Rhode Island activist slams adult-run nonprofit that promoted 'student-led' anti-ICE school walkout

Throughout past week, the Providence Student Union promoted a "student-led" anti-ICE walkout from the city's nationalist schools.

"STUDENTS OF PPSD: WALK OUT FOR JUSTICE," began a Monday Facebook station from the pupil national announcing the event.

"This Friday astatine 1:30 PM, students crossed Providence Public School District volition locomotion retired to talk retired against the injustices of ICE and to basal successful solidarity with Minneapolis, which has called for a nationwide shutdown successful effect to ongoing unit and harm caused by national migration enforcement," the station said. "This is simply a peaceful, student-led enactment to request accountability, dignity, and humanity for migrant communities."

Protesters march against ICE successful Providence connected Friday, Jan. 30, 2026. Hundreds of protesters, galore of them schoolhouse children (not shown), holding anti-ICE signs march done the city. (Richard Beetham for Fox News Digital)

"If we don't basal now, erstwhile volition we?"

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Later posts railed against national migration enforcement authorities.

"This locomotion retired is astir refusing panic against migrant communities and calling for justness and showing pupil power," said 1 post, adding graphics that further explained the goals of the walkout. "Dress warm, amusement up, and share, share, stock — the much radical who know, the stronger our message. We cant [sic] hold to spot you each there!"

Protesters march against ICE successful Providence connected Friday, Jan. 30, 2026. Hundreds of protesters, galore of them schoolhouse children (not shown), holding anti-ICE signs march done the city. (Richard Beetham for Fox News Digital)

The stated extremity of the walkout was solidarity with the Minneapolis activists who person been wreaking havoc amid national migration enforcement operations for months. In particular, the radical honored Renee Good and Alex Pretti, anti-ICE agitators who died astatine the hands of instrumentality enforcement.

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The Providence Student Union is officially unaffiliated with the schoolhouse district, and operates arsenic a donor-funded nonprofit organization. On 2025 taxation forms, the radical reported that it paid much than $76,000 to officers, directors, trustees and cardinal employees, and astir $300,000 successful "other salaries and wages."

Protesters march against ICE successful Providence connected Friday, Jan. 30, 2026. Hundreds of protesters, galore of them schoolhouse children (not shown), holding anti-ICE signs march done the city. (Richard Beetham for Fox News Digital)

Its enactment squad is composed of adults. Fox News Digital besides captured images of galore adults protesting alongside students successful Rhode Island's capitol metropolis connected Friday.

Rhode Island activistic Nicole Solas said adults shouldn't usage students arsenic pawns successful governmental games.

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"Adults should not beryllium paid to promote oregon signifier students to permission schoolhouse for governmental activism," she said. "Do the students cognize adults marque wealth disconnected the students' activism? Students should not beryllium exploited arsenic currency cows for the governmental scheming of adults."

Hundreds of protesters, galore of them schoolhouse children (not shown), holding anti-ICE signs march done the city. (Richard Beetham for Fox News Digital)

She besides said districts should prohibit "outside groups from organizing students to usage schoolhouse clip for governmental activism, particularly erstwhile it financially benefits adults."

Good was changeable and killed earlier this period by an ICE cause portion shadowing national instrumentality enforcement successful her vehicle. Upon a confrontation with instrumentality enforcement, she drove her car forward. The agent, lasting successful beforehand of her vehicle, opened fire.

Pretti, who had disrupted instrumentality enforcement connected astatine slightest 1 different juncture earlier his death, tussled with Border Patrol agents earlier helium was changeable dormant past Saturday. He was equipped with a handgun astatine the time.

Hundreds of protesters, galore of them schoolhouse children (not shown), holding anti-ICE signs march done the city. (Richard Beetham for Fox News Digital)

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A spokesperson for the Providence Public School District reiterated that it is unaffiliated with the Providence Student Union, and that the lawsuit was not sponsored oregon chaperoned by by territory employees. 

"We are not alert of unit members participating successful the event," the spokesperson said. "A PPSD unit subordinate would person had to instrumentality idiosyncratic oregon abrogation clip if they had wanted to enactment arsenic it was not a schoolhouse chaperoned event."

The Providence Student Union did not instrumentality a petition for comment.