Lorenzo Serna of Unicorn Riot talked to Melanie Martin over the phone about land defenders who blockaded an active tar sands mine site in the Book Cliffs of Utah on Monday (August 10, 2015). Climbing atop metal tripods, they stopped work at the mine, successfully…
Ep. 15: #FergusonRemembers #MoralMonday #HighwayShutdown #Tarnac #EPADisaster #AnimusRiverSpill #AndreGreen #ZacharyHammond #MigrantCrisis #Greece #Chicago #NotMyStonewall #NoPipelines #EminentDomain #NoTarSands
Episode 15:
#FergusonRemembers #MoralMonday #HighwayShutdown | To commemorate the anniversary of the killing of Mike Brown, a weekend of healing, organizing, and actions occured in Ferguson and throughout…
On Sunday night in Indianapolis, 15 year old Andre Green was driving a car that was targeted by police as being stolen. According to police, they attempted to pull the car over and some passengers fled, they shot Andre as he exited the vehicle. The…
EPA accidentally spilled 3 million gallons of mine waste turning the Animus River orange, which leads into the Colorado. The state of Colorado and the Navajo Nation have declared State’s of Emergency. According to President Russell Begaye of the Navajo Nation, the nation has been…
Tarnac 9 activists accused of “criminal association for the purposes of terrorist activity” for allegedly sabotaging high speed rails in France have had their terrorism charges dropped. This is worthwhile, because the Tarnac 9 claim to have been targeted, because the state places the…
To commemorate the anniversary of the killing of Mike Brown, a weekend of healing, organizing, and actions occurred in Ferguson and throughout St. Louis. Although the peaceful marches and vigils for Mike Brown, Vonderitt Myers, and the countless others who fell victim to police killings…
On Episode 14 of Deprogram, Unicorn Riot spoke with Elizabeth Mount about her experience in Portland during the #ShellNo protest. Elizabeth tells about what it was like and what motivated her to be one of the few who hung suspended from St John’s Bridge over…
On August 2nd, 2015, over 1,700 migrants stormed the Eurotunnel attempting to cross into the UK. The world is seeing its largest migration of humans since WWII and Europe is bearing the brunt of the flow. With war ravaging through the Middle East and North…
According to Missouri training documents the Missouri National Guard, under State Partnership Program with Republic of Panama, trains how to extract cell phone data using a “Universal Forensics Extraction Device” (UFED).…
Puerto Rico’s debt default has become official as it’s economic death spiral we mentioned in Episode 10, has hit another milestone as the island defaults on its debt for the first time in history. On Monday, it paid all of it’s debt except that owned…
Ep. 14: #BaltimoreUprising #UFED #JadeHelm #KillerRobots #AI #AutonomousWeapons #RNC2012 #Netzpolitik #TPP #AgGag #Calais #Eurotunnel #MillionMaskMarch #Turkey #PuertoRicoDefault #JimmyCarter #Oligarchy #Soudelor #sHellNo #Windows10 #SandraBland
FULL EPISODE:
INTERVIEW 1: Elizabeth Mount #sHellNo
INTERVIEW 2: @AlienA23P #Windows10
After our interviews, we showed two new Unicorn Riot videos from…
On July 31st, 2015, hundreds of Minneapolis residents marched through downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota to raise awareness around the death of Sandra Bland other Black women who died in police custody or were killed by police.
The ‘Sandra Bland Solidarity Action’ was led by Black women…
Activists kayaked out to block Shell’s Ice Breaker from entering Portland’s port for repairs. The ice breaker made it into port, and now is being blockaded by activists hanging from a bridge by ropes.
Shell needs the ice breaker to continue the exploration which was…
The House of Representatives passed the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act. If this bill passes the Congress and is signed into law, it then voids out Connecticut, Maine, and Vermont states laws that require GMO labels.…
The Unistoten camp has continued to stand in the path of various pipeline projects in so-called British Columbia. Recently Chevron has tried to start mapping on their territories and the RCMP has tried to enter the territory but has not been allowed on Unistoten’s unceded…
“This Black Lives Matter movement, and what I saw at this convening, was that it’s really helping people be on this journey to really loving ourselves as Black people.” – M. McDowell
Michael McDowell, an organizer with Black Lives Matter Minneapolis was kind enough to…
The Intercept reported that Black Lives Matter activists were tracked by federal agencies. The information release from The Intercept states that Federal agencies were tracking anyone who associated themselves with the Black Lives Matter movement and pulling information from a wide variety of public social…
Ep. 13: #Flint #UnistotenCamp #BlackLivesMatter #RexdaleHenry #AETA #AnimalRights #Honduras #DavidRomero #China #HumanRights #Turkey #PKK #NoGMO #ElNino #Aquifer #ShellNo #SamDubose #UrbanFarms #GardeningAsResistance #M4BL
EPISODE 13:
RUNDOWN:
#Flint | Residents in Detroit & Flint march from Detroit to Flint, Michigan to raise awareness, not only about the…
Residents of Michigan marched from Detroit to Flint to raise awareness, not only about the water shutoffs plaguing Detroit, but also the reports of high levels of copper and lead in Flint’s water supply. Flint water has been so corrosive that General Motors reported that…
Rexdale Henry, a 53 year old Choctaw medicine man and civil rights activist dies after being booked into historically infamous Mississippi jail. Rexdale was booked in Neshoba County Jail after being pulled over in a traffic stop. Neshoba County jail is the same place where…
We catch up with Unicorn Riot Producer Pat in Denver after he’s been released from jail. Pat was targeted and pulled out of a group of videographers as he documented a Paul Castaway protest. We learn he was held for 14 hrs and the police…
In the wake of the Paul Castaway murder at the hands of the Denver Police Department the Colorado Fraternal Order of Police tweeted that the family and friends of Paul Castaway protesting his death were “a gaggle of clowns”.…
Leader of the local autodefensas group, Semeí Verdía, was abducted in the village of La Placita on Sunday by the Mexican military in coordinated attacks on autodefensas groups. Villagers protested and the Mexican military opened fire wounding 2 and killing 2, a 12 year old…
Horrible news on the heels of the 3 year anniversary of the Rojava Revolution comes as 32 members of the Socialist Federation of Youth Associations (SGDF) were killed in a suicide bomb attack. They were having a press conference announcing their trip to Kobane to…
Apache Stronghold’s convoy reached Washington DC to raise awareness of the sacred land stolen and given to Resolution copper mine in the 2014 NDAA bill. …
July 18th, 2015 a pro confederate flag rally called by members of the Ku Klux Klan & supported by members of the National Socialist Movement, marched on the South Carolina State House. African-American activists & allies gathered to oppose the white nationalist members. Scuffles ensued…
Samuel Dubose, a 43 year old Cinncinati man was shot in the head by University of Cincinnati campus police during a traffic stop. University of Cincinnati Officer Ray Tensing tussled with Sam through his window and as Sam attempted to drive away, Ofcr. Tensing shot…
Ep 12: #SandraBland #WhatHappenedToSandraBland #SayHerName #KindraChapman #SamDubose #ColumbiaSC #KKK #MassGraves #WesleyClark #ClimateChange #ProtectOakFlat #SuruçtaKatliamVar #Suruç #Ostula #Michoacan #Mexico #Ukraine #AnonDown #OpAnonDown #Anonymous #DefendDenver #PaulCastaway
EPISODE 12:
#WhatHappenedToSandraBland #SayHerName #SandraBland | Sandra Bland, a twenty eight year old Illinois woman, on her way to a job…
Ep 11: #AnthonyWare #EricGarner #ICantBreathe #PaulCastaway #DefendDenver #SrebrenicaGenocide #Vucic #Netherlands #fracking #NoThirdRunway #KeepItOnGround #Heathrow #aGreekMent #ThisIsACoup #APA #TorturePsychology #ThePirateBay #Ukraine
EPISODE 11:
RUNDOWN:
#AnthonyWare, a 35 year old Tuscaloosa Alabama resident, died from being pepper sprayed by police while they were subduing him in the…
Ep 10: #Gaza1YearOn #Enbridge #MitchEnriquez #RobertDoggart #TakeDownTheFlag #PuertoRico #GreeceCrisis #TheHackingTeam #NYSE #ChinaMeltdown #CanadianFires
“Deprogram”, a live show hosted by Zo and Niko that attempts to examine the roots of the struggles that preside throughout different communities.
ATTEMPTING VIDEO RECOVERY…