Maren Costa
@marencosta.bsky.social
Speaker | Tech Worker Organizer | Climate Justice Advocate | Ex Amzn & Msft
Building power💪🏼💪🏽💪🏾🌈to fight the .001%: STOP 👀 ↔️/ START 👀 ↕️! 🌍
Building power💪🏼💪🏽💪🏾🌈to fight the .001%: STOP 👀 ↔️/ START 👀 ↕️! 🌍
Transformative solidarity is our only hope!
Chart of cumulative protests reported from Jan 22 - Feb 28, 2017 vs 2025:
March 20, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Transformative solidarity is our only hope!
This is truly twisted and horrifying. Mu $k needs to find something better to do.
Musk doesn't get how nonviolent protest works. Why are we Troublemakers? Because as Rep. John Lewis, RIP, knew: in hard times, good trouble is ESSENTIAL to all that we love.
When the world is at risk, when democracy is at risk, we're either troublemakers—or collaborators.
So: who's a Troublemaker?
When the world is at risk, when democracy is at risk, we're either troublemakers—or collaborators.
So: who's a Troublemaker?
March 10, 2025 at 9:12 PM
This is truly twisted and horrifying. Mu $k needs to find something better to do.
"Outrage will create action, and action will create hope." - Maren Costa. Let's turn our feelings into positive change! 💪 What are you outraged about? #OutrageToAction #MakeADifference #MarenCosta #Hope
March 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
"Outrage will create action, and action will create hope." - Maren Costa. Let's turn our feelings into positive change! 💪 What are you outraged about? #OutrageToAction #MakeADifference #MarenCosta #Hope
Honored to be speaking at the "Women Who Dare" Conference in Venetian Hillsboro, OR, this Saturday, March 8th! Let's connect and inspire each other. See you there! #WomenWhoDare #SpeakingEngagement #Inspiration #MarenCosta #Hillsboro #LinkInBio
February 28, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Honored to be speaking at the "Women Who Dare" Conference in Venetian Hillsboro, OR, this Saturday, March 8th! Let's connect and inspire each other. See you there! #WomenWhoDare #SpeakingEngagement #Inspiration #MarenCosta #Hillsboro #LinkInBio
This is the time to channel our anxiety and anger into collective action. All of these existential threats - climate crisis, ecosystem collapse, the crazy race for AI, nuclear arms race, pandemics - are connected and are the same systems causing this massive inequality and wealth gap.
February 28, 2025 at 4:23 AM
This is the time to channel our anxiety and anger into collective action. All of these existential threats - climate crisis, ecosystem collapse, the crazy race for AI, nuclear arms race, pandemics - are connected and are the same systems causing this massive inequality and wealth gap.
This quote really resonates with me. It's all about recognizing our collective power as tech employees. Join me and follow @marencosta to explore how we can build a better future. #TechLeadership #Inspiration #MeaningfulWork #MarenCosta
February 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
This quote really resonates with me. It's all about recognizing our collective power as tech employees. Join me and follow @marencosta to explore how we can build a better future. #TechLeadership #Inspiration #MeaningfulWork #MarenCosta
The outpouring I’ve received after being featured on Buy Now! has been nothing short of incredible. Have you watched it yet? It’s AVAILABLE NOW 🎉 Let me know what you think in the comments!👇 #Netflix #Documentary #MarenCosta #MustWatch #BuyNowDocumentary
February 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The outpouring I’ve received after being featured on Buy Now! has been nothing short of incredible. Have you watched it yet? It’s AVAILABLE NOW 🎉 Let me know what you think in the comments!👇 #Netflix #Documentary #MarenCosta #MustWatch #BuyNowDocumentary
"We’re going to need a big tent.” As Jane Fonda said at this past week’s SAG awards, this is not the time to isolate. The work ahead requires all of us. It’s time to build community and take back our power. Together we can. #JaneFonda #SAGAwards #Togetherwecan
February 26, 2025 at 1:39 AM
"We’re going to need a big tent.” As Jane Fonda said at this past week’s SAG awards, this is not the time to isolate. The work ahead requires all of us. It’s time to build community and take back our power. Together we can. #JaneFonda #SAGAwards #Togetherwecan
Honored to be speaking at Harvard SECON this Sunday, March 9th in Boston! Let's talk about workers' rights and climate justice. Hope to see you there! 💙📌 #HarvardSECON #ClimateJustice #WorkersRights #MarenCosta #Boston #SpeakingEngagement #Harvard #HarvardUniversity
February 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Honored to be speaking at Harvard SECON this Sunday, March 9th in Boston! Let's talk about workers' rights and climate justice. Hope to see you there! 💙📌 #HarvardSECON #ClimateJustice #WorkersRights #MarenCosta #Boston #SpeakingEngagement #Harvard #HarvardUniversity
"When retaliation comes, it's not the end of the fight – it's a chance to show everyone why the fight matters." 💪 Never give up on what you believe in. Keep fighting the good fight! #Resilience #NeverGiveUp #FightForWhatMatters #Inspiration #MarenCosta
February 25, 2025 at 12:13 AM
"When retaliation comes, it's not the end of the fight – it's a chance to show everyone why the fight matters." 💪 Never give up on what you believe in. Keep fighting the good fight! #Resilience #NeverGiveUp #FightForWhatMatters #Inspiration #MarenCosta
Just a call to join the economic blackout happening on February 28th #EconomicBlackout #economicblackout2025 #EconomicBoycott #February28th #February28th
February 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Just a call to join the economic blackout happening on February 28th #EconomicBlackout #economicblackout2025 #EconomicBoycott #February28th #February28th
Excited to be part of ChangeNOW 2025 at the Grand Palais in Paris this April! Join me for an Impact Talk as we explore innovative solutions for a better future. Check out WorkForClimate.org for more. #ChangeNOW #ClimateAction #Sustainability #Paris #GrandPalais #MarenCosta | Maren Costa
February 23, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Excited to be part of ChangeNOW 2025 at the Grand Palais in Paris this April! Join me for an Impact Talk as we explore innovative solutions for a better future. Check out WorkForClimate.org for more. #ChangeNOW #ClimateAction #Sustainability #Paris #GrandPalais #MarenCosta | Maren Costa
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Le CHAT ou le CHATgpt? 🐈 By simply letting your cat go thirsty for a week, you can save enough water to generate an image of a cat drinking from a water faucet. (Not this one. This one is real.) #SavetheAI and think carefully next time your cat wants to drink water. Join our cause: savethe.ai/water
February 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Le CHAT ou le CHATgpt? 🐈 By simply letting your cat go thirsty for a week, you can save enough water to generate an image of a cat drinking from a water faucet. (Not this one. This one is real.) #SavetheAI and think carefully next time your cat wants to drink water. Join our cause: savethe.ai/water
🧵I had the incredible opportunity to appear on WGN TV in Chicago with Anna Sacks to discuss the Netflix documentary we're both featured in, Buy Now: The Shopping Conspiracy. 🛍️ wgntv.com/video/buy-no...
"Buy Now: The Shopping Conspiracy"
Netflix documentary that pulls back the curtain on the world's top brands, exposing the hidden tactics and covert strategies used to keep all of us locked in an endless cycle of buying.
We talk to Mar...
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January 7, 2025 at 2:26 AM
🧵I had the incredible opportunity to appear on WGN TV in Chicago with Anna Sacks to discuss the Netflix documentary we're both featured in, Buy Now: The Shopping Conspiracy. 🛍️ wgntv.com/video/buy-no...
Collective action works. When employees come together to build collective power, they can drive corporations to act more responsibly—whether it’s addressing urgent social issues like climate justice or core workplace concerns like better wages.
December 19, 2024 at 2:39 AM
Collective action works. When employees come together to build collective power, they can drive corporations to act more responsibly—whether it’s addressing urgent social issues like climate justice or core workplace concerns like better wages.
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In a deep dive @fastcompany.com describes how #bigtech workers are organize at #Amazon #Google @microsoft.com & many more. Input from @marencosta.bsky.social @techworkerscoalition.org @teamsters.bsky.social @lizthegrey.com @parismarx.com & more.
www.fastcompany.com/91241440/how...
www.fastcompany.com/91241440/how...
How Big Tech labor organizers aim to unite for Trump 2.0
Supercharged during the first Trump administration, tech worker activism faces new challenges and motivations as the 47th President heads to Washington.
www.fastcompany.com
December 10, 2024 at 2:51 PM
In a deep dive @fastcompany.com describes how #bigtech workers are organize at #Amazon #Google @microsoft.com & many more. Input from @marencosta.bsky.social @techworkerscoalition.org @teamsters.bsky.social @lizthegrey.com @parismarx.com & more.
www.fastcompany.com/91241440/how...
www.fastcompany.com/91241440/how...
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. @marencosta.bsky.social tells @fastcompany.com “I think that tech workers are taking a hit down to realize we're just workers. We're just kind of cogs...like any other worker.” - creating common cause with the less-elite big tech employees.
How Big Tech labor organizers aim to unite for Trump 2.0
Supercharged during the first Trump administration, tech worker activism faces new challenges and motivations as the 47th President heads to Washington.
www.fastcompany.com
December 11, 2024 at 2:28 PM
. @marencosta.bsky.social tells @fastcompany.com “I think that tech workers are taking a hit down to realize we're just workers. We're just kind of cogs...like any other worker.” - creating common cause with the less-elite big tech employees.
Love this piece. It’s a call to tech workers everywhere: Unless you are 100% on board with the tech oligarchy agenda: Time to unite! ✊
In a deep dive @fastcompany.com describes how #bigtech workers are organize at #Amazon #Google @microsoft.com & many more. Input from @marencosta.bsky.social @techworkerscoalition.org @teamsters.bsky.social @lizthegrey.com @parismarx.com & more.
www.fastcompany.com/91241440/how...
www.fastcompany.com/91241440/how...
How Big Tech labor organizers aim to unite for Trump 2.0
Supercharged during the first Trump administration, tech worker activism faces new challenges and motivations as the 47th President heads to Washington.
www.fastcompany.com
December 10, 2024 at 9:12 PM
Love this piece. It’s a call to tech workers everywhere: Unless you are 100% on board with the tech oligarchy agenda: Time to unite! ✊
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New data centre energy demand - fueled by a surge in AI technologies - must be powered with #renewables. Even Chat GPT agrees.
December 4, 2024 at 8:33 AM
New data centre energy demand - fueled by a surge in AI technologies - must be powered with #renewables. Even Chat GPT agrees.
Here are some helpful comparisons highlighting the disparity between Elon Musk’s wealth and the median American income. You ready for this? 🫣😵💫😵🤯
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December 4, 2024 at 8:04 AM
Here are some helpful comparisons highlighting the disparity between Elon Musk’s wealth and the median American income. You ready for this? 🫣😵💫😵🤯
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Just watched this, and, pre 'Black Friday', I'd suggest u do 2, to see how much we're manipulated into buying shit we don't need (n often don't really want) n how it ends up polluting us. We - our bodies and our planet - are literally being poisoned, all to make rich liars richer.
#stopbuying
#stopbuying
I’m in 🎬Buy Now: The Shopping Conspiracy, Netflix’s newest documentary about overproduction and corporate greed. It’s time to pull back the curtain, and face the truth.
#amazon #overproduction #corporategreed #climatejustice #AmazonEmployeesForClimateJustice #BuyNowFilm
#amazon #overproduction #corporategreed #climatejustice #AmazonEmployeesForClimateJustice #BuyNowFilm
November 28, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Just watched this, and, pre 'Black Friday', I'd suggest u do 2, to see how much we're manipulated into buying shit we don't need (n often don't really want) n how it ends up polluting us. We - our bodies and our planet - are literally being poisoned, all to make rich liars richer.
#stopbuying
#stopbuying
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Since we're finally giving billionaires the sack, why give Jeff Bezos another nickel?
If you can, please join me as I delete my Amazon account in time for Black Friday!
medium.com/@enjohnston/...
If you can, please join me as I delete my Amazon account in time for Black Friday!
medium.com/@enjohnston/...
Fascism is Inconvenient
A few weeks ago (a lifetime ago), a plutocrat newspaper owner killed an endorsement, and it became clear that he did so in order to curry…
medium.com
November 20, 2024 at 7:49 PM
Since we're finally giving billionaires the sack, why give Jeff Bezos another nickel?
If you can, please join me as I delete my Amazon account in time for Black Friday!
medium.com/@enjohnston/...
If you can, please join me as I delete my Amazon account in time for Black Friday!
medium.com/@enjohnston/...
I’m in 🎬Buy Now: The Shopping Conspiracy, Netflix’s newest documentary about overproduction and corporate greed. It’s time to pull back the curtain, and face the truth.
#amazon #overproduction #corporategreed #climatejustice #AmazonEmployeesForClimateJustice #BuyNowFilm
#amazon #overproduction #corporategreed #climatejustice #AmazonEmployeesForClimateJustice #BuyNowFilm
November 21, 2024 at 4:30 PM
I’m in 🎬Buy Now: The Shopping Conspiracy, Netflix’s newest documentary about overproduction and corporate greed. It’s time to pull back the curtain, and face the truth.
#amazon #overproduction #corporategreed #climatejustice #AmazonEmployeesForClimateJustice #BuyNowFilm
#amazon #overproduction #corporategreed #climatejustice #AmazonEmployeesForClimateJustice #BuyNowFilm
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The headline says it all (but read the article too!).
DNR is on the wrong path. Cutting mature forests on public lands is a crime against humanity—we don't mean that metaphorically. We need these forests, and they need us. (2nd article in this week's series.)
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
DNR is on the wrong path. Cutting mature forests on public lands is a crime against humanity—we don't mean that metaphorically. We need these forests, and they need us. (2nd article in this week's series.)
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
WA’s older forests capture carbon better than nearly any other
These big trees, in their roots, needles and branches, hold more carbon longer than any young plantation. They are world champion climate change fighters.
www.seattletimes.com
October 14, 2024 at 5:02 PM
The headline says it all (but read the article too!).
DNR is on the wrong path. Cutting mature forests on public lands is a crime against humanity—we don't mean that metaphorically. We need these forests, and they need us. (2nd article in this week's series.)
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
DNR is on the wrong path. Cutting mature forests on public lands is a crime against humanity—we don't mean that metaphorically. We need these forests, and they need us. (2nd article in this week's series.)
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...