A protest that disrupted a speech by Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair, at the Economic Club of New York this fall generated extensive coverage.
All three upheavals were caused by the same group, Climate Defiance, which a now-30-year-old activist named Michael Greenberg founded in the spring.
Mr. Greenberg had long worked in traditional climate advocacy, but he decided that something louder was needed to spur change at institutions like the Fed.
“I realized there was a big need for disruptive direct action,” he explained in an interview.
“It just gets so, so, so, so, so much more attention.”
Persons:
Jerome H, Powell, Michael Greenberg, Greenberg, “, ”
Organizations:
Federal, Economic, of New, International Monetary Fund
Locations:
Jackson, Lodge, Wyoming, of New York