NEW Investigation:
A Unicorn Riot investigation uncovered dossier records from a privately curated database of Romani people in the US, and a web of training programs; many of these have been canceled due to pressure from activists and concerned citizens. unicornriot.ninja/2022/police-us…
Unicorn Riot found a pattern of trainings from multiple law enforcement training academies and police departments, 10 records from a privately maintained database of Romani people, spoke with an Academy Director in Fredericksburg, VA, & activists who monitor anti-Roma bias in USA
A former Illinois police officer, along with a 501c3 nonprofit private national policing organization, has been teaching Law Enforcement Officers to racially profile & think of Romani People in racialized terms, our investigation of two decades of policing trainings has revealed.
NEW: Noisy Philly Counter-Demo Challenges 'TERFs' at Independence Hall [article + video] unicornriot.ninja/2022/noisy-phi…
Unicorn Riot interviewed nearly a dozen hoarse but spirited attendees.
Full video premiering now: Philly Noise Demo Confronts 'TERFs' at Independence Hall [4K] (29min)
On Sunday, November 13, a hundred-plus counter-demonstrators tried to drown out about 30 protesters who were demonstrating against transgender people's access to medical transitions #TransAwarenessWeek
29min video premiering now:
NEW: Over 100 unionized @Starbucks locations launched a one-day strike Thursday, Nov. 17, to demand that the company engage in good faith union negotiations & address understaffing at locations across the country.
Members of @SBWorkersUnited, the national union representing @Starbucks employees, organized the strike for Nov. 17 to coincide with the company’s annual “Red Cup Day” promotion, a major revenue booster for the coffee chain. ↕️ unicornriot.ninja/2022/starbucks…
Participating in the #RedCupRebellion, striking workers on the picket line in #SaltLakeCity told Unicorn Riot that they launched the strike not only in solidarity with other locations but in response to first-hand experience with unfair working conditions & anti-union activity.🧵
Last month we named the members of the neo-nazi group Patriot Front who vandalized a mural honoring Black tennis champion Arthur Ashe mural in Battery Park, a mostly Black neighborhood in Richmond, VA: unicornriot.ninja/2022/patriot-f…
Yesterday, the Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights (@LawyersComm) filed a federal lawsuit against Patriot Front, Nathan Noyce and Thomas Dail (the 2 members seen on leaked video defacing the mural), Patriot Front leaders Thomas Rousseau & Paul Gancarz, and 23 John Doe defendants.
The new civil suit alleges that Noyce, Dail, and Patriot Front as a group committed at least three civil rights violations under the Ku Klux Klan Act and Virginia state laws against “Racial, Religious, or Ethnic Harassment”: lawyerscommittee.org/lawyers-commit…
NEW: Attacks and Collective Punishment, a Cycle of Palestinian-Israeli Conflict 🧵
Featuring stories of this deadly cycle, we watch Israel blowing up the family homes of prisoners in July, a Sept. raid on Jenin targeting the Khazem family & a celebration of the PIJ in Oct. 🎥
2022 has been a deadly year of violence between Israelis and Palestinians with several Palestinian attacks earlier this year, near-daily deadly Israeli raids, a rise in settler violence against Palestinians and a war in August. unicornriot.ninja/2022/attacks-a…
A handful of attacks by Palestinians killed nearly a dozen people inside Israel earlier this year. In retaliation Israeli occupation forces have conducted thousands of deadly raids across the occupied West Bank, killing over 140 Palestinians by September.🎥unicornriot.ninja/2022/over-2200…