Great Lakes Basin Action Camp

With the Backbone Campaign

May 13th – 20th 2014
Circle Pines Center near Kalamazoo, MI
Cost: Sliding scale $200-$500 for week (No one will be turned away for lack of funds)
Donate to the scholarship fund if you can.

Backbone Campaign website, and action camp page

Modeled on the annual Localize This! Action Camp held in the NW, we’re excited to expand the dynamic Cross-Movement Artful Activism, Strategy, Creative Tactics & Community Organizing Intensive Training Camp to the Midwest!

All year long, the Backbone team appears in our region and across the country, but only one time per year does the country come to us. For the past four years this gathering has been at the cusp of movement innovation, a source of numerous collaborations, and a spark for countless creative actions from viral Flash Mobs to Giant floating buttocks. Our giant 1% arrows banner and light projections preceded Occupy. 2012’s camp lifted up Eviction Protection in the Seattle area and now our allies are celebrating a victorious Eviction Blockade. Our first camp even helped save an island!