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Independent media amplifying stories from the frontlines of social and environmental struggles. Bookmark our website: https://unicornriot.ninja/

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Three Atlanta Solidarity Fund organizers arrested Wednesday were awarded bond in DeKalb County Magistrate Court Friday afternoon.

https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/atlanta-solidarity-fund-organizers-granted-bond/

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The organizers were arrested in Atlanta on May 31 after the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and Atlanta Police Department executed a search warrant at their home.

https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/three-atlanta-activists-arrested-home-raided-over-bail-fund/

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US residents with a valid mailing address have just over 3.5 hours left to be able to order “free” (taxpayer-funded) COVID-19 home tests before the federal government permanently ends the program: Covid.gov/tests

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BREAKING: This morning in Atlanta, Georgia authorities raided a home with a SWAT team to arrest 3 organizers of a bail fund used to help protesters get out of jail.

https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/three-atlanta-activists-arrested-home-raided-over-bail-fund/

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Marlon Kautz, Savannah Patterson, and Adele Maclean were arrested at The Teardown Community, a hub for mutual aid and activism where the three lived.

They're charged with money laundering and charity fraud for engaging in what seem to be routine First Amendment activities.

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“The Atlanta Solidarity Fund has existed for seven years with the sole purpose of providing resources to protestors experiencing repression,” said Atlanta Solidarity Fund members in a press release. “We ensure their rights are respected through the criminal justice system..."

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The raid comes ~3 months after members of
@AtlSolFund, including Kautz, announced they'd learned the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) planned to charge them under Georgia’s state-level RICO statute:

https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/atlanta-activists-say-prosecutors-plan-to-indict-them-on-rico-charges/

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The GBI said in a statement today that it "executed a search warrant and found evidence linking the three suspects to the financial crimes."

Expenses cited in warrants as proof of these "financial crimes" include “forest clean-up,” “covid rapid-tests,” “media” and “yard signs."

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GBI's bail fund raid warrants (first obtained by The Atlanta Objective) accuse @AtlSolFund of "fund[ing] the actions in part of Defend the Atlanta Forest (DTAF), a group classified by the United States Department of Homeland Security as Domestic Violent Extremists":

https://theatlantaobjective.substack.com/p/its-illegal-to-raise-money-for-cop

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While no group called "Defend The Atlanta Forest" exists (just the @defendATLforest Twitter account), identical wording citing a DHS label for "DTAF" appears in January warrants charging tree-sitters at the proposed 'Cop City' site w/ domestic terrorism:

https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/community-committee-cheers-police-violence-as-authorities-repress-resistance-to-cop-city/

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But back in January, DHS told investigative journalist Spencer Ackerman that the classification cited by GBI doesn't exist: https://foreverwars.ghost.io/atlanta-cop-city-forest-defender-tortuguita/

"[DHS] does not classify or designate any groups as domestic violent extremists."

DHS also told WaPo the same thing: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/01/26/atlanta-forest-protester-police-riot/

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Although DHS has been on record in national media for over 4 months stating no such "group" is classified "as domestic violent extremists," sworn GBI affidavits filed May 25th to justify today's raid of bail fund organizers still rely on this false claim.

https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/three-atlanta-activists-arrested-home-raided-over-bail-fund/

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Today until midnight pacific time is the last chance for anyone with a US residential address to receive COVID-19 home tests paid for with your tax dollars (if you haven’t already used your allotment.)

While the pandemic continues, the US govt has opted to end most direct measures to help its people.

https://www.covid.gov/tests

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NEW report on the movement:

'Don’t Forget Us': Forest Defenders Confront Horrors of Life in DeKalb County Jail

https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/dont-forget-us-forest-defenders-confront-horrors-of-life-in-dekalb-county-jail/

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Since Dec. 2022, 42 people have been charged under a rarely used Georgia state-level domestic terrorism statute for their alleged participation in the movement:

https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/behind-the-stopcopcity-domestic-terrorism-warrants/

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See the jarring moments that led up to the besiegement of the 3rd precinct in Minneapolis, where Derek Chauvin was previously employed. May 28, 2020, the third day of the George Floyd Uprising, was the most significant as the community continued directing its outrage at the 3rd precinct leading to it being ransacked and set on fire, something that has historically never been done in response to racial injustice. This is episode 3 part 1 of Reporter Reflection: https://vimeo.com/473234518

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Three years tonight, May 27, 2020, was the second night of the in Minneapolis & a night before the burning of the 3rd Precinct. The police were increasingly violent, buildings were set aflame & the voices of community members were filled with anger & pain.

https://vimeo.com/470462658

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The George Floyd Global Memorial's 3rd annual Rise & Remember Festival is happening right now at George Floyd Square. Today's festival with concerts, self-care fairs, kid's zones, mutual aid, Black vendors & more, caps off 3 days of events remembering victims of police violence & systemic racism.

Watch Unicorn Riot's Beyond the Barricades, a mini-doc on George Floyd Square and for more coverage of the 2020 uprising: https://unicornriot.ninja/georgefloyd/

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The site where Minneapolis Police viciously killed became George Floyd Square shortly after his murder & has since become a sacred place for international pilgrimage. Community caretakers have continued their upkeep on the site for three years now. See our mini-doc Beyond the Barricades: A Look At George Floyd Square:
https://vimeo.com/519372370

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NEW: Palestinian Khader Adnan Dies on Hunger Strike in Israeli Prison

On his 87th day of hunger strike protesting administrative detention, Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan, 45, was found unresponsive in Israel’s Magen-Nitzan Prison. https://vimeo.com/830853849

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The /Rebellion started in Minneapolis 3 years ago tonight after masses of people marched three miles from the vigil site where was killed to the 3rd Precinct where MPD violently reacted to the grieving community after police cars were damaged.

Learn more: https://unicornriot.ninja/GeorgeFloyd

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NEW: During the month of May, the City of Minneapolis has been busy evicting encampments of unhoused people, displacing hundreds and throwing away many people’s only belongings. Minneapolis Police (MPD) displaced about 80 unhoused people on East Franklin Avenue in South Minneapolis on May 10. Each week since, they’ve evicted several smaller camps erected from those displaced from the Franklin Ave. sweep, continuing a punishing and deadly cycle.

https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/minneapolis-continues-encampment-evictions-displacing-hundreds-in-may/

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Full Video: Minneapolis Police Evict Franklin Avenue Encampment

[Available for HD stream/DL on our Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/828532977]

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Three years ago tonight, George Floyd, a 46 y/o father of 5, was ruthlessly murdered in front of community members in South Minneapolis by 4 former Minneapolis Police officers.

After a mass uprising, all officers were charged & have since been convicted: https://unicornriot.ninja/georgefloyd/

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NEW: 'Cop City' Panel Member Posted Slurs Online, Archived Tweets Indicate

https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/cop-city-panel-member-posted-slurs-online-archived-tweets-indicate/

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Michael Blake Fortune II aka "Blake Fortune" is listed as a "Community Member" appointed by Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens to the Atlanta Prison Farm Site Subgroup' 'South River Forest and Public Safety Training Center Community Task Force': https://www.atltrainingcenter.com/community/the-south-river-forest-and-public-safety-training-center-community-task-force

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