Category: Arts & Culture
HOPE Conference Criticized For Allowing Far-Right Harassment
New York, NY – The 12th ‘Hackers On Planet Earth’ (HOPE) conference has become embroiled in controversy regarding the enforcement of the event’s Code of Conduct. In a joint statement released late Saturday, numerous groups present for the conference, including the Tor Project and Riseup.net,…
Books Banned in U.S. Prisons Featured at Minneapolis Art Festival
Minneapolis, MN – This year’s Northern Spark art festival featured an exhibit which displayed a collection of books banned in prisons across the United States, called the Section of Disapproved Books. According to PrisonPolicy.org, there are roughly “2.3 million people in 1,719 state prisons, 102…
Creativity Shines at Icy Art Sled Rally
Minneapolis, MN – On January 27, 2018, Unicorn Riot was back covering the Powderhorn Art Sled Rally in South Minneapolis’ Powderhorn Park for our third straight year. In frigid temperatures, decorative and amazingly creative sleds (including a Unicorn sled this year) whipped down an icy…
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Reports From Greece – 13 Part Series – 2017
During the summer of 2017, Unicorn Riot documented over a dozen stories from Athens, Greece. The stories were varied, most displaying networks of mutual aid, including housing, healthcare, food, detainee support and more, created by anarchists and anti-authoritarians in and around Exarcheia.
We produced three…
Pokanoket Nation Reclaims Stolen Sacred Land From Brown University
Bristol, RI – The federally unrecognized indigenous Pokanoket Nation, along with other tribes and their allies, have taken direct action to repatriate land that they say was stolen from them during colonial warfare over 300 years ago.
The Pokanoket were the first to welcome Puritan…
Social Engineers Spoof Corporate Security at DEFCON 25 Hacking CTF
Las Vegas, NV – Ever since DEFCON 18, there has been a village within the conference dedicated to the art of human hacking, also known as Social Engineering. By the village’s definition, social engineering is “any act that influences a person to take an action…
Queer Dance Party Raises Money for International Community
Minneapolis, MN – On May 27th, Unicorn Riot attended the Queer Dance Party Deluxe [QDP] at the Seward Cafe. The dance party, held monthly to bi-monthly at the Seward Cafe, was co-organized by Max, who is one of the collective members who helps operate the…
Sleds Plunge Down Powderhorn Ice Gauntlet at Community Art Spectacle
Minneapolis, MN – On January 28th, 2017, Unicorn Riot had the opportunity to cover the 2017 Art Sled in Powderhorn Park.
Art Sled was held by “South Sixteenth High Jinks”, a group made up of Powderhorn residents and artists. They hope to create public events…
Millions Join Women’s Marches Worldwide, Empowering Some Femme Voices while Diminishing Others
On January 21st, 2017, there were nearly five hundred Women’s Marches in the United States and two hundred internationally. Attendance at the largest marches, located in Washington, D.C., Chicago, NYC, Boston, Denver, and Los Angeles, were estimated to number between 100,000-750,000 each.
According to the…
Eviction of Denver DIY Stronghold Rhinoceropolis Ordered by Deputy Police Chief
Denver, CO – Following the eviction by the Denver Police and Fire Departments of the longtime Do-It-Yourself (DIY) art and music space Rhinoceropolis earlier this month, the RiNO neighborhood association issued a statement condemning the eviction.
In addition to objecting to the targeting of a…
DIY Art and Music Venues Targeted and Shut Down after Ghost Ship Fire
Denver, CO – The residents of local DIY art and music venues Rhinoceropolis and Glob in the RiNO district of Denver were abruptly evicted the evening of Thursday, December 8th, by the Denver Police and Denver Fire Departments. The spaces are currently being investigated by…
Solecast 31 w/ Astronautalis on Art, Politics & How to Not Kill Yourself in the Midst of All This Madness
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Solecast 31 is a wide ranging conversation with hip-hop artist Astronautalis. Astronautalis is a DIY rapper that has grinded it out playing house shows, concert halls and squats for the past decade. His approach to hip-hop has a wide…
Controversial Mural Elicits Condemnation, Community Backlash
Minneapolis, MN – Since the University of Minnesota (UMN) Twin Cities’ 2016 Paint The Bridge event, one particular panel on the Washington Avenue bridge has sparked significant controversy.
The annual Paint The Bridge event is open to all student groups officially registered with the UMN.…
Black Storytellers Alliance Celebrates its 25th Annual Black Master Storytelling Festival
Minneapolis, MN – For more than two decades the Black Storytellers Alliance has celebrated the art of storytelling through festivals in and around the Twin Cities. During the weekend of September 22-24 the 25th annual Black Master Storytelling Festival took place.
Held over three nights…
Marcus Garvey’s Birthday Celebration Unites Community
Denver, CO – On Wednesday, August 17th, 2016 the National Black United Front and All-African Liberation sponsored an event entitled “Dialogue-4-Survival: A Tribute to Marcus Garvey”. The event took place at the Crossroads Theater in the Five Points District, a historically Black neighborhood known as…
Solecast 27 “Beyond Democracy” w/ a crimethinc Participant
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“Generals always are fighting the last war
we want to be fighting the next war”
Solecast 27 is a discussion of crimethinc’s most recent text, “From Democracy To Freedom.”
Sole sits down with one of the crimethinc’s participants to have…
Solecast 26 w/ Adam Brock On Social Permaculture & Urban Gardening
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Solecast 26 is with Adam Brock co-founder of the Growhaus. Adam is a permaculturist, activist and educator. Growhaus is: “a nonprofit indoor farm, marketplace and educational center in Denver’s Elyria-Swansea neighborhood. Their vision is a world where all communities…
Solecast 25 w/ Scott Campbell on Anarchism, Palestine, Chiapas, & The Electoral Spectacle
In depth conversation with Its Going Down writer/activist Scott Campbell
Scott & Sole talk about:
Scott’s experience living in Palestine & Chiapas
His involvement with Occupy Oakland & lawsuit against OPD
A recent piece he wrote for the Institute of Anarchist Studies about Anarchism with…
Minneapolis Celebrates MayDay w/ Massive Community Festival
Minneapolis, MN – Southside Minneapolis plays host to one of the largest MayDay celebrations in the United States of America. On Sunday, May 1st, 2016, for the 42nd time, the Heart of the Beast Theater organized a parade and ceremony “to bring people together for…
Wild Roots Camp Explores Off-Grid Alternatives
Each Summer Solstice, a group known as Wild Roots Feral Futures sets up camp in the wilderness for over a week. The location of camp is different every year, but is placed somewhere near the Southwest area of Colorado. This year, 2016, will be their…
Solecast 23 w/ Flobots on Music, Resistance, & Comic Books
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Solecast 23 features an in-depth discussion with the legendary Denver hip-hop band The Flobots. The conversation mainly focuses on their “No Enemies” project, which updates popular songs to employ at demos, actions and protests. No Enemies…
Solecast 22 w/ Alexander Reid Ross on The Oregon Standoff, Fascism In The States & The Global Land Grab
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Interview Recorded at the 3rd annual Phoenix Anti-capitalist Conference
Fresh from reporting from inside the Oregon Militia standoff, Alexander “Sasha” Reid Ross speaks with Sole on his work. Sasha is a co-moderator for the Earth…
Ninth Annual Art Sled Rally in South Minneapolis
Minneapolis, MN – Today, an unusually warm and rainy Saturday in late January, South Minneapolis’s own Powderhorn Park hosted hundreds of community members who both participated in and watched the 9th Annual Art Sled Rally.
Hilarity ensued.
Ninth Annual Art Sled Rally in South Minneapolis…
Person Shot by Police at Fundraiser for Bike Collective Near Mexico City
Tlalnepantla, DF, Mexico – [NEW 2x Updates Below From Victim] Four squad cars of local police attacked a fundraiser party outside of Casa Naranja Okupa – a nine-year old squat. People were raising funds to start a bike collective. After the early morning incident on…
Deprogram: Episode 28
Ep. 28: #Mizzou #ConcernedStudent1950 #BlackOnCampus #ClimateChange #KeystoneXL #Enbridge #Hackers #CWA #Anonymous #Securus #PrisonMonitoring #MMM2015 #CopsLie #BlackLivesMatter #Turkey #Silvan #SilvanUnderAttack #Palestine #Justice4KeithLamar
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For episode 28 of Deprogram we start at the University of Missouri, where a hunger strike to combat the systemic racial injustices on…
Deprogram: Episode 27
Ep. 27: #Scumoween #BlackLivesMatter #Austin #LarryJackson #StLouis #KajiemePowell #StopTheCops #FundBlackFutures #TurkeyVotes #TurkeyElections #Australia #AsylumSeekers #EvrosFence #OpenEUborders #RefugeesGr #Sweden #Malmö #Colectiv #Romania #KeystoneXL #DumpDominion #ClimateGames #COP21 #FreeJessieB #StopEnbridge #BareBones
Because of technical difficulties the show was split into segments:
For the first “Deprogram” episode in November,…
BareBones Halloween: An Annual Outdoor Puppet Extravaganza
Minnesota’s Twin Cities is lucky in that it is home to “one of the most unique and original and very creative and beautiful productions that you can see” as put by Peter Schulze, a current board member of the BareBones Outdooor Puppet Extravaganza.
BareBones is…