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Our fight for climate justice is a fight for liberation, an end to nuclear colonialism and militarized empire, and a world where people and planet come before profit and power.

A just future is one without nuclear weapons – where land, water, and life are protected, and the oppressive systems fueling violence, extraction, and ongoing harm are dismantled.

And now, the U.S. is expanding nuclear weapons production – with facilities like LANL at the center of this war machine – pouring billions into bombs and violence while communities from New Mexico to Japan suffer from decades of U.S. colonialism, militarism, and contamination.

In New Mexico, we’ve seen our lands and waters poisoned, entire communities displaced, downwinders denied compensation and care, and our tax dollars poured into the development of nuclear weapons while our basic needs – like healthcare, housing, and climate resilience go unmet.

That violence didn’t end in 1945. It lives on in systems that value power over life & in communities still carrying the harm in their bodies & lands – from Hiroshima & Nagasaki to New Mexico, where the first nuclear bomb was tested without warning & where extraction & injustice persist.

This week marks 80 years since the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima & Nagasaki. As we honor the lives stolen by nuclear colonialism, we know this violence didn’t start or end there – it was built on a long legacy of settler colonialism, militarism, & imperialism that still continues today.

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“We can’t afford climate action” is a lie told by those who benefit from keeping things exactly as they are.

The most expensive thing we can do is nothing. And that’s exactly what those in power are still doing.

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The idea that we can fund clean energy, good jobs, and climate action isn’t some far-fetched fantasy.

The money is there – we’re just handing it to the fossil fuel industry instead.

What if we stopped propping up the fossil fuel industry?

Every year, we spend trillions of dollars globally just to keep it alive - enough to fully fund a just transition.

Oh - and for every $1 spent, clean energy creates 3x more jobs than fossil fuels.

So what exactly are we waiting for?

In 2025, the U.S. is still handing out tens of billions of dollars in fossil fuel subsidies.

Meanwhile, the needs of our communities, our families, and our young people go ignored.

In 2024, 823 fires burned more than 82,000 acres of land in New Mexico.

But instead of investing in bold climate solutions, people in power kept funneling billions to the companies driving destruction.

In 2023 alone, the U.S. saw 28 separate billion-dollar climate disasters, totaling over $92 billion in damages.

Meanwhile, billionaires and fossil fuel CEO’s continued to cash in – with Exxon, Chevron, Shell and BP raking in over $100 billion in profits in the same year.

They say we “can’t afford” to take bold climate action.

But the truth is, we can’t afford not to. A 🧵

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We’re done watching our futures get sold off to the highest bidder – we’re building power they can’t ignore.

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No more compromise.
No more greenwashing.
No more pretending that false solutions are anything but a scam to delay real action.

We don’t want a seat at their table.

This is about dismantling the systems that were never built to serve us.

We’re not “future leaders”.

We’re leading right now – fighting back against climate denial, industry greed, and the politicians who are doing their bidding.

It’s not the climate crisis keeping them up at night. It’s us – the young people who are angry, organized, and not backing down.

Because we’re not just sounding the alarm. We’re coming for their power.

No more compromise.
No more greenwashing.
No more pretending that false solutions are anything but a scam to delay real action.

We’re not “future leaders”.

We’re leading right now – fighting back against climate denial, industry greed, and the politicians who are doing their bidding.

No more compromise.
No more greenwashing.
No more pretending that false solutions are anything but a scam to delay real action.

We’re not “future leaders”.

We’re leading right now – fighting back against climate denial, industry greed, and the politicians who are doing their bidding.

We don’t have to accept the systems that are killing us. We can organize. We can fight. And we will build the future we deserve.

We’re done waiting for someone else to save us. We’re the generation that’s building something different.

A future where frontline communities lead the way. Where profit never comes before the people. Where the power belongs to us.

The violence we’re witnessing – from Gaza to the Permian Basin – is connected.

It’s all rooted in extraction. In exploitation. In empire.

And it won’t stop until we stop it.

The billionaires profiting off genocide and fueling climate collapse?
Protected.

The oil executives torching the planet for profit?
Rewarded.

The politicians bought off by industry and corporate PACs?
Reelected.

This isn’t a broken system. It’s a system doing exactly what it was built to do.

None of this is accidental.

Militarism. Climate disaster. Displacement. Extraction.

It’s all working as designed – for the rich, for the powerful, and for the few.

We know that the fight ahead won’t be easy. The system isn’t broken–it’s working exactly as it was designed to.

But young people in New Mexico are powerful.
We’re organizing. We’re building.
And we’re just getting started.

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We’re building power from the ground up – speaking truth at the Roundhouse, mobilizing young people across the state, taking to the streets, and educating our communities.

Because those closest to the crisis should be the ones leading the way forward.

We’re a movement of young people organizing in one of the most extractive states in the country to stop the systems that are destroying our future.

We’ve grown up watching our rivers run dry, the air turn thick with wildfire smoke, and our political leaders sell us out–and we’ve had enough.