Tlalnepantla, DF, Mexico – [NEW 2x Updates Below From Victim] Four squad cars of local police attacked a fundraiser party outside of Casa Naranja Okupa – a nine-year old squat. People were raising funds to start a bike collective. After the early morning incident on…
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…
Minneapolis, MN – On December 9, 2015, with about two hours notice, Minneapolis mayor Betsy Hodges and Northside city council member Blong Yang floated a vague proposal to throw $605,000 at upgrading the formerly besieged 4th Precinct facility.
Over a hundred community members packed the…
Columbia Heights, MN – Unicorn Riot documented a vigil held for Michael Kirvelay on December 5th, 2015 where we listened to witnesses to the police killing of Michael Kirvelay.
On November 24th, 2015, Jaime, Michael’s sister, had advised the police that her brother was unwell…
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…
The top dog of law enforcement in the eastern Twin Cities metro area has a campaign website which has attempted to infect each visitor’s computer with malware for days now. Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek also has a lengthy history of supporting increased surveillance and…
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:
https://vimeo.com/377673087…
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.
https://vimeo.com/392632821
From the Facebook event description, hosted by the Denver Community…
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
https://vimeo.com/393792793
#ConcernedStudent1950
For episode 28 of Deprogram we start at the University of Missouri, where a hunger strike to combat the systemic racial injustices…
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:
https://vimeo.com/393792404
https://vimeo.com/393792559
For the first “Deprogram” episode…
DENVER, CO – Sat. Oct. 24-Mon. Oct. 26 2015
https://vimeo.com/392621592
https://vimeo.com/392619894
https://vimeo.com/392621030
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…
Ep. 25: #DronePapers #StLouis #WhoIsBurningBlackChurches #CoreyJones #BlackLivesMatter #ToroDeLaVega #Anonymous #LibertadHactivistas #Hambach #Germany #Xenophobia #RefugeeCrisis #FortressEurope #Palestine #FeesMustFall #NationalShutDown #BaltimoreUprising
https://vimeo.com/393793150
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…
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
https://vimeo.com/393804926
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…
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“:
https://vimeo.com/139820601
“Protesters Shine a Light on…
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…
Ep. 20: #Palestine #AlAqsaUnderAttack #HandsOffAlAqsa #Turkey #PKK #DeVloek #Femen #FortressEurope #RefugeeCrisis #DarrienHunt #Drought #ClimateChange #FossilFuels #Transphobia #Islamophobia #InternationalReport #PaulCastaway…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
From January 2015 to August 2015, Greece has had over 124,000 migrants/refugees land on their territory. As the migrant crisis continues to be exacerbated by the ongoing conflict in Syria and Afghanistan, people leaving those areas are coming up against another brute force, that of…
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…
The Jade Helm 2015 military exercise “in unconventional warfare involves United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) with other U.S Armed Forces units in multiple states, including Arizona, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico and Utah. Troops engaging in the exercise will assume the roles of either…