Shake Up The Establishment (SUTE) is a national youth-led registered not-for-profit organization (#1190975-4) that focuses on promoting climate justice within the geographical confines of what is currently known as “Canada”. We use an intersectional approach to promote non-partisan political advocacy, craft accessible evidence-informed educational resources to improve climate and environmental literacy and work to collaborate directly with underserved and structurally vulnerable communities to address injustices.
Although we are a national organization with team members from across what is currently Canada, our founders dreamt up, organized and registered this organization upon Treaty 3 lands, belonging to the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Mississaugas Peoples. We acknowledge that our actions as an organization and the work that we put out have an impact on these lands and upon all that call it home. We are humbled to be able to follow the lead of Indigenous-led efforts towards the protection and stewardship of this environment since time immemorial across these lands we currently call ‘Canada.’
We honour the contributions of Indigenous, Black and other racialized peoples within the climate justice space and recognize their resiliency in the face of systemic oppression imposed by the settler colonial state. We aim to incorporate joy, rest and dreaming of futures throughout our work, particularly for racialized and/or Indigenous Peoples, women and gender-diverse peoples, low-income, neurodiverse, and (dis)abled youth, to help craft a more sustainable movement. We want to make space for people to reflect on their relationship to lands they live, work and thrive upon, and encourage all to show up responsibly and in solidarity with Indigenous communities to care for and nourish each other and these lands accordingly.