Past actions

Past actions


  • Crush Car Culture with Free and Expanded Public Transit

    September 3, 2024

    Public Transit poster

    Taking to the streets

    On September 28, 2023, activists mobilized on the streets of Montreal/Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang’s Plateau in a night-time protest organized by Rage Climatique and Climate Justice Montreal, under the theme of “Crush Car Culture”.1 Posters publicizing the event called for free public transit and more transport options within the city. Two months later, Velorution Montreal mobilized at least 100 people, including organizers from Équiterre, Greenpeace, and Trajectoire Québec, to the streets downtown to protest the underfunding of public transit and the service cuts that could likely follow.2 Five days earlier, unionized workers including bus drivers, maintenance workers, and other public transport staff had similarly rallied in front of the office of so-called Quebec’s minister of transport and sustainable mobility to protest the lack of funding for public transportation in the province.3 These events are increasingly voicing demands from groups including organized labour, concerned citizens, and more radical activists, who are aligning independently yet in parallel with global movements that are drawing connections between the underfunding of essential transit services, car-dependency, and the climate crisis.4

    1. Rage Climatique. Manifestation du 28 septembre 2023 : Écrasons la culture du char! 28 septembre 2023. https://www.rageclimatique.org/evenement/manifestation-du-28-septembre-2023 

    2. The Canadian Press. Montrealers protest possible STM service cuts, demand more funding. CTV News. 9 novembre 2023. https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/montrealers-protest-possible-stm-service-cuts-demand-more-funding-1.6651625 

    3. Dextrene, Anastasia. Quebec public transit workers protest downtown. City News. 14 novembre 2023. https://montreal.citynews.ca/2023/11/14/quebec-public-transit-protest-downtown/ 

    4. Wilt, James. Free transit is just the beginning. Briarpatch. 29 novembre 2019. https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/free-transit-is-just-the-beginning 

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  • Online workshop

    August 8, 2024

    Come learn how false solutions are being implemented and how we can resist them!
    Wednesday, August 14th, 7pm
    Register at this link

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  • Counter-congress

    June 2, 2024

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  • Solidarity is a verb

    May 6, 2024

    Solidarity gets thrown around so freely in social movements that it often becomes a risk for it to become meaningless. Climate Justice Montreal makes a commitment to solidarity in its principles, basing in differentiated, yet similar relationships that must be centered in our work. That said, there is always a need to question statements of solidarity, as they can often be done performatively, especially if no one questions its meaning and intent.

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  • McGill Divested

    January 20, 2024

    McGill finally divested, which spells an end to the Boycott Metro Campaign. Thanks to everyone who participated and congratulations on the victory.

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  • Hoodwinked in the Hothouse: Workshop on False Solutions to Climate Change

    December 4, 2023

    Date: Wednesday, December 6th, 2023
    Time: 2:30-4:30 pm
    Location: John Molson Building
    1450 Guy
    Room 14.250
    Cost: Free
    Wheelchair accessible: Yes

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  • Protect the Great Lakes: shut down the line 5 oil pipeline

    July 24, 2023

    Line 5 – a 70-year-old, dangerous, deteriorating crude oil pipeline – runs straight through the heart of the Great Lakes.

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  • Beehive Collective - Book Launch in Montreal

    July 13, 2023

    Date: July 14th, 2023
    Time: 4-6 pm
    Location: Parc Alphonse-Télésphore-Lépine

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  • Healing Justice: Intersectional Pathways for Community Care

    July 12, 2023

    Date: July 24th, 2023
    Time: 6:30-8 pm
    Location: Online Event

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  • Teamwork: Conflict Resolution and Decision-Making 🌿 Summer Training Sessions

    July 9, 2023

    Date: July 18th, 2023
    Time: 3-5 pm
    Location: 1864 Rue Préfontaine, Montréal, QC H1W 2P1, Canada

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  • Action toolkit: Support the Metro Boycott

    March 29, 2021

    There are many ways to support the Metro boycott.

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  • Seedzine Launch Vol. 1

    February 28, 2021

    Climate Justice Montreal creates publications and zines to further the cause of climate justice.

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  • Our new website is live!

    October 9, 2020

    Our shiny new website is now live! Thanks to everyone who helped test and improve it.

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  • Join us in increasing the pressure against Metro

    September 2, 2020

    You may already know that we’re targeting Metro in an effort to push McGill to divest from fossil fuels. Long story short, Maryse Bertrand is on the board at Metro grocery stores and also at McGill University. She’s also one of the key people blocking McGill’s endowment funds from divesting.

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  • Boycott Metro Parc

    July 27, 2020

    Climate Justice Montreal is calling for a boycott of the Metro grocery store on Avenue du Parc and Prince-Arthur. Metro board member Maryse Bertrand has called for McGill University to continue its investments in the fossil fuel industry.

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  • Petition for CDPQ Fossil Energy Divestment

    August 1, 2017

    Here is a petition asking the Caisse de Dépôt et de Placement du Québec to divest from fossil fuels and to respect the right of indigenous peoples to give or refuse free, prior and informed consent on any ressource extraction project being planned on their territories.

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  • Climate Justice Skills Day

    April 15, 2017

    Download the PDF of the day’s activities

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  • Rap Battle For Climate Justice

    January 19, 2017

    Video and Musical credits to Dan Parker (check out his youtube channel.)

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  • #NODAPL Demo

    January 8, 2017

    Posted by subMedia.tv on Monday, November 7, 2016

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  • Workshops

    January 2, 2017

    Three workshops:

    • Climate Justice 101
    • Climate Justice and Austerity
    • Pipelines and Tar Sands
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  • Rap Battle For Climate Justice

    October 8, 2016

    On September 28th 2016, Climate Justice sponsored another Rap Battle for Climate Justice at Concordia University. With your help, we raised over $800 for ASAP (Aamjiwnaang and Sarnia Against Pipelines).

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  • Film screening: Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance

    May 2, 2015

    Organized three screenings of Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, followed by discussions in UQAM, Plateau, and NDG featuring Dan David from Kanesatake.

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  • Under the Weather — CKUT

    January 2, 2015

    Under The Weather was a 12 month Climate Change Speaker series presented by CKUT and co-sponsored by CJM.

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  • Montreal Against Tar Sands And Pipelines

    October 14, 2014

    As TransCanada gears up to apply to National Energy Board (NEB), Climate Justice Montreal releases a communique rooted in a climate justice perspective in opposition to tar sands and the TransCanada Energy East pipeline. With a photo symbolizing the direct action that is already taking place along pipeline routes across North America, Montrealers say that oil companies should expect more popular resistance.

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  • Municipal Resolution Action Kit

    November 15, 2013

    In an effort to empower ourselves and our communities in taking a position on energy issues, building together our analysis, our alternatives to carbon dependency, and our capacity for joint action, Climate Justice Montreal is asking the City of Montreal to ban the importation of Tar Sands oil and oppose Enbridge’s Line 9 pipeline reversal.

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