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:
https://vimeo.com/392647719
#China #NYSE | This past Monday China’s stock market took a free fall, diving 8.5% and losing all of its 2015…
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:
https://vimeo.com/392642394
#Snowden #NSA #ATT | More Snowden documents have thrown a spotlight back onto the NSA’s spying programs using telecommunication giants AT&T…
INTERNATIONAL REPORT #6 [Nigeria, South Africa, Taiwan, Philippines, Turkey, Burundi]:
https://vimeo.com/392641979
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…
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…
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:
https://vimeo.com/392637985
#FergusonRemembers #MoralMonday #HighwayShutdown | To commemorate the anniversary of the killing of Mike Brown, a weekend of healing, organizing, and actions occured in Ferguson and…
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:
https://vimeo.com/392634130
INTERVIEW 1: Elizabeth Mount #sHellNo
INTERVIEW 2: @AlienA23P #Windows10
After our interviews, we showed two new Unicorn Riot videos…
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…