But visitors criticized the disturbance, questioned why they didn’t really ask questions at the end
Seven activists yesterday threw a tax conversation at Stanford University, calling one speaker a” climate criminal,” at the witness who was speaking.
People of” weather defiance”, none of whom were individuals, took the stage on Tuesday to fight Larry Summers. The celebration is part of a line called” Democracy and Disagreement”, where two speakers conversation a matter – in this case, a taxes on money.
According to the Stanford Daily, Summers, a former Treasury Secretary and World Bank key scholar, argued against a wealth tax. Summers even served as President Barack Obama’s financial director, a position that he held as his Treasury Secretary.
According to the student newspaper, the activists” climbed onto the stage and unveiled banners reading” Larry Summers your time is up, dangerous mess,”” duty the prosperous,” and” tax the wealthy.”
” Members of the protest group also threw fake money into the crowd reading’ toxic mess Larry,’ ‘ Larry Summers bankrolls climate destruction,’ and ‘ you deserve this money, Larry made sure it went to billionaires,'” the student newspaper reported.
The interruption did little to entice the cause’s supporters.
The activists ‘ supporters booed the activists. ” Let him speak”, attendees chanted, according to video posted on social media.
Stanford photo’s Larry Summers speech was interrupted. twitter.com/xQ0seL0jez
— Antonio Alonso-Stepanov ( @antonioalst ) February 25, 2025
The student newspaper also interviewed several attendees, all of whom disagreed with the protest.
One student claimed that while I liked their claim that the wealthy should be taxed more to aid the less fortunate, the way they went about doing it was slightly offensive to their message.
” I was just appreciative that there were people who, like myself, wanted the discussion to go on regardless of disagreements, because the point of the class is to debate on issues – it’s not to have everyone agree”, another student said.
Another student criticized the demonstration, saying,” It was against what democracy should be about.”
The protesters stood on stage for 10 minutes, rejecting an offer by Summers to talk more during the question-and-answer period.
According to Climate Defiance co-founder and executive director Michael Greenberg,” We interrupted Larry Summers because establishment corporatist incrementalist democrats like him are part of what caused us to start the problem of climate change.” ” Larry is pushing for the release of the multimillionaires and billionaires.” So we confronted him”.
The Stanford police reported the students to Santa Clara County for prosecution, according to the student newspaper.
Greenberg has a history of stumbling over private events to advance his political agenda.
” I went into Morton’s to confront Brett Kavanaugh as he was eating his steak dinner”, Greenberg wrote on X on July 10, 2022. He said he did not respect the justice’s privacy because Kavanaugh “abolished it” for others, likely in reference to the reversal of Roe v. Wade, which invented a right to abortion.
According to the group’s reports at the time, the group was unsuccessful in confronting the Supreme Court justice directly.
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