Age of Stupid

The Global Premiere of The Age of Stupid on Sept 21st 2009 is a live event from a solar cinema in New York City, with satellite links to 700+ cinemas in 40+ countries with live climate impact updates from the Arctic, a Himalayan glacier and New Orleans.

The Age of Stupid is the new four-year epic from McLibel director Franny Armstrong. Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?

Third Day Meeting

This is the last day, and we have to see importants things:


Most of them have been seen the day before, and today is the presentation of these working groups.
Sarah and Sanka present website and mobilization:


Douglas present the content:


Then the structure (I have forgot who!!):


During the presentation of content, we have a big brainstorming on slogan about this congress and theme on which we should concentrate us. See all our good ideas!



Finally, we make the planning for the congress (lots of discussions!):


And... We have finished everything!


Some of us stay few days in the beautiful city of Graz, others go back at home, others go to Mollina, in Spain, for the University for Youth and Development organised by ICMYO.

A great and efficient meeting!
Now start the work. Go on our website to see how to be involved!

Overview of second day meeting

A big day! The final report is not ready, so here is minutes with pictures.

First, we establish the differents points to see for these two next days:

We finish the fundraising:

and all these points:

Do you recognise these feet?

First day of Prep Team meeting

Present:

• Douglas (Kenya)
• Sanka (Sri Lanka)
• Mariana (Brazil)
• Sarah (France)
• Jakob (Austria)
• Simon (Italy)
• Tom, arrived at lunch (Tasmania)
• Lukas (Austria)
• Stefan, left at lunch (Austria)
• Elyssa (Australia)
• Jessica (New Zealand)

MORNING SESSION

Discussed strengths, weaknesses opportunities and threats to GYG

Strengths

• Gaining GYG ,brand’ recognition
• Website and mailing list is established
• Diversity of youth talents
• Independence
• Hard working volunteers

Weaknesses

• Lacking coordination
• Communication not working volunteers are all busy
• Steering Committee not answering emails
• Active members get old and dont prepare succession

Opportunities

• Can become an institution of credibility
• Coordinate global action to fight
• Environmental and social issues are becoming highlighted

Threats

• Members are more involved in local issues
• No funding and finance program
• Not engaging new members or organisations
• Politically boring

AFTERNOON SESSION

FACILITATOR: TOM MILLEN
RAPPORTER: DOUGLAS AREGE

AGENDA

The proposal on what to discuss in the next three days was set.

DAY ONE
1500- 1800 Program

DAY TWO

• Organizational matters for Berlin
• Logistics
• timeline
• Program
• Finance including structure of finance committee
• Budget

DAY THREE

• Communication + web + wikis
• Allocating jobs/delegation of responsibilities
• Local organisers
• Structure proposals/changes

ACTIONS/OBSERVATIONS
Daily reporting on discussions

program for Berlin 2010

THEME

2010- INTERNATIONAL UN YEAR OF BIODIVERSTY
SOCIAL IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE

1.content

• Speakers/ Subject/workshops/side events/actions/training/ a demonstration or street activity
• Introduction to GYG and historical background
• Cultural welcome
• Getting to know participants
• Invitations
• online –web communication/wiki/ film festival
• advertising the conference
• local organising
• fundraising
• people logistics-arriving/departing
• content of the conference

2.Organizational matters

• Election of new steering committee
• Change of GYG statutes/organizational principles
• Direction and future campaigns
• Create a framework/guiding principles for future campaigns

3.General

• Event location should be in an area that promotes attendants to stay together
• Perhaps camping
• Need to minimise waste and calculate carbon offsets
• Try to keep the costs for attendees relatively low but will need to have a participation fee. Graz proposed to charge 180 euro for people from the global north and 30 euro for people from the global south.
• Personalise plenaries to ensure they do not become boring.
• Instead of the normal plenary session, the audience could form small groups and discuss a subject, then a representative from the groups could report back to the plenary. Have decision and action outcomes

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Tom shared his experiences in holding a successful event in Nairobi. He advised that the below are the pillars for a better well organised congress.

• Local organizing
• Logistical support to ensure things runs smooth during the event
• Fundraising
• Participant Selection
• Content Development for the congress

1730 : end of first day