Santa Cruz County, AZ – On a cool, cloudy morning in the San Rafael Valley in Southern Arizona, a young person popped their head over the edge of a platform in a tree, perched fifty feet above the rolling prairieland below. “Hi! Thanks for coming!”…
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Pedro Rodriguez and Paul Socolar remembered a march they attended almost 50 years ago: the March for a Bicentennial Without Colonies in 1976. They created the July 4th Sin Colonias Coalition to commemorate the march with others who saw its significance and began hosting events in the Greater Philadelphia area.
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Of the men who accompanied "Jake" Lang on his racial slur-themed event in Minneapolis, Joel Tenney has one of the largest national profiles. Like Lang, the Armenia-obsessed MAGA pastor from Iowa is an unabashed white supremacist – a term Tenney cloaks with euphemisms – and dedicates much of his public activism to transforming the United States into a Christian theocracy.
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Asheville, NC — Last weekend, the G20 finance ministers and central bank governors met in Asheville at the behest of the U.S. federal government. Billed as an opportunity to showcase the region’s recovery after Hurricane Helene laid waste to western North Carolina in 2024, locals…
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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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Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty will not press felony riot charges against white supremacist provocateur Jake Lang for his latest hate rally in Minneapolis.
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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 police arrested white supremacist provocateur Edward Jacob “Jake” Lang after hundreds of residents came out to protest his second hate rally.
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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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