Connecting Climate & Migrant Justice
The Climate & Migrant Justice Organising Group (CMJ) is a collective of climate, migrant and racial justice organisations working to build solidarity and strengthen the connection between climate and migrant justice. We support a cross movement network of over 150 groups across the country – from grassroots and migrant-led groups to national NGOs and networks, policy and campaigning organisations.
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Migrant communities are facing unprecedented attacks, as the far right dominates political discourse and policy: normalising border violence, deepening the hostile environment, and eroding climate action. At the same time, as the climate crisis worsens and impacts on people in at-risk communities become increasingly severe, more people are forced to leave their homes.
People have always moved – for work, for love, for a safer, better life. Yet countries in the Global North are spending billions on brutal border regimes, far outspending the climate finance needed to protect communities from the impacts of climate breakdown. Politicians deploy anti migrant rhetoric to win votes and scapegoat people who move for their own policy failures – for the inequality in our communities, the cost of living crisis that they have caused.
Communities facing inequality and oppression globally are most vulnerable to both the effects of climate breakdown and violent border policies.
To defend people’s right to stay in the face of climate breakdown, and their right to move – safely and with dignity – there is a clear and urgent need to connect the migrant and climate justice movements across the UK. Building stronger, more interconnected communities is essential to counter the threat of the far right – connecting up to a national and global movement for climate and migrant justice that can win the world we want to build.
The CMJ is coordinated by the Climate Justice Coalition, Migrants Organise, Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, Racial Justice Network, Earth Refuge, No Borders in Climate Justice, People & Planet, Climate Outreach, War on Want, Global Justice Now, Tipping Point UK.
Fill out this form to get involved, or contact ncullen[at]waronwant[dot]org