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…
On Friday, August 27th, the Black Liberation Project organized a protest against Whole Foods dubbed “Whole Frauds”, spotlighting Whole Foods’ use of prison labor. The actions took place simultaneously in two different locations; Calhoun Commons in St. Louis Park, and the Grand Avenue Whole Foods…
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 &…
In mid-August 2015, the Obama administration gave the green light for Royal Dutch Shell to start drilling for oil in the Arctic Ocean, off Alaska’s northwest coast.
The well is approximately 70 miles from the coast of Alaska and is thought of by oil companies…
In St. Paul, a new chapter of the Black Lives Matter organization recently held it’s first event. They organized #BlackFair, a march on the Minnesota State Fair.
The marchers met at Hamline park in St. Paul and listened to a host of speakers. The speakers…
Ep. 17: #StockMarkets #ChinaMeltdown #NYSE #Stingrays #MansurBallBey #BlackLivesMatter #Macedonia #Greece #RefugeeCrisis #Nauen #Heidenau #YouStink #Beirut #ClimateChange #COP21 #China #AirPollution #MidwestUnrest #MinneapolisPolice
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 “hunt, fish, and gather,” on…
#Snowden #NSA #ATT | More Snowden documents have thrown a spotlight back onto the NSA’s spying programs using telecommunication giants AT&T and Verizon. According to the newly released documents, the NSA and AT&T worked together from 2003 to 2013 to sweep up communications that flowed…
“At the end of the day, we don’t need police to protect our community, because we’re going to protect our community ourselves.” – LittleJohn (Baltimore Bloods member)
The publicized deaths of young black men like Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Freddie Gray at the hands…
#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…
#SesameStreet | The youth programming classic ‘Sesame Street’ has entered into a new five year contract with HBO which will take away the free programming on the original source of PBS for a nine month period of time. The CEO of the nonprofit Sesame Workshop…
During Episode 16 of “Deprogram”, Lorenzo and Niko were joined by Elisabeth Epps, an activist from Denver who spoke out about police intimidation tactics that she and others have recently experienced.
The Denver Police Department is no stranger when it comes to controversial policing tactics…
In Episode 16 of our weekly live show “Deprogram”, we interviewed Pascoe Sabido about the #Endegelaende direct action against coal mining in Germany.
Over 1,000 activists marched into an open pit Lignite Mine in Germany. While Germany continues to break renewable energy records, they also continue…
Unicorn Riot spoke to Janene Yazzie, a human rights advocate and local community activist from the Navajo Nation. The interview starts by reviewing a recent viral video showing Navajo communities members chasing off Sen. John McCain.
Translation: “No Mccain. Water is life.”
Janene states,
“John…
Ep. 16: #Snowden #NSA #ATT #Windows10 #Surveillance #Whiteclay #SesameStreet #StopWMM #Antifa #ChelseaManning #FightForDyett #SaveDyett #sHellNo #Pentagon #Guantanamo #RadazzHearns #Navajo #DefendDenver #Endegelaende
EPISODE 16:
#Snowden #NSA #ATT | More Snowden documents have thrown a spotlight back onto the NSA’s spying programs using telecommunication giants AT&T and…
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…
Local community members and allies led by “American Indian Movement” flags marched from Pine Ridge reservation into Nebraska to protest the continued funneling of alcohol from the unincorporated town of Whiteclay.
Members of the Oglala Lakota tribe, which inhabit Pine Ridge, have stated to Unicorn…