Defending Education has exposed radical guides from Sunrise Movement and Young Democratic Socialists of America urging students to organize campus disruptions and overnight protests targeting businesses linked to ICE enforcement to spark a political revolution.

The materials, including a “Schools: Drop ICE Toolkit” and “Wide Awake Guide,” promote creating crises for university administrators through escalating nonviolent direct actions.

“Mass Nonviolent Disruption” tactics endorsed by the Sunrise Movement and Young Democratic Socialists of America in the Schools: Drop ICE Toolkit include “student sit-ins,” “no work, no school, no purchasing on May 1,” and “indefinite campouts until some demands are met.”

The Wide Awake Guide instructs activists on how to facilitate direct actions at Hilton hotels that features all night noise disturbances at locations suspected of housing ICE agents. They lists targets such as Hilton hotels, Enterprise car rentals, and others with alleged campus ties, encouraging students to pressure institutions to drop contracts. Their goals are to abolish ICE, abolish billionaires, and a Green New Deal.

In Rhode Island, Young Democratic Socialists of America maintains a presence at Brown University. The group, advised by Cassie Sutten Coats, focuses on labor organizing, student movement building, political education, and workshops with local teacher-organizers in school districts.

Sunrise Rhode Island, based in Providence since 2018, organizes young people for a Green New Deal and just transition emphasizing good jobs, environmental justice, and solidarity with racial, economic, gender, and indigenous causes. With 35 core volunteers, it plans a fellowships to develop leadership among “historically marginalized” youth. The claim to be growing rapidly.

These groups’ guides push militant activism that risks disrupting campuses and local businesses, burdening Rhode Island taxpayers and communities already facing high costs from expansive regulation and government overreach.