Immigration activists whose homes were raided accuse federal agents of intimidation campaign

Federal agents have raided the homes of three southern California immigration activists in what the activists allege is the latest escalation in a Trump administration campaign to harass a volunteer-led advocacy group that organizes neighborhood ICE-watch patrols...

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/20/ice-watch-group-vc-defensa-raids

  

Michigan elected officials, local leaders, activists call to defund ICE

Dingell said immigrants are central to the country's economy. "They're present in childcare, transportation, hospitality and manufacturing sectors that keep communities functioning every single day," Dingell said. "And they're not replacing American workers. They're working alongside of them, filling critical gaps." 

"National security and civil liberties are not mutually exclusive," Dingell said. "Funding Homeland Security should go hand in hand with ensuring agencies follow the law, respect civil rights, and use taxpayer dollars responsibly." …

https://www.michiganpublic.org/politics-government/2026-02-19/michigan-elected-officials-local-leaders-activists-call-to-defund-ice 

 

Montana youth activists who won climate case petition for enforcement

In a groundbreaking legal decision in August 2023, a Montana judge ruled in favor of 16 youth plaintiffs who had accused state officials of violating their constitutional rights by promoting fossil fuels. The state's supreme court affirmed the judge's findings in late 2024. But state lawmakers have since violated her ruling, enshrining new laws this year that contradict it, argue 13 of the 16 plaintiffs in a petition filed on Wednesday...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/10/montana-climate-youth-activists-petition-law

Young climate activists in court aim to stop Trump’s pro-fossil fuel executive orders

Group of activists, who range in age from seven to 25, include plaintiffs who won landmark climate case in Montana two years ago…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/16/young-climate-activists-lawsuit-trump-fossil-fuels

 

Energized neo-Nazis feel their moment has come as Trump changes everything | Far right (US) | The Guardian

"Get the bag, infiltrate existing institutions with power, build new institutions while we have breathing room, and tear down anything leftist."…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/26/neo-nazis-trump-extremism 

 

Campaign calls January 6 rioters ‘activists’ in fundraising email

It also said: "This is the reality that every American citizen faces – from Ed Snowden to Julian Assange to the J6 activists sitting in a Washington DC jail cell stripped of their constitutional liberties."…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/04/kennedy-campaign-january-6-rioters

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and Trans Antaganism (Daniel Miller and Bradley Onishi; Straight White American Jesus podcast)

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence make up an unlikely order of nuns (pictures). Self-described as “twenty-first century queer nuns,” the Sisters began in 1979 when three bored gay men donned retired Roman Catholic nuns’ habits and went for a stroll through San Francisco’s gay Castro district. The stunned and delighted responses they received prompted these already-seasoned activists to consider whether the habits might have some use in social justice work, and within a year they had constituted the new order. Today, with more than 83 houses on four different continents, the Sisters offer health outreach, support, and, at times, protest on behalf of queer communities.

Queer Nuns: https://nyupress.org/9781479820368/queer-nuns/

Melissa M. Wilcox is Professor and Chair of Religious Studies at UC Riverside specializing in the study of gender, sexuality, and religion in the Global North/Global West. Dr. Wilcox’s books include Coming Out in Christianity: Religion, Identity, and Community; Sexuality and the World’s Religions; Queer Women and Religious Individualism; Religion in Today’s World: Global Issues, Sociological Perspectives; Queer Nuns: Religion, Activism, and Serious Parody; Queer Religiosities: An Introduction to Queer and Transgender Studies in Religion; and (with Nina Hoel and Liz Wilson) Religion, the Body, and Sexuality.
Interview: 

https://www.straightwhiteamericanjesus.com/episodes/the-sisters-of-perpetual-indulgence-and-trans-antaganism/

If you’re outraged by XR and Just Stop Oil, imagine how disruptive climate breakdown will be

The constant attacks on the activists are inadvertently revealing. They are called "selfish", when they are sacrificing far more for the environment than their critics. They are called "extremists", despite the world's ever more extreme weather. They are dismissed as middle-class dilettantes, yet also feared as fanatical members of a cult. They are condemned for interfering with "people going about their daily business", as the presenter Mark Austin put it with an air of outrage on Sky News, even though our everyday habits are a central cause of the crisis. 

 Underlying all these criticisms is a strong but unstated desire not to engage with the activists' main argument: that the climate emergency is so huge and urgent that modest changes to our lifestyles and conventional political action – from summits such as Cop27 to marches to polite negotiations between governments and companies – are no longer enough...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/18/outraged-xr-just-stop-oil-disruptive-climate-crisis

Saudi woman given 34-year prison sentence for using Twitter | Saudi Arabia | The Guardian

Salma al-Shehab, a Leeds University student, was charged with following and retweeting dissidents and activists…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/16/saudi-woman-given-34-year-prison-sentence-for-using-twitter

Family Research Council Obtains Church Status From IRS — ProPublica

The FRC, a staunch opponent of abortion and LGBTQ rights, joins a growing list of activist groups seeking church status, which allows organizations to shield themselves from financial scrutiny...

https://www.propublica.org/article/family-research-council-irs-church-status

Far-Right Activists Hurl Attacks Toward GOP Lawmaker At Texas Convention | HuffPost Latest News

Rep. Dan Crenshaw faced criticism one day after Sen. John Cornyn was booed at the same convention...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dan-crenshaw-attacks-texas-gop-convention_n_62aea91ce4b06594c1d73208

Florida's protest bill raises concerns about unequal treatment of left- and right-wing activists - The Washington Post

"We were harassed [by the counterprotesters]. We had a few guns brandished on us. … One guy even came up to me and flashed a White Power gesture in my face, but they didn't get any noise violations," said Christina Boneta, a Black 32-year-old mother who was taken into custody in late August and saddled with a $2,500 fine. "We are the ones who got the noise violations when, all summer long, we never threatened anybody, looted anything or burned anything."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/florida-protest-bill-unequal-treatment/2021/02/01/415d1b02-6240-11eb-9061-07abcc1f9229_story.html

Who caused the violence at protests? It wasn’t antifa. - The Washington Post

"There was a concerted effort by alt-right activists not just to conflate the protest with antifa, but to get antifa declared a terrorist organization by the president of the United States," Brooking said. "We see that there was a coordinated, essentially, series of petitions, an online lobbying effort."....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/22/who-caused-violence-protests-its-not-antifa/

Masked Men With Semi-Automatic Weapons Swarm Kentucky Capitol Building | HuffPost

They were gun rights activists proving they have a right to terrify people. Twitter critics went ballistic.....
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/automatic-weapons-nra-gun-control-kentucky_n_5e36477ac5b6f262332a9f38

British activists mock Trump with gigantic images celebrating Obama and John McCain - Raw Story

British activists projected gigantic images on London landmarks intended to irritate President Donald Trump during his visit. ....

It’s Both Difficult and Incredibly Important to Make the Case for Third-Trimester Abortions - Slate

How a Virginia bill got distorted by right-wing activists conjuring misleading hypotheticals. ....
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/02/virginia-abortion-third-trimester-law-kathy-tran.html

Self-described ‘communists’ tried to donate to a Democrat. They were actually GOP activists - The Washington Post

The men became "oddly insistent on getting a receipt" after trying to donate $39.68 to Arizona congressional candidate Rep. Tom O'Halleran. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/13/self-described-communists-tried-donate-democrat-they-were-actually-gop-activists/

How anti-abortion activists use cutting edge science to justify ever stricter laws - the guardian

Dr Edward Bell treats the tiniest babies at University of Iowa Children's Hospital, preterm infants who weigh one pound or less, and whose chances of survival are minute. One of his pet projects is tracking the smallest in the world, which sometimes attracts attention from abortion opponents. ....
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/13/how-anti-abortion-activists-use-cutting-edge-science-to-justify-ever-stricter-laws

'Attacks and killings': human rights activists at growing risk, study claims | Global development | The Guardian

Human rights defenders who challenge big corporations are being killed, assaulted, harassed and suppressed in growing numbers, researchers have claimed....
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/mar/09/human-rights-activists-growing-risk-attacks-and-killings-study-claims

Grieving Parkland dad calls on Trump to demand gun lovers stop threats against teen survivors -- Raw Story

Students and parents have been receiving threats from gun activists and the far-right as they've taken a stand for gun regulations. Now, father Fred Guttenberg is demanding President Donald Trump call off the attack dogs and for the FBI to investigate all of the threats. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/grieving-parkland-dad-calls-trump-demand-gun-lovers-stop-threats-teen-survivors/