Theory of change

IF we build trust through direct action and programs that meet people’s immediate needs (such as food banks, housing advocacy, and immigrant support),

THEN we can build mutual trust with community members, and our movement becomes grounded in community needs (as opposed to just empty narratives).

BECAUSE true power comes from tangible, lived experiences—not from symbolic gestures or performative activism.

Our principles

  • We’re fighting for the dignity, pride, and political power of our people, as we’re on our path to make decolonization and liberation attainable for all.

  • We are forging genuine alliances across causes and neighborhoods and holding spaces for each other, because until everyone is free, none of us are free.

  • We are investing in, holding space for, and entrusting a new generation of movement leaders who will champion justice and dignity.

  • We are not here to hang out in an echo chamber and pat each other on the back. Instead, we commit to strategic planning, forging coalitions, and delivering tangible outcomes. Step by step, we will galvanize our communities and shape policies that bring genuine, lasting change—we must hold ourselves accountable.

  • Our movement is grounded in the lived realities of the people—working-class communities, workers, tenants, students, newcomers, non-status immigrants, and refugees.

    This is not a movement for  performative gestures. It’s rooted in the streets, where the struggles are real, and the stakes are high. If we’re mostly sitting in front of a computer, we’re probably doing it wrong. We organize, resist, and fight alongside those most affected by injustice, building power from the ground up to win transformative change.

Justice, not charity.

Dignity for all.

The future belongs to all of us.

Justice, not charity. Dignity for all. The future belongs to all of us.

Our goals

01

Build Community Infrastructure of Care & Organizing

Establish and support housing rights initiatives, mutual-aid networks, immigrant self-advocacy groups, and other grassroots structures that anchor Montréal’s Asian immigrant communities, especially Chinatown, in collective self-determination and climate-resilient care.

02

Mobilize Asian immigrants in active solidarity with Black, Indigenous, migrant, queer, disabled, and working-class movements, linking neighbourhood struggles into a city-wide coalition for racial, economic, and climate justice.

Forge Cross-Movement Solidarity & Collective Power

03

Translate our power into policy wins (stronger tenant protections, expanded migrant rights, real climate action) while training the next generation of grassroots leaders to sustain and scale this work beyond 2030.

Win Concrete Victories and Grow Youth Leadership

How it all started

The pandemic woke us up, to anti-Asian racism, to the climate crisis, and to just how deeply broken the systems around us really are. We came from different directions—climate organizing, anti-racism, tenant organizing, storytelling, care work, and more—but we all know that survival isn’t enough. In 2024, we came together to form the Neighbourhood Action Centre (NAC), not as a new group, but as a shared home for movements and initiatives already in motion, to stay connected, get resourced, and fight for something bigger than any of us could build alone.