Denver, CO โ On February 15, 2017, Jeanette Vizguerra, an undocumented mother and immigrant rights activist, entered into sanctuary at the First Unitarian Society in Denver.
Vizguerra decided to skip a scheduled check-in with her Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Officer because she had a…
In late February, Unicorn Riot dispatched a small media team intent on learning more about the ongoing border crisis to the desert borderlands of Arizona in the southwest United States. While there, we learned how the new Trump regime’s policies were impacting the local community.ย …
Tucson, AZ – On February 16th, Unicorn Riot arrived at a demo against the recent waves of ICE raids across the country. When we arrived, the protest had taken the streets across from the federal building in downtown Tucson.
The police blocked the march’s progression…
Phoenix, AZ – Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos may have become the first person to be deported due to Trumpโs executive order on immigration. On Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017 while completing a routine immigration check-in, Garcia de Rayos was taken into custody; she was deported to…
Aurora, CO – The local immigrant community and their supporters held a vigil on Monday, February 6th, 2017 at the GEO Group’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Detention Center in Aurora, Colorado and Unicorn Riot was live for the event.
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC),…
Update 3/9/17 4:00pm MST: On Monday, March 6th, 2017, the Trump administration issued their new version of the “Muslim Ban”โ“Executive Order Protecting The Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into The United States.”
Here are the key parts of the new ban:
Iraq was removed from…
Minneapolis, MN – On January 31st, thousands converged in downtown Minneapolis between the Federal Building and City Hall to protest a travel banย which targets seven predominately Muslim countries.
Unicorn Riot was live on the scene for the rally and march:
This convergence comes two…
Minneapolis, MN – On Friday, October 28, the Young Muslim Collective (YMC) of the Twin Cities hosted an informational presentation and discussion panel about Countering Violent Extremism (CVE), a counter-terrorism initiative of the United States’ Department of Homeland Security.
Unicorn Riot was in attendance and…
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.…
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Solecast 27 is a discussion of crimethincโs most recent text, โFrom Democracy To Freedom.โ
Sole sits down with one of the crimethincโs participants to have…
Cleveland, OH – Day one of the Republican National Convention in downtown Cleveland was filled with thousands more police than protesters. Two separate protests amassed in rallies attended by hundreds that then marched through the streets chanting against Trump.
The first planned march started with…
On Sunday, June 26th, 2016, white-supremacist groups planned a permitted rally at California’s state capitol building in Sacramento.
A mass mobilization of up to 300-400 Anti-Fascistsย confrontedย the Traditional Workers Party (TWP) and the Golden State Skinheads (GSS) as they arrived at the capitol. Several…
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Interview Recorded at the 3rd annual Phoenix Anti-capitalist Conference
Fresh from reporting from inside the Oregon Militia standoff, Alexander โSashaโ Reid Ross speaks with Sole on his work. Sasha is a co-moderator for the Earth…
Minneapolis, MN – On Wednesday, January 20th, 250-300 students walked out of public high schools across the Twin Cities to demand an end to ICE’s deportation of Immigrant families. The students assembled at MLK park in South Minneapolis and marched to Lake Street to protest…
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…
Duluth, MN – Nov. 2, 2015. A rally in Duluth agitated against pipeline construction and demanded full Tribal consultation regarding these dangerous projects. Many groups are rallying to resist the construction of more dirty pipelines across northern Minnesota and beyond. UnicornRiot.ninja had reporters onsite and…
Ep. 26: #CISA #StopCISA #OpSingleGateway #Thailand #Anonymous #Iceland #IRS #WalmartElves #FreeTheWalmartElves #Podgorica #Montenegro #RefugeesGr #Lesbos #HurricanePatricia #AssaultAtSpringValleyHigh #FeesMustFall #FBI #Anarchists #Denver #Homeless #ResurrectionVillage #TinyHomes
After the rundown and music video, we were gratefully joined by members of the collective Denver Homeless Outloud, who spoke about…
Ep. 25: #DronePapers #StLouis #WhoIsBurningBlackChurches #CoreyJones #BlackLivesMatter #ToroDeLaVega #Anonymous #LibertadHactivistas #Hambach #Germany #Xenophobia #RefugeeCrisis #FortressEurope #Palestine #FeesMustFall #NationalShutDown #BaltimoreUprising
After the rundown and music video, we had the pleasure to speak with Ralikh Hayes of Baltimore Bloc, an organizing collective in Baltimore.
Deprogram is a…
Ep. 24: #Ankara #AnkaraBombing #MatthewKeys #Anonymous #FBI #DoJ #Police #MatthewAjibade #TPP #TPIP #Berlin #Manif7Oct #Brussels #Exxon #IndigenousPeoplesDay #ColumbusDay #Flint #FlintWater #Nicaragua #InternationalReport
After the rundown and music video, we had the 8th installment of our International Report, which brought us news from #Accra #Ghana #Thailand…
Ep. 23: #NSA #GCHQ #TPP #AirFrance #Kunduz #Calais #NoBorders #HaciBirlik #Turkey #Brazil #ClimateChange #MMIW #Palestine #DariusPinex #SouthCarolina #SCFloods #IndigenousResistance #Surveillance #Encryption
After the 12 topic rundown and music video, we had two interviews. In the first interview, we were graced with the presence of Kanahus…
Ep. 22: #OpNimr #Anonymous #PirateBay #SnowdenTreaty #ShellNo #FloodTheSystem #FWSW #Catalonia #RefugeesWelcome #KarmaPolice #LasBambas #COP21 #DirtBoxes #Surveillance
After the rundown and the music video, we conducted two interviews.
The first interview was with Kevin Gosztola of Shadowproof about stingrays and surveillance:
The second interview was with…
Ep. 21: #AIDS #KimDotCom #Anonymous #Vietnam #Surveillance #BlackLivesMatter #FightForDyett #FireDanteServin #RekiaBoyd #SayHerName #Palestine #AlAqsa #GreekElections #PavlosFyssas #RefugeesGr #RefugeesWelcome #Volkswagen #Japan #TyphoonEtau #DSEI #Dismaland
We covered two of our latest videos during Episode 21:
“South Minneapolis Creates Free Organic Market“:
“Protesters Shine a Light on Denver…
Oil politics in the Syrian civil war is a complex web of money deception and proxy war. What began as non-violent grassroots rebellion against Bashar al Assad and the Syrian state has morphed into a complex proxy war involving countless factions and alliances competing for…
Ep. 20: #Palestine #AlAqsaUnderAttack #HandsOffAlAqsa #Turkey #PKK #DeVloek #Femen #FortressEurope #RefugeeCrisis #DarrienHunt #Drought #ClimateChange #FossilFuels #Transphobia #Islamophobia #InternationalReport #PaulCastaway…
Ep. 19: #KimDavis #HateNotHeritage #NationalGeographic #RefugeesWelcome #Roeszke #Hungary #Belgium #Peru #Achuar #Cizre #TurkeyAtWar #Kurds #China #VPN #Ayotzinapa #JeremyHammond #DeVloek
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In August of 2015, a group by the name of “Minnesota 10,000 for Southern Heritage”, received a permit to rally at the capitol in support of the confederate flag.
A facebook event to counter-protest the permitted confederate flag rally, named Unity Against White Supremacy &…
Ep. 17: #StockMarkets #ChinaMeltdown #NYSE #Stingrays #MansurBallBey #BlackLivesMatter #Macedonia #Greece #RefugeeCrisis #Nauen #Heidenau #YouStink #Beirut #ClimateChange #COP21 #China #AirPollution #MidwestUnrest #MinneapolisPolice
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EPISODE 17:
#China #NYSE | This past Monday China’s stock market took a free fall, diving 8.5% and losing all of its 2015 gains.…
Unicorn Riot went to Hole In The Day Lake in Minnesota to talk to Anishinaabe-Ojibwe natives who were exerting their Treaty Rights and gathering wild rice off reservation.
According to the local bands of Anishinaabe, they retain the right to โhunt, fish, and gather,โ on…
#StopWMM #Antifa | In Liverpool, UK a proposed “White Man March” was cancelled after antifascists took the streets in opposition. The fascist march, called by National Action, was met by an overwhelming amount of Anti-fascist counter protesters. The Anti-fascist network called for a “diversity of…
INTERNATIONAL REPORT #6 [Nigeria, South Africa, Taiwan, Philippines, Turkey, Burundi]:
The Deprogram International Report is a breakdown of protests from across the globe in the last two weeks. By analyzing different struggles we can gain a better context for struggles here at home. We hope…