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Beyond the Barricades: A Look At George Floyd Square [Mini-Doc]
Since the police killing of 46-year-old father-of-five, George Floyd, the area where Floyd took his last breath has turned into an international sacred space controlled by community caretakers. The autonomous zone called George Floyd Square (GFS) consists of four city blocks around 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in South Minneapolis. For an inside look at GFS and why the space is being held, Unicorn Riot collated coverage from the Square since its creation and interviews ...
Black Snake Killaz: A #NoDAPL Story
The film highlights actions taken by water protectors to stop the construction of the oil pipeline and investigates actions taken by law enforcement, military, and corporate mercenaries to quell the months-long protest. Black Snake Killaz timelines the historical events that unfolded in Standing Rock and brings you a raw front line experience of direct actions.
Go Game [Film]
Since the beginning of time people have left their countries in hopes of reaching safety and stability. They flee war, poverty, religious persecution, discrimination, lack of opportunity. In the modern era, an unknown number of individuals and families leave Africa, the Middle East and Asia each year in hopes of reaching the European Union. While journeying, they face innumerable challenges including human traffickers taking advantage of their vulnerability and desperation, border crossings without passports, visas ...
Surviving Sexual Assault and Seeking Accountability
[CONTENT ADVISORY: DESCRIPTIONS AND VIDEO OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE] Around the world there are millions of survivors of sexual assault and sexual violence, and for many of them, their stories go unheard and are rarely believed. In the U.S., nearly 1 in 5 women have been raped or have gone through an attempted rape during their lifetime. Ali, a sexual assault survivor in Minnesota whose rapist took a video of her passed out before assaulting her, shared ...
Crisis: Borderlands
Unicorn Riot dispatched a small media team intent on learning more about the ongoing border crisis in the desert borderlands of Arizona in southwest United States.
Confronting Climate Change in Iceland
Unicorn Riot went to Iceland to take an in-depth look at the consequences of human-caused climate change.
Street Organizations Unite at ‘Heal the Hood’ Block Party
In late May 2016, Ajamou Butler, a.k.a. Brother Heal the Hood, organized the fifth annual ‘Heal the Hood’ block party in North Milwaukee. Hundreds gathered at Keefe and 1st Ave. on both days of the weekend in a mission to bring the community together, including street organizations, in efforts to network, have fun, eat together, and heal.
International Volunteers of the Rojava Revolution
In 2019, Unicorn Riot interviewed three New Yorkers who volunteered to fight alongside the Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG) and Syrian Democratic Forces against ISIS and Turkey. The documentary features their oral accounts overlaid with contributed footage from anonymous sources to bring you a first person point of view of what happened to fighters as they held the front line in defense of Rojava, an autonomous zone in northern Syria. The three men share their perspectives of ...
Seizing the Means of Production: A Spotlight on Vio.Me.
Workers have successfully self-managed the production of environmentally-friendly cleaning products for the last six years in the occupied factory Vio.Me. There are no bosses in this factory on the east side of Thessaloniki, Greece’s second largest city. Workers have been in full control since occupying the factory in 2013, two years after the workers had stopped receiving paychecks from the business due to the parent company having filed for bankruptcy.
Independent Grassroots Media in Greece, OmniaTV
Operating voluntarily and organized horizontally, the grassroots independent media collective OmniaTV, has functioned out of necessity since 2011. Striving to bring out truths misrepresented in Greek media and covering under-reported stories, OmniaTV stands out as a viable alternative non-profit media source as for-profit and mainstream media controls the TV and radio in Greece.
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