Hamburg, Germany – On the last day of the G20 Summit, an estimated 200,000 people took part in a ‘Solidarity Without Borders’ demonstration and march. After the march, many thousands of people mingling in the St. Pauli neighborhood were met by riot police who used…
Hamburg, Germany – World leaders started the G20 Summit in Hamburg under heavy police protection. By early morning, the sky was filled with smoke plumes from burning barricades and vehicles across the city. Riots started early in the morning and continued across Hamburg despite the…
Washington, DC – After pleading guilty to several felonies in April, Dane Powell was sentenced to four months in federal prison by Judge Lynn Leibovitz in DC Superior Court today. He will do four months of a thirty-six month sentence with two years of supervised…
Hamburg, Germany – One of the largest anticapitalist black blocs in history was attacked before they were able to march. The day before the G20 Summit was slated to begin, police in Hamburg attacked the march from behind for refusing to de-mask. The march then…
Hamburg, Germany – Unicorn Riot spent their second day covering the events around the G20 Summit documenting a demonstration that was a moving dance party. After the crowd thinned, squads of police snatched and arrested protesters.
The event held July 5th was dubbed a “demo…
Hamburg, Germany – Unicorn Riot journalists spent their first day in the streets of Hamburg trying to get oriented to the city and the #G20 Summit, a top-level international forum for the politicians and central bank governors from the 20 major world economies. July 4th,…
Huntingdon County, PA – In May, Unicorn Riot visited Camp White Pine, a direct action encampment on the Gerhart family’s property in the hills of Huntingdon County, PA. Several tree-sits currently sit on the easement for the Mariner East 2 pipeline, where Sunoco has claimed…
#NoG20 protesters are gathering to address the global exploitation of resources, wars and violence of the capitalist system, and make their criticism and voices heard at the 2017 summit in Hamburg.
Philadelphia, PA – A rally calling for the impeachment of President Donald Trump took place Sunday morning at Liberty Bell Plaza. A variety of liberal and progressive organizations generally denounced the Trump administration, calling for Medicaid for all, and drawing attention to the ongoing Trump-Russia…
Washington, DC – Dozens of the over two hundred people arrested protesting President Trump’s inauguration on January 20 (‘J20’) have appeared in court over the last two weeks.
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The arrests took place on the morning of January 20 during an ‘anti-capitalist/anti-fascist’…
Washington, DC – A ‘speakout’ event took place on Sunday outside the Washington DC Metro Police Headquarters. The rally was held in part to condemn the aggressive prosecution of Trump inauguration protesters arrested on January 20, over two hundred of whom face up to eighty…
Amsterdam, Netherlands – Activists from the ‘Climate Camp’ took direct action at the port of Amsterdam, the biggest gasoline port and the second biggest coal port in Europe.
Climate activists used the hashtag #CodeRood, aka Code Red, to indicate that they are responding to the…