Climate Defiance

Kathy Hochul is a one-term rep from Buffalo who lucked into the Governorship when her sexual predator running mate resigned in disgrace. Now she’s approving pipelines to curry favor with Trump.

We crashed her lackey’s event. We shut it down. And we did not apologize.

Climate Defiance (@climatedefiance) We spend USD1 trillion a year on the military. 70,000+ dead in Gaza. 150,000+ dead in Sudan. Children dying in Congo's cobalt mines. And they say we can't afford fucking solar panels.

We spend USD1 trillion a year on the military. 70,000+ dead in Gaza. 150,000+ dead in Sudan. Children dying in Congo's cobalt mines.

And they say we can't afford fucking solar panels.

Fuck Black Friday Giving Tuesday was created to fight consumerism. Then consumerism swallowed it whole. Let's take it back.

This holiday you can fund Jeff Bezos's next set of pec implants. Or you can fund the people disrupting the politicians he owns. Your call.

We disrupted the Chuck Schumer of Maryland: Bill Ferguson.

Fancy Lanyards + Bullshit Won't Save Us. But We Know What Will. 200 countries. Two weeks. Zero mention of fossil fuels. COP30 just proved what we've always known: the system won't save us.

200 countries. Two weeks. Zero mention of fossil fuels. COP30 just proved what we've always known: THE SYSTEM WON’T SAVE US.

To Jeffrey (1953-2019)

Gretchen Whitmer. LOL.

BREAKING: We disrupted Van Jones in Denver. And things got REAL. Our activists were brutalized while Jones waved and smiled on stage.

Climate Defiance Giving Tuesday in NYC

So join us! December 2 | 6pm | NYC

Limited spots.

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EMILY GALLAGHER – NY Assemblymember. DSA-backed champion willing to take on fossil fuel lobby. Answers to people, not donors.

WALTER MASTERSON – Comedian who makes climate criminals look like the clowns they are. Satire is a weapon. He wields it brilliantly.

CHI OSSÉ – NYC Councilmember about to primary Hakeem Jeffries for Congress. Represents the new generation who fight for working people, not corp interests.

ADAM MET – You know him from AJR. Founder of Planet Reimagined. Uses his platform to push for real climate action, not corporate greenwashing.

This is just you + us scheming about how to end the era of fossil fuels + raise the funds needed to keep doing this work! And we have an insane lineup of climate leaders + advocates joining us . . .

This will be epic! We're throwing a BANGER in NYC and we want you to be there.

We don't celebrate Giving Tuesday like other nonprofits do. No blowing up your phone with robotexts from Nancy Pelosi. Or conning you with the promise of a 19:1 match from an "anonymous donor" if you give by 11:59.

He shrank away.
Fled.
Cowered then just like he cowers now.

Schumer is an utter failure. He’s been a failure for decades. And it’s time for him to step aside.

RESIGN CHUCK SCHUMER.

Chuck Schumer is a joke. He bent the knee to Trump. Gave MAGA everything they wanted and received not a single concession in return.

This is one of our first ever Climate Defiance actions, where we snuck into the Harvard Club to publicly condemn Schumer in front of his multimillionaire donors.

We organize now. For climate. For marginalized communities. For Gaza. For Sudan. For all of it!

Otherwise people die and capitalism wins.

We Won. And Now The Oligarchs Are Regrouping. Don't You Dare Go Back to Brunch. Mamdani's victory proves the people can win. But now Trump, Bloomberg, the establishment? They're all BIG MAD and will hit back with all that they have. NOW is the time to organize.

We won in NY. Billionaires spent MILLIONS trying to override us. We won anyway.

But now they’re regrouping. Seething in their penthouses. Spilling champagne on their Hermès ties. Calling emergency donor meetings.

They’re going to hit back. So here’s what we're NOT doing: going back to brunch.

Can Billionaires Buy New York City? Tuesday Will Tell Us New York City votes Tuesday. The question isn’t who should run the city – it’s whether billionaires get to own it.

If billionaires can buy NYC's mayoral election even after voters rejected their candidate in the primary, they can buy ANYTHING.

Hey, New York: Don't let oligarchy win.

Veto a climate bill? Expect a response

This is what corporate capture looks like.

South Baltimore deserves better.
All of Maryland deserves better.

So yes, we confronted him. And we’ll keep confronting every politician who chooses corporate profits over people’s lives.

Bills in the Maryland legislature would have imposed fees on coal companies and dedicated $5 million to asthma treatment in Curtis Bay. Moore stayed silent and let them die a quiet death.

Moore ignored repeated invitations from Curtis Bay residents – a predominantly Black community suffering from a coal export terminal. Children there have some of the highest asthma rates in America.

Maryland was next. But Moore killed it, claiming budget concerns while giving data center companies massive tax breaks.

. . . THEN vetoed the bill that would have studied their impacts. His own allies called him out.

Next he vetoed the RENEW Act – a study costing ONLY $500k that could have led to BILLIONS from fossil fuel companies for climate damages. NY and Vermont already passed “climate superfund” laws.

When data center company Aligned Data Centers refused to comply with pollution regulations + left, he gutted those regulations instead of protecting communities + passed the Critical Infrastructure Streamlining Act in 2024, exempting data center backup diesel generators from environmental review.

Moore pretends to be a climate leader but in reality he is the exact opposite. He is ready and willing to poison Black and brown communities in his own state to enrich his cronies, like the ones gathered in this multimillion dollar Capitol Hill home.

Let’s look at his track record . . .

MAJOR UPDATE: We caught Maryland Governor Wes Moore attending a private breakfast meeting at the home of Exxon lobbyist Michael McKay.

Today we share the never-before-seen footage from inside that meeting.

Despair is a luxury we cannot afford. Despair is exactly what the fossil fuel CEOs want us to feel. The fight begins anew. Right here. Right now.

We will mourn what we have lost and fight like hell for what we can still save. Today and every day. Onwards. (11/11)

Our ecosystems are at the precipice of collapse, and meanwhile the leader of the free world shreds climate regulations and boosts fossil fuel production. This is a dark time for our country and & climate. BUT: (10/11)

This will not be easy. We are up against a lot. A multi-trillion dollar fossil fuel industry. A multi-trillion dollar right-wing misinformation machine. A fascist Republican Party. A “Democratic” party that delivers little more than “strongly worded letters.” (9/11)