International Anti-nuclear Network Meeting in Czech Republic

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Invitation to the 2011 network-meeting in the region of the Southern Bohemian City Ceské Budejovice (CZ)

1.8.-5.8.2011 (arrival possible already on Sunday 31.8., departure possible on Saturday 6.8.)

The first international anti-nuclear networking gathering after the Fukushima disaster organized by activists of the Nuclear Heritage Network will take place from August 1-5, 2011 in Ceské Budejovice (Budweis) in the Czech Republic close to the Austrian border and near to the controversial Temelín NPP. You are invited to join us in this anti-nuclear strategy and networking meeting.

Earlier gatherings of the Nuclear Heritage Network took place 2008 in Bure[1] (F) and Frankfurt/Main (D), 2009 in Slovenia[2] (SLO), and 2010 as well in Helsinki (FIN) aa in several Baltic Sea cities as part of the Baltic Sea Info Tour.

As part of the gathering anti-nuclear activists from several countries will also meet with Czech and Austrian activists who cooperate in a unique cross-border network, which is partly coordinated and funded by the Upper-Austrian regional government. We will visit a group of Lower-Austrian activists, who have been organizing for years now so called "energy-meetings" and have become pioneers in using and making renewable energies popular.

The gathering is also supposed to get to know each other in person, to share experiences in the anti-nuclear field, and to develope mutual projects and campaigns. There will be an excursion to the Temelín NPP, too. Our goal is to improve the international anti-nuclear cooperations and to discuss how to provide more resources by the Nuclear Heritage Network as well as by activists and organizations out of the network for international anti-nuclear activities. Thus, our initiatives are supposed to strengthen the anti-nuclear movement as well as to face various obstacles within and outside the movement.

As the logistic frame of our meeting is limited, please announce your participation to us as early as possible, and not later than July 20:

We will provide more information like detailed programme, schedule of the gathering and travel information close to the meeting on this webpage.


See you soon!


Preliminary Schedule of the Gathering

Anti-nuclear Strategy and Networking Gathering
Czech Republic, Ceské Budejovice (Southern Bohemia)
August 1-5, 2011

Monday, August 1 - Introduction and Presentations Day

10 AM - Welcoming, programme overview and introduction of each other
10.45 AM - presentation of the "Nuclear Heritage Network" and "Sonne und Freiheit", the organizers of the gathering
11.30 AM - Sightseeing. Getting to know Budweis, also time for individually get to know each other. Lunch break
2 PM - Atomic policies, anti-nuclear activities and impacts of the Fukushima disaster on the countries gathered in this meeting
  • Austria
    • including brief introduction of the organization OIZP
  • Czech Republic
  • Germany
  • Russia
  • Slovenia
  • Canada
(15 minutes for each presentation)
4 PM - workshop to gather activities, campaigns, projects to discuss or to develop within the networking gathering
5 PM - break
5.15 PM - lecture about uranium mining in the Czech Republic and the quest for a final disposal site (Hanka Gabrielova)
6.30 PM - dinner break (restaurant)
8 PM - workshops on specific campaigns, projects and activities


Tuesday, August 2 - Workshops and Networking Day

9 AM - workshop on the uranium mining topic (Hanka Gabrielova)
9.45 AM - break
10 AM - introduction of the organization ECCB
10.45 AM - break
11 AM - exchange of experiences with suppression of and repression against anti-nuclear activists
11.45 AM - break
12 PM - introduction of the organization CALLA & information about uranium mining in the Czech Republic and the quest for a final disposal site (Edvard Sequens)
1.45 PM - break
2 PM - lecture about resistance against nuclear power, history and social context of the Temelín NPP as well as about the cooperation of activists in Austria and Czech Republic (South Bohemian mothers)
3.45 PM - break
4 PM - exchange of experiences with fundraising for anti-nuclear work
5 PM - change of location
5.30 PM - meeting with Dalibor Strásky and talk about resistance against nuclear power, history and social context of the Temelín NPP as well as about the cooperation of activists in Austria and Czech Republic
6.30 PM - dinner
8 PM - exchange of experiences with burn-out issues within activists and solutions how to deal with the challenge of urgent needs for anti-nuclear activities, a lack of capacities and individual health


  • possibly meeting with other Czech activists (www.oizp.cz)
  • workshops on specific campaigns, projects and activities

(The schedule and the specific workshops will depend on the topics collected the evening before and on the "wishlist" started here on the webpage of the gathering.)


Wednesday, August 3 - Excursion Day 1

  • Excursion to the Temelín NPP, including a meeting with local critics
  • Excursion to Věžovatá Pláně, the first Czech village which became member of the climate alliance. Meeting with the mayor Josef Mach.

(Possibility to stay overnight in the region of our excursions)


Thursday, August 4 - Excursion Day 2

10 AM - visit of Windhaag, an Austrian village planning to become energetically independent from fossile fuels and guided tour through the wind power exhibition with the former mayor Alfred Klepatsch
12 PM - meeting with Austrian activists and talk with journalists
1.30 PM - lunch break
3-6 PM - meeting with Austrian Greens in Schrems or Gmünd
6.30 PM - meeting with activists in Schrems in Lower Austria, where they have their summer meeting, launching a new grassroot-project with public mini-investments (having grown out of the Anti-Temelín resistance from around the year 2000). Many of these activists were also involved to the start of Austria's largest wind energy company with public participation.

(Possibility to stay overnight in the region of our meetings)


Friday, August 5 - Reflection and Future Campaigning Day (back in Ceské Budejovice)

9 AM - workshops on specific campaigns, projects and activities
11 AM - Network reflection: what impact do we have, what do we want to change, how to increase the results of our anti-nuclear activities?
12.45 PM - break
1 PM - Practical questions: fixing commitments for specific projects and responsibilities, exchanging contacts, agreeing about the dates and places of the next networking gathering
2 PM - Lunch break
4 PM - Feedback on this gathering
5 PM - space for additional practical workshops or for deepening practical arrangements of specific projects - e.g. introduction to the usage of the Nuclear Heritage Network website, technical introduction to the maintenance of the NukeNews newsletter system
7 PM - Dinner and end of the gathering


Practical arrangements:
The arrival is possible already on Sunday, July 31, and the departure is also possible on Saturday, August 6.
Breaks for having food or coffee will be made spontaneously depending on the dynamic of the gathering. At some days, when we have excursions or events outside the gathering place, we will prepare lunch packs for ourselves to take them with us, or have food at local restaurants.

Changes of this schedule on short message due to technical/practical reasons or due to the interests of the participants are possible.


Wishlist - Topics for the Gathering

Workhops to improve our anti-nuclear network: (please add the topics you want to present/discuss yourself)

  • Olkiluoto Blockade 2011 (August 20)
mobilizing activists to join the internation action; possibly discussing a mutual action there
  • Nuke News Newsletter system (next issue deadline: August 28)
developing the information system, establishing a bigger group of anti-nuclear activists providing the newsletter with messages about atomic developments and anti-nuclear activities and supporting the translation process
  • Gorleben Castor blockades 2011 (November)
mobilizing people to join or support the blockades, discussing a mutual international blockade action and other international activities in the region
  • International media work
gathering collections of media contacts, discussing how to provide this database to activists and how to ensure the qualitiy of this database
  • international reach-out materials
latest issues: Uranium; final disposal sites Gorleben, Morsleben and Schacht Konrad; search for a final disposal site in Switzerland; La Hague
new issues in preparation: Fukushima disaster; atomic situation in Belarus; Kola NPP
new ideas: atomic situation in the Czech Republic and in Slovenia
  • Fukushima update
proposed project including website, printed information materials etc. including investigations on the developings connected to the disaster, connecting anti-nuclear activists working on the topic and providing basic information to activists for anti-nuclear work
  • internation network office
with volunteers from several countries responding to requests from activists all over the world helping them to connect to other activists, experts and speakers for events, coordinating international networking activities and supporting the production of multilingual anti-nuclear information materials
  • multilingual uranium mining exhibition
investigating and creating the exhibition posters, producing, translating into several languages, promoting the exhibition and organizing an itinerant exhibition tour accompanied by vernissages, movie screening and additional information events
  • information database on nuclear facilities around the Baltic Sea
booklet and website - already in procsess, but much information and writing contributions still lacking
  • financial support
how to provide financial support for participants of international events, for the production of information materials or for anti-nuclear activities in general (gathering information about possibilities, experiences and contacts as well as discussing how to establish a system of support for each other)
  • dealing with the burn-out challenge
many activists are faced to working to much due to lacking the necessary support by other people, turning out to eventually be burned out. Exchanging experiences on this field and discussing how to deal with these challenges.
  • extending the information basis of the Nuclear Heritage Network website
responsibilities and resources for adding contents to the country pages or specific content pages and providing technical services for activists


Joining Organizations and Participants

As of July 5, 2011 we will have participants of the following regions and organizations in our gathering.

Organizations:

  • Greenkids (D)
  • Sonne und Freiheit (A)
  • Zveza ekoloških gibanj (SI)
  • ... and others still unspecified

Regions:

  • Austria
  • Czech Republic
  • Germany (Berlin, Saxony)
  • Russia (Murmansk)
  • Slovenia
  • Canada


  1. Bure gathering: http://burezoneblog.over-blog.com/
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZFWisobRtg
    http://www.greenkids.de/europas-atomerbe/index.php/Network_meeting_in_Bure
  2. Ljubljana gathering: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kr%C5%A1ko_Nuclear_Power_Plant
    http://www.focus.si/index.php?node=35)
    http://www.greenkids.de/europas-atomerbe/index.php/International_Anti-nuclear_Network_Meeting_in_Ljubljana
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