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News: 2025

February 1.   It’s Going Down. Students Shut Down Pro-ICE Neo-Nazi Demonstration on ASU Campus.

February 20.   Anthony Vidal Torres: This youth-led group wants to spark mass refusals to MAGA’s white supremacist agenda:Inspired by the abolitionist and civil rights movements, Get Free is mobilizing young people to turn campuses and communities into freedom beacons that defy Trump-Musk’s authoritarian power grabs.

April 11.   Rebecca Kheel & Thomas Novelly: Hundreds of Students at Military Base Schools Walk Out to Protest Trump Administration’s Anti-Diversity Policies.

July 23.   Davin Faris: A new youth-led lawsuit is challenging Trump’s fossil fuel orders: In Lighthiser v. Trump, 22 young people are using the protections of the Constitution to demand a livable future.

October 5.   Dharna Noor: Youth-led US climate activists widen focus to fight authoritarianism: Sunrise Movement, which led calls for a Green New Deal, will organize against Trump’s attacks on universities.

June 25.   Michael Tedder: The Political Youth Movement That Propelled Zohran Mamdani to Victory.

November 18.   Spencer Chrisman & Akim Powell: Over 30,000 Charlotte students absent from school in protest of ICE operation, reports say.

December 8.   Holly Bartholomew: Hundreds of Washington County students stage walkout over ICE activity.

2024

December 10, 2024.   Austyn Gaffney: As Teenagers, They Protested Trump’s Climate Policy. Now What? Some young climate activists who were galvanized under Donald Trump’s first presidency are taking a different approach to his second.