Hoodwinked

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THIRD EDITION

RESIST FALSE SOLUTIONS
TO CLIMATE CHANGE

Finding agency in a time of continual crisis: A Hoodwinked offering

Dear Hoodwinked Community,

How do we respond to this moment? Many are in acute crisis, having lost homes and livelihoods due to the California wildfires, facing the threat of deportation, or searching for safe shelter despite brutal temperatures. Others may not be in immediate danger but are witnessing increasing fascism, climate crisis, threats to healthcare, livelihood, safety, and unchecked billionaire corporate control, wondering when the increasing violence and climate disasters they see on their screens will greet them in real life. How do we prepare for these very real threats and act from a mindset of abundance rather than through a fear-based, scarcity mindset, when the threats are real and increasing?

In an emergency, panicking does not help. One must move carefully, diligently and strategically. However, living in 2025 … and 2024 and the year before etc., the times continue to be “unprecedented.” The news tells us that everyday is an emergency, and in many ways it is.

If we exist in a state of hyper-vigilance and constant stress, we get sick, and we burn out. The messages that resonate right now are reminders to not forgo our body’s basic needs in a desire to show up, whether physically or mentally, to every emergency. Alternatively, it may feel so threatening we become paralyzed, desensitized, or hopeless, leading us to forget our own agency and power. How do we find that balance between existing in a state of hyper-vigilance vs. paralysis? Well, we can choose where we put our energy and perhaps through limiting an overextension of that energy, we further the work more. We must be serious about pacing ourselves, as times are going to continue to be “unprecedented.”

It is time to streamline and strengthen our organizing, nurture our relationships and take care of one another. It is time to push outside of comfort zones and realize and actualize the power that we hold as members of local (and global) communities.

So, before you leap into action or into despair, 1. allow yourself to feel and allow yourself to rest and listen to your body and its needs 2. talk about what is happening and how you feel with others 3. reflect on how you want to show up, what you realistically can do, what you think is most strategic, and what skills you have to offer. We all have different roles to play in this moment and this movement. 4. Meet with your like minded community to nourish and strategize and commit to how you will work toward climate justice and collective liberation this year 5. Go do it! and not just with friends but with strangers and neighbors 6. mobilize and encourage others to do the same. 7. keep going and repeat.

Keep reading to find resources, upcoming events, action items, good news, bad news, and more. And stay tuned to learn how Hoodwinked is Fighting False Corporate Schemes in 2025 and how you can get involved.

Movement Spotlight

YUCCA (Youth United for Climate Crisis Action) leads 100+ Youth and Allies in Powerful Direct Action on Opening Day of the 2025 Legislative Session

“On the opening day of the 2025 New Mexico Legislature, over 100 students and adult allies took over the streets outside the State Capitol in a powerful act of defiance. They blockaded roads and painted a stark image: time is running out.

Under the Luján Grisham administration, oil and gas production in New Mexico has more than doubled, cementing the state as the second largest producer of oil and gas in the country. While corporate executives reap record profits, our communities are left to suffer the devastating consequences.

The crisis is no longer some distant warning—it’s here. Days are now 15 degrees above average, leaving our elders and workers in scorching heat, day after day. Rivers and acequias, the lifeblood of our rural and Indigenous communities, are running dry. The Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire turned homes and forests into ash in 2022, leading to devastating flooding in the burn scars last year, and now families in Los Angeles are fleeing as the city burns in its worst wildfire season on record.

We see it in our own backyards: the air we breathe feels heavier, tinged with smoke and toxins. The food we grow struggles in parched soil. Our power bills climb as we fight to keep cool in deadly heat. Every moment of inaction is stealing our future and our ability to simply live.” – YUCCA

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The Hoodwinked Collaborative is a global ecosystem of base-building movements led by Indigenous and frontline communities, and allied grassroots networks and alliances that have been collaborating over the past decade to successfully stop neoliberal climate policy schemes and subsidies for dangerous techno fixes, so that public funds can go towards the place-based, environmental justice solutions we really need. Over the past three years, we have armed our grassroots bases with popular education materials, strategies and allied NGO networks that have helped our frontlines stop many existing and emergent polluting industries, from stopping local permits for dangerous geoengineering experiments, to shutting down toxic trash incinerators that have dumped massive toxic pollution loads in Black, Brown, Indigenous and farmworker communities for decades.