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New breed of climate protesters vows to take fight to ‘cowards’ of US politics (www.theguardian.com)
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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.

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[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 18 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Their approach is likely to have a fairly limited impact; you can push a reluctant ally this way, but they're not going to shift the Republicans because they're paid off. Actually getting more legislation is going to mean getting more and better Democrats elected in November. That means looking at close house and senate races, as well as making sure that Biden gets re-elected, and ensuring that state-level judiciary is in place to end gerrymanders in Republican-leaning areas.

[–] ArumiOrnaught@kbin.social 11 points 10 months ago

It won't have an impact on the 2024 elections, but it could on later ones. The group is basically saying it's good to be mad at people killing the planet.

But yes, I do agree the best shot we have is not giving the knife to people who want to murder earth.

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