Reframing climate justice: Europe’s climate movement stands at a crossroads
Driven by white, middle-class archetypes of what it means to be the “right” kind of activist, the mainstream climate movement has prioritised fast, visible, solutions-based action as the ultimate weapon against the unfolding climate crisis. Yet, this approach is dangerously close to replicating the harms caused by the very systems of domination responsible for this […]
Personal troubles as public issues: Revisiting Systemic Injustices in Europe
Today, Europe continues to experience a series of crises that disproportionately affect racially, socially, and economically marginalised groups and communities. The assent of populist governments across the region have emboldened racist, homophobic, and misogynist narratives, alongside a disdain for poor and working-class communities, and people on the move. Further, negative media portrayals of organisations, movements, […]
Imagining change for the world and ourselves
“If you could change the way one system currently works, what would it be and why?” This question, put to us at our recent team retreat by Lea Jovy-Ford from Mission Equality, asked us to imagine what the systems we live and work in would look like if they had not been built by colonialism […]
Improving our Community Toolkit: launching our second-round needs assessment
A critical component of the community-driven litigation model Systemic Justice has developed is to work in consultation with organisations and collectives to make knowledge on the law and litigation as a tool more readily accessible to everyone. When we say “consultation”, we don’t mean a tick-boxing exercise. We directly ask communities what they need to […]
Our first community toolkit workshop: putting our resources into practice
We held our first Community toolkit for change workshop on “Making the courts work for communities’ causes”, where we were joined by community leaders and supporters eager to explore how the courts can be leveraged in their campaigns for change.
Celebrating two years of work: small but mighty, and why there should be more like us
Systemic Justice celebrates its second anniversary. The organisation was founded on the recognition that real, systemic change requires challenging the status quo; that it requires tackling root causes in an intersectional and community-driven way.