White House hosted meeting with climate activist group that sparked chaos at recent DC gala

The clime activistic and protestation radical that caused chaos astatine a Washington, D.C., gala this week featuring Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, was precocious hosted for a backstage gathering astatine the White House.

On Thursday, members of the Washington, D.C.-based Climate Defiance – which was founded successful aboriginal 2023 by activists Michael Greenberg and Rylee Haught – physically disrupted the lawsuit hosted by the Bryce Harlow Foundation arsenic Murkowski was delivering remarks. Then, successful a infinitesimal captured connected video, respective activists were forcibly shoved by information disconnected the stage, tumbling to the ground.

"We conscionable unopen down a gala honoring U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski. Murkowski is simply a murderer. She incinerates america to enrich her cronies. As Chevron's apical lobbyist gave her an award, we stepped successful and stopped the ceremony," Climate Defiance said successful a societal media post. "Respect america oregon expect us."

According to video of the incident, which garnered astir much than 3.5 cardinal views successful 24 hours, the Climate Defiance activists chanted anti-fossil fuels slogans arsenic they were removed from the stage. The video further shows Murkowski dilatory walking distant arsenic the activists tried to get person to her.

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Activists with the radical Climate Defiance topple disconnected the signifier portion protesting Sen. Lisa Murkowski astatine a gala connected Thursday. (Climate Defiance/X/Video screenshot)

Climate Defiance besides posted that Murkowski is an "ecocidal pyromaniac" and excoriated her for supporting the Willow Project, a monolithic lipid drilling task successful Alaska that the radical characterized arsenic "cruel and barbaric beyond description."

The activistic radical has made a sanction for itself successful caller months for disrupting events hosting lawmakers and nationalist officials, arsenic it demands assertive clime action. It has unopen down events with elder White House officials, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.

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However, Climate Defiance, which has been wide criticized implicit its disruptive methods, was invited to the White House for a backstage gathering with President Biden's elder cleanable vigor czar John Podesta successful December. 

White House cleanable vigor czar John Podesta hosted Climate Defiance leaders successful a backstage gathering successful December. (Getty Images)

According to White House records, connected Dec. 15, Podesta met privately with Greenberg, the Climate Defiance co-founder, and Climate Defiance campaigner Bala Sivaraman. The radical aboriginal boasted connected societal media that it had met with the apical authoritative and publically shared a missive that its members had handed to him.

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"Thank you for taking the clip to conscionable with america today," the radical wrote to Podesta successful the letter. "We admit your willingness to heed our deeply-held concerns. Echoing the voices of millions of Americans, we constitute to you successful the eleventh hr of the top menace that humanity has ever faced: planetary and societal illness owed to the continued burning of fossil fuels."

"We impulse you to wield your utmost authorization to instrumentality a swift extremity to immoderate national enactment for caller fossil substance infrastructure. Both the urgency of this enactment and the terrible consequences of further hold cannot beryllium overstated," it continued. "Climate Defiance recognizes your committedness to clime enactment and commends you connected your captious enactment processing and implementing the Inflation Reduction Act."

The White House and Murkowski did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.