From afar, the group looks like other scouting troops. They wear berets and vests with badges. But each badge they earn is radical. For example, Radical Love or Radical Bodies.
The first badge the girls worked on was about Black Lives Matter and what was causing the social unrest at that time.
"A lot of people say, 'Oh, it's too much. It's too heavy,'" said Hollinquest. "But they are human beings who experience the world and they overhear what their parents and families are talking about and also experience the world." The troop received national media attention but was soon attacked by Fox News host Sean Hannity and other conservative commentators who accused Martinez and Hollinquest of indoctrinating the girls with radical messages."We're socialized to just accept that things are the way they are. And I think that radicalizing means to investigate. It's to be like, 'No. Actually, things are set up this way.
Since its founding in 2014, Radical Monarchs has grown nationwide. Besides Oakland, there are now groups in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, New York and other East Coast cities.
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