🦄 Labor
SWOP Legal

Minneapolis Sex Workers Legal Training Mitigates Super Bowl Crackdown Fears

Minneapolis, MN – On January 21, 2018 Unicorn Riot attended a “Know Your Rights” training conducted by the Minneapolis Sex Worker Outreach Project (SWOP). The training was aimed at the sex worker community. They hoped to give community members legal tools as fears of police…

🦄 Community

Super Bowl Protest: Tackle Corporate Greed

Minneapolis, MN – On Friday, February 2, 2018, an action at the Home Depot called on corporations to stop supporting oppressive immigration policies and create better wages and benefits for janitors. The action was titled ‘Super Bowl Protest: Tackle Corporate Greed‘ and organized greatly by …

🦄 Protest & Direct Action

Banners Dropped at Super Bowl Media Day

St. Paul, MN – Two banners were dropped inside the Xcel Energy Center on Monday, January 29, 2018 during Super Bowl LII’s Media Day. The banners read #SBLIIBlackOut and #WeReadyWeComin. They were deployed while thousands of press attempted to ask questions of the New England…

🦄 Community

Glendale Townhomes in Minneapolis Face Gentrification from MPHA

Minneapolis, MN – Tenants who reside at Glendale Townhomes in the historic Prospect Park neighborhood have been organizing for years to protect their homes from proposed redevelopments, which the group Defend Glendale insists will mean “gentrification and displacement of people of color from Minneapolis” through…

🦄 Community, LGBTQ+

Minneapolis Residents March Against Rape Culture and Fraternities

Minneapolis, MN – On the evening of September 7, 2017, dozens gathered on the University of Minnesota (UMN) Minneapolis campus and marched in an open show of resistance against rape and fraternity culture during the fraternities’ prime recruitment week.

Individuals had been invited to gather…

🦄 Community

“OhHellNo” Bike Ride, Community Self-Defense in Action

Minneapolis, MN – Community members from South Minneapolis organized a bike ride called “#OhHellNO” in response to sexual harassment & assaults reported along bike routes in the neighborhood. The riders came together to ride through the neighborhood to let perpetrators know that roads are being…

🦄 Police

Minneapolis Police Kill Woman Who Called 911

Minneapolis, MN – Late in the night of July 15, 2017, Justine Maia Ruszczyk called 911 after she heard a sound in the alley of her Southwest Minneapolis home. That call turned into her death. Two Minneapolis Police officers responded to the 911 call in…