Notices by Unicorn Riot (unicornriot@mastodon.social), page 8

“We cherish what they did for the sake of our Palestinian people,” said Tafkir Hamad speaking of the students in the U.S.

https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/displaced-palestinians-thank-american-students-for-solidarity/

Providing an update from Brazil, we look at new happenings in four stories that Unicorn Riot has explored in the past; post-slavery commemorations, police killings, Bolsonaro’s legal troubles and the murder of Councilmember Marielle Franco.

https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/brazil-slave-revolt-celebration-deadly-police-op-bolsonaros-issues-and-marielles-killers-arrested/

The Minnesota Court of Appeals is expected to release their ruling in our legal battle for press freedoms against Energy Transfer tomorrow at 10 a.m.

This battle has cost us $50K. If you're able, consider helping us recoup some of our legal costs: https://donorbox.org/unicorn-riot-nodapl-legal-defense

Happening now: students at the University of Utah have gathered for the second day in a row to demand the school divest from Israel and arms manufacturers.

Students gathered at University of Utah condemned the admin for allowing police to arrest protesters last night and today, drawing connections between this protest and student demos across the US, & continued to demand that the school divest from Israel + arms manufacturers.

University of Utah:

As the crowd was gathering early into tonight’s rally, police arrested someone nearby.

Protesters quickly responded and confronted officers before the rally started. The police then moved out of the space without saying what the person had been arrested for.

Last night, University of Utah protesters set up an encampment in Presidents' Circle which police raided, reportedly arresting 17 people in the process: https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/university-of-utah-joins-gaza-solidarity-encampment-wave/

University of Utah faculty have joined student protesters, some holding signs reading "hands off our students." Images of police violently suppressing student movements across the country have spurred some faculty to join in the movement in recent days

Dozens of police from local and state agencies are monitoring the protest encampment at the University of Utah where students are demanding that the public university disclose and sever its financial ties to Israel and US arms manufacturers:

“We will be staying here until our demands are met," a speaker tells the crowd.

Students and supporters have set up tents on the lawn of Presidents Circle on the University of Utah campus, joining the wave of student mobilizations against Israel's ongoing assault on Gaza:

Salt Lake City: Student protesters are erecting tents in Presidents Circle on the University of Utah campus after announcing an occupation to demand the school divest from Israel and declaring the University of Utah the People's University

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

Students chant "Netanyahu, you cant hide, we charge you with genocide!" as the crowd protesting at the University of Utah grows

University of Utah: Around 300 people, with more trickling in, are rallying on the steps of the school's administration building demanding that the school divest from Israel and condemn the genocide in Gaza

Members of neo-Nazi Patriot Front filmed themselves vandalizing the Arthur Ashe Mural in Richmond, VA in 2021.

The next year, UR obtained & published the leaked video: https://unicornriot.ninja/2022/patriot-front-nazis-who-destroyed-arthur-ashe-mural-identified/

This year, the mural's designer shared his reactions with us: https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/richmond-artist-reacts-to-ashe-mural-vandalism-as-suspect-arrested/

NEW: Forest Defenders Declare Victory After 22-Day Tree Sit

Oregon: After a direct action campaign, timber company Boise Cascade Wood Products will no longer be logging some of the last remaining intact old growth trees in the region: https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/forest-defenders-declare-victory-after-22-day-tree-sit/

Breaking: Nathan Noyce of neo-nazi group Patriot Front was arrested in Richmond, VA today for allegedly participating in the January 6, 2021 attack on Congress.

UR first ID’d Noyce via Dec. 2021 police traffic stop video during a Nazi rally in DC: https://unicornriot.ninja/2022/patriot-front-members-exposed-in-parking-lot-clusterfck/

Contentious Copper-Nickel Mine Gets Permit Approval from Minnesota Appeals Court [Jan. 3, 2024]

Environmental groups and the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians filed a lawsuit to overturn the permit.

https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/contentious-copper-nickel-mine-gets-permit-approval-from-mn-appeals-court/

🆕 📹 Six protesters were arrested as dozens of people blockaded a Northrop Grumman weapons manufacturing plant in Minnesota last week with banners reading "Genocide Made in Minnesota by Northrop Grumman," "No More Minnesota Bombs" & "From Plymouth to Palestine - Stop the Weapons."

https://youtu.be/NelNmpruEm8

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