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Civil Unrest

Protests, direct action, and resistance movements worldwide. UTM covers civil unrest from the streets — centering the people fighting back against state violence, not the police narrative. We don't call it chaos when the oppressed rise up.

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Bolivian rural workers at the seized Humberto Suárez Roca oil field in Santa Rosa del Sara, Santa Cruz department
Civil Unrest

Rural Communities Seize Bolivia's Oil Field, Halt Production in Santa Cruz

Rural workers in Bolivia have seized an oil field in the Santa Cruz region and halted all production, as part of the general strike against neoliberalism. The site, in the Santa Rosa del Sara municipality, is now fully offline.

📍 Santa Cruz, Bolivia

Tyler Durden
June 4, 2026· 10 min read
Thousands of protesters crowd a street in Tirana holding pink flamingo cutouts above their heads in protest against a Kushner-linked resort development
Civil Unrest

Albania's Flamingo Revolution: Thousands Rise Against Kushner's Colonial Playground on Pristine Shores

For four consecutive days, thousands of Albanians have flooded the streets of Tirana in a swelling revolt against a luxury resort development linked to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump — a project that would carve hotels and villas into one of the Mediterranean's last unspoiled coastlines, a protected wildlife reserve home to flamingos and endangered monk seals.

📍 Tirana / Zvërnec, Albania

Radical Edward
June 3, 2026· 9 min read
Exterior of the Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn, New York
Civil Unrest

Brooklyn's Park Slope Food Coop Votes to Boycott Israeli Products — A Victory With Teeth

The Park Slope Food Coop voted 67% to boycott Israeli products after months of fierce internal campaigning. Here is why boycotts work and how BDS is following the South Africa blueprint.

📍 Brooklyn, New York

Hunter Duke
May 26, 2026· 9 min read
ICE agents in tactical gear restraining a protester on the ground outside a detention facility at night
Civil Unrest

The Siege of Delaney Hall: A Week of Clashes, Families in Agony, and the Machine That Crushes Protest

For a week, protesters have faced off against heavily armed ICE agents outside Delaney Hall in Newark, NJ, in some of the most intense immigration enforcement confrontations in recent history. A senator was gassed. A protester was Tased on train tracks. Families were turned away. Pro-Trump counter-protesters arrived to cheer the agents on.

📍 Newark, New Jersey

Radical Edward
May 25, 2026· 20 min read
Silhouette of a person visible through a window behind a razor-wire fence, with HUNGER STRIKE projected above him.
Civil Unrest

Starving for Dignity: The Hunger Strike Inside Delaney Hall and the Wall of Silence ICE Built Around It

Between 300 and 400 detainees at Delaney Hall, a GEO Group-run ICE detention center in Newark, New Jersey, have entered their second week of a hunger and labor strike over worm-infested food, no air conditioning, untreated illness, and the denial of medical care to pregnant women — including one who miscarried alone inside the facility. A sitting U.S. senator was pepper-sprayed trying to enter. The governor was turned away. DHS insists everything is fine.

📍 Newark, New Jersey

Hunter Duke
May 23, 2026· 19 min read
Flames rise from a street barricade during clashes between miners and riot police in La Paz, Bolivia, May 2026
Civil Unrest

Bolivia Is Under Siege — And the People Built the Siege

Indigenous miners, workers, and community defense forces are using highway blockades, dynamite, and general strikes to shut down Bolivia's government. An educational deep-dive into militant popular resistance.

📍 La Paz, Bolivia

Radical Edward
May 14, 2026· 9 min read
Andover resident body slammed by police
Civil Unrest

Andover Township Bans AI Data Centers After Confrontation — The Death Threat Narrative

Andover, New Jersey officials announced a ban on AI data centers two days after a heated confrontation at a town meeting, claiming they were receiving death threats over the project. The timeline raises questions about when threats began and why community dissent was met with force.

📍 Andover, New Jersey, USA

Tyler Durden
May 7, 2026· 11 min read
Union members scuffle with Turkish police officers as they try to march towards Taksim square in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, May 1, 2026
Civil Unrest

May Day Explained: The Anarchist Origins, 1886 History, and Why It Matters for Newcomers

Everywhere in the world except the US and Canada, May 1 is International Workers' Day. It began in 1886 with the eight-hour day movement in Chicago, the Haymarket Affair, and the execution of anarchist labor organizers. This is the story you were never taught — the anarchist roots of May Day, why the US government tried to erase it, and what it means for you if you're new to the movement.

Radical Edward
May 1, 2026· 11 min read
Large crowd of people marching down a city street during May Day 2026 protest with signs and banners visible
Civil Unrest

May Day 2026: A Global Uprising — Workers Over Billionaires in the Streets

From New York to Istanbul, from Paris to Manila, millions of workers took to the streets on May 1, 2026. They chained themselves to the NYSE, faced tear gas in Lyon and Istanbul, burned effigies of Trump in Manila, and shut down Washington D.C. This wasn't just a protest — it was a global uprising.

📍 Global Uprising

Radical Edward
May 1, 2026· 14 min read
Suited figure holds a large flag that completely obscures his face, shown walking forward with one foot suspended over the edge of the stone plinth
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The Blind Man on the Plinth: Banksy's Statue of Flag-Blind Patriotism in the Heart of Empire

In the predawn hours of April 30, Banksy installed a statue in Waterloo Place depicting a suited figure blinded by a flag, stepping off a plinth. Placed among monuments to imperial glory, it's a devastating critique of blind patriotism — and a reminder that when you can't see where you're marching, you walk off cliffs.

📍 Waterloo Place, London, United Kingdom

Radical Edward
May 1, 2026· 13 min read
Mayday Protest Flyer
Civil Unrest

May Day 2026: 'No Work, No School, No Shopping' — The General Strike Begins

More than 3,000 events across every U.S. state are mobilizing for May Day economic blackouts. From Chicago school closures to Los Angeles shutdowns, workers are building toward the largest coordinated day of labor action in generations.

Hunter Duke
April 30, 2026· 10 min read
Activist removed from ICE facility in Burlington, Massachusetts
Civil Unrest

The Liberal Handbrake Slips: Why 11 Mainstream Protesters Crossing the Line Matters

When ministers, lawyers, and therapists start getting arrested for blocking ICE facilities, something fundamental is shifting in how liberals view the system.

📍 Burlington, Massachusetts, United States

Radical Edward
April 28, 2026· 12 min read
Secret Service agents with guns drawn rushing to protect and evacuate President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents' Dinner as guests look on in the background
Civil Unrest

The Ballroom Blitz: White House Correspondents' Dinner Shooting Marks Escalation in Infrastructure Attacks

On April 25, 2026, shots rang out at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, with President Trump rushed off stage by Secret Service. The attack was the latest in a wave of 25+ infrastructure fires and sabotage targeting symbols of capitalism and militarism across the US and Europe, marking a dangerous escalation from economic to political targets.

📍 Washington D.C., United States

Hunter Duke
April 25, 2026· 16 min read
Scorched door of Tesla service center in New Orleans after Molotov cocktail attack on April 15, 2026. The door shows visible fire damage with soot and charring around the entryway.
Civil Unrest

Another Molotov Cocktail: What the New Orleans Tesla Attack Reveals About Economic Desperation in America

The third Molotov attack in a week — a Tesla service center in New Orleans — signals a growing wave of economic desperation in America. Workers who can't afford to live on their wages are finding new ways to make themselves heard.

📍 New Orleans. LA

Tyler Durden
April 15, 2026· 11 min read
Drone aerial view of a warehouse fire with thick smoke and visible flames. Representative image of the type of fire that occurred at the Raytheon building in Warner Robins, Georgia on April 13, 2026.
Civil Unrest

Fire at Raytheon Building in Georgia: When War Profiteers Meet Resistance

A fire at the Raytheon Company building in Warner Robins, Georgia, is part of a growing pattern of attacks on symbols of American power and capitalism. The target is unmistakable: one of the world's largest arms manufacturers, supplying bombs for wars abroad while the working class at home struggles to survive.

📍 Warner Robins, Georgia

Tyler Durden
April 13, 2026· 7 min read
Five-alarm fire engulfs the abandoned Galaxie Chemical Corporation plant in Paterson, New Jersey, which sat vacant for 20 years as a Superfund hazardous waste site before burning in April 2026
Civil Unrest

Nine Fires in Seven Days: The Working Class Has Handed Down Its Verdict

Nine fires in seven days across seven states. Warehouses, lumberyards, chemical plants burning. The working class has had enough. This is their verdict: you took everything, now you get the fire.

📍 United States

Tyler Durden
April 11, 2026· 14 min read
Sam Altman's House
Civil Unrest

The Fires Are Not Random - America Is Boiling Over

Three fires in three days across California - Sam Altman's home, a Kimberly-Clark warehouse, Ontario Mills mall. Not isolated incidents, but expressions of a working class that has run out of options. From AI billionaires to warehouse workers, the extraction machine is under attack.

📍 San Francisco, CA

Tyler Durden
April 10, 2026· 15 min read
San Francisco police officers and vehicle at the scene of an alleged shooting near Sam Altman's Russian Hill residence on April 12, 2026
Civil Unrest

When Silicon Valley's Castles Come Crashing Down

Two attacks in 72 hours on Sam Altman's $27 million mansion. The media calls it 'AI anxiety.' It's actually a working class pushing back against an industry gambling with their future.

📍 Russian Hill, San Francisco, United States

Tyler Durden
April 10, 2026· 9 min read
Aerial photograph of a massive industrial warehouse building consumed by bright orange flames, with thick black smoke billowing into the night sky
Civil Unrest

"Should Have Paid Us More": A Warehouse Fire and the Breaking Point of American Labor

A 29-year-old warehouse worker set fire to a Kimberly-Clark distribution center in Ontario, California, filming himself as he ignited pallets of toilet paper and said, "All you had to do was pay us enough to live." The incident reveals the breaking point of American workers under wage stagnation, inflation, and war-driven economic pressure.

📍 Ontario, CA

Radical Edward
April 7, 2026· 19 min read
Two Palestine Action protesters on the roof of a weapons factory.
Civil Unrest

The UK's War on Protest: How Zionist Lobbying and Israeli Embassy Interference Criminalised Dissent

How pro-Israel lobbying, Labour Party connections, and documented Israeli Embassy interference led to the criminalisation of dissent in Britain. The High Court ruled the ban unlawful.

📍 United Kingdom

Tyler Durden
April 3, 2026· 18 min read
National Guard deployed to LA federal building durring ICE protest summer 2025
Civil Unrest

5 Underreported U.S. Stories: Corporate Press Won't Touch

From ICE raids pushing cities to brink of martial law, to facial recognition jailing innocent grandmothers, to homeless encampments being sealed underground — here are five underreported crises unfolding across America while national media obsesses over war.

Tyler Durden
March 31, 2026· 6 min read
Katelyn Hall was remembered by her family as a loving mother who lit up every room she walked into and was Salutatorian of her high school class and Bellarmine University graduate.
Civil Unrest

Katelyn Hall Deserved Help. Louisville Gave Her Bullets.

Katelyn Taylor Hall, 28, called 911 for help during a mental health crisis. Her family wanted a doctor. Louisville Metro Police sent executioners. Officers Robert Baker and Robert Gabbard shot and killed her in less than a second—tasers on their belts, training ignored, a suicidal woman treated as a threat to be neutralized.

📍 Louisville, Kentucky

Radical Edward
March 27, 2026· 9 min read
Activist block the forest enterance to the cop city construction zone
Civil Unrest

Cop City and the Feedback Loop of Empire: How War Comes Home

While the U.S. wages wars abroad, the same counterinsurgency tactics, equipment, and mindset return home to police communities of color. Cop City in Atlanta and expanding surveillance state show how empire polices its own population.

📍 Atlanta, GA

Hunter Duke
March 20, 2026· 11 min read
Protesters vandalized vehicles at Prairieland ICE Detention Center on July 4, 2025. Court exhibit from the federal criminal complaint.
Civil Unrest

Guilty of Terrorism for What They Wore: The Prairieland Verdict Is a Warning to Every Protester in America

A federal jury in Fort Worth, Texas has convicted eight anti-ICE protesters of providing material support for terrorism — for wearing black clothing to a July 4 demonstration outside the Prairieland ICE Detention Center. The verdict marks the first successful use of terrorism charges against alleged antifa members in U.S. history and sets a precedent that criminalizes protest ideology, clothing, and political literature.

📍 Fort Worth, TX

Tyler Durden
March 14, 2026· 9 min read
Cuba: Protesters set fire to the ruling party's office amid blackouts
Civil Unrest

Cuba Crisis Isn't a Failure of Socialism — It's What 65 Years of Economic Warfare Looks Like

When protesters torched a Communist Party office in Morón, US media cheered. But the blackouts and food shortages aren't failures of Cuban policy — they're the intended outcome of a 65-year US blockade designed to inflict hunger and desperation.

📍 Moron, Cuba

Hunter Duke
March 14, 2026· 14 min read
Massive warehouse fire sends thick black smoke into the sky as Miami-Dade Fire Rescue units battle the five-alam blaze at Global Warehouse Solutions.
Civil Unrest

The Fire in Miami Gardens: When Underpaid Workers Meet Cost-Cutting Logistics

A five-alam warehouse fire at Global Warehouse Solutions burned for five days, exposing how underpaid workers and cost-cutting logistics models create the conditions for industrial disasters.

📍 Miami-Dade County, FL, United States

Tyler Durden
March 5, 2026· 6 min read
MPD Burns in the distance as a crowd of protesters watch
Civil Unrest

Legacy of George Floyd Protests: A Catalyst for Change and Continued Challenges

As the one-year mark nears since the George Floyd protests, their global resonance persists, sparking vital conversations on justice and equality. Triggered by Floyd's tragic death, the protests have catalyzed change and exposed deep-rooted societal issues. From policy reforms to global solidarity, the enduring legacy underscores the ongoing need to dismantle injustice and foster an equitable world. The protests' powerful call for transformation remains, igniting a unifying pursuit of justice for all."

Dutch Caxton
May 28, 2020· 6 min read
Justice for Josiah Pinner - community rally flyer, Tampa FL, January 2019
Civil Unrest

Undercover Officer Strikes & Kills Young Boy in Street: #JusticeForJosiah

Recently in the Tampa, FL area a young boy named Josiah Pinner was struck dead in the street by an undercover police car. The incident occurred on January 11th and was witnessed by the victims sister. Currently no charges have been brought against the officer in the death of this young boy. Police are also being less than forthcoming with information to the family. The community has planned a rally in protest of police action regarding this event for January 17th. A GoFundMe page has also been made to assist the family with final expenses.

📍 Tampa, FL

Radical Edward
January 15, 2019· 4 min read
Scene of the Paris bakery explosion on Rue de Trevise, January 12, 2019
Civil Unrest

Bakery Explosion Kills Three in Paris Amidst #YellowVest #ActeIX: Day of Mass Bank Withdrawals Planned

An explosion rocked the streets of Paris this morning. A gas leak was the official cause of an explosion that flipped over nearby cars, and left a Paris block looking like a war-zone, more-so than usual. The blast claimed the lives of 2 firefighters and a Spanish national, and injured more than 50 others leaving a dozen in critical condition. With the Yellow Vest Movement set to engage in a massive withdrawal of assets from the banking system during Acte IX, it seems Paris is on the brink of both economical and sociological collapse.

📍 Paris, France

Radical Edward
January 12, 2019· 3 min read
RCMP convoy mobilizing toward Wet'suwet'en territory, January 2019
Civil Unrest

RCMP Prepares to Raid Un-Ceded Territory of the Wet'suwet'en Nation: Crisis Unfolding in Unist'ot'en

RCMP has been working through the night and morning to prepare a massive law enforcement mobilization to the Unist'ot'en & Gidimt'en checkpoints of the Wet'suwet'en Nation located in so called British Colombia. B.C. Supreme Court Justice Marguerite Church expanded an injunction to include the Gidimt'en checkpoint. With this Injunction update RCMP's indicated that specially trained tactical forces will be deployed to forcibly remove Wet'suwet'en people from sovereign Wet'suwet'en territory. The RCMP's ultimatum, to allow TransCanada access to un-ceded Wet'suwet'en territory or face police invasion, is nothing short of an act of war on the sovereign, un-ceded nation.

📍 British Columbia, Canada

Radical Edward
January 7, 2019· 6 min read
Leaders burn Standing Rock camp ahead of eviction
Civil Unrest

Standing Rock #NoDAPL Camps Prepare for Eviction Today

Cannonball, ND - After over a year of struggling against the Dakota Access Pipeline's construction underneath the Missouri River, water protectors are now scheduled to be evicted from their main encampment. The encampment lies on unceded Fort Laramie Treaty land maintained by the Army Corps of Engineers. A few hundred water protectors are still holding steady as the eviction deadline approaches.

📍 Cannonball, North Dakota, USA

Radical Edward
February 22, 2017· 4 min read
Civil Unrest

Did Someone Say 4200 Free Joints? That's Right 4200 Joints To Be Smoked 4:20 into Trumps Inauguration Speech

What?!?! You mean to say The Donald actually pulled a fast one on us Anarchist and he is in fact that cool? He is passing out 4200 joints for his speech. Nope, sorry, The Donald still sucks, but don't worry there will still be 4200 free joints being passed out in protest of national marijuana prohibition.

📍 Washington, D.C.

Radical Edward
January 5, 2017· 7 min read
Morton County Sheriff's Remove Facebook Page in Effort to Scrub Evidence and Silence Resistance
Civil Unrest

Morton County Sheriff's Remove Facebook Page in Effort to Scrub Evidence and Silence Resistance

MCSD deletes their facebook page. After a long battle with activist occupying the comments sections, and blasting evidence of their war crimes and lies everywhere, MCSD has pulled the facebook page. This is most likely done in an attempt to scrub the evidence and silence the resistance.

📍 Morton County, North Dakota

Radical Edward
November 27, 2016· 8 min read
Protesters gather at Sacred Stone Camp
Civil Unrest

Army Corps of Engineers Issues Eviction Notice to Standing Rock Front Lines

Breaking: Army Corps of Engineers Issues Eviction Notice to Standing Rock Using Law Designed to Protect Natives & Water. Standing Rock Leaders issue response stating they have no intentions of leaving the camp. Oceti Sakowin camp prepares for winter survival to fight the pipeline.

📍 Standing Rock, North Dakota

Radical Edward
November 26, 2016· 20 min read
Massive cloud of tear gas behind large amount of law enforcement.
Civil Unrest

North Dakota Law Enforcement Launch Series of Brutal Terrorist Attacks on Native Water Protectors

Law enforcement in North Dakota, acting as the private army of the Dakota Access Pipeline launch a brutal series of terror attacks on peaceful Native Water Protectors. Use of tear gas and water canons is freezing temperatures, throwing concussion grenades directly at people, and shooting Protectors in the face with rubber ammunition, being some of the more heinous acts committed by MCSD over the past few weeks.

📍 Standing Rock, North Dakota

Radical Edward
November 21, 2016· 12 min read
Prison Strike Graffiti written on prison bathroom wall.
Civil Unrest

IWW Organizes First Ever Prison Strike, Media Ignores It. New Wave Of Strikes Began Saturday, Oct. 15th

Last month on the 45th anniversary of the Attica Prison Uprising, an international industrial labor union, organized a nationwide prison strike against prison labor. The famous Anarchist union, known as the IWW or Industrial Workers of the World, organized strikes that affected 29 different prisons. Despite this they were virtually ignored by the media. Now a new wave of strikes have begun, starting Saturday Oct. 15th.

📍 United States

Ash Fawkes
October 15, 2016· 13 min read
Death of beautiful teenage Kurdish fighter sparks multiple debates
Civil Unrest

Death of beautiful teenage Kurdish fighter sparks multiple debates

Viyan Antar, 19, was killed fighting Islamic State forces in Northern Syria last month. Undoubtedly, Viyan, like many Kurdish fighters, was gorgeous. Western media outlets sought to capitalize on the death of the “Kurdish Angelina Jolie”. Her photo was plastered all over the media. Her death was used to further the march for war in Syria. Had this been a US soldier, the incident would have been forgotten before her body was cold. In this case, the media’s treatment of the young Kurdish fighter unleashed a firestorm of criticism and sparked multiple debates.

📍 Northern Syria

Justin King
August 30, 2016· 4 min read
Live From Baton Rouge Alton Sterling BLM Protest
Civil Unrest

Live From Baton Rouge Alton Sterling BLM Protest

Join Radical Edward on the streets of Baton Rouge during the aftermath of the Alton Sterling murder, a man who was gunned down in his own neighborhood by 2 pigs: Howie Lake II and Blane Salamoni. Hundreds where arrested Over the 9th & 11th. On the 12th Edward makes light of a video jamming technology the Baton Rouge PD is using to prevent live streaming of protests. ON the 13th Edward goes Live from the Triple-S in Baton Rouge Louisiana site of the Alton Sterling murder. Anon Resistance covers what's going on and give you a real perspective of what's actually happening and what the community is really like when the police are not in their face. -Radical Edward

📍 Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Radical Edward
July 13, 2016· 2 min read
Operation Icarus Graphics
Civil Unrest

Anonymous Launches Phase 3 Of Operation Icarus, Dubbed Project Mayhem

#OpIcarus #ProjectMayhem Hours ago Anonymous announced Phase 3 of their now infamous Operation Icarus. Participants are calling it Project Mayhem, a throwback to an older 2012 operation and a reference to the Hollywood blockbuster Fightclub.

📍 Global

Ash Fawkes
June 3, 2016· 5 min read
Balitmore police throwing riot munitions at protestors after the death of Freddie Gray.
Civil Unrest

How the US Military Would Respond to a Domestic Insurgency

Two academics war-gamed a domestic insurgency scenario using US Army doctrine. Their scenario reveals the fundamental flaws in US counterinsurgency strategy — and why a real insurgency would play out very differently.

📍 Washington, DC

Justin King
February 5, 2015· 10 min read
Security forces at a political demonstration (public domain, U.S. Army)
Civil Unrest

So, I was waterboarded…

Justin King recounts being voluntarily waterboarded at an Ohio State Courthouse demonstration to refocus public attention on the CIA torture report — a program the four-year Senate investigation found produced "no evidence that terror attacks were stopped, terrorists captured, or lives saved."

📍 Columbus, OH

Justin King
February 2, 2015· 10 min read