Seven Greenpeace activists climbed to the top of a crane north of the White House and hung a large banner reading “RESIST” on Wednesday morning. Given the timing, one would think the word might allude to President Trump’s orders to revive the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines. Greenpeace is an environmental organization. It sorts the initiatives it promotes into “saving the Arctic,” “protecting forests,” “fighting global warming,” “protecting our oceans,” “living toxic-free,” “promoting sustainable food,” and “defending democracy,” the latter because “[d]emocracy should be the best tool we have to protect the environment,” Greenpeace says.

But we can now add a few more categories to the group’s activism. It described Wednesday’s demonstration as “[delivering] a message of love and progress to counter Trump’s hate and ignorance at the White House.” Its Facebook page asked users to share live streams of the stunt with the message, “Greenpeace activists are displaying a massive banner above the White House in resistance to Trump’s climate denial, racism, misogyny, homophobia, and bigotry.” Its chairwoman, Karen Topakian, did not mention a single environmental cause in her statement about the protest. “While Trump’s disdain and disrespect for our democratic institutions scare me, I am so inspired by the multigenerational movement of progress that is growing in every state,” she said.