Lauryn Cross is a member of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization aka Liberation Road, the parent of Black Lives Matter and a partner of the Communist Party spinoff the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS), which recently discussed plans for taking over the Democratic Party. Cross was part of a group called the Coalition to March on the DNC, which was planning riots for the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee in coordination with various Marxist groups; the organizing network for this set the stage for the Kenosha and Wauwatosa riots. She also founded the Milwaukee Alliance Against Racial and Political Repression (MAARPR), linked to the Kenosha riots; and she belongs to the Youth Climate Action Team, where she has participated in actions alongside the UW-Parkside (Kenosha) chapter of Students for a Democratic Society, reactivated by the Weathermen faction of the original SDS, i.e. Bill Ayers and company.