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Climate Justice Organizing HUB Wiki

As a transformational social movement, climate justice applies anti-oppression and intersectionality to framing the climate crisis.

This platform is intended for future and current activists in this movement.

We invite you to start by taking note of our land acknowledgement.

Why create a Wiki?

We wish to ease access to the movement by strengthening a common understanding of it. The content of this platform is intended to be informed by activist and scholarly perspectives from the field, in order to reflect the movement. You can send suggestions for modifying or adding content on existing pages to ayolehub@proton.me.

Student collaborations

These articles were written by university students for course credit, in collaboration with the Hub Librarian (Anglophone).

ANT 364: Advocating Climate Justice, Fall 2025, University of Toronto	How Victoria College Divested from Fossil Fuels Data Sovereignty in Chemical Valley: Aamjiwnaang First Nation and the Pollution Reporter App
TCA 425: Organizing for Transformative Change, Winter 2026, University of Victoria	In Pursuit of Climate Justice: How DivestUVic Won Fossil Fuel Divestment at the University of Victoria

Recently added articles

Fall 2024	Insights on Indigenous liberation from the Bandung of the North Theory of Change Analysis: Palestine Solidarity Network
Spring 2025	Ideas to Action Decision-Making Framework: Sharing Power, Making Decisions Under Pressure Grassy Narrows blockade: Indigenous-settler collaboration
Summer 2025	How GasFreeNYC Won a Gas Ban in New York City Myths of the “Energy Transition” Myths around Mining and Imperialism

Climate Justice Organizing 101

By Topic

Accessibility	Making your activism accessible
Accountability	How can we incorporate space watchers and holders into our groups without veering into policing? Notes on accountability from Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
Burnout and care	Activist mental health and managing burnout Building cultures of care
Campaigns	How we Win! Summary of findings on successful climate justice campaigns in North America Theory of Change Analysis: Palestine Solidarity Network How GasFreeNYC Won a Gas Ban in New York City
Climate justice	Class issues/labour and the climate movement Climate justice (definition and directory page) Lessons from activists in Peru and Senegal LGBTQIA2S+ justice Insights on Indigenous liberation from the Bandung of the North Grassy Narrows blockade: Indigenous-settler collaboration Myths of the “Energy Transition”
Decision-making	Decision making Consensus decision making 101 Consensus decision making (suggestions for small groups) Consent decision making 101 DARCI decision making framework Modified consensus decision making 101 Non-hierarchical (horizontal) decision-making Ideas to Action Decision-Making Framework: Sharing Power, Making Decisions Under Pressure
Group dynamics	Aligning on group direction: how to decide what you want & how you'll get there How does deep democracy work, and how can we apply it to decision making? How does horizontalism or non-hierarchical organizing work, and what have we learned from attempts at it? Navigating in-group conflicts
Recruitment and retention	Diagnosing low group capacity Mobilizing and activating members: recruitment and retention 101
Skills	Facilitation 101
Solidarity	Building coalitions Land acknowledgement
Strategy	How can we fight misinformation about the climate crisis? How do we mobilize in rural communities/small cities? How to occupy spaces to advance your cause Legal information for activists Organizing in a pandemic What is the right way to come up with a campaign strategy?
Structure	How can we take inventory of people's strengths while supporting them to try new things/learn new skills? Organizing on different platforms: Pros and cons The tyranny of structurelessness
Student organizing	How can we find out if our school invests in the fossil fuel industry? How should we respond to an administration that does not want to respect a student strike? Navigating turnover in student groups Our student association has voted for a strike. Now what? Student organizing best practices Student strikes 101
Other	(See our definitions pages below!) HUB youtube videos Frequently asked questions: short answers

By Resource Type

Quick review	Long form	Community Questions	Definitions A-Z
Climate Justice and Imperialism: Debunking Global Systems of Oppression Consensus decision making 101 Consensus decision making (suggestions for small groups) Consent decision making 101 DARCI decision making framework Land acknowledgement Lessons from activists in Peru and Senegal Modified consensus decision making 101 Non-hierarchical (horizontal) decision-making Navigating in-group conflicts Notes on accountability from Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement Organizing in a pandemic Organizing on different platforms: Pros and cons The tyranny of structurelessness Student organizing best practices HUB youtube videos	Activist mental health and managing burnout Aligning on group direction: how to decide what you want & how you'll get there Building coalitions Building cultures of care Class issues/labour and the climate movement Decision making Diagnosing low group capacity Facilitation 101 How do we mobilize in rural communities/small cities? How to occupy spaces to advance your cause How we Win! Summary of findings on successful climate justice campaigns in North America Legal information for activists Making your activism accessible Mobilizing and activating members: recruitment and retention 101 Navigating turnover in student groups Student strikes 101	Frequently asked questions: short answers How can we take inventory of people's strengths while supporting them to try new things/learn new skills? How can we fight misinformation about the climate crisis? How can we find out if our school invests in the fossil fuel industry? How can we incorporate space watchers and holders into our groups without veering into policing? How does deep democracy work, and how can we apply it to decision making? How does horizontalism or non-hierarchical organizing work, and what have we learned from attempts at it? How should we respond to an administration that does not want to respect a student strike? What is the right way to come up with a campaign strategy? Our student association has voted for a strike. Now what?	Ableism Abolition Accessibility Active support Ally Anti-capitalism Anti-colonialism Anti-imperialism Anti-oppression Anti-racism Capacity building Capitalism Carceral state Care web Centralization Civil disobedience Class Classism Climate justice Coalition Collective liberation Collectivism Colonialism Community accountability Convergence of struggles Decolonization Decentralization Direct action Disability justice Distributed organization Divestment Eco-anxiety Ecofeminism Ecogentrification Environmental racism Equity Escalation Extractivism Fast fashion Feminism Food sovereignty Frontline communities Gender General Assembly Genocide Global South Grassroots Greenwashing Hegemony Housing justice Imperialism Indigenous sovereignty Individualism Injunction Institutional racism Intergenerational justice Intergenerational trauma Intersectionality Invisible disability Judicial system (judiciary) Just transition Land back LGBTQIA2S+ justice MAPA Marginalization Mass incarceration Medical industrial complex Migrant justice Militarism Misogynoir Misogyny Moment of the whirlwind Movement ecology Mutual aid Narrative Neoliberalism Onboarding Oppression Pillars of support Polarization Positionality Poverty Precarious Prison industrial complex Privilege Punitive response Reparations Residential schools Retention Settler colonialism Sixties scoop Social justice Social movement Solidarity Spectrum of allies State violence Strategy Structure Systemic racism Theory of change Traditional ecological knowledge Transactional social movement Transformational social movement Transformative justice Treaty Unceded QTBIPOC White saviourism White supremacy Xenophobia

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The HUB is a project of the Small Change Fund

Funding for the HUB is entirely provided by Canadian philanthropic foundations. The HUB is formally a project of the Small Change Fund, an Ontario-based charity organization. The HUB is run by its Directors and their larger team, in constant consultation with the climate justice organizers we seek to serve. The HUB also maintains relationships with Vision Team Advisors, that bring perspectives from different parts of the movement ecosystem and help the HUB show up in the best way possible.