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UnicornRiot, 21 days ago to random

BREAKING: A student occupation has sprung up at Drexel University in Philadelphia after a pro-Palestine march earlier today - Philly PD barricades have surrounded the group “for everybody’s safety” and are not allowing anyone including press in reportedly by order of Drexel PD chief

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UnicornRiot, 23 days ago to random

Unicorn Riot Nets Resounding Win for Press Freedom Against Oil Corporation in Minnesota Appeals Court

The Minnesota Court of Appeals issued a ruling favoring Unicorn Riot on Monday, May 6, rejecting the oil company Energy Transfer LP’s attempt to obtain newsgathering materials through a subpoena, blunting a three-year legal pressure campaign.

https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/unicorn-riot-nets-resounding-win-for-press-freedom-against-oil-corporation-in-minnesota-appeals-court/

UnicornRiot, 1 month ago to random

Happening now: Students at the University of Utah have joined the wave of student protests to demand that the school, which has close ties with weapons manufacturers, divest from Israel

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UnicornRiot, 3 months ago to random

#BREAKING: PNC Bank and Wells Fargo bank locations in Tucson, Arizona were smashed during a #StopCopCity protest tonight

A Wells Fargo location with large windows smashed to shit
'Tortuguita' in red with the A turned into a Circle-A sprayed on a floor-to-ceiling window in an office part type location well lit at night with plants in planters

UnicornRiot, 3 months ago to random

Black Snake Killaz - A #NoDAPL Story [2017] - Documentary Trailer: https://unicornriot.ninja/black-snake-killaz-2017/

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bad_immigrant, 5 months ago to Russia

Anarchist Ruslan Sidiki was arrested in #Russia at the end of November allegedly for blowing up railroad tracks and damaging 18 cargo wagons. He is also accused of attack on military aerodrome in Ryazan region. #Anarchism #Antifascism

Charges up to 30 years.

optoutnews, 7 months ago to random

120 protesters stage a die-in at one of the entrances to the Air Force Plant Number 44, Operated by Raytheon Missiles and Defense @UnicornRiot

https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/die-in-at-raytheon-compound-in-tucson-calls-out-complicity-in-gaza/?utm_source=optout

freedomofpress, 7 months ago to random

The energy company behind Dakota Pipeline is still trying to get documents from @UnicornRiot and reporter Niko Georgiades about their coverage of protests against the pipeline project.

The subpoenas were quashed, but now it’s appealing the decision.

https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/dakota-pipeline-operator-subpoenas-unicorn-riot-over-coverage-of-demonstrations/

UnicornRiot, 8 months ago to random

PRESS FREEDOM LEGAL UPDATE:

On Sept 27, Energy Transfer/DAPL appealed the MN District Court order finding UR & its journalists are protected by the Minnesota Free Flow of Information Act (MFFIA): https://donorbox.org/unicorn-riot-nodapl-legal-defense?t=updates#info

2 protestors concerning plans for the protests—including plans for unlawful activity—in order to coordinate Unicorn Riot’s presence at the sites and to facilitate its coverage of the protest activity. Appellants accordingly served Unicorn Riot and Niko Georgiades (collectively, “Unicorn Riot”) with subpoenas duces tecum aimed at discovering documents and information relevant to Appellants’ claims against Greenpeace. Despite its own participation in the tortious conduct at issue in the underlying suit, Unicorn Riot refused to produce a single document, claiming that all of its unpublished information was privileged under the Minnesota Free Flow of Information Act (MFFIA). The district court agreed with Unicorn Riot that the unpublished information was privileged and denied Appellants’ motion to compel. The MFFIA, however, applies only to legitimate, lawful newsgathering activities. It does not apply to protect information that is obtained or created as a result of a newsgatherer’s unlawful conduct. The district court therefore erred when it ignored Unicorn Riot’s tortious conduct in participating in the trespass on Appellants’ pipeline sites and found that the information gathered during, and related to, that unlawful conduct was privileged under the MFFIA. This Court should reverse the district court’s denial and remand for reconsideration of Appellants’ motion to compel.
16 B. The MFFIA does not shield Unicorn Riot from compliance with Appellants’ subpoena because Unicorn Riot’s activities went beyond lawful newsgathering when it engaged in deliberate, unlawful trespass onto Appellants’ construction sites. Unicorn Riot, as the party objecting to a valid subpoena, has the burden of proving that the MFFIA privilege applies to shield the relevant documents and communications from disclosure. See Brown v. St. Paul City Ry. Co., 62 N.W.2d 688, 701 (Minn. 1954). It cannot meet that burden because its activities in this case went beyond legitimate newsgathering when it engaged in deliberate, unlawful trespass onto Appellants’ private construction sites. The MFFIA’s protection is limited to the lawful “gathering, procuring, compiling, editing, or publishing of information for the purpose of transmission, dissemination or publication to the public.” Minn. Stat. § 595.023. Here, Unicorn Riot went beyond those lawful, protected activities. Unicorn Riot was not merely a neutral observer in this case: as its own videos show, Unicorn Riot’s coverage was entirely in favor of the protestors and against the pipeline and the law enforcement officers who attempted to maintain order and enforce Appellants’ right to construct the pipeline. Unicorn Riot does not, and cannot, dispute that its reporters trespassed onto pipeline worksites as they took video footage of protestors who were also illegally present at the sites for the express purpose of obstructing the
17 By acting in concert with the protestors in entering onto pipeline construction sites without permission, Unicorn Riot stepped outside of the protection afforded by the MFFIA. Its communications and other documentary materials related to the planning, support, and commission of the unlawful trespass onto private pipeline construction sites are therefore discoverable, not subject to any privilege, and should be produced. This Court should reverse the district court’s denial of Appellants’ motion to compel, clarify that the MFFIA does not apply when purported newsgatherers engage in unlawful, tortious conduct, and remand to the district court to reconsider Appellants’ subpoena requests accordingly. III. First Amendment protections do not apply to excuse Unicorn Riot’s refusal to comply with Appellants’ valid subpoena. Unicorn Riot also objected to Appellants’ subpoena based on a claimed privilege under the First Amendment. (Doc. 25 at 10-12.) The district court declined to consider this argument in light of its conclusion that the documents were privileged under the MFFIA. (Add. 8.) For the same reasons that the MFFIA does not apply, the First Amendment does not relieve Unicorn Riot of its obligation to comply with Appellants’ subpoenas. First, neither the United States Supreme Court nor the Minnesota Supreme Court has explicitly recognized a journalist’s privilege under the First Amendment. See e.g., Weinberger v. Maplewood Review, 668 N.W.2d 667, 671 n.5 (Minn. 2003) (decl

spencersunshine, 9 months ago to random

happy to report that the "Nazis of Color" article I did with Isaac has been published by @BelltowerNews in German! English original was for @UnicornRiot and a Spanish translation is coming soon, too. (Reach out if you want to do one btw - esp looking for a Portuguese translator)

https://www.belltower.news/internationaler-rechtsextremismus-nazis-of-color-151477/

UnicornRiot, 10 months ago to Minneapolis

#Minneapolis: Dozens gathered this evening at 41st & Lyndale Ave. N. for a protest for Ricky Cobb II, a 33 y/o father who was killed two days ago by MN State Patrol officers during a traffic stop near 42nd Ave. & I-94. Cobb II was unarmed & shot in the abdomen.🧵

UnicornRiot, 10 months ago to random

Thanks so much to our supporters! We're nearing closer to the $8K mark of our $18K goal for our 8-year fundraiser!

Can you help us get closer to the halfway point of $9,000 this weekend?!

Donate tax-deductibly here: https://unicornriot.ninja/eight-years/

UnicornRiot, 11 months ago to random

Lynn Eagle Feather on the Police Killings No One is Talking About [CC]

Lynn Eagle Feather, the mother of Paul Castaway, who was killed by Denver Police on July 12, 2015, spoke to Unicorn Riot about "the police killings that nobody's talking about." She shared with us some of the names and stories that she helped compile of Indigenous people killed by police for a 2016 publication from the magazine In These Times.

https://youtu.be/xnq9JUN54Es