Unicorn Riot

Denver, CO — On Sunday afternoon, more than 100 people gathered on the Tivoli Quad at the Auraria Campus to witness and celebrate the dozens of graduates and student activists who participated in “The People’s Graduation” organized by the campus’ pro-Palestine solidarity encampment that’s been…

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Grünheide, Germany — Over a thousand environmental protesters broke through lines of polizei and reached the outside of Tesla’s only European factory on May 10 in an action opposing Tesla’s extreme water usage and planned expansion in the area.

The protest was organized by a…

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The Minnesota Court of Appeals issued a ruling favoring Unicorn Riot on Monday, May 6, finally rejecting the oil company Energy Transfer LP's attempt to grab newsgathering materials through a subpoena, blunting a three year legal pressure campaign.

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Denver, CO — On Wednesday morning, local unhoused advocacy group Housekeys Action Network Denver (HAND) presented their findings to the Denver City Council from surveys they conducted throughout January and February 2024 about winter shelter accessibility. The advocates also used “data from City shelter records,…

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Philadelphia, PA — Philadelphia police officers under orders from the mayor’s office are conducting anti-homeless encampment sweeps early on a rainy Wednesday morning. New hardline mayor Cherelle Parker’s administration banned the media and legal observers from monitoring their sweeps of unhoused people along a stretch…

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After years of economical problems Argentina entered a new phase of a full-scale economic crisis. “People don’t have enough to eat, wages are low and there is a lot of inflation,” taxi driver Claudio Suárez summed up the current situation. On the way to the…

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Al-Shaboub Refugee Camp, Gaza — From inside a refugee camp in southern Gaza, displaced Palestinians spray painted messages of thanks to students and protesters at Columbia University and the masses of American universities for their support of Palestine and the Gaza Strip. “We cherish what…

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Denver, CO — On Friday afternoon, members from the unhoused migrant community, alongside organizers with Housekeys Action Network Denver (HAND), Colorado Palestinian Coalition (CPC), and Students for a Democratic Society hosted a press conference about an impending sweep of the encampment on May 8 and…

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Los Angeles, CA — Over more than five hours on Tuesday night, pro-Israel Zionist agitators violently beat, pepper sprayed and threw fireworks at hundreds of college students and protesters in a “unilateral, surprise attack“ as they held UCLA’s Palestine solidarity encampment while security and police…

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Espírito Santo, Brazil — Providing an update from Brazil, we look at new happenings in four stories that Unicorn Riot has explored in the past; post-slavery commemorations, police killings, Bolsonaro’s legal troubles and the murder of Councilmember Marielle Franco.

Celebrating the Queimado Insurrection

Days of…

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Salt Lake City, UT — Students at the University of Utah joined the wave of campus protests demanding that their school, which has close ties with weapons manufacturers, divest from Israel and condemn the genocide in Gaza.

Under the gaze of a multi-agency police response,…

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Khan Younis, Gaza, Palestine — Ahmed Abu Daqqa made a DIY shelter in front of where his family’s home was bombed by Israel after making the trek from Rafah to his hometown of Khan Younis. Among 1.7 to 2 million Palestinians internally displaced because of…

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Cambridge, MA — At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on December 11, 2018 an open forum titled, “#MeToo and Workers’ Power: Building Solidarity at Google and Beyond,” covered the inner workings of the global Google walkout of 20,000 employees and contractors in 2018.

Hosted by…

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On Oct. 20, 2021, two members of the American neo-Nazi organization Patriot Front filmed themselves vandalizing a mural of African-American tennis giant Arthur Ashe in Richmond, VA. The following year, Unicorn Riot published leaked video from within the organization which identified the perpetrators as Nathaniel…

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“Welcome to the Utopian Gigafactory,” reads a banner hung across a path in a Brandenburg Forest outside Berlin, Germany. At the end of the path, Tesla’s -very real- Gigafactory is visible behind the trees. The banner has been hung by activists of the “Teslastoppen” (Stop…

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Josephine County, OR – Environmentalists are declaring victory after occupying a stand of old growth forest for three weeks to prevent trees from being logged.

Forest defenders launched a tree sit on April 1 to prevent Boise Cascade Wood Products, the timber company who bought…

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Heavy fighting erupted in 2023 between the Congolese Army and several armed groups, most notably the M23 militia, escalating an already disastrous situation. Thousands have been killed, and hundreds of thousands have been displaced. At present, there are 7.1 million displaced people in the Democratic…

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Manhattan, NY — Google employees organized a sit-in at the tech company’s Chelsea office in New York City and occupied the office of Google Cloud’s CEO Thomas Kurian in California on April 16, 2024. The demonstration aimed to expose the internal unrest surrounding Google’s involvement…

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Unicorn Riot has obtained a schedule for "cleanup" operations due in the next 72 hours in the Kensington neighborhood, one element in new mayor Cherelle Parker's plan to dramatically change local conditions through state action.

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Maple Grove, MN — Pro-Palestine activists blockaded an Amazon distribution center in the northwestern Minneapolis suburb of Maple Grove as part of A15 Action, a global day of action against Israel’s war on Gaza. In a separate action in the Twin Cities, a Wells Fargo…

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