Resiliency Organizing Hubs

Building power, capacity and connections across constituencies

The concept of Resiliency Organizing Hubs was first introduced at the NC Climate Justice Summit in November 2014. Simply talking about the concept and offering toolkits was insufficient to get Hubs up and running; grassroots groups were too short on resources and too focused on existing activities to add another commitment. However, in the wake of Hurricane Florence, numerous groups turned to NCCJC as an anchoring organization in the Just Florence Recovery process to request the kind of support Hubs could offer. Starting in 2018, the Collective has been working with several communities to build local climate resilience.

HOW RESILIENCY ORGANIZING HUBS WORK

Resiliency Organizing Hubs are interactive, culturally relevant spaces designed to provide training, respite, and healing for organizers. They're a place to build local climate power, support multiracial and intergenerational leadership, and build out for action as a hub of collective struggle for a just transition and just recovery.

Building power, capacity and connections across constituencies:

Because Hubs are founded on the principles of climate justice, they cultivate intergenerational and multiracial leadership while centering indigenous peoples, communities of color, youth, low income communities, women, LGBTQI+ people and immigrants.

Relational coalition building through the 4 Rs:

A truly Just Transition requires social transformation. Resiliency Organizing Hubs are places we can practice our 4 R's. The Hubs offer a place and a process for many groups working toward a Just Transition (and through a Just Recovery) to learn more about each other’s campaigns, engage in political education and to collaborate on joint efforts. People in the Hubs can gain a greater understanding of the organizations and groups in their community that are doing work in each of the 4Rs to learn more about what’s happening and where there are gaps.There can also be activities that explicitly develop one of the 4Rs (for example, collective visioning for a Just Transition would be an important piece of Re-imagining)

Healing/cultural space:

The Hubs are based on the principles of transformative organizing and include practices that build racial justice, economic justice and environmental justice. Healing justice circles, racial equity workshops and skills building in trauma stewardship are examples of possible offerings. Hubs are a place where people give and receive many kinds of support and can “bring their whole selves”.

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