Our Vision
We aim to:
To recenter means to return something to where it once was. Climate and environmental justice movements were pioneered by working class communities of colour who understood the importance of meeting people where they're at, mutual aid, and intersectionality. The current narrative around climate organizing is instead centered on the anxieties of the privileged, scare tactics, and academic jargon that doesn't truly engage with those most impacted by the climate crisis. It is a narrative that must be recentered.
Our Principles
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We rely on each other to collectively process our emotions and meet our needs. We meet our community where they are at, working to eliminate all forms of hierarchy and power dynamics in our overall organizing, creating networks of accessible and circular learning rooted in our diverse levels of knowledge.
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We recognize we are nonconsensual settlers on unceded, occupied, and traditional territories of the Kwantlen, Katzie, and Semiahmoo nations. We have privilege as settlers and seek to uplift and amplify Indigenous voices. Climate justice does not exist without Indigenous sovereignty and land back. All justice movements are intertwined, and therefore we work in the intersections of many justice-based organizing spheres alongside our allies.
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If systems of oppression perpetuate hatred, fear, and anxiety, we must use the opposite values in order to fight against them. It is only possible to create the world we want to live in if we can imagine it and wholeheartedly believe it is within reach.
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BIPOC have been and still are on the forefront of all spheres of justice. Within Surrey, racialized youth are breaking barriers and making waves despite marginalization. Climate Recentered is founded by racialized youth from Surrey who are deeply familiar with it's geopolitical landscape and growing potential.
