UPRISE!

Youth Action Camp

WE ARE TAKING OUR FUTURE BACK!

Uprise! camp 2019

july 28 - august 4

MARshfield, VT

click here for schedule

Calling all youth ages 13-19!!

Join up for a week of direct action skills, protest art,

radical political education, fun and excitement!

This is not your regular summer camp, this a chance to

build and strengthen the youth activist movement !

Gear up with us for for student walkouts and massive global climate actions this fall!!

cant make the whole week?

drop in Sun-Thurs between 8am-8pm (begins sun at 11am),

see program for details

(must have parent permission to spend the night)

The cost of the camp is sliding scale from FREE to $450 for the week, no one turned away for lack of funds. Bring your hopes and fears for the future, your unique style and skills, your passion and ideas, your friends -- but most of all, bring yourself and join us!

UPRISE!

Just come Here:

From I-89

Take exit 8 for Montpelier.
Head EAST on Route 2 for about 15 miles, passing the villages of East Montpelier and Plainfield.
As you come into the Village of Marshfield, take the 2nd LEFT onto Creamery St.
Take a RIGHT on Brook Road, right after the pavement ends.
Go to the end of Brook Rd and take a LEFT at the "T" (follow uprise sign)
Bare left at the fork (follow uprise! sign)
A few hundred yards from there will land you smack dab in the middle of Uprise Camp, at the Kikon N'dakina Center for Grassroots Organizing

From I-91

Take exit 21 for Rt. 2 / St. Johnsbury
Head WEST on Route 2 for about 20 miles, passing the villages of Danville and West Danville
As you enter the Village of Marshfield you will pass the Marshfield General Store on your left, and then Rainbow Sweets Bakery on your left.
Take a RIGHT on Creamery Street
Take a RIGHT on Brook Road, right after the pavement ends.
Go to the end of Brook Rd and take a LEFT at the "T" (follow uprise sign)
Bare left at the fork (follow uprise! sign)
A few hundred yards from there will land you smack dab in the middle of Uprise Camp, at the Kikon N'dakina Center for Grassroots Organizing

MEET OUR TEAM

An amazing group of skilled and experienced mentors are coming together to help hold this camp with care, creativity and dedication. We’re all looking forward to this opportunity to deepen our work and strengthen this movement for social and environmental justice. stay tuned for coming staff profiles!

Rachel Wilson

Activist - Healer
I am a mother of 2 young children, and an auntie to many. I am constantly studying new healing modalities, and looking for ways to assist people along their own medicine paths. I worked was a Neuro Muscular Therapist for 13 years in Atlanta, Boston, and Vermont. I am also a certified Reflexologist, Reiki practitioner, and Yoga teacher. I love teaching young folks how to respect, nourish, and care for themselves, and their own bodies.

Russell Shoatz III

Visionary, Carpenter, Father, Artist and Activist

Russell has done youth work in Philadelphia, raising funds and awareness for national tours and finals. He has a lifetime of education and humanitarian work including, founding Little Maroons school, the annual fundraiser for Shofam, support of political prisoners and a host of NGOs in youth work. He also works with the Human Rights Coalition, Axis of Justice and Black August.

Sabrina (they/them)

Currently studying the Imagination and Implementation of Post-Capitalism at Bennington College, Sabrina is dedicated to dismantling neoliberal capitalism in exchange for an economic system with justice and ecological regeneration (not profit) as its objective. As a slam poet, public speaker, and workshop leader, Sabrina strives to make post-capitalist ideals and sentiments accessible to high school and college students, artist communities, and organizing communities. Sabrina recently returned to

Sky (they/them)

Sky is an anti-capitalist activist whose work includes migrant justice and anti-imperialism, climate justice, animal liberation, racial justice and queer liberation. Sky has a passion for leading training programs for youth, which has led them to direct the Sierra Club's West Grassroots Training Program for high school and college students, teach two 15-week youth political education courses, and give trainings to queer teenagers at Vermont's Camp Outright.

Before acquiring their Master's degr

Nalia

I and am a senior in high school. I lead an Environmental Group with middle school students and local environmental organizations. With attention to Marxist teachings, I am also learning about different economic systems and the various possible paths to dismantling capitalism.

Hambone (Henry Harris)

Social Justice Organizer

Hambone has been a dad for around 13 years, and has been an organizer in direct action and social justice movements almost 20 years. He has lived and organized in his homestate of VT, Maui, Oregon, Austin, California’s North Coast, NYC and the Hudson Valley.
A freelance carpenter, Henry also co-founded the Portland, OR Art & Revolution Freeskool, The Watershed Collective in the Hudson Valley, the Food Security Roundtable and the Make.

Erik (erok) Gillard

Poet-Artist-Activist

Erik is AKA “Uncle e-rok” and is in love with the wild world. For the past 15 years e-rok has worked as an outdoor educator, youth mentor and camp counselor with programs ranging from EarthWalk VT, Orchard Hill School, Lazy Mill Living Arts Folks School, The Make Arts as Action Workshop, VT Witch Campo and the Greensboro Free Library. He excitedly awaits the fun this summer and beyond!

heri hawthorn

Artist - Activist

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Abdul Mujib

Fitness Trainer-Wilderness Mentor

As long as he can remember, Mujib has been devoted to developing a personal relationship with the natural world. Over the last 10 years, he has studied the practical application of primitive technologies in long term living situations, including fire production and maintenance, shelter construction, movement and tracking for observation and hunting, stone tool production and use, bow building and archery, animal processing and hide tanning, and camouflage

Fin Hewitt

Youth-Activist-Rock Star

Heidi Wilson

Singer-Song-Catcher

Heidi has a passion for strengthening our connection with one another and Mystery through music. She is drawn to the potent and surprising journey of deep-listening and improvisational music making. Heidi co-leads the Central Vermont Solidarity Singers, a chorus that brings rich harmony to demonstrations, actions, rallies, and vigils. Through song they aim to uplift courage and beauty among people taking action on the pressing issues of our times.

Rye Hewitt

Youth Activist-Artist-Woodsperson

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CONTACT US

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Russell Shoatz III

Visionary, Carpenter, Father, Artist and Activist Russell has done youth work in Philadelphia, raising funds and awareness for national tours and finals. He has a lifetime of education and humanitarian work including, founding Little Maroons school, the annual fundraiser for Shofam, support of political prisoners and a host of NGOs in youth work. He also works with the Human Rights Coalition, Axis of Justice and Black August.