"New breed of #climate #protesters vows to take fight to ‘cowards’ of #USPolitics
#ClimateDefiance, trying to make the #ClimateCrisis a top issue in #2024Election, isn’t afraid to anger ‘cowards’ and ‘criminals’.
A climate protest group backed by a cadre of Hollywood film-makers is preparing to take action against “cowards” and “criminals” of all political stripes as the 2024 election approaches.
Climate Defiance, which disrupted events featuring a string of #Biden administration officials this year, and targeted Darren Woods, CEO of #ExxonMobil, in December, will consider protesting at events staged by both #Democrats and #Republicans on the #campaign trail after concluding that its “very disruptive” action was bearing fruit.
In an interview, Michael Greenberg, the group’s co-founder, told the Guardian it will also focus “more and more” on state-level demonstrations designed to deter policymakers from approving #FossilFuel projects.
Climate Defiance has also interrupted two separate public appearances by the chair of the #FederalReserve, Jerome Powell. It is now recruiting for an organizing director to help coordinate “disruptive, nonviolent direct action to resist fossil fuel #extraction”, according to a job advertisement.
“If we were a new group asking nicely, we’d be a random no-name group and the White House could just have conversations with groups a hundred times our size who did the same thing,” said Greenberg, 30. “Why would they talk to us?”
Since demonstrating outside the #WhiteHouse correspondents’ dinner in the spring, its activists have staged protests at events featuring a string of senior federal officials, including the #transportation secretary, Pete #Buttigieg, and the #energy secretary, Jennifer Granholm."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/26/climate-defiance-change-protesters-confrontation
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