Mark Ruffalo, carrying a “Be Good” pin, arrives on the 83rd Golden Globes on Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, on the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif.
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Some celebrities donned anti-ICE pins on the Golden Globes on Sunday in tribute to Renee Good, who was shot and killed in her automobile by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer final week in Minneapolis.
The black-and-white pins displayed slogans like “BE GOOD” and “ICE OUT,” introducing a political angle into the awards present after final yr’s comparatively apolitical ceremony.
Mark Ruffalo, Wanda Sykes and Natasha Lyonne wore the pins on the crimson carpet, whereas Jean Good and Ariana Grande donned them as soon as contained in the ballroom. Good had the pin on her gown as she accepted the award for finest efficiency by a feminine actor in a musical or comedy sequence.
Because the capturing Wednesday, protests have damaged out throughout the nation, calling for accountability for Good’s loss of life in addition to a separate capturing in Portland the place Border Patrol brokers wounded two individuals. Some protests have resulted in clashes with regulation enforcement, particularly in Minneapolis, the place ICE is finishing up its largest immigration enforcement operation to this point.
“We want each a part of civil society, society to talk up,” mentioned Nelini Stamp of Working Households Energy, one of many organizers for the anti-ICE pins. “We want our artists. We want our entertainers. We want the parents who mirror society.”
Congressmembers have vowed an assertive response, and an FBI investigation into Good’s killing is ongoing. The Trump administration has doubled down in defending the ICE officer’s actions, sustaining that he was performing in self-defense and thought Good would hit him together with her automobile.
Only a week earlier than Good was killed, an off-duty ICE officer fatally shot and killed 43-year-old Keith Porter in Los Angeles. His loss of life sparked protests within the Los Angeles space, calling for the officer accountable to be arrested.
Organizers deliver grassroots push to Golden Globes events
The concept for the “ICE OUT” pins started with a late-night textual content change earlier this week between Stamp and Jess Morales Rocketto, the manager director of a Latino advocacy group known as Maremoto.
They know that high-profile cultural moments can introduce hundreds of thousands of viewers to social points. That is the third yr of Golden Globes activism for Morales Rocketto, who has beforehand rallied Hollywood to protest the Trump administration’s household separation insurance policies. Stamp mentioned she at all times thinks of the 1973 Oscars, when Sacheen Littlefeather took Marlon Brando’s place and declined his award to protest American leisure’s portrayal of Native People.
So, the 2 organizers started calling up the celebrities and influencers they knew, who in flip introduced their marketing campaign to the extra outstanding figures of their circles. That preliminary outreach included labor activist Ai-jen Poo, who walked the Golden Globes’ crimson carpet in 2018 with Meryl Streep to spotlight the Time’s Up motion.
“There’s a longstanding custom of people that create artwork taking a stand for justice in moments,” Stamp mentioned. “We’ll proceed that custom.”
Allies of their motion have been attending the “fancy occasions” that happen within the days main as much as the Golden Globes, in keeping with Stamp. They’re passing out the pins at events and distributing them to neighbors who shall be attending tonight’s ceremony.
“They put it of their purse and so they’re like, ‘Hey would you put on this?’ It is so grassroots,” Morales Rocketto mentioned.
The organizers pledged to proceed the marketing campaign all through awards season to make sure the general public is aware of the names of Good and others killed by ICE brokers in shootings.
