and carrying out the activities of the camp is welcome. Contact us to help make this camp a prominent peace happening in Sweden. Together we can change this reality!

Contact

mail: disarm07[at]ofog.org
tel: +46-733-815361

Also please visit the Ofog network's website at www.ofog.org

Platform

Sweden today exports arms to war and dictatorships. The peace camp in Karlskoga gathers groups and individuals who wish to cease their participation in this. The Disarm07 campaign is non-profit and politically and religiously independent. We strive to work openly and nonviolently.

Out parliamentarians respect neither the arms exports regulations from the government or the collective views of their own parties. The Swedish arms exports contribute to violations of international law. We believe everyone is ultimately responsible for their own actions. We cannot abdicate this to other persons or institutions. We therefore have an obligation to protest injustice and to intervene when wrongs are committed in our name.

This means we use different methods, such as writing articles, carrying out manifestations, convening open meetings and doing nonviolent civil disobedience. Civil disobedience to us means physical intervention in an emergency, even if it may challenge authority and law. We always act openly and without physical or verbal violence.

We strive to work in a non-hierarchical way and actively resist different types of discrimination.