• We organize for climate justice. The Climate justice framework makes the root causes of the climate crisis clear. – namely white supremacy, colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy – and offers solutions that seek to disrupt and rebuild from the root cause.

• We understand that radical partnership with other movements for justice is integral to climate/ environmental organizing. Ex: housing rights, racial justice, reproductive justice, migration justice, movements against militarism and imperialism, etc.

• We recognize and act to challenge the history of the climate/environmental movement and its involvement in white supremacy and land dispossession.

• We center the voices of those who have the most to gain from climate justice and give space for people to speak and advocate for themselves. We value a diversity of knowledge and experience.

• We build a powerful and active base of the general public to win systemic change and political action.

• We run people powered campaigns to stop extraction and harm and advance a just transition.

• We use a variety of tactics including direct action, public education, grassroots advocacy, electoral organizing, and coalition building.

• We strive to grow a base that is representative of our communities: multigenerational, multiracial, and multicultural.

• We are place based organizations.

• We value grassroots organizing as an opportunity to give people a chance to understand their collective power.

• We believe in providing diverse ways for people to take action in impactful and meaningful ways, regardless of personal limitations on time, money, etc.

• Community members know their issues and solutions best. We depend on fellow grassroots groups to help guide our work.

• We are intentionally anticompetitive. We share content, ideas, connections and opportunities generously.

• We make democratic decisions about how to allocate shared resources.

• We follow the no fossil fuel money pledge, not all money is good money.

• The 350NC makes democratic decisions using modified consensus.

• We show up for other movements, coalitions and partners’ calls to action with transparency, a desire to learn about the current action and its history, so we are ready to step up or step back when asked.

• We seek to understand the local, regional, national and global contexts that a solidarity request exists within, understanding that impacted partners are not a monolith, that we are part of many different and complex coalition spaces, and that it is valuable to seek greater understanding of many partner positions on an issue.

• We believe in solidarity over extractive relationships.

• We believe that coalition building is essential to making change.

• We understand that building trust and lasting relationships take time, and are committed to the long haul.

• We create spaces for community members of all backgrounds, identities, and experience levels to learn, share, and grow as organizers.

• We guide members along the path to empowerment and action with trainings, workshops, support, mentorship, and resources.

• We know that there is tremendous wisdom in our bases, and still we all have so much to learn as a movement.

• We know we will make mistakes along the way. We take responsibility and embrace the opportunity to learn from it.

• We strive to be creative, experimental and flexible across our work.

• We prioritize political education to increase our base’s understanding and alignment with intersectional movements for justice.

• We strive to set & respect boundaries (physical, communication, etc) as they are critical to working together.

• We seek to build conflict and feedback systems.

• We acknowledge that this work requires so much from us; we value rest and personal time.

• We acknowledge that we each bring different identities to this space and we seek to dismantle oppression when it shows up.