Greece: Action of Solidarity With Squats and Against Evictions
Athens, Greece - On Friday, June 24, a "coordination of refugee squats" staged a protest in front of the Ministry of Migration at Klafthmonos Square.
Tag: Unicorn Riot
Amsterdam Climate Camp Action Shuts Down Coal Port
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…
🦄 Racism & Far-Right
No Verdict Yet In Trial of Officer Yanez for Philando Castile Murder
St. Paul, MN – A verdict was expected today in the trial of St. Anthony police officer Jeronimo Yanez for manslaughter. Yanez was charged on November 16, 2016 after he killed 32-year-old African-American Philando Castile by shooting him five times during a traffic stop in…
Anti-Muslim “March Against Sharia” Rally in Denver Met with Resistance
Denver, CO – The anti-Muslim extremist group ACT for America organized a “March Against Sharia” in multiple cities across the US today. Unicorn Riot was on the ground documenting the event in Denver, as well as a planned antifascist counter-protest.
Around 3 PM the “March…
🦄 DAPL, Investigative
DAPL Security Leak Shows Coordinated Surveillance and Repression of Water Protectors
Bismarck, ND – Leaked documents created by military intelligence contractor TigerSwan, recently obtained and published by The Intercept, provide a previously unseen look inside the operations taken by Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) security contractors against the #NoDAPL movement. TigerSwan was contracted to coordinate DAPL security…
Dakota Access Pipeline Spills at South Dakota Pump Station
UPDATE (May 22, 2017): Since the initial news of its April 4 spill in South Dakota, reports have emerged that the Dakota Access Pipeline spilled twice in North Dakota on March 3 and March 5 of this year.  The AP reports:
Bismarck, N.D. – (AP)…
🦄 Community, Social Control
U.S. District Court of CO Certifies One of the Largest Houseless Class-Actions in U.S. History
Denver, CO – On Thursday, April 27, 2017, the United States District Court of Colorado, Judge William J. Martinez, certified class-action status for the lawsuit filed on August 25, 2016 on behalf of unhoused residents in Denver whose rights have been repeatedly violated during the…
Scarsella Trial – Part Five: Cell Phone Extraction Shows Scarsella’s Hardened Racism
Minneapolis, MN – Five unarmed Black protestors were shot in North Minneapolis in a white supremacist’s planned act of domestic terrorism on November 23, 2015. Allen Scarsella, who turned twenty-five years old on February 25th, has been incarcerated in administrative segregation in a Minneapolis jail…
🦄 Racism & Far-Right
Scarsella Trial – Part Four: Shooting Victims Testify
Minneapolis, MN – White supremacist Allen ‘Lance’ Scarsella shot five unarmed Black protesters in North Minneapolis on November 23, 2015. Protests for Jamar Clark, who was executed by the Minneapolis Police on November 15, led to an outdoor occupation of the 4th Precinct police station,…
🦄 Racism & Far-Right
Scarsella Trial – Part Three: Jury Sees Videos Around Mass Shooting
Minneapolis, MN – In November of 2015, gun enthusiast and racist 4channer Allen ‘Lance’ Scarsella physically trolled Jamar Clark protests with a firearm two times in four days. During his second visit he brought three friends with him, they got into an altercation and Allen…
🦄 Community
Third Push for Homeless Bill of Rights in Colorado Legislature
Denver, CO – For the third year in a row, the Homeless Bill of Rights, also known as the Right To Rest Act, is going to be reintroduced to Colorado’s legislature, the General Assembly. Denver Homeless Out Loud (DHOL) is the bill’s organizational sponsor and…
🦄 Racism & Far-Right
Picket Line and Call-in Campaign to Cancel Turning Point USA Conference
Denver, CO – A campaign is underway asking the Grand Hyatt in downtown Denver to cancel the Turning Point USA Western Conference scheduled for March 18-19. The call-out to picket was made by the Denver Action Network with the following information in their event page.…
🦄 Racism & Far-Right
Scarsella Trial – Part Two: “In hindsight it was very stupid”
Minneapolis, MN – Allen ‘Lance’ Scarsella, an avowed racist, white supremacist, white nationalist and firearms enthusiast, shot five people in North Minneapolis on November 23, 2015. That night, Scarsella and a group of like-minded friends had gone to the ongoing Jamar Clark protest to “poke…
Crowds of Attorneys and Protesters Converge at Airports Across U.S. to Oppose #MuslimBan
Update 3/9/17 4:00pm MST: On Monday, March 6th, 2017, the Trump administration issued their new version of the “Muslim Ban”–“Executive Order Protecting The Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into The United States.”
Here are the key parts of the new ban:
Iraq was removed from…
🦄 Racism & Far-Right
Scarsella Trial – Part One: Jury Selection, Unicorn Riot Subpoenaed, Opening Statements
Minneapolis, MN – Over four hundred days have passed since suspected white supremacist Allen Lawrence ‘Lance’ Scarsella shot five unarmed black men at Jamar Clark protests in North Minneapolis. In the second week of the new year (2017), Scarsella’s high-profile trial facing a litany of…
Millions Join Women’s Marches Worldwide, Empowering Some Femme Voices while Diminishing Others
On January 21st, 2017, there were nearly five hundred Women’s Marches in the United States and two hundred internationally. Attendance at the largest marches, located in Washington, D.C., Chicago, NYC, Boston, Denver, and Los Angeles, were estimated to number between 100,000-750,000 each.
According to the…
🦄 Community, Social Control
With Mayor’s Approval, Denver Continues Survival Gear Confiscations
Denver, CO – After Mayor Michael Hancock released a statement on Saturday, December 10th, about a supposed policy change to the confiscations of people’s survival gear including blankets and tents, over twenty five news outlets have praised him for this apparent temporary winter-month “end” to…
🦄 Community
Denver to Continue Confiscating Survival Gear of Unhoused Under Encumbrance Ordinance, to Stop Under Camping Ban
Denver, CO – On Saturday December 10th, 2016, Mayor Michael Hancock “announced a cold-weather adjustment to enforcement of the city’s unauthorized camping ordinance.” After much public outcry from local residents and civil rights attorneys, including a letter from the ACLU, the mayor has finally taken…
21 Arrested as Fast Food Workers Strike for $15/Hr in Minneapolis
Minneapolis, MN – Fast food workers in Minneapolis have gone on strike as part of a nationwide day of action calling for livable wages. Twenty one people from a variety of occupations were cited for public nuisance after engaging in an act of civil disobedience…
Jamar Clark Remembered a Year Later with Balloons & Fireworks
Minneapolis, MN – A large group of community members gathered in North Minneapolis at the site of Jamar Clark’s murder for a candlelight vigil. The vigil lasted two hours and featured speeches, sparklers, fireworks, balloons, and food.
Unicorn Riot was live during the proceedings of…
DAPL Construction Nears US Army Corps Land While Still Lacking Permits
Oceti Sakowin, ND – Construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) within Morton County, North Dakota is almost complete. The pipeline has now reportedly progressed to within half a mile of land owned by the US Army Corps of Engineers, which would require permits that…
🦄 DAPL, Eco, Police, Protest & Direct Action
Police & Military Attack Oceti Sakowin Treaty Camp
Morton County, ND – Over two hundred multi-state law enforcement and National Guard personnel attacked water protectors gathered on unceded 1851 Oceti Sakowin treaty land just north of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in the late morning of Thursday, October 27th.
Updated on Nov. 1,…
Four Directions March Celebrates Denver’s Passage of Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Denver, CO – On Monday, October 3rd, 2016, the city of Denver permanently designated the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples’ Day, which is celebrated federally, and on a state level in Colorado, as Columbus Day.
This decision came five days before the annual…
Direct Actions Continue to Stop DAPL Construction in Iowa and North Dakota
Lee County, IA & Morton County, ND – During the weekend of Saturday, October 15th, direct actions to stop construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline continued in both Iowa and North Dakota.
Around noon on Friday, October 14th, Cameron Kennedy, 27, of Minneapolis, locked himself…
🦄 Community
First Hearing in Class-Action Against Denver for Violating Human Rights
Denver, CO – On Wednesday, October 12th, 2016, Judge Craig B. Shaffer’s court room was packed during the first hearing in the class-action lawsuit against the city and county of Denver for violating the human rights of people without housing.
Attorney Jason Flores-Williams filed the…
🦄 DAPL, Eco, Protest & Direct Action
Lockdown Stops DAPL Construction in Iowa, 3 Arrested, Including Unicorn Riot Journalist
Lee County, IA – Early Wednesday afternoon, a group of water protectors entered a Dakota Access Pipeline construction site where earth was being cleared. This is a different site than the drill bore area near the Mississippi River, where most actions in Iowa have taken…
🦄 Arts & Culture, Community
Black Storytellers Alliance Celebrates its 25th Annual Black Master Storytelling Festival
Minneapolis, MN – For more than two decades the Black Storytellers Alliance has celebrated the art of storytelling through festivals in and around the Twin Cities. During the weekend of September 22-24 the 25th annual Black Master Storytelling Festival took place.
Held over three nights…
🦄 Community
Class-Action Lawsuit Against Denver: Motion Filed for Recusal of Judge Shaffer
Denver, CO – On September 21st, 2016, Attorney Jason Flores-Williams filed a Motion for Recusal of Judge Craig B. Shaffer who is set to hear the pretrial of the class-action lawsuit filed on August 25th, 2016, on behalf of people without housing who have had…
🦄 DAPL, Eco, Investigative
Resisting FBI Repression with Leslie James Pickering
Denver, CO – On the evening of September 14th, Leslie James Pickering of Buffalo, NY’s Burning Books made a stop in Denver on his Resisting FBI Repression speaking tour.
Unicorn Riot was there to stream the event, hosted by the Denver Anarchist Black Cross and…
🦄 DAPL, Eco, Police, Protest & Direct Action
Direct Actions Continue Against Dakota Access Pipeline, Legal Repression Intensifies
Morton County, ND – Early in the morning of Wednesday, September 14th, indigenous water protectors again disrupted Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) construction by entering a work site north of Almont, North Dakota and using lockboxes to attach themselves to machinery.
Livestream videos posted to Facebook…