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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What started as an environmental protest in Albania related to Trump's son-in-law's business ventures became something bigger — addressing long-standing corruption, the right to information and transparency and who gets to decide Albania's future. The unrest has reached the diaspora.
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The Minnesota 15 case is about conversations, thousands of pages of it, harvested from encrypted group chats on Signal and loaded into an Everlaw database for prosecutors to build conspiracy charges against Trump's political opponents.
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According to federal prosecutors, the defendants were the members of a murderous “North Texas Antifa Cell.” The Prairieland defendants received over 562 years in federal prison -- the longest sentence a U.S. court has ever given to a group of political anarchist defendants.
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Minneapolis, MN — Stop Line 5 activists dropped a huge banner that read “Stop Line 5” from the Stone Arch Bridge, which spans across the Mississippi River on Tuesday morning and called on Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer to “Deny the Line 5 tunnel permits.” One…
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A trans woman in Athens shares her story and provides a brief view into the barriers that exist in the medical system and one that cannot be told without acknowledging the broader climate in which trans lives in Greece are lived.
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Two of the activists from the Minnesota 15 spoke to UR about the politically motivated federal conspiracy charges they're facing.
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President Trump’s “Great American State Fair” has been underway for nearly a week, and its official kickoff event on June 24 perfectly encapsulated the shoddy execution and the deluded sycophancy that would follow, writes L. Cam Anderson.
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