Mission
Mosquito Fleet is dedicated to democratizing access to waterways as a means of supporting folks in cultivating a personal and meaningful connection with water. Our work aims to make progress toward real climate justice through on-water advocacy, popular education, and grassroots movement building.
Our Values
The Fleet is guided by a steadfast commitment to climate justice and our belief in the power of grassroots community building, intersectionality and collective liberation. We are dedicated to addressing the root causes of the climate and ecological crisis — capitalism — by fighting for a just transition which centers affected communities. We value creating accessible spaces for people of all skills, experiences, and abilities to engage in building community power on the water, especially folks who have been historically excluded from the climate movement and outdoor spaces.
To read more about the values that Mosquito Fleet is committed to, please read our Community Values & Agreements and Engagement Policy.
Theory of Change
Mosquito Fleet centers waterways as key sites of resistance and resilience, where we organize to (re)cultivate our relationship to water and build skills to defend and protect it. Through resource sharing, skill-sharing, increasing accessibility, and building deep relationship and trust with each other, we will build power to challenge systems of oppression and create the world we all need.
Mosquito Fleet has a community hub on the eastern banks of the Willamette River in so-called Portland, Oregon. It is important to remember that these are the traditional village sites of the original inhabitants of this land - the Multnomah, Kathlamet, Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, Clackamas bands of the Chinook, Tualatin Kalapuya, Molalla, Cowlitz, Cayuse, Umatilla, Walla Walla and many other tribes who have stewarded this land for generations.
The lower Willamette was once a magnificent system of plants, rivers, streams, lakes and forest; all braided into one another. We recognize the original and ongoing stewards who have lived, traveled, hunted, fished and gathered in the river and on the shores.
We honor the unique abundance of this river system and the people who have sustained it.
We acknowledge the harm done to the river system and her people. This river has become a sacrifice zone for violent industrial development, consisting of Superfund sites, fossil fuel corporations and chemical companies.
We envision a future where these waters are not controlled by exploiters and extractors, and the river can return to its braided origins.
Visit Us in
ne portland
8940 N Bradford St
Portland, OR 97203
We are a part of the Green Anchors PDX community, a 7 acre eco-industrial park along the Willamette River in the St. John’s neighborhood.
Contact: mosquito@mosquitofleet.us