Join four European climate activists from the A22 Network for an in-person conversation about direct action, civil resistance, and the future of the climate movement, followed by a workshop. This event is in partnership with the Center for Nonviolent Conflict Research and Sunrise NYC.
The featured book SOUP THROWERS AND SUPER GLUERS: INSIDE EUROPE’S CLIMATE UPRISING (out September 1) will be available for purchase and signing.
This event is a $5 suggested donation ticket with a maximum of 30 attendees. Please register in advance.
In compliance with Word Up Community Safety guidelines, all attendees are encouraged to stay masked at all time.
Word Up Community Bookshop/Libreria Communitaria is located at 2113 Amsterdam Avenue (corner of 165th Street) in Manhattan. Subways: A, C or #1 train to 168th Street (walk south to 165th St, turn left, then walk east to Amsterdam Avenue).
FEATURING Carla Hinrichs (climate activist, co-founder and spokesperson for Letzte Generation, Germany) grew up in Bremen, northern Germany. From a young age, a sense of urgency about the state of the world drew her to Amnesty International and later to law school. In 2019, she joined Extinction Rebellion, convinced the climate crisis couldn’t wait until she graduated. She began supporting the hunger strike her friends launched ahead of the 2021 election, and then became fully part of Last Generation. By nature, she is someone who prefers libraries to megaphones. She became a spokesperson anyway. Today, she is accused of being the leader of the so-called criminal organisation Last Generation and is facing a long court case, which could result in up to five years in prison. In February 2026, she published her first book, Meine verletzte Generation.
Henning Jeschke (Climate activist and co-founder of Letzte Generation, Germany) was born in 2000 in a German town on the Baltic Sea coast. He once considered becoming a teacher, but with human extinction on the horizon, he devoted his life to peaceful revolution. His path to the streets was inspired by Greta Thunberg and his work with Extinction Rebellion, culminating in a 27-day hunger strike that brought the climate crisis into the news right before the 2021 elections. He co-founded Letzte Generation Germany, the most talked-about climate and democracy movement in the country. The threat of up to five years in prison won’t stop him—in spring 2025, he co-founded the follow-up project New Generation to help build a people-powered democracy.
Chloé Bertini (climate activist from Ultima Generazione, Italy) is an Italo-Guadeloupean organiser with a multidisciplinary background spanning dance, neuroscience, and art therapy. She cut her teeth on climate justice with Ultima Generazione and now weaves that together with social justice across a range of projects. Her work centers on organising civil resistance and building long-term coordination across movements — all from an ecofeminist lens aimed at radical system change. Beyond the practical work, she’s driven by a deep reverence for life and a commitment to drawing on both new and ancestral practices to deepen our connections with each other and the wider ecosystem.
Thibaut Cantet (climate activist and co-founder of Dernière Rénovation, France) co-founded Dernière Rénovation, one of France’s leading climate campaigns and part of the A22 Network. Raised between the Savoyard Alps and Paris, he now lives in a small town in Burgundy. His turning point came in 2017, living and working alongside communities in the Philippines, when he saw how the climate crisis — driven largely by the global north — threatened them with death or exile. He returned to France and threw himself into climate activism. Since then, he’s been arrested multiple times and led more than 100 public talks calling people to proportionate action and civil disobedience.
ABOUT THE BOOK
The book tells the inside story of the rise of the Last Generation climate movements across Europe, written collectively by the frontline organizers and activists themselves. It takes readers behind the scenes of hunger strikes, motorway blockades, stage and pitch invasions, and media storms: the late-night planning sessions, the internal debates, the moments of doubt, and the decisions that shaped some of the most audacious climate actions of recent years. Drawing on first-hand accounts from the UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, it is at once a gripping narrative, a strategic reflection, and a deeply human portrait of what it takes—and what it costs—to confront systemic inaction.
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