Mining Company Opts Out of Controversial Project Near Sacred Site in Black Hills
An Indigenous sacred site prevailed in court after a multi-pronged approach including both direct action and legal strategy.
Line 5 Pipeline Reroute Endangers Maple Trees and Native Lifeways [Video]
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Results are coming in from the 2026 primary election in Philadelphia. Chris Rabb prevailed in the 3rd Congressional District in a heated campaign linked to ward-level organizing around the city we detailed here last week: https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/philadelphia-socialists-and-progressives-organize-ward-races-in-major-challenge-to-old-fashioned-big-city-political-machine/
NEW: Hundreds Rally for Global Cannabis March in Durban South Africa [Video]
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Our Common Language Is Resistance: Life Inside Prosfygika
Beyond Prosfygika’s walls lies something far more ambitious than a mere housing project: a living demonstration that an alternative way of organizing daily life is not only possible but already underway. This is precisely what the eviction plan is willing to erase.
https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/our-common-language-is-resistance-life-inside-prosfygika/
Indigenous Grand Canyon National Monument Designation Wins in Appeals Court
Demonstrators in Durban South Africa recently participated in the Global Cannabis March; an annual event that has been held every first saturday of May since 1999.
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Mining Company Opts Out of Controversial Project Near Sacred Site in Black Hills
NEW: Mining Company Opts Out of Controversial Project Near Sacred Site in Black Hills
Mining project on sacred Pe'Sla site in the Black Hills is halted after company withdraws following a TRO issued by the courts.
“The defense of Pe’ Sla, where Pete Lien & Sons was pushed to withdraw its plans for exploratory graphite drilling around the sacred site, should be celebrated and acknowledged as a significant success,” said Sacred Defense Fund’s Dov Korff-Korn, to UR.
Northern Wisconsin residents gathered to boil maple sap along the banks of the Bad River, on Canadian oil giant Enbridge’s pipeline easement for its 41-mile Line 5 reroute on March 29, 2026. Enbridge started construction activities in late February, despite numerous ongoing lawsuits challenging its operation of the pipeline.
While in Wisconsin, Bad River Tribal Member Joe Bates and local resident Liam Delmain spoke to UR about the risks of Line 5. Full story at our website - link in bio.
Enbridge started its Line 5 oil pipeline reroute construction activities in late February, despite numerous ongoing lawsuits challenging its operation of the pipeline. While harvesting maple syrup, Bad River Tribal Member Joe Bates and local resident Liam Delmain spoke to UR about the risks of Line 5. [Video]
https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/line-5-pipeline-reroute-endangers-maple-trees-and-native-lifeways/
Philadelphia Socialists and Progressives Organize Ward Races in Major Challenge to “Old-Fashioned Big-City” Political Machine
Groups Jump into Philadelphia Democratic Party Ward Races in Third Challenge to Entrenched Local Players
https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/philadelphia-socialists-and-progressives-organize-ward-races-in-major-challenge-to-old-fashioned-big-city-political-machine/
https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/philadelphia-socialists-and-progressives-organize-ward-races-in-major-challenge-to-old-fashioned-big-city-political-machine/
Philadelphia Socialists and Progressives Organize Ward Races in Major Challenge to “Old-Fashioned Big-City” Political Machine
Ward Movements and the Political Machine System - Contested U.S. House CD3 Race Linked
Anti-Fascist Weekend in Paris Against Neo-Nazi Commemoration
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Philadelphia Socialists and Progressives Organize Ward Races in Major Challenge to “Old-Fashioned Big-City” Political Machine - New report
Moss said, “We are doing something – the progressive left is coalescing together. And we are doing two things that the Democratic Party is not doing…. These are all little schools of democracy, which we are embedded in, something that the Democratic Party does not practice, right?”
Wards that Work has a policy platform: rent stabilization, a higher minimum wage, a wealth tax on capital gains, and pushing giant nonprofits on “payments in lieu of taxes” on “billions of dollars of real estate that they own tax-free”, protecting residents from ICE, opposing incinerators and more.
"I think the party establishment is pretty complacent right now. I think they are prone to underestimate how disgruntled everyday voters are." -Kate Rivera, Riverwards Area Democrats
“This whole undertaking started nearly ten years ago,” said Shawn Moss from Philly DSA. “Only recently, like in this cycle and the cycle before that, we’ve really increased our organizing, increased our scalability, our operations to what we have now.”