Climate Defiance Benefit ft. Ro Khanna, Rashida Tlaib, and Steven Donziger

Start: Wednesday, October 25, 202307:00 PM

End: Wednesday, October 25, 202309:00 PM

Host contact info info@climatedefiance.org

You are invited to the Climate Defiance benefit.

We are so honored to be joined by Green New Deal-loving, pipeline-slaying Congressmembers Ro Khanna and Rashida Tlaib.

We are a brand-new youth-led group and we are making people in power quake. The leading climate and clean energy trade publication E&E News wrote: "With its public displays of opposition, the activist group Climate Defiance is elevating environmental concerns with Biden to the political spotlight arguably unlike any other group in the ideologically varied tableau of U.S. environmental groups."

We do not go along to get along. We do not sit in cubicles circulating petitions and signing coalition letters. We block doors. We blockade galas. We shut down speeches at think tanks and hotels and conferences and fundraisers and Congressional office buildings. We act like our very lives are on the line because they are.  

Let's come together to celebrate all we have done and raise funds for the next stage of our peaceful uprising.  

In our first six months we have:

  • Blockaded the main entrances to the White House Correspondents Dinner, alongside Justin Pearson and Justin Jones of the #TennesseeThree.
  • Converged on Biden's $25,000-per-plate fundraiser in NYC with Jane Fonda, where we kicked up a storm that was impossible to ignore.
  • Shut down a speech by Senator Joe Manchin.
  • Shown up at almost every think tank panel, policy conference, and keynote where top administration officials appear.
  • Confronted Senator Amy Klobuchar over her silence on the Line 3 pipeline.
  • Taken over the Congressional Women's Softball Game.

This is working. Here's how we know:

  • The New York Times has mentioned our group, in multiple articles.
  • We have been covered by over 100 media outlets including ABC, SF Chronicle, Politico, Washington Post, Democracy Now.
  • We have reached over 50,000,000 impressions on Twitter, organically.
  • Deputy Interior Secretary Tommy Beaudreau (who signed Willow) resigned 15 days after we protested him.
  • Jody Freeman resigned from Conoco just weeks after we protested her.

People power is our secret sauce. But we also need some funds to make this all possible.