In many northern countries peoples celebrate Midsummer.
🌾 HISTORICALLY 🌾 … this day marks the midpoint of the growing season, halfway between planting and harvest.
☀️ ASTRONOMICALLY ☀️ … speaking, summer begins on the solstice, which is always around the 20th of June. At this moment, the Sun reaches its highest and northernmost points in the sky, and Earth’s North Pole tilts directly toward the Sun. It’s the longest day of the year. The sun does not even disappear at night in some more Nordic regions of the world. In fact, the Sun’s declination path appears to stop before reversing direction. “Solstice” is a combination of the Latin words sol for “sun” and stitium for “standing.” In late December, the Sun appears to stand still again, when we experience the winter solstice—the shortest day.
💐 TRADITION 💐 Celebrations for Midsummer typically begin on Midsummer Eve. Dancing, eating, bonfires, collecting flowers and way more! Which traditions are actually getting practised depends on the area and the people you are with.
👉 At our celebration we will have a diverse mix out of different practices and it also highly depends on who brings what knowledge. We are really existed to create our own tradition with you!
19. – 28. Camp 👉 but you can stay as long as you want
20. official Midsummer
❓More coming soon…
🫵 Be a Part 🫵
Everyone is welcome: children, students, workers, unemployed, dreamers, elders, animals, skepticals. Feel free to bring ideas, friends and criticism!
You can come and go as you like, stay for single days, the entire camp, or even longer! If you can help with organizing busses from different cities to make this camp more accessible, please text us!
If you are traveling from Oslo you first need to get to Sætre and then to one of the bus stops at either Kaltenbakk or Mølla. The best connection we have found so far is the follwing:
Bus 250 Sætre: From Nationaltheatret (Oslo) to Sætre bussterminal Bus 256 Verket: From Sætre bussterminal to either Mølla or Kaltenbakk
From both bus stops it is roughly a one hour walk to the house.
We try to have solidary bikes at Mølla bus stop. Just contact us to find out how to use them.
You can also try to hitchhike or contact us, to organize a ride for you. We have a good connnection with the people who are living near by the squatted area. If you can imagine to shuttle sometimes during the camp text us.
🎒 Packing List 🎒
• Tent/ Hammock/ Tarp • Sleeping mat/ matress • Sleeping bag • Head lamp • Protection against sun and rain • Protection from insects • Water bottle • Cutlery and plate (we can provide some) • Some snacks
🥕 FOOD 🥕
Food donations in big amounts for communal cooking are very welcome and needed! Please bring VEGAN food for communal cooking! Its not easy to go dumpster diving without a car. If you can help text us. We will try to cook everyday together. All communal meals will be vegan.
You are free to eat your own non-vegan food, but don’t prepare it in a way that can disturb others.
👣 ACCESSIBILITY 👣
The main road leading from the villages near by to the squatted area is uneven and made out of sand. You have to go down and up the hill a few times to get there.
More info about location accessibility will be updated soon. If you have specific needs, contact us.
ℹ️ INFO MATERIAL ℹ️
Go on our website, tap the three lines on the left top of your screen and there you can find on the bottom of the list the topic “midsummer”. If you click that name it will lead you to another part of our website. Now you have to scroll down to mobilization material. Share this massage, our flyers, posters and stickers.
👥 SELF ORGANIZED 👥
We won’t plan everything from start to finish. There will be basic infrastructure for camping, eating, drinking, toilets, music acts and program. Everything else will be figured out during the camp. All participants of the camp are invited to bring up ideas, take on responsibilities and contribute to the program. Of course, you don’t have to do anything you don’t want to do.
Contact us if you have ideas already, otherwise it will be possible to add new activities to the program during the camp.
💜 SUPPORT 🖤
• donate money/ clothes/ food/ bikes • refill water • share this invitation & print our flyers • contribute to the program or ask friends if you know they could • organize bus from your city
We want to celebrate midsummer in a place of active resistance against the war machine and environmental destruction. The area where the camp will take place is squatted since the beginning of April 2026. It is surrounded by forests, lakes, a house and mountains. This means that there will always be space for everybody 😉
Let’s co-create a diverse program of skillshares, workshops, music, DIY, art and actions.
Let’s build a community and different barrios together, let’s grow a culture of care.
💬 If you want to co-create the program, message us at knuskrigsmaskinen.camp@systemli.org
We love for you to inform us before the camp starts about your plans, so we can hold space for it to go as smooth as possible. If that doesn’t work for you, we can create space for anything you might bring spontaneously during the camp together.
🎪🤹 Welcome to the performance “Democracy! Bread and Circus!” directed by the Norwegian Defence States Agency, Chemring and Asker Municipality. All decisions have been made, come in and watch the play Democracy!”
11 May, Tofte Secondary School: What was supposed to be a model for democratic participation and transparent planning from the Norwegian Defence States Agency and Chemring, has turned out to be exactly the opposite: a well-directed mock process. The recently launched planning report and the so-called “People’s Meeting” are nothing more than a play designed to give citizens the illusion of influence, while the decisions have already been made. It is very gratifying to see that so many of the locals are not fooled by the leather process, but possess a lot of important knowledge and put the Norwegian Defence States Agency to the wall.
How has the Norwegian Defence States Agency reached its conclusions? Have they changed the criteria or were the criteria also decided in advance? We cannot accept that the Norwegian Defence States Agency continues to use “open meetings” as an excuse for a lack of genuine dialogue. A planning process that is not willing to accept criticism and adjust its course is not a planning process, it is a decision-making machine. When Chemring Nobel, Asker municipality, the Norwegian Defence States Agency and the State are united in not allowing the local population to take part in deciding whether there should be an explosives factory at Hurum or not, the local population should take matters into their own hands.
We also invite you to our open meetings in Avgrundsdalen. Boycott or disrupt all of the leather processes set up by the Norwegian Defence States Agency and Asker Municipality, support us in the Avgrunnsdalen Valley and help build up direct democracy and real resistance to the war machine.
We wanna celebrate resistance! We will first have a family program starting at ⏰ 4pm where there will be creativ options and a dugnad. From ⏰ 6pm starting we will have a evening programm. We will have alcoholic drinks, performances and a lottery where you can win fun prices.
Everything is self organised and donation based. That means that your behavior and participation is an activ part on how the evening will be. 💵 Bring cash 🎶 Write us if you wanna perform 🍸 Bring snacks & drinks, bc we are not able to buy drinks beforehand for everybody. 🏕️ Bring camping stuff, you can stay overnight!
Yesterday we had our first open meeting in the forest. As locals, activists and representatives of different organizations we came together here in Avgrunnsdalen over pancakes and coffee. 🙂
We talked about how we can work together, stay in touch and build a powerful movement. It was so inspiring to hear the different perspectives about the land, the history of the people living here, and what each of us are doing to protect this area and stop the war machine. After the meeting many stayed to help us pull up the beginning structures of a tree house.
Thank you to everyone that came yesterday. From now on we will have regular meetings every Saturday at 16.00. The meeting is open to anyone that would like to join, and we are looking forward to seeing both old and new faces here next week! Together we can build community and a stronger resistance.
Remember the past, build a future that lasts! Shoutout from Avgrunnsdalen to everybody in the streets today ❤️🔥❤️🔥
On Tuesday the norwegian parliament will discuss whether to protect Hurummarka or not. While some might still have hope in the official legal process, we have long ago decided to take things in to our own hands and protect Hurummarka by living with the forest. We are here in solidatity with all the beings killed or otherwise affected by the war politics of governments
Join us 🦔🏕🏴 Don’t know how?
Come to our open meeting!! 📅 tomorrow, 2nd of May ⏰ 16:00 📍here in Avgrunnsdalen!
Yesterday, Forsvarsbygg and Norconsult sent their new “proposal” for the areal plans of Chemring’s explosives factory to Naturvernforbundet. They instantly criticized these plans, as they suddenly affect a much larger area of the forest, nearby towns, streams and lakes than initially suggested. In addition, certain criteria have been adjusted in a way that Hurummarka appears to become the only viable location for this project.
While misleadingly calling their plans as a “proposal”, nothing essential about this factory is up to debate. A “no” is not – and has never been – a possible answer. Instead of being honest about this truth, Forsvarsbygg continues the theatre of “democracy” by now inviting citizens to “open meetings”. We invite everyone to no longer accept this show as a inevitable normality. Join us for our open meeting on Saturday, 2nd of May, at 16:00 here in Avgrunnsdalen.
Let’s dream together about how this valley can develope into a place of ardent resistance and solidarity.
