2026年6月18日，艾萨克·桑特（Isaac Sant）在明尼苏达州明尼阿波利斯的波德霍恩公园（Powderhorn Park）。他因抗议ICE而被指控犯有联邦重罪，刚刚加入了新的NSPP-7被告联盟。
Isaac Sant at Powderhorn Park in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on 18 June 18, 2026. Charged with a federal felony for protesting ICE, he just joined the new NSPM-7 Defendants Union.
NSPP-7被告联盟计划为因抗议而面临起诉的人提供法律诊所、媒体培训等。阿里奥·桑切斯（arío Sánchez）正面临与他没有参加的抗议活动有关的州指控。对这位33岁德克萨斯州中学教师的起诉书已更改三次。他还被逮捕并释放了三次，最近一次是因为在网上搜索如何更换旧Game Boy电池;警方指控他正在寻找有关爆炸物的信息。
NSPM-7 Defendants Union plans to offer legal clinics, media training and more to people facing prosecution for protest arío Sánchez is facing state charges related to a protest he did not attend. Indictments against the 33-year-old Texas middle school teacher have changed three times. He has also been arrested and released three times, most recently for an online search for how to replace an old Game Boy battery; police alleged he was seeking information on explosives.
桑切斯说：“我认为我的案件是特朗普政府追捕人民的所有不同方式的一种体现--无论你是否参加过抗议活动。”“现实是，只要你不同意政府的观点，你就是目标。”桑切斯被指控“篡改物证”和“妨碍对恐怖主义的起诉”，源于据称将某人从Discord群组中删除，并与2025年7月4日移民和海关执法局（ICE）拘留设施的抗议活动有关的Signal聊天。
“I’ve seen my case as one manifestation of all the different ways the Trump administration is going after people – regardless of if you’ve even been to a protest,” Sánchez said. “The reality is, as long as you disagree with the government, you’re a target.”Sánchez’s charges of “tampering with physical evidence” and “hindering the prosecution of terrorism” stem from allegedly removing someone from a Discord group and a Signal chat related to a protest at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility on 4 July 2025.
在德克萨斯州Prairieland抗议活动中被捕的另外21人中，有9人在联邦监狱被判处高达100年的异常严厉的刑罚。2026年7月1日，抗议者在埃尔登·B·马洪美国法院外举起了带有Prairieland被告面孔的标语。
Nine of the other 21 people arrested in the Prairieland, Texas, protest have received unusually harsh sentences of up to 100 years in federal prison Protesters hold up signs with faces of the Prairieland defendants outside the Eldon B Mahon US courthouse in Fort Worth, Texas, on 1 July 2026.
照片：达拉斯晨报/赫斯特报纸/GettyImages现在，桑切斯是一个名为NSPP-7被告联盟的项目的首批成员之一，该项目定于今天启动该联盟计划为面临州或联邦起诉的人提供法律诊所、媒体培训和支持，根据总统的NSPP-7备忘录，该法案指示联邦调查局调查与“反法西斯主义”有关的“暴力和恐怖活动”。
Photograph: The Dallas Morning News/Hearst Newspapers/GettyImages Now, Sánchez is one of the first members of a project called the NSPM-7 Defendants Union, scheduled to launch today The union plans to offer access to legal clinics, media training and support for people facing state or federal prosecution under the president’s NSPM-7 memorandum, which directs the FBI to investigate “violent and terroristic activities” associated with “anti-fascism”.
该工会的目标之一是废除政府的“反法西斯”概念，这是一个适用于政府指控的许多抗议者的标签，尽管它不是一个正式组织。
One of the union’s goals is to dismantle this government notion of “antifa”, a label applied to many of the protesters charged by the administration, even though it is not a formal organization.
“Antifa不是真实的东西，”该项目的组织者亚历克斯说，为了安全起见，他使用了化名。“唯一从中受益的是政府，因为他们可以让人们相信这是什么，而假组织无法反驳政府的说法。”相反，组织者希望将被告的案件与他们所争取的事业联系起来。早期的工会成员包括在明尼苏达州、新泽西州和德克萨斯州被捕的反ICE抗议者，以及特朗普第二届政府期间在密歇根州被捕的声援巴勒斯坦的抗议者，以及反对亚特兰大警察培训中心“警察城”运动的其他人。
“Antifa’s not a real thing,” said Alex, an organizer of the project who used a pseudonym for his safety. “The only one who benefits from this is the government, because they can convince people what it is, and a fake organization can’t rebut what the government says.”Instead, organizers want to connect defendants’ cases and the causes they are fighting for. Early union members include anti-ICE protesters arrested in Minnesota, New Jersey and Texas, and protesters in solidarity with Palestine arrested in Michigan during the second Trump administration, as well as others from the movement against the Atlanta police training center known as Cop City.
但该组织还希望包括那些参加一系列其他问题抗议活动的人，包括针对埃隆·马斯克及其公司的特斯拉收购、反对数据中心建设以及声援巴勒斯坦的抗议活动。据工会网站称，它还欢迎任何公开反对“特朗普议程并希望支持那些面临镇压的人”的人。
But the group also hopes to include those who have taken part in protests across a range of other issues, including Tesla Takedowns against Elon Musk and his company, against the construction of datacenters and in solidarity with Palestine. It also welcomes anyone who publicly opposes “the Trump agenda and want[s] to support those facing repression for doing the same”, according to the union’s website.
2026年1月25日，示威者在暴风雪期间聚集在芝加哥，抗议美国移民和海关执法局（ICE）以及海关和边境保护局（CBP）。
Demonstrators gather during a heavy snowstorm to protest against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in Chicago on 25 January 2026.
摄影：Jacek Boczarski/Anadolu/Getty Images桑切斯说：“我们可以互相学习。
“There are things we can learn from each other,” said Sánchez.
这场运动的史学家、即将出版的《监狱：监禁与美国历史》一书的作者丹·伯杰指出，被告联盟或许是美国现代政治抗议史上首个此类性质的尝试。“这一举措符合那些遭受压迫的人们试图与其他同样遭受压迫的人团结起来的历史脉络，”伯杰说道。他举例提到1998年由前黑豹党成员等人发起的“耶利哥运动”，该运动旨在为政治犯提供支持。
The defendants union may be the first effort of its kind in the modern history of political protest in the US, said movement historian Dan Berger, author of the upcoming book Prison: Incarceration and the History of America“It fits in with the genealogy of people facing repression trying to find solidarity with other people facing repression,” said Berger, pointing to efforts such as the Jericho movement, formed by former Black Panther Party members and others in 1998 to support political prisoners.
亚历克斯表示，该项目以“联盟”自居，体现了集体组织如何应对联邦政府日益加强的监视、逮捕以及对抗议者的诉讼行为。“当警察或联邦调查局人员出现在你家门口时，你会感到孤立无援，仿佛这种遭遇只发生在自己身上，”他说道，“但实际上大家面临的困境是共通的；我们希望消除这种个体化的孤立感，形成集体力量——就像工会那样。”
By calling itself a “union”, the project shows how collective organizing can respond to the federal government’s expanding surveillance, arrests and court cases aimed at protesters, said Alex. “When the police or the FBI show up at your door, it feels isolating, like it’s happening only to you,” he said. “But the problems people are facing are shared; we want to help deindividualize the experience and create collective leverage – like in a union.”
不过与普通工会不同，该项目并不设立会员名册或收取会费。其核心在于号召参与者承诺遵循一系列准则，比如不与执法部门合作、在多名被告涉及同一案件时采取集体法律应对策略，并在条件允许的情况下共享诉讼过程中获取的信息。
Unlike a typical union, however, the project will not maintain membership rolls or charge dues. It is centered around taking a pledge to follow a handful of the project’s practices, such as not cooperating with law enforcement, adopting collective legal strategies when there are multiple defendants in a case and, when possible, sharing information learned in discovery.
另一位加入该项目的被告是艾萨克·桑特，这位31岁的明尼苏达州圣保罗市护理助理于今年6月被捕，被指控犯有“合谋妨碍或伤害联邦执法人员”罪。此指控与他去年冬天参与当地民众抵制移民及海关执法局扩张的行动有关。
Another defendant who has joined the project is Isaac Sant, a 31-year-old nursing assistant from St Paul, Minnesota, arrested in June and charged with “conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer” as part of the community response to the city’s ICE surge last winter.
2026年2月16日，数千名民众举行游行，要求移民及海关执法局立即撤出明尼苏达州，同时呼吁为蕾妮·古德、亚历克斯·普雷蒂以及所有遭受该机构侵害的受害者伸张正义。
Several thousand people march demanding ICE out of Minnesota immediately, and justice and accountability for Renee Good, Alex Pretti and all victims of ICE on 16 February 2026.
被大肆宣扬，该稿称他及另外14名被捕者为“反法西斯行动分子”。在实施逮捕前，联邦政府还对工会、教会及图书馆实施了监视——桑特称此举是“对明尼苏达州整个公民社会的攻击”。
Sant’s arrest was trumpeted in a White House press release that called him and the 14 others arrested “antifa operatives”. The federal surveillance leading up to the arrests included spying on unions, churches and libraries – what Sant called “an attack on all of Minnesota’s civil society”.
不过桑特指出，这种打压行为并不仅限于某一座城市或某一个州。他列举了其他与抗议活动相关的典型案例：伊利诺伊州的“布罗德维六人组”，六名在移民与海关执法局设施外抗议的人士被指控“共谋妨碍联邦执法人员执行公务”，后来因存在检方渎职的指控，联邦政府撤销了此案；还有“密歇根八人组”，这群学生及其他人士因抗议以色列对加沙的持续袭击而面临多项指控，其中包括“共谋在州际及国际贸易中传播威胁信息”。
And yet this attack isn’t contained to one city or state, Sant said. He named other high-profile cases linked to protest: the Broadview Six in Illinois, in which six people protesting outside an ICE facility were charged with “conspiracy to impede a federal officer”, only to have the federal government drop the case amid allegations of prosecutorial misconduct; and the Michigan Eight, a group of students and others who face multiple charges, including “conspiracy to transmit threats in interstate and foreign commerce”, for protesting against Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza.
该工会的组织者们预计自己也会遭遇与抗议者类似的打压，包括黑客攻击及其他数字层面的威胁。在《Intercept》报道了五角大楼涉嫌黑客攻击左翼网站的事件后，该组织将成立时间推迟数周，以便排查潜在的安全隐患。
Organizers of the union expect to be met with the same repression as protesters, including hacking and other digital threats. The group delayed its launch by several weeks to troubleshoot against possible insecurities after the Intercept reported on Pentagon-related hacks of leftwing websites.
作为拥有200万会员的全美性工会SEIU的成员，桑特认为工会精神对这一计划大有裨益：“联邦政府固然希望逐个起诉被告，但至少我们应当互通信息、团结起来以增强影响力，进而制定更为周全的策略。”
But as a member of SEIU– a national union with 2 million members – Sant sees the spirit of unions as positive for the project: “The federal government would prefer prosecuting each defendant – but at the very least, we should compare notes, come together to increase leverage and create strategies in a more sophisticated way.”
“这是一项新颖且大胆的尝试，”桑特补充道，“这也是我对此满怀期待的原因之一。”
“This is new and bold,” added Sant. “That’s one reason I’m hopeful about it.”
历史学家伯杰则表示，这一计划的动人之处在于它以“被告”身份为核心。“不过这也折射出当下的严峻现实：如今有大量民众与政治力量正遭受打压，”他说道，“我们其实都是‘被告’。”
Berger, the historian, said that what makes the project exciting is that it centers on being a defendant. “But it’s also a tragic commentary on where we’re at, with a large swath of people and politics under attack right now,” he said. “We’re all defendants.”