Are you ready to win freedom for yourself, your family, and your communities? Come find your kinfolk with Embark Sustainability, SFPIRG, and Organizing for Change for two days of learning, sharing, networking, and skill building. Register now to join us July 17-18 for Liberation Summer at SFU Harbour Centre and 312 Main.

As we build our collective power in response to the urgency of ongoing global crisis, moments of reflection and connection are crucial in strategizing to realize the change we want, need, and deserve in the world today. It’s vital to lift each other up in this fight and collaborate on our tactics together in real-time. Whether you are a seasoned activist or new to the game, enrolled student or lifelong learner, employed in an environmental organization or aspiring to work in the sector someday soon, all are welcome, and we know we are strongest when we harness the diversity of our networks.

From July 17-18, we will be building intentional space for both emerging and veteran organizers to come together and strategize our next steps at the intersections of climate justice, disability justice, abolition, Indigenous sovereignty, poverty reduction, and racial justice. Participants in Liberation Summer will leave better motivated and equipped to actively work toward climate justice sustained by their community and comrades.

What can you expect from us?

• Relationship Building
• Intergenerational exchanges of knowledge
• Multi-sensory workshops & activities
• Strategies for building sustainable movements
• Resources for getting involved in local climate and social justice movements

If you have any questions or support needs, please email programs@embarksustainability.org. In the meantime, remember: “Another world is not only possible, she is on her way; on a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” ~ Arundhati Roy

Land Acknowledgement

This event takes place on the unceded homelands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), səlil̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and kʷikʷəƛw̓əm (Kwikwetlem) Nations.

Event Accessibility

Embark Sustainability events are free and open to Embark members which includes Simon Fraser University undergraduate and graduate students, plot renters, as well as Embark Associate Members.

This event will be held at SFU Harbour Centre and 312 Main. Accessibility details include:

• All spaces are wheelchair accessible.
• We aim to host a scent-free space. Please refrain from wearing scented products in attendance of this event.
• We cannot provide ASL interpretation at this time.
• As an attendee, you are free to opt-in and opt-out of activities as suit your needs throughout the event, including exiting and re-entering the event space.

We aim to make our events accessible to as many of our community members as possible. If we can take further action to make this event accessible to you, please contact our Programs Manager at programs@embarksustainability.org.

Health & Safety

We further acknowledge that COVID is not over and that the pandemic disproportionately impacts the most vulnerable among us including BIPOC, poor people, and folks living with illness and/or disability. In light of these realities, and in the spirit of nurturing communities of care, we will be practicing the highest level of precaution possible including masking during all indoor programming. We ask that all participants similarly act with the utmost precaution to limit transmission of the virus. Masks will be provided for attendees.

Community Agreement

By registering to attend this event, you are agreeing to be respectful when listening to and communicating with others, and be mindful of the space you are taking up amongst your peers.

Embark Sustainability does not tolerate violence or aggression against others on the basis of race, ethnicity, place of origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, religious affiliation, or ability. Please also refer to people using the introductions they provide and do not assume pronouns/gender/knowledge based on someone’s name or appearance.

If these agreements are broken by someone, we will have to ensure the safety of our community members by removing them from the event.

Questions

If you have any questions about this event, please contact Embark Sustainability’s Programs Manager at programs@embarksustainability.org.