The Climate Justice Student Collective (CJSC) supports students at all levels working on climate justice projects. Part study group, part network building, part discussion group, the CJSC will bring students together over the important climate justice work being done at UBC to build academic skills and forge solidarities. If you are interested in being on the mailing list for the CJSC, please email us at climate.justice@ubc.ca
Why a student collective? Study groups, conscious-raising collectives, and self-education initiatives have long been central to progressive movements, as spaces for building collective analyses and forging solidarities. Such spaces are urgently needed in the climate movement, which necessarily encompasses far-flung issues and constituencies. The Climate Justice Student Collective is motivated by the guiding questions: how do we build solidarities among diverse movements or initiatives engaged broadly in struggles for climate justice, in order to increase our collective power to make positive change? How do we cultivate shared desires and visions of a future world worth fighting for?
Toward these ends, CJSC members participate in community-building activities, including helping to lead study group sessions exploring key issues in climate justice research. To learn more about these and other upcoming events, subscribe to our newsletter.
Our next event: CLIMATE JUSTICE 101 – A WORKSHOP. Date TBD – please complete this survey to let us know when works and we’ll run a couple of sessions if there’s interest. Then in the new year we will start reading groups/discussion groups/guest speaker sessions etc for all levels with more regularity.
The Climate Justice Student Collective is a reimagining of the Climate Justice Study Collective which was part of the CCJ in 2023 and 2024. More information about the Study Collective can be found here.