Climate Justice Montreal hosts workshops, panel discussions, and other educational events about climate justice and resistance to fossil fuel expansion.
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Crush Car Culture with Free and Expanded Public Transit
September 3, 2024
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
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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 ↩
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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 ↩
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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/ ↩
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Wilt, James. Free transit is just the beginning. Briarpatch. 29 novembre 2019. https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/free-transit-is-just-the-beginning ↩
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
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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