In its four months of existence, the Washington, D.C.–based activist youth group Climate Defiance, whose stated visions include “racial justice,” “economic equality,” and “a planet that sustains life,” has confronted everyone from Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to Amy Klobuchar and Joe Manchin. Its members have “blockaded” the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and been arrested for disrupting a meeting in a House of Representatives office building as well as a fireside chat with Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo at the Congress-chartered Wilson Center.
And yet, according to its members, no protest has been met with so much aggression, and never has the threat of violence felt so high, as at a wine event held in honor of Massachusetts governor Maura Healey on August 19 on Nantucket.
