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Amazon Workers Strike On Prime Day in Shakopee
July 15, 2019Shakopee, MN – Over 100 employees at ‘MSP1’, a large Amazon warehouse in Minnesota, plan a four-hour work stoppage at the peak of business on Amazon’s “Prime Day” sales promotion event. Workers say that demanding quotas and pressure to perform at high speeds causes undue…... -
Hundreds in CO Plan Rally to ‘Close the Concentration Camps’
July 12, 2019Aurora, CO – As part of an international call to action by multiple coalitions of social justice and human rights groups, a vigil and march is planned for Friday, June 12, outside the GEO Group’s ICE Detention facility in Aurora. Watch our live coverage below:…... -
Vigil Marks Three Years Since Police Killed Philando Castile
July 9, 2019Falcon Heights, MN – Three years to the day after the police killing of Philando Castile, a 32-year-old school cafeteria worker, about 100 people gathered in remembrance. At the site of Castile’s death in a St. Paul suburb, his family was joined by community members,…... -
New Mexico Water Protectors Demand Involvement in Water Rights Agreement
July 9, 2019Taos, NM – In the early morning of Thursday, March 14, 2019, local organizers and self-described water protectors with Guardians of Taos Water (GOT Water) rallied at the Midway Drill site off of Highway 64. This deep-aquifer supply water drill is one of more than…... -
Far-Right Rally Fizzles in Washington, DC
July 7, 2019Washington, D.C. – A rally organized by numerous far-right figures, including Laura Loomer and Milo Yiannopoulos, failed to organize more than a few hundred people, with approximately 500 – 700 antiracist counter protesters rallying against them. Although the organizers billed the event on Saturday, July…... -
Slouching Towards The Ethnostate: Inside The American Identity Movement
July 4, 2019Washington, DC – Earlier this year, the neo-nazi group Identity Evropa (IE), known for organizing the deadly Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville, rebranded itself the ‘American Identity Movement’ (AmIM). By adopting generic patriotic imagery and conservative rhetoric, the group has sought to build a…... -
Neo-Nazi Gets Multiple Life Sentences In Federal Prison for Charlottesville Car Attack
June 30, 2019Charlottesville, VA – Last Friday, June 28, 2019, James Alex Fields appeared for sentencing in federal court on charges related to his deadly car attack after the neo-nazi Unite The Right rally on August 12, 2017. Fields, now age 22, had already pleaded guilty to…... -
Thousands March in Minneapolis to Stop Separating Families
June 30, 2019Minneapolis, MN – Thousands turned out to march through the streets of south Minneapolis against the United States practice of separating children from their families at the Mexico-US border. The start time of the event was pushed back a half hour due to a fierce…... -
Jeanette Vizguerra’s U-Visa Denied While in Sanctuary Second Time
June 27, 2019Denver, CO – Immigrant rights leader and undocumented mother and grandmother, Jeanette Vizguerra, has been living at the First Unitarian Society for three months, which is the second time she has claimed sanctuary from deportation. On June 20, 2019, she held a press conference at…... -
Killed by Police: Thurman Blevins Remembered One Year Later
June 23, 2019Minneapolis, MN – Unicorn Riot recently sat down with Darlynn Blevins, sister of 31-year-old father of three, Thurman “June” Blevins, who was killed by Minneapolis police after being shot in the back while running down a North Minneapolis alley on June 23, 2018. In the…...
