Testing Greece’s controversial terrorism law, Greek anarchist Nikos Romanos was acquitted of terrorism charges after serving 17 months in pretrial detention in what he described as "political revenge" over a partial fingerprint found in an apartment after an accidental explosion in Oct. 2024.
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Israeli airstrikes destroyed a newly built water desalination plant in Gaza City on Aug. 24, 2026, see the video here.
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Durban, South Africa — “In the early days we were painting on two-by-one Masonite boards,” said Iain Robertson, a Durban-based graffiti artist who goes by the name Ewok. “That’s how we would do exhibitions as graffiti artists … we’d built our own walls. And this…
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Villagers in Crete are fighting the government’s plan to convert a disused factory into a reception center for people on the move, escalating a monthslong standoff that pits xenophobic backlash against an increasingly securitized European border regime.
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After the largest oil and gas spill in Wisconsin's history, Enbridge's defiance of legal requests raise serious questions about the state’s ability to regulate large, multinational corporations and its willingness to enforce its permits.
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Facing four state felony assault charges and federal charges of lying to the FBI over a shooting in Minneapolis, ICE agent Christian Castro made appearances in Minnesota state and federal courts last week.
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Minnesota's Attorney General Keith Ellison has decided to "eliminate" the state's Conviction Review Unit (CRU) less than six years after he created it. The closure is a devastating blow to around 160 CRU applicants in Minnesota prisons whose cases were pending final investigation into their claims of wrongful conviction.
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Cochise County, AZ — On Monday a set of arrests stemming from the ongoing U.S.-Mexico border wall blockade in southeastern Arizona saw three protesters jailed overnight. The arrests mark the first charges in the now months-long struggle against construction of a double border wall along…
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Berlin, Germany — On Saturday, July 25, 2026 a white van rammed into the crowd at one of Europe’s largest pride celebrations, the Christopher Street Day (CSD) in Berlin Germany. One woman was killed and 29 others were injured. On Sunday, Germany’s Minister of Interior…
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Washington DC — On August 26, 2026, the U.S. Departments of State and the Treasury designated a volunteer tech collective behind a popular activist blogging platform a terrorist organization.
Autistici/Inventati (A/I), the Italian collective behind NoBlogs.org, now joins such organizations as the Islamic State group…
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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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After Hurricane Helene, locals took issue with their suffering and hard work being co-opted by representatives of the world’s richest countries.
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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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