[note: this event is the afterparty immediately following Climate Defiance's winter fundraiser]

Climate Defiance and Planet Over Profit are joining forces for a late-evening benefit ft Cori Bush. Climate Defiance and POP are both brand-new, youth-led groups. We both are out fighting for our lives, using direct action to resist the politicians, CEOs, and 1%-ers who torch the earth to gin up profits. Climate Defiance has blockaded the White House Correspondents Dinner and the Congressional Softball Game, while POP has taken over the Hamptons, blocked private jets, and confronted top CEOs.

We will be joined by special VIP guests including:

-Congresswoman Cori Bush

-Steven Donziger

-Amazon Labor Union President Chris Smalls

-Greenpeace CEO Ebony Martin

-Assemblymember Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas

-NYC City Council Member Sandy Nurse

-NYC City Council Member Chi Osse

-Political activist India Walton

-Former State Assemblymember Yuh-Line Niou

About Planet Over Profit:

POP is a new youth-led movement based in New York, using people power and direct actions to take down the fossil fuels industry and the billionaire class selling our future away. While we are sipping on soggy paper straws, billionaires are competing over who has a bigger mega-yacht - it's time to take power back and reclaim our future!

We are in the middle of an existential climate crisis and a growing inequality crisis. We are choking on wildfire smoke. Black and brown communities are being poisoned and displaced by fossil fuel corporations. This is the hottest summer on record. We are sinking in debt we will never be able to repay. The people responsible for that? Billionaires who keep profiting off coal, oil, and gas while we live under yellow apocalyptic skies and constant flood warnings. Their allies in office like Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer, and Kathy Hochul don't stop these billionaires but rather help enrich them while they cause the climate crisis. If our so-called 'leaders' won't hold climate culprits accountable, we just have to do it ourselves. Wherever these greedy CEOs and politicians go - golf clubs, Michelin restaurants, private jets, Park Ave penthouses, board rooms - we will be there too.

About Climate Defiance:

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 crash 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.  

Chelsea Handler said Climate Defiance is "the best new, nonpartisan group that goes after politicians on both sides in the U.S."

Steven Donziger said: "They do what is needed better than just about any group in the world. Climate Defiance has shown time and again the ability to execute effectively on the strategy of disruptive activism and to reach millions of people in the process."

Congressman Ro Khanna said about our group: "You have gotten the country's attention...People in Congress are talking about you. Senators are talking about you. The President is talking about you. And remember this, the future is with you.”

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We can't wait to see you! Address provided after RSVP.

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Ticket sales will be split evenly between Climate Defiance and Planet Over Profit.