People have always moved, yet as the climate crisis worsens and the impacts on people in marginalised communities become more severe, more people are being forced to leave their homes. At the same time countries and corporations in the global north profit from the increased militarisation and proliferation of racist border policies. The securitisation of the climate crisis, where border policies are cast as a solution to the effects of climate breakdown prevents climate action. It threatens and dehumanises people who move, people who have typically done the least to cause this crisis.

In this workshop we will explore the urgent need for climate action that is centred in justice, discussing the way in which this is connected to migration and violent border policies. We will build an understanding of climate & migrant justice around two key principles: the right to stay and to defend communities from the impacts of climate change, and the right to move safely and with dignity, when staying is not possible. The discussion will focus on what this means for our communities, and how we can work together to fight for a better world.

Agenda:

1. What is Climate Justice?
2. Climate, Migration & Borders
3. Understanding ‚ climate linked migration
4. Solidarity - what can we do? (discussion)

SPEAKERS

Nick Cullen,

Nick is the Migrant Justice Coordinator at the Climate Justice Coalition, working to build connections between climate and migrant justice in the UK, with a focus on international issues around climate linked migration‚ and solidarity against the hostile environment. His background is in coalition building in the climate movement, as well as organising community kitchens in Calais.

Innah Gaspar

Innah is the Campaigns Strategist for the Migration Project at the Global Strategic Communications Council (GSCC), where she coordinates partners to develop and implement strategic narratives, messaging, and campaigns on climate, migration and the border and surveillance industry. A Canadian-Metis-Filipina, Innah is currently based in Berlin where she helps lead ALPAS, a Filipinx Migrant Collective.

Sasha Haddid

Sasha is the Migrant Justice Campaign and Movement Building Coordinator at People and Planet, a student network in the UK campaigning for social and environmental justice. Sasha also organises with No Borders in Climate Justice.

Tyrone Scott

Tyrone is the Senior Movement Building and Activism Officer for War on Want, an organisation which works in the UK and with partners around the world to fight against the root causes of injustice, poverty and defend human rights - as part of the movement for global justice.

* This event is part of the Stand Up! Speak Out! Solidarity Knows No Borders Training Series 2024.

To go back and see the full list of seminars, please click here