UPDATE: February 29th, 2016, two months after filing a restraining order against #BlackLivesMatter Minneapolis organizers, Mall of America attorney Susan Gaertner asked a judge to drop the orders. For her reasoning, she stated, “We believe that it had the correct effect on the goings on…
Denver, CO – On December 16th, Unicorn Riot was on the ground as Denver PD evicted a homeless camp during a blizzard-like snowfall (pictured below) that day that measured eight inches. We learned later that police also attacked and evicted a camp that numbered in…
Minneapolis, MN – A large coalition of organizations and community members defied frigid temperatures for the Justice 4 Jamar Unity Rally/March on Saturday, December 19, 2015 shortly after noon.
The rally and march was the latest in a series of community events in response to…
Denver, CO – In the early morning of December 15th, Denver police forced dozens of homeless community members of Resurrection Village into blizzard conditions. Since their tiny homes action on Oct. 24th, Resurrection Village members have been sleeping near various unused empty lots owned by…
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An interview with LA experimental rap artist; Mike Eagle. A wide ranging conversation on the artistic process, work, race, indie hip-hop, the rise of fascism in the states, widespread ignorance as a virtue, and Mike’s origins as a Chicago rapper.…
After 18 days of occupying North Minneapolis’ 4th precinct in the wake of the ‘execution style’ murder of Jamar Clark on November 15, 2015, the Minneapolis Police have raided the encampment.
The night of December 2nd was peaceful, as groups organized around campfires enjoying each…
Nov. 18, 2015 – Minneapolis, MN: On Tuesday afternoon the Minneapolis Police Department used force to sweep out #Justice4Jamar protests from the vestibule and lawn in front of the 4th Precinct in North Minneapolis.
Unicorn Riot was on the scene shortly after the sweep-out:
We…
DENVER, CO, Nov 17, 2015 — UnicornRiot just recorded a live feed from a protest at Van Cise-Simonet Detention Center. (490 W Colfax Ave). Law enforcement shoved the protesters out the door pretty quickly.
From the Facebook event description, hosted by the Denver Community Defense…
Minneapolis, MN – After an array of organizers from concerned community members to Black Lives Matter Minneapolis to the Black Liberation Project spontaneously organized the #4thPrecinctShutDown, donations from the extended community poured in along with the rain and a furthered determination to stay. Here are…
Minneapolis, MN – In the early morning of November 15th, witnesses in North Minneapolis say that 24 year old Jamar Clark was handcuffed on the ground and shot ‘execution’ style by Minneapolis Police. The hashtag #JamesAndPlymouth, in reference to the location of the incident, quickly…
Ep. 28: #Mizzou #ConcernedStudent1950 #BlackOnCampus #ClimateChange #KeystoneXL #Enbridge #Hackers #CWA #Anonymous #Securus #PrisonMonitoring #MMM2015 #CopsLie #BlackLivesMatter #Turkey #Silvan #SilvanUnderAttack #Palestine #Justice4KeithLamar
#ConcernedStudent1950
For episode 28 of Deprogram we start at the University of Missouri, where a hunger strike to combat the systemic racial injustices on…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
DENVER, CO – Sat. Oct. 24-Mon. Oct. 26 2015
Resurrection Village is a project to set up tiny homes for homeless Denver residents.
Oct 24th:
Five tiny houses were built on Saturday by Denver Homeless Out Loud [DHOL] and their supporters on a patch of…
After the August 2014 police shooting of Mike Brown and subsequent protests in Ferguson, a “chain letter” entitled “Words Of A Dying Black Man” began to circulate in forwarded emails and blog posts. The letter, which claims to be written by an elderly black Korean…
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…
On September 24, 2015, the Anarchist Black Cross along with other political prisoner support groups from across North America held an annual panel discussion called “Resisting Repression from the Inside Out: Former Prisoners Speak.”
Held at the Tivoli Student Union in Denver, the panel featured…
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…
On the night of Thursday, September 17th, protesters paid another home visit to Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey, after the (delayed) public release of surveillance video showing a Lakota man, Paul Castaway, being shot & killed by Denver Police officer Michael Traudt. To the surprise…
Minneapolis, MN – On September 19th we met up with Fernanda Hart, the CANDO Sustainability & Food Access organizer, to learn about a project called “Plant-Grow-Share.”
We spent the day biking through the Central neighborhood of South Minneapolis, following handmade maps with the safest, quickest…
Ep. 20: #Palestine #AlAqsaUnderAttack #HandsOffAlAqsa #Turkey #PKK #DeVloek #Femen #FortressEurope #RefugeeCrisis #DarrienHunt #Drought #ClimateChange #FossilFuels #Transphobia #Islamophobia #InternationalReport #PaulCastaway…
Lucrecia Luciana Belmont served in the US Army for a little over five years from 2003-2008. It was before she was discharged that she began exploring her gender in 2007. She started experimenting off-duty with wearing women’s clothing. “Nobody knew, but I was more comfortable…
The July 12th (2015) shooting of Paul Castaway by Officer Michael Traudt was ruled justifiable.
Unicorn Riot spoke with the family of Paul Castaway the night the Denver District Attorney released the video showing his killing.
Lynn Eagle Feather Paul’s mother explained how she was…
Ep. 19: #KimDavis #HateNotHeritage #NationalGeographic #RefugeesWelcome #Roeszke #Hungary #Belgium #Peru #Achuar #Cizre #TurkeyAtWar #Kurds #China #VPN #Ayotzinapa #JeremyHammond #DeVloek
EPISODE 19:…
*UPDATE 9/9/15: De Vloek has been attacked by police and arrests were made. Front of De Vloek now demolished.
En ME’ers zijn op het dak een gat aan het zagen, om het pand te kunnen betreden. #DeVloek pic.twitter.com/hOQEQvRCdv
— Redactie Regio15.nl (@regio15) September 9, 2015…