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From Turtle Island to Palestine: Denver Commemorates Nakba

1 year 7 months ago

Denver, CO — On Wednesday evening, the local Indigenous community hosted a “healing event” at the Auraria Campus pro-Palestine solidarity encampment. According to a press release for the event, in tandem with the commemoration, the organizers “offer[ed] solidarity and healing for the Palestinian community” and…

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‘The People’s Graduation’ Celebrates Dozens in Denver During Pro-Palestine Ceremony

1 year 7 months ago

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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Young People Reclaim Earth Day

1 year 7 months ago
From April 19-22, thousands of young people from across Northern California took part in multiple national days of action calling on President Biden and other decision makers to declare a Climate Emergency and End Fossil Fuels. In San Francisco, Youth Vs. Apocalypse's annual youth-led Earth Day action centered intersectional demands around uplifting Palestine, Sudan, and Congo, countries suffering violence due to western imperialism.

REI Workers in Santa Cruz Vote to Form Union

1 year 7 months ago
On April 18, workers at the REI store in Santa Cruz voted 32-12 in favor of forming a union. The workers filed for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board on March 14, at which time they announced their intent to join United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) Local 5. The Santa Cruz REI store is the second REI location in the Bay Area to unionize, and the tenth nationwide.

Unicorn Riot Nets Resounding Win for Press Freedom Against Oil Corporation in Minnesota Appeals Court

1 year 7 months ago

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 Unhoused Advocacy Group Releases Winter Shelter Survey Data

1 year 7 months ago

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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Extreme Logging Planned for Plumas National Forest

1 year 7 months ago
As of March 2024, 894,898 acres across the western United States are slated to be logged under a "community protection" measure proposed by the U.S. Forest Service. Resistance is growing. In addition to a lawsuit filed against the agency by a coalition in California, a National Day of Forest-Climate Action will take place on May 28, and the group Lost Sierra Forest Defense is organizing a Climate Action Camp in Plumas County from May 23-29.

Lawsuit Challenges Pesticides Near Pajaro Valley Schools

1 year 7 months ago
A coalition has filed a lawsuit challenging the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) and Monterey County Agricultural Commissioner’s repeat rubberstamping of applications to use highly toxic and legally restricted pesticides, including chloropicrin and 1,3-dichloropropene (1,3-D), near three schools in the Pajaro Valley of Monterey County. The young students suffer some of the highest exposure to fumigants in the state.

In New Sweep, Police Ban Observers & Media from Control Zone in Kensington, Philadelphia

1 year 7 months ago

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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Chainsaw Democracy – Argentina in Crisis Faces an Authoritarian President

1 year 7 months ago

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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Displaced Palestinians Thank American Students for Solidarity

1 year 7 months ago

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 Migrant Encampment Faces Further Displacement, Auraria Campus Palestine Solidarity Camp Grows [Press Conference]

1 year 7 months ago

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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Masked Israel Supporters Attack UCLA’s Palestine Solidarity Encampment With Weapons

1 year 7 months ago

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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Brazil: Slave Revolt Celebration, Deadly Police Op, Bolsonaro’s Issues and Marielle’s Killers Arrested

1 year 7 months ago

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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Gazan Family Returns to Find House Destroyed by Israel, Builds DIY Shelter

1 year 7 months ago

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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Tech Workers Rise Up: Organizing Google’s Worldwide Worker Walkout

1 year 7 months ago

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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Bay Area Shuts it Down on May Day

1 year 7 months ago
May Day actions this year were organized with urgency in solidarity with the Palestinian people, heeding the call from the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions to stand with Gaza. Workers and peoples around the world called for an immediate ceasefire. Marches and rallies filled the streets across Northern California on May 1, and there was no business as usual at the Port of Oakland as officials closed the port in anticipation of planned protests.