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Join us Sept. 11-15, 2023
In the lead up to the Global Climate Strike on Sept. 15, we invite you to celebrate, support and amplify youth-led climate action. Our Youth Climate Week of Action offers an engaging series of workshops, webinars and activities all about challenging business as usual in order to address the climate crisis. We as a generation need to stand up for our future: fight against the fossil fuel industry, resist the development of new pipelines & extractivist practices, and confront false solutions powered by green capitalism.
Program
Webinars & Workshops — Sign up free to join us using the form above! All events on Zoom.
Monday, Sept. 11, 7pm ET
"Love, Compassion, & Local Climate Action” talk, conversation, and Q&A
Join us for a talk & conversation about the potential of pathological love as a remedy to pathological profit and power as well as the role of cities (municipal & local climate action) in the climate fight, and how they might uniquely be able to catalyze the end to the fossil fuel era. Last but not least, we will have an extended Q&A and discussion with the speakers, don’t miss out!
Speakers: Christine Boyle, Janelle Lapointe
Tuesday, Sept. 12, 7pm ET
Limitless Creativity Art-build workshop [not recorded]
Join your peers for an afternoon of art-build activities in preparation for the climate strikes on Friday and the weekend! In addition to making protest art together, we’ll chat about our climate strike experiences & stories, watch short clips of inspirational climate rally speeches, and will end on a protest- chant writing (mini competition) activity.
[+] Bring sign-making items: poster-board, sign paper, markers, paint tools, scissors, etc
Speakers: Jaden L. Phillips
Wednesday, Sept. 13, 7pm ET
“Speaking Truth to Power” webinar, testimony & conversation
Join us for this conversation about challenging the greenwashed, business-as-usual, fossil-dominantextractivist narrative to catalyze system change, and the power & role of young people (to do
so) as agents of change both through advocacy & through legal action.
Speakers: Albert Lalonde, Miranda Baksh
As world leaders discuss climate action at the United Nations in New York, people on every continent will join the largest-ever globally coordinated action to demand that governments end fossil fuels. The climate crisis is escalating but so is the global movement for climate justice. We need all hands on deck to win this fight. Join the Global Strike organized by Fridays For Future and Fight Fossil Fuels.
Find a strike near you with this map tool by Fridays For Future Canada.
Thursday, Sept. 14, 11am ET
Friday, Sept. 15
Global Strike to End Fossil Fuels
“Connection to the Water, Land & Soil” Storytelling, Writing Workshop
Learn about the importance of the water cycle for growing crops and raising animals in this special writing workshop. Explore the role of water, land, and healthy soil in agriculture, but also emerging threats to and growing scarcity of these crucial resources.
Speakers: Writers Collective of Canada (WCC), Mikellena Nettos
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Join the Global Strike to End Fossil Fuels, Sept. 15
The Global Fight to End Fossil Fuels: Fast, Fair, Forever. The climate crisis is a fossil-fuelled crisis, so, to combat it, the fossil fuel era must come to an end.
Join the Global Climate Strike organized by Fight Fossil Fuels and Fridays For Future.
Find an action near you in Canada at https://fridaysforfuture.ca
or information about global actions from Fridays For Future International.
Speakers & Facilitators
Janelle Lapointe (she/her) is an Afro-Indigenous climate justice and Indigenous rights activist from Stellat’en First Nation, currently the interim Director of Public Engagement and Mobilization at the David Suzuki Foundation and a guest on Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) andxʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) territories. She leans on her lived experience growing up on her small reserve in Northern British Columbia to ensure that intersectionality is at the forefront of environmental narratives, to build power and help others see their stake in fighting back against the status quo. She has spent the last few years Frontloading* a new mass movement organization, to unite everyday people from Canada, Quebec and many Indigenous Nations across the lands to demand a Green New Deal that takes power from the hands of the billionaires and returns it to us all. (Easy stuff!)
Janelle Lapointe, Communications & Engagement Coordinator, David Suzuki Foundation
