https://theintercept.com/2025/10/02/sunrise-movement-climate-change-trump-protest/

The group, now eight years old, has decided that it cannot continue to fight climate change without fighting Trump, Shiney-Ajay told The Intercept.

Soros funding.

George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, which gave $2 million to Sunrise between 2019 and 2023, according to a grant database.

Questions about their links to violence & terrorism.

The Open Society Foundations and the Sunrise Movement both say they reject violence. [but a] report focuses on Sunrise’s support for a legal defense fund associated with [Antifa, violent] Stop Cop City

Rest of article lionizes Sunrise & minimizes connections to violence, but others say more.

https://newsbusters.org/blogs/business/joseph-vazquez/2025/10/03/rabid-climate-group-goes-war-trump-protect-its-major

Soros gave $80 million to fund pro-terrorist organizations like Sunrise [among others]

Sunrise, in particular, “endorsed the Antifa-linked Stop Cop City campaign, in which activists currently face over 40 domestic terrorism charges and 60 racketeering indictments...[related to] arson, property damage and violence against law enforcement personnel and utility workers...setting a police vehicle ablaze; throwing Molotov cocktails, bricks and rocks at police; setting construction equipment on fire; blocking roads with obstacles like tires; harming police officers’ eyes with lasers”