Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) has deployed an aggressive facial recognition apparatus for monitoring and tracking domestic political dissidents, raising questions about why an agency created after 9/11 to fight the global war on terrorism is now maintaining centralized dossiers on ordinary American protesters.
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Police arrested video journalist and Unicorn Riot contributor River Akemann while he was documenting Enbridge Line 5 construction on August 24.
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Enbridge’s aging Line 5 pipeline is spilling natural gas liquids in northern Wisconsin. The rupture occurred just east of the Bad River Reservation near Lake Superior.
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Minneapolis, MN — Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty will not press felony riot charges against white supremacist provocateur Edward Jacob “Jake” Lang for his latest hate rally in Minneapolis, citing “extensive evidence of communication and logistical coordination between the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) and Lang’s…
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Who exactly were those handful of people that decided to show up with Jake Lang to his contentious hate rally in Minneapolis on August 22?
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Minneapolis, MN — Minneapolis police arrested white supremacist provocateur Edward Jacob “Jake” Lang Saturday afternoon after hundreds of Minneapolis residents came out to protest his second hate rally in front of city hall this year.
The display lasted less than 10 minutes, and after Lang…
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Palestinians in Gaza show their solidarity with international activists attempting to break Israel's siege by bringing humanitarian aid via boats.
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Minneapolis, MN — Inside Wax World, Rosa Garcia’s South Minneapolis record store, the DJ known as Madre Rosa reflects on DJ-U, a program built from turntables, community, and care. After losing its funding, the free program that trained more than 100 non-binary artists of color…
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Minnesota residents are organizing against proposed hyperscale data centers, especially Google-linked projects in Pine Island and Hermantown, citing secrecy through NDAs, inadequate environmental review, and issues with water use, electricity, noise pollution and more.
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Queens has seen incidents of shocking racist brutality, but also, a range of far-right groups and individuals, from the Ku Klux Klan to neo-Nazis to ultra-nationalist organizations
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Chiang Rai, Thailand — Hand-painted banners reading “Protect the Kok River” and “Bring Back Clean Water” waved above a crowd of farmers, fishers, scientists, and environmental activists as they walked along northern Thailand’s Kok River. For five days, hundreds of people marched 68 kilometers from…
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People on the move arriving on Crete are held in makeshift facilities where they have no rights, as authorities freeze asylum registration while implementing the EU’s contested new Migration and Asylum Pact.
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More than 50,000 people protested the far-right AfD party in Erfurt, Germany in early July. We took a look inside the anti-AfD blockades.
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Surviving wars in Sudan and Gaza, Palestinian-Sudanese poet Ahmed Sarsour shares the inspiration behind his poetry.
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The 92nd anniversary of 'Bloody Friday' in Minneapolis honored memories of the fallen while tracing connections from 1934 strike to current day.
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Minneapolis, MN — Making music and caring for community has always been a symbiotic relationship for Rafael Gonzalez, aka Tufawon (two for one), a Minneapolis-based rapper, singer and producer. He says that he’s had a knack for turning lived experiences into sound, and his latest…
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Since February, Senegalese authorities have initiated a crackdown against the LGBTQ community, reportedly arresting hundreds across the country.
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Residents and tourists of the nation’s capital saw the city transformed into a circus for more than a month – a site for media spectacles and thinly-veiled celebrations of the president.
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Since 2022, the German collective Rosa Rolling Safespace has been providing a mobile safe space for women living in refugee camps around Athens. Their work shows that gender-based violence in these settings is not incidental but structural, a direct product of European and Greek migration policies.
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The fight for nightlife goes on as Boycott Room, a group of DJs, organizers and activists that have been calling for a coordinated boycott of the event series and video platform Boiler Room took another stand with protests and a counter-rave on July 10 and…
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