Organising Biketour 2015

Autumn meeting

To help make a decision on where the Autumn meeting will be held, please add your suggestions...

City
Why hold it here?
Drawbacks
Who to contact

Lituana

Vilnius
Venue used before by BT
May have to pay for venue
Vita (coord 2008)

Poland:

Warsaw
BT contact based there
Not thinking to go through Poland in BT
Olek

Poznan
Feminist Social Centre
Central location, cheap buses
As above
Christabel

Sweden

Malmo
Radical Theatre could be used as venue
Expensive to get to
Zinzi

Gothenburg
BT participant based there. Female only-anarcho-feminist Sambaband
Not accessible especially to those in South
Kaise

Slovakia

Bratislava
Contact from BT 2014 based there
More accessible to South/East participants
Not a location for BT 2015
Michal

Denmark

Copenhagen
Large Social Centre just outside and small residential collective inside. Lots going on.
Not such an eay location to get to from except Germany/UK - the dominant BT countries!
Megan/Tilly

Finland

Helsinki
Sambaband. Strong anti-mining movement. Anarchist bookshop/infoshop
It's a really awkward/expensive to get there.

New way of organising

In brief, we would suggest that the organising to be DECENTRALISED, made more HORIZONTAL and be more true to the VALUES and COLLECTIVE organisation aspired to on the Biketour itself.

Open and horizontal group
- anyone can join (past organisers or
  participants, local and regional contacts etc.). In the best case at
  
  least 7 people would work together remotely from different locations.

The organisation process would start as soon as this year's Biketour
ends so as not to lose momentum and so that there is a longer period of

time to sort out the tour.

A start up group of a few people who know now that they wish to be
part of an organising group would advertise for more people to join the

group via the BT email lists and in the countries of the BT 2015 (with

flyers etc). The Autumn meeting will be an opportunity for the group to

meet and discuss how to go from there. We would propose that to make

this organisational structure possible, the region will have to be

decided soon, as well as a date for the Autumn meeting, in order to

invite people from the region to the meeting and start with the

collectivisation and decentralising of the organisation. We propose the

long weekend from the 28th of November to the 1st of December. After the

Autumn meeting, the preparation of the Biketour would start.

The work should be split into as small as possible tasks and managed
in a tasklist, to make it as easy as possible to take on responsibility.

The online organising could be simplified to one platform (potentially

Krankenstein).

Possibly, there could be a rotating system of people responsible for
overseeing that there are no gaps in organising and for making roles

clear. This is something that the organisation group would decide.

The group would communicate regularly online. Due to difficulties with
the email server this year, the server will have be reviewed.

Visits could be made to projects/regions
- funding for this and other
  expenses would be deciding as and when the money is needed, but no EVS
  
  money would be taken this year.

Region

The suggestion has been made to go to Scandinavia and/or the Baltic states on next year's biketour. Maldova, the Ukraine and Belarus were also suggested as possibilities. If you have any ideas of projects to visit on in these regions, please add them below.

Suggestions for projects to visit next year

Copenhagen - a small residential collective with bike workshop inside the city (Bethlehem collective) and a large cultural and environmental collective outside of the city (Makvarket)