Learn about the Climate Survival movement
The system that brought us here is a sinking ship, but no one's going to jump
until we've got the lifeboats ready.
We face so many crises: climate disasters, COVID, inflation, white supremacy, rising right-wing movements, and the forced displacement of millions across national and state borders. The U.S. government is driving an age of global crises. Climate solutions feel increasingly out of reach. And millions of people just like you are grappling with feelings of helplessness and despair.
But there is hope: movements around the world have responded to crises just like this one. We are following their example by meeting our neighbors in the midst of struggles to fight for survival and justice.
Together, we are building strong communities where everyone’s needs are met, while growing our movement’s ability to take on the fossil fuel industry.
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Why We’re Building a Mass Movement
Movements for social change get their power from having large numbers of people participate.
We know that there is broad support for measures to address climate change, but our government’s policies don’t reflect that. Why? The fossil fuel industry is deeply entrenched, it pulls so heavily on the government and almost every institution in the U.S. To outweigh industry pressure, we need a larger movement that can exert even more pressure.
More than half of Americans are either very alarmed, or significantly concerned about the climate crisis. But most people aren’t part of the movement. For every one person who’s already taking action, there are 30 more people who are just as concerned but haven’t done anything.
If the climate justice movement could grow by 30x or even larger – what might become possible for us?
We’re unleashing this growth through climate justice organizing that speaks to people’s daily concerns.
What We Do
The outcome of our struggle for survival will be determined by the people, trained leaders, and community-owned capital that our movements have access to. We won’t win our survival unless we create new strategies to build up our movements’ members, leaders, and infrastructure.
Climate Mobilization Project is helping our movements gather the members, leaders, and economic strategies that we need to win.
Our pilot survival programs are the building blocks of an economy that fuels our movements, not corporate greed. Survival programs provide access to food, care, disaster resilience, energy, and water while bringing everyone who participates in them into a powerful and growing movement for survival.
We can’t adapt our way out of this crisis, but survival programs allow our movement’s members to thrive, care for their communities and grow the movement during acute and long-term disasters and crises.
Survival programs are designed through movement incubation initiatives that transform isolated struggles into a community-wide mass movement for survival. With your support, we have onboarded 40+ local partner organizations across three cities and states, more than 90% of which were not previously working on climate change. These organizations are now leading the Climate Survival movement, launching shared campaigns, and growing the movement.
Climate Mobilization Project also scales these successful movement building strategies nationwide. People across the U.S. are coming together to care for their communities in an era of crises. But without support, these efforts will not build power for our movements. Climate Mobilization Project provides training, case studies and organizing guides so that organizers can turn resilience hubs into resistance hubs, turn mutual aid initiatives into the building blocks of the regenerative economy we need to survive, and turn cooperative economic projects into tools to win direct action campaigns and divest our communities from fossil fuels and genocide.
How We’re Launching the Movement
We are building movement that is made up of many different movements coming together, where groups across social justice areas – including farming and food sovereignty, mutual aid, abolition, reproductive justice, trans rights, environmental justice, workers rights, immigrant justice, tenant organizing groups, anti-militarism organizing groups, and more – can learn from each other, build relationships, and build shared campaigns to build a people-centered, multi-issue climate justice movement.
If you’re part of an organization that wants to join this movement, fill out the form below.
Developing and Scaling Survival Programs Across the U.S.
During Movement Incubation, social justice groups in a community come together to learn, create a shared vision for survival across issue areas, pilot survival programs, launch direct actions, and build a powerful, thriving membership base.
Climate Mobilization Project is working with more than 15 leading environmental, racial and economic justice organizations across Kentucky; Green Side Up Farms in Las Vegs, NV; and the founders of Rhizome in Richmond, VA to build the movement for survival here, and in 3 more communities by the end of 2025.
Climate Mobilization Project has already begun sharing the work taking place in these communities through videos, toolkits and curriculum that we produce on an ongoing basis so that communities around the U.S. can learn and follow their lead.
In Kentucky, survival means tornado and chemical leak preparedness; protection from right-wing violence; and access to community news
Daisy Carter, our Kentucky Movement Incubation Coordinator, shares how we are working with 25 organizations and leaders across Kentucky to build an ecosystem of survival programs that meet people’s day-to-day needs while growing the movement for climate justice.
In Las Vegas, survival means job training & business ownership for formerly incarcerated residents; community-owned farms and stores; and an end to food apartheid
Alaric Overbey, the Chief Operating Officer of Green Side Up Farms, shares how Green Side Up and Climate Mobilization Project are building up a Black-led vertical farming ecosystem, economic self-determination and grassroots leadership on Las Vegas’ disinvested West Side.
In Richmond, survival means a 100-acre farm that grows food sovereignty and reconnects young BIPOC movement leaders with the land
Zakaria Kronemer, the founder of Rhizome, shares his work with Climate Mobilization Project to launch Dogbane Movement Hub, a training center and skill-building laboratory for incubating climate survival programs. The survival programs we are currently piloting at Dogbane use food, farming skills training, and cooperative development to grow the climate justice movement. Because of Dogbane Movement Hub, movement leaders are developing food and land sovereignty strategies to strengthen the movement for our survival.
How Our Movements can Respond to Climate Disasters
CMP Co-Leader Mariyah Jahangiri explains how organizing for resilience allows our movements to lead and grow in a time of escalating crises.
Building an Organization and Movement Led by BIPOC Youth
We are resourcing Survival Bloc – an emerging BIPOC youth-led network that is building the vision, messaging, outreach, healing, and political education strategies for a national Climate Survival movement.
Survival Bloc offers “lifeboats” and opportunities for people struggling to access food, water, energy, and other critical needs. These programs serve working-class and BIPOC communities, reaching everyday people who are on the front lines of accelerating ecological and economic crises. Survival Bloc’s programs working-class and excluded people meaning, community care, material help, and pathways to economic self-determination – creating the necessary support network needed to fight the climate crisis and the corporations responsible for it.
