Our Core Principles

1. WE NAME THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM: RACIAL CAPITALISM.

If you’re reading this, you’ve probably heard someone blame humans for climate change. Well, actually, just a fraction of humans are responsible for the racial capitalist systems that are leading us to the brink of extinction. The blame lies with the greedy, white supremacist colonizers that have spent centuries exploiting both people and the planet to maximize their own power. This deadly system is now more powerful than ever, and it is visible with every wildfire, murdered activist, and poisoned river. We are forced to deal with the fallout of a sick game played by corporations and states competing over who can hoard the most wealth. 

Unfortunately, sipping on a soggy paper straw won’t solve the issue as long as billionaires keep burning the planet for both business and pleasure. The real solutions lie with dismantling the exploitative systems that impoverish the many, benefit the few, and put all of our lives and futures at risk.

2. WE BUILD A MOVEMENT TO CONFRONT SYSTEMIC INEQUALITY.

While many ordinary people struggle to make ends meet, the super-rich criss-cross the skies and seas with their private jets and yachts. Many people still believe that billionaires are rich simply because they “pulled themselves up by their bootstraps” - never mind the head starts they usually got from inherited wealth, and the fact that their ill-gotten gains come from exploiting other people’s labor and tax loopholes.

Billionaires may have endless resources and media attention to smooth over their public appearance, but we have people power. We can’t let the super-rich continue to get away with their outsized climate killing. What’s more, we’re pushing back against the dangerous and false notion that climate activists are all rich, spoiled kids who push for solutions that hurt poor people. We confront the wealthy, virtually all-white elite currently getting away with murder and fight to not only move money out of fossil fuels and the 1%, but redistribute it into the hands of our communities towards our basic needs.

3. WE BUILD A RESILIENT AND THRIVING COMMUNITY.

We can’t do this alone. We seek to resist the climate anxiety, burnout, and the alienation that comes from living through the climate crisis by building a caring community for all. Together, we are building the alternative, just society we wish to see in this world, one which centers fun, regeneration and radical care towards each other. We act in solidarity across communities and support our allies fighting for abolition, reproductive justice, labor rights, Indigenous rights, and LGBTQ+ rights, among others, in the pursuit of our shared goals.

4. WE TAKE DIRECT ACTION.

For 50 years, the mainstream environmental movement tried to start the conversation on climate through petitions, letters, lobbying, and rallies, and was repeatedly ignored. Well, after half a century of exponentially worsening climate change and inequality, we’re over it. We take escalated action, fueled by informed outrage, because we are simply out of time to keep trying the same old tame tactics. We are not willing to be told to “be polite about it” - we can’t and won’t be polite to the people actively stealing our future.