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The SF Bay Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations is calling on the University of California, San Francisco to reinstate professor of medicine Dr. Rupa Marya and publicly affirm that it will safeguard academic freedom and free speech. Dr. Marya was terminated from UCSF in May 2025, which came after her medical privileges were suspended in September 2024 over social media posts in which she criticized Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Around 5,000 demonstrators marched through Athens' city center to the Israeli Embassy in solidarity with the Palestinian people on Oct. 7, 2025.

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Over 10,000 demonstrators, gathered in the city’s iconic Times Square. The protestors were demanding an end to Israel’s nearly two year genocide.

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Suffering from cancer while beautifying campmates in Gaza as cancer patients are prevented from leaving for treatment -- with videos from Gaza.

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Big Oil won a major victory on September 13 when the California Legislature passed Governor Gavin Newsom’s bill, S.B. 237, as part of a controversial “climate” package that greenlights tens of thousands of new oil and gas drilling permits in Kern County over the next decade with no further environmental review. The bill passed as a last minute “gut and amend” measure at the end of the legislative session, truncating public participation.

On September 24, Bay Area poets and other writers organized a poetry reading outside of U.S. Senator Adam Schiff's office in San Francisco, calling on him and Senator Alex Padilla to support the Block the Bombs legislation, and to defend freedom of the press and protect Palestinian journalists. Arts activist David Solnit transformed the building's plaza into a mini auditorium with rows of folding chairs, and using the corporate offices as a background.

The unclear nature of South Africa's new marijuana laws is creating confusion and operational hazards amongst a fast growing grey market.

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Turning Point USA’s first tour stop after the assassination of Charlie Kirk on Sept. 10 was at the University of Minnesota, and for many the experience was spiritual.

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The annual Indigenous Milk Medicine Week carnival is held in efforts to normalize Indigenous lactation rights while providing resources.

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Minneapolis, MN — At The Square Gallery nestled inside George Floyd Square on September 14, 2025, a gathering of community members, anti-ICE activists, and leaders rallied behind Isabel Lopez against her legal case. She is facing four felony charges incurred while protesting what was thought…

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The Amah Mutsun Land Trust has announced that by the end of 2025 they will acquire a 50-acre property near the intersection of Highways 129 and 101 in San Juan Bautista, marking the first time the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band has regained full access rights to land in its traditional territory since their forced removal over 225 years ago. The property has been renamed tooromakma hinse nii, which means “bobcats wander here”.

The Indian based SNEHA Foundation is combatting marital rape through communal education while also pushing for legal reforms.

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Ayman Soliman found himself trapped between the U.S.’s quota-driven deportation system and Egypt’s autocratic regime known for killing and silencing critics. Now out of jail, he’s revealing the glaring errors in President Donald Trump’s deportation campaigns.

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On September 18, a press conference and march were held at Oakland Airport Terminal 1 as part of the first convening of the Oakland People’s Arms Embargo campaign. Recent research has uncovered the airport's role in transporting military cargo to Israel. Since January 2025, at least 280 shipments have left the Oakland Airport destined for Israel's military, which included bomb release units and surveillance systems for F-35 jets.

The GSF is the latest attempt by activists to deliver much needed humanitarian supplies to the besieged Gaza Strip.

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In recent weeks, actions have been organized at the Israel Consulate in San Francisco to protest the country's war crimes in Gaza. On September 12, "blood" flowed into the gutter after demonstrators used red paint to make bloody hand prints on an Israeli flag to protest the starvation and ongoing massacre with American bombs. Others drummed, banged on pots and pans, and blew horns. Some held photos of skeletal starving children.

The ever-present White House Peace Vigil tent, an iconic staple across from the executive mansion for the last 44 years, was removed by National Park Service Police on September 7 by order of Donald Trump. Trump, who claimed to have not previously known of its existence, when informed of its presence, labeled it an “eyesore” and ordered its removal as part of his erasure of homeless encampments in Washington D.C.

"Gaza is burning," says Israel's Defense Minister as Israel starts their ground invasion of Gaza City after bombing over 50 residential towers in the biggest city in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip.

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Washington, DC – President Donald Trump has made his appointments to the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC), so Unicorn Riot started looking into their backgrounds. The list is a who’s who of troublesome and generally bigoted individuals, not unlike Trump’s cabinet. A failed political candidate…

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Minneapolis, MN — The first strikes against the University of Minnesota system in nearly 20 years occurred at 10 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 8, at the Crookston and Morris campuses.* Six hours later, on Sept. 9, striking commenced on the Duluth, Grand Rapids, Waseca and…

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