This is an audio journey through the Toronto Climate Strike of September 16th, 2023. Each bell will transport you to....

A SPOKEN WORD titled The True Cost of Coal. The True Cost of Coal is a story created by the Beehive Design Collective. The story features lessons on themes of ecology, colonial history, workers' rights, extreme extraction, community organizing, and regenerative futures alongside the Beehive.

SPEAKER #1

SYED HUSSAN

An executive Director of Migrant Workers Alliance. MWAC's mission reflects the needs of thousands of migrant workers and students, helping them build power and providing support as the coalition presses for quality jobs and equity in the workplace for ALL!

SPEAKER #2

MAYA MENEZES

A senior Climate Finance Organizer at Stand Earth. Maya works at the intersections of financial regulation, fossil divestment, Indigenous land rights solidarity, and organized labor's reclamation of justly invested pensions for climate resiliency.

SPEAKER #3

DR. MILI ROY

A practicing physician and mother living and working in the Territory of the Mississauga's of the Credit First Nation. She is an Assistant Professor with the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto and serves as Ontario Regional Co-Chair for the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, which works to improve human health by protecting planetary health.

SPEAKER #4

ZOE KEARY-MATZNER

One of seven students taking the Ontario government to court for failing to act on the climate crisis.

SPEAKER #5
ALIÉNOR (ALLIE) ROUGEOT

A Toronto-based climate justice activist and current program manager at Environmental Defence Canada. She advocates for a just transition for workers and communities and the cleanup of the tar sand's toxic tailings ponds.

Thank you to Fridays for Future for initiating and engaging the Toronto community with a city-wide strike for climate justice.