🦄 Community, Land & Housing
Drone shot overlooking camp nenookaasi

Camp Nenookaasi Burns Down, Finds New Home

Minneapolis, MN — Camp Nenookaasi, a beacon of hope to the unhoused community, burned down on Thursday afternoon. At 12:07 p.m. on February 29, firefighters were called after a yurt caught fire and spread to the rest of the camp.

Unicorn Riot heard from Ta…

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Gaza War Spillover: Lebanon’s Silent Displacement Crisis

Tyre, Lebanon — For the past few months, the world’s attention has been focused on Gaza and its besieged population suffering from Israeli attacks. However, during this period in south Lebanon, thousands of people have also been suffering due to the reignited conflict between Israel…

🦄 Land & Housing, Protest & Direct Action

Camp Nenookaasi, a Beacon of Hope to the Unhoused, Faces Eviction

Camp Nenookaasi is throwing the subject of Minneapolis’ encampment policies into the spotlight again as it faces eviction on December 19. The camp’s supporters are waging the latest skirmish in a longer fight between the city’s prohibition of encampments and those who claim that allowing encampments to remain intact is the most humane approach to the issue, as well as a crucial first step toward getting people into stable housing and recovery programs. 

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Tale of the City: Gentrification in London – Part 3

London’s indoor market Latin Village, in the Seven Sisters district of Tottenham, is a vibrant hotspot for anti-gentrification efforts in Britain. The village is an ongoing sociopolitical experiment that draws the attention of people, groups and organizations that are involved in anti-gentrification struggles all over…

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Israel Blows Up Home of Palestinian Prisoner’s Family

Ramallah, Occupied West Bank, Palestine — At dawn on Thursday, June 8, Israeli forces blew up the house of Palestinian prisoner Islam Froukh’s family in the ‘old city’ section of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. Several Palestinians were shot, including a journalist, during the…

🦄 Land & Housing, Police, Prison

Atlanta Solidarity Fund Organizers Granted Bond

DeKalb County, GA — Three Atlanta Solidarity Fund organizers arrested Wednesday were awarded bond in DeKalb County Magistrate Court Friday afternoon.

Marlon Kautz, Adele Maclean and Savannah Patterson were arrested in Atlanta on May 31 after the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and Atlanta Police Department…

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Activists Fight Against Criminalization of Homelessness in New Haven

New Haven, CT – New Haven’s Amistad Catholic Worker is a place of refuge for New Haven’s homeless population. Its director, Mark Colville, is also a local celebrity: spearheading campaigns targeting the city’s criminalization of homelessness, clearing of encampments, and hostility toward public services on…

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Over 100 Families Occupy Abandoned Apartment Complex in Brazil

In the Brazilian state of Paraná more than 100 families have taken over a set of abandoned buildings. Squatting the Residencial Golden Ville, located at 1850 Avenida Independência in Paiçandu, one of the Bolsonarist strongholds in the country, families are seeking to secure their housing…

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Families in Gaza Live Among the Dead

Gaza Strip, Palestine – A growing number of families in the densely populated and besieged Gaza Strip are living in squatted sections of cemeteries due to the lack of housing.

One of the many families staying in the Sheikh Saban cemetery, the oldest in Gaza,…

🦄 Land & Housing, Police

Samatar Encampment Eviction Leaves 100 Displaced Mid-Winter

Minneapolis, MN – The largest encampment of unhoused people in Minneapolis was evicted on Wednesday, Jan. 18, following a recent shooting which left 27-year-old Adnan Mohamed Ali dead. The Samatar Crossing Encampment in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood (also playfully known as ‘House of Balls Encampment,’ named…