In fall 2017, we released a documentary about Standing Rock called 'Black Snake Killaz: A #NoDAPL Story'. You can now support our independent media by getting a mug, reusable water bottle, shirt or sweatshirt with artwork from the film poster: tinyurl.com/2b3hhtfhtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Nearly seven years ago, on Feb. 22-23, 2016, the #NoDAPL water protector encampments were evicted and destroyed by militarized forces. At its height, more than 10,000 people lived at the camps. Learn more about the movement here: unicornriot.ninja/black-snake-ki…
Unicorn Riot recently sat down with the Poet Laureate of San Francisco & cousin of AJ Stewart, @_Tongogara_ (Tongo Eisen-Martin) for an exclusive interview about the racial politics of Stewart’s murder, Brian Kjellberg’s upcoming trial in MN & more. unicornriot.ninja/2023/family-of…
“I think it begins with this white guy sharpening a metal pipe into a shank, wrapping it with a black tape handle & ideating about murdering someone Black,” @_Tongogara_ said of Brian Kjellberg, a white military veteran who killed his unarmed cousin AJ Stewart in Dec. 2021.
The Temple University Graduate Students Association (TUGSA) has gone on strike, and undergraduates who support them have organized a walk-out from class and campus work on February 15.
The graduate students are demanding base pay of $32,800, dependent healthcare, longer parental and bereavement leave and improved working conditions.
@TempleUniv admins already revoked grad students' tuition remission and health insurance coverage in retaliation for striking.
Atlanta PD Says Traveling to Protest = Terrorism, Cop City Advisory Committee Co-Chairs Alison Clark and Sharon Williams Applaud Terror Charges for Environmentalists
Highlights from 12/15/22 Zoom meeting - full recording here: [h/t @atlanta_press]
"None of those people live here...
Why is an individual from LA concerned about a training facility being built in the state of Georgia?
And that is why we consider that domestic terrorism."
- Atlanta PD Asst. Chief Carven Tyus, justifying branding tree-sitters as terrorists
"We had an individual who was out attempting to film our officers.
So we were able to get him with the hands-free law as he drove by filming our officers.
So we were able to lock him up."
-APD Asst. Chief Tyus re: SWAT forest aid that led to the 1st #StopCopCity terror charges
'Cop City': 12/15/22 Atlanta Public Safety Training Center Community Stakeholders Advisory Committee Zoom Meeting - Full Video:
During this meeting, Atlanta Police Assistant Chief Carven Tyus stated that he believes anyone traveling from outside Georgia to protest the unpopular 'Cop City' project is a domestic terrorist.
(The controversial planned complex would train cops from across the U.S.A.)
Assistant Chief Tyus also openly boasted to the committee that his officers carried out a likely unconstitutional pretextual arrest to stop a passerby from filming officers who were conducting a SWAT raid on #StopCopCity protesters in the Atlanta forest.
A major chemical disaster displaced around 2,000 people for days. Residents living dozens of miles away could smell chlorine-like odors . A Norfolk Southern train carrying the carcinogenic chemical vinyl chloride derailed and train cars crumpled
VIDEO:
NEW STORY >>>> Deep Dive on #EastPalestine disaster
‘Like the Doors of Hell Were Open’: East Palestine Train Disaster Casts Toxic Cloud Over Future of OH/PA Region unicornriot.ninja/2023/like-the-…