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Labour organizing and climate justice: intersections, challenges, and political opportunities

March 12, 2024, 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm

Centre for Interactive Sustainability, BC Hydro Theatre (1st floor)

Advancing faster and more just climate action is necessary, yet the climate movement appears to be in a holding pattern, experiencing a lull in energy and vision. Labour organizing has a much longer history, with its own ebbs and flows, failures and successes. Recently, organized labour has accomplished a number of historic wins, in a challenging economic climate. This panel will address two entwined questions: What can the climate movement learn from contemporary and historic labour strategy for building durable power? And, how can the climate and labour movements mutually strengthen one another?

Panelists: Gabriella Doebelli (SRO Collaborative), David Black (Move up), Jen Kostuchuk (Worker Solidarity Network), Tara Ehrcke (BC Teachers Federation) 

Sponsored by: Centre for Climate Justice, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, Geography Students’ Association, Centre for Community Engaged Learning, Climate Hub, Sustainability hub, UBC Climate Emergency, and the Department of Geography. 

Labour organizing and Climate Justice

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We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.

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