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10/15/2026

NEW: Protesters met U.S. Sec. of State Marco Rubio in Athens as he pushed closer ties with Greece’s right-wing government amid fears of escalating militarization and foreign conflict.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited Athens to tout democracy and tighten ties with Greece’s right-wing government, igniting protests over mounting militarization and fears the country could be dragged into foreign conflicts.

10/14/2026

MN15, Migrants Criminalized in Greece and Jake Lang's Courtroom Tours - UR Story Recap

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10/13/2026

NEW: Far-right Christian nationalist agitator "Jake" Lang has been catching criminal charges on his campaign of terror and humiliation. In turn, he's been touring American courtrooms - here's the latest.

White supremacist agitator and violent J6er Edward Jacob “Jake” Lang Zoomed into a court hearing in St. Paul on Oct. 9 as the Minnesota state government argued its case against him for kicking over an ice sculpture reading “Prosecute ICE” in front of the state capitol building in February.

10/13/2026

Remembering a March for a Bicentennial Without Colonies

UR looks back at a large anti-colonial march in Philadelphia during the 1976 bicentennial.

Read the full article written by Caroline Keane at our website - link in bio.

On a crowded Broad Street Line train on the way to a No Kings march, Pedro Rodriguez and Paul Socolar saw one another and remembered another march they attended almost 50 years prior: the March for a Bicentennial Without Colonies in 1976. They created the July 4th Sin Colonias Coalition to commemorate the march with others who saw its significance and began hosting events in the Greater Philadelphia area.

The march was attended by an estimated 40,000 people in North Philadelphia during the reign of Mayor Frank Rizzo, who requested 15,000 federal troops to oppose the protest. There was pushback by local civil rights leaders who were wary of mostly outsiders coming to march in predominantly Black neighborhoods, but a consensus was achieved. The march had over 40 demands and was very diverse according to Socolar, who described many movements as “overwhelmingly white” at the time.

One of the driving forces behind the march was the Puerto Rican Socialist Party (PSP) who launched the broader July 4th Coalition to coordinate the march. The PSP brought 20,000 people to Madison Square Garden in 1974 for Puerto Rican Independence. Many decolonization movements were achieving successes at the time. There was the feeling among activists that Puerto Rican independence and a more just society was just around the corner, according to Rodriguez, a then-22-year-old student at New York State University at Oneonta and organizer with a leftist organization called Just Folks for Responsible Government.

Paul Socolar was a 21-year-old student then and organized a contingent of students from Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges to attend. He remembers the march as “a beautiful scene of solidarity.”

July 4th Sin Colonias Coalition hosted a commemorative panel on June 13, 2026, that focused on where social movements are today in the context of the 1976 March.

10/12/2026

NEW: Crete’s courts are convicting shipwrecked people on the move as “smugglers” in trials lasting minutes, with lawyers documenting minors registered as adults and sentences reaching hundreds of years.

“We have never seen this scale of mass criminalization before in Greece,” says Iliana Bompou, a lawyer with Equal Rights Beyond Borders, which has been providing free legal support to defendants in Crete’s courts since late 2025. “Not even during the daily landings on the Aegean islands during the 2015 so-called refugee crisis did we see numbers like this. Today in Crete, for every single boat that arrives, at least one so-called smuggler is identified.”

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Crete’s courts are convicting shipwrecked people on the move as “smugglers” in trials lasting minutes, with lawyers documenting minors registered as adults and sentences reaching hundreds of years.

10/12/2026

For nearly two months, Palestinians in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighborhood had access to water at any time — a welcome sense of stability in the depths of a genocidal war. On Aug. 24, that stability was disrupted by an Israeli airstrike that destroyed the newly built water desalination plant and damaged apartment buildings and tents.

The water plant had provided free desalinated water to families and over a dozen shelters and collectives. The bombing worsens Gaza City’s drinking-water crisis which impacts 92% of the population.

The owner of the desalination plant estimated his losses to be at least $500,000 with the machines half of that amount. The plant which was totally destroyed was carefully assembled with hard to obtain equipment and materials.

Full story and more from Palestine in comments.

10/10/2026

NEW: Musician, carpenter and labor organizer Emmett Doyle spoke to Unicorn Riot about being one of the 15 Minnesotans who were federally charged with conspiracy over their organizing earlier this year against ICE’s deadly Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis.

10/09/2026

Teacher and labor organizer Treasure Thoreson spoke to Unicorn Riot about being one of the 15 Minnesotans who were federally charged with conspiracy over their organizing earlier this year against ICE's deadly Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis.

10/09/2026

For nearly two months, Palestinians in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighborhood had access to water at any time — a welcome sense of stability in the depths of a genocidal war. On Aug. 24, that stability was disrupted by an Israeli airstrike that destroyed the newly built water desalination plant and damaged apartment buildings and tents.

Standing next to rubble and forcibly displaced from the airstrikes, Louay Al-Namnam told Unicorn Riot that at least 14 Palestinian families were now looking for “somewhere to live.”

“We were sitting safely inside the complex,” he said, “when suddenly someone approached us and told us to leave because the area was about to be bombed. A water desalination plant was struck first, and then the complex itself was hit.”

The water plant had provided free desalinated water to families and over a dozen shelters and collectives. The bombing worsens Gaza City’s drinking-water crisis which impacts 92% of the population.

According to Al Jazeera, the owner of the desalination plant estimated his losses to be at least $500,000 with the machines half of that amount. The plant which was totally destroyed was carefully assembled with hard to obtain equipment and materials.

Despite being condemned for war crimes Israel continues their acts of collective punishment toward all of Gaza, eradicating the infrastructure of all civil society from healthcare, education, to electricity and water plants. They now occupy over 70% of Gaza and are continuing daily attacks.

Since the U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Palestinian resistance fighters and Israeli forces in October 2025, Israel has killed over 1,400 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. Officially the death toll has exceeded 74,000 Palestinians killed by Israel — with numbers likely in the hundreds of thousands — in response to the Oct. 7 attack which killed around 1,150 people.

Israeli airstrikes destroyed a newly built water desalination plant in Gaza City on Aug. 24, 2026, see the video here.

10/08/2026

Greek authorities have historically treated anarchists and left-wing movements as political threats. “They don’t prosecute what happened. They prosecute what they want. They prosecute what they believe the people thought,” said Cynthia Bousiou of The Press Project, “you cannot prosecute thoughts and beliefs,” but only proven actions.

Testing Greece’s controversial terrorism law, Greek anarchist Nikos Romanos, alongside Argyrios K. and Dimitris P., was acquitted of terrorism charges earlier this year in connection with an explosion in an apartment in Athens in 2024.