ICE Targets Somali Community in Minneapolis
ICE agents have descended on Minneapolis for Operation Metro Surge, a new phase of the Trump Administration’s crackdown on immigrants, this time targeting the city’s Somali population.
Tag: resistance
🦄 Global
Lebanese Communists’ History of Armed Resistance Against Israeli Invasions
Beirut, Lebanon — When Israel launched its fourth invasion of Lebanon in late September 2024, many analysts turned their attention to Hezbollah, the Shi’ite political and military organization that controls southern Lebanon and wields significant influence across the entire country.
Although Hezbollah is the most…
Ribeirão Favel’Arte, Festival of Arts and Culture in Brazilian Favelas
Ribeirão Preto, Brazil – While social inequality and police violence in Brazil continue to thrive, community activists embark on their quest to retake the commons for the arts. Ribeirão Favel’Arte, a non-profit artistic and cultural festival organized by Coletivo CriAtiva, in partnership with members of…
🦄 Tech
Senate Approves Extended Surveillance Powers For Trump
Washington, DC – On January 18, 2018, the US Senate voted to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA – the legal underpinning for global mass surveillance carried out by the National Security Agency (NSA). The Senate passed the bill last…
🦄 Arts & Culture, Borders & Migration, Community, Eco, Police, Prison, Protest & Direct Action, Social Control, Tech
Reports From Greece – 13 Part Series – 2017
During the summer of 2017, Unicorn Riot documented over a dozen stories from Athens, Greece. The stories were varied, most displaying networks of mutual aid, including housing, healthcare, food, detainee support and more, created by anarchists and anti-authoritarians in and around Exarcheia.
We produced three…
#StopLine3: Cedar Avenue Shut Down in Memory of Dennis Banks
Minneapolis, MN – In honor of American Indian Movement co-founder Dennis James Banks, who passed away on October 29, people took and held space in the middle of Cedar Avenue in Minneapolis on Saturday, November 5 slightly after 11 p.m. CDT. The shutdown was also…
🦄 Eco
Tribal Citizens Prepare to Blockade Bakken Oil Pipeline
Cannonball, SD – On April 1st, 2016, under the name “Chante tin’sa kinanzi Po”, tribal citizens of the Standing Rock Lakota Nation and ally Lakota, Nakota, & Dakota citizens will set up a Spirit Camp along the proposed route of the Bakken Oil Pipeline, “Dakota Access…