On Episode 14 of Deprogram, Unicorn Riot spoke with Elizabeth Mount about her experience in Portland during the #ShellNo protest. Elizabeth tells about what it was like and what motivated her to be one of the few who hung suspended from St John’s Bridge over…
Interview with @AlienA23P about the new Windows 10.…
The Jade Helm 2015 military exercise “in unconventional warfare involves United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) with other U.S Armed Forces units in multiple states, including Arizona, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico and Utah. Troops engaging in the exercise will assume the roles of either…
The Future of Life institute, “a volunteer-run research and outreach organization working to mitigate existential risks facing humanity,” published an open letter July 28th warning against a military arms race focused on Autonomous Weapons. The letter gave an example of an autonomous weapons as, “armed…
A private security firm called ZeroFOX created threat assessments of the #BaltimoreUprising protests. Activists who shared information on social media sights were deemed “high” threats.
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Anonymous’ Million Mask March is entering its fourth year of a world wide call to protest against the establishment. In cities throughout the world people are organizing for the massive protest on November 5th, 2015.…
On August 2nd, 2015, over 1,700 migrants stormed the Eurotunnel attempting to cross into the UK. The world is seeing its largest migration of humans since WWII and Europe is bearing the brunt of the flow. With war ravaging through the Middle East and North…
Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) leaked documents related to the ongoing Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement. KEI warned that the intellectual property section of the agreement would, “harm consumers and in some cases block innovation”.…
Super Typhoon #Soudelor is a category 5 typhoon. The Typhoon’s strength is attributed to the “Godzilla el nino” formation in the Pacific Ocean. Warm waters have strengthened Pacific storms. There is worry as the Typhoon bares down on Taiwan and the Chinese coast.…
While getting interviewed on the Thom Hartman show, former president of the United States Jimmy Carter stated the United States is “an oligarchy, with unlimited political bribery being the essence of getting the nominations for president or to elect the president”. His statements match a…
@Netzpolitik journalists face treason charges after releasing what German has declared state secrets. The charges have created outrage as Germany tries to criminalize whistle-blowers. The leaked documents showed the governments plans to ask for more money to expand online surveillance and to form a special…
According to Missouri training documents the Missouri National Guard, under State Partnership Program with Republic of Panama, trains how to extract cell phone data using a “Universal Forensics Extraction Device” (UFED).…
Puerto Rico’s debt default has become official as it’s economic death spiral we mentioned in Episode 10, has hit another milestone as the island defaults on its debt for the first time in history. On Monday, it paid all of it’s debt except that owned…
The infamous Idaho #AgGag law has been overturned, giving investigative journalists the freedom to now investigate animal cruelty.…
Ep. 14: #BaltimoreUprising #UFED #JadeHelm #KillerRobots #AI #AutonomousWeapons #RNC2012 #Netzpolitik #TPP #AgGag #Calais #Eurotunnel #MillionMaskMarch #Turkey #PuertoRicoDefault #JimmyCarter #Oligarchy #Soudelor #sHellNo #Windows10 #SandraBland
FULL EPISODE:
INTERVIEW 1: Elizabeth Mount #sHellNo
INTERVIEW 2: @AlienA23P #Windows10
After our interviews, we showed two new Unicorn Riot videos from…
Activists kayaked out to block Shell’s Ice Breaker from entering Portland’s port for repairs. The ice breaker made it into port, and now is being blockaded by activists hanging from a bridge by ropes.
Shell needs the ice breaker to continue the exploration which was…
The House of Representatives passed the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act. If this bill passes the Congress and is signed into law, it then voids out Connecticut, Maine, and Vermont states laws that require GMO labels.…
The Unistoten camp has continued to stand in the path of various pipeline projects in so-called British Columbia. Recently Chevron has tried to start mapping on their territories and the RCMP has tried to enter the territory but has not been allowed on Unistoten’s unceded…
One of the biggest crackdowns in China for decades happened this month. Starting July 10th, with the Wang Yu law firm and expanding over 19 provinces, Chinese authorities detained over one hundred human rights lawyers. State newspapers reported that they were detained on suspicions that…
“This Black Lives Matter movement, and what I saw at this convening, was that it’s really helping people be on this journey to really loving ourselves as Black people.” – M. McDowell
Michael McDowell, an organizer with Black Lives Matter Minneapolis was kind enough to…
Globo TV reporter David Romero broke a case in which he exposed the ruling National Party’s theft of $90 Million from the Honduran Social Security Institute (IHSS). The National Party used the stolen money to fund Honduras current president Juan Orlando Hernandez’ presidential run in…
Last week we talked about the tragedy in #Suruc. In the following days, members of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) allegedly killed 3 Turkish police in response to perceived Turkish support of ISIL. Turkey then retaliated with mobilizing its (NATO-supported) air force to bomb both…
The Intercept reported that Black Lives Matter activists were tracked by federal agencies. The information release from The Intercept states that Federal agencies were tracking anyone who associated themselves with the Black Lives Matter movement and pulling information from a wide variety of public social…
Joseph Buddenburg, 31, and Nicole Kissane, 28, are being charged with Conspiracy under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act for allegedly releasing over 5,000 minks. The two supposedly traveled across the country liberating animals from factory farms. Regardless of the fact that these companies kill through …
Ep. 13: #Flint #UnistotenCamp #BlackLivesMatter #RexdaleHenry #AETA #AnimalRights #Honduras #DavidRomero #China #HumanRights #Turkey #PKK #NoGMO #ElNino #Aquifer #ShellNo #SamDubose #UrbanFarms #GardeningAsResistance #M4BL
EPISODE 13:
 RUNDOWN:
#Flint | Residents in Detroit & Flint march from Detroit to Flint, Michigan to raise awareness, not only about the…
Residents of Michigan marched from Detroit to Flint to raise awareness, not only about the water shutoffs plaguing Detroit, but also the reports of high levels of copper and lead in Flint’s water supply. Flint water has been so corrosive that General Motors reported that…
Rexdale Henry, a 53 year old Choctaw medicine man and civil rights activist dies after being booked into historically infamous Mississippi jail. Rexdale was booked in Neshoba County Jail after being pulled over in a traffic stop. Neshoba County jail is the same place where…
On July 19th, Sam Dubose, became 639th person that the police have killed this year nearing an all time record according to the website “Killed by Police”, the a 43 year old Cinncinati man was shot in the head by University of Cincinnati campus police…
We catch up with Unicorn Riot Producer Pat in Denver after he’s been released from jail. Pat was targeted and pulled out of a group of videographers as he documented a Paul Castaway protest. We learn he was held for 14 hrs and the police…
In the wake of the Paul Castaway murder at the hands of the Denver Police Department the Colorado Fraternal Order of Police tweeted that the family and friends of Paul Castaway protesting his death were “a gaggle of clowns”.…