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Rising Up With Sonali's coverage of the ICE and Military Invasion of Los Angeles

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Greta Thunberg is Free

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/6/11/freedom_flotilla

Rumeysa Oztark is Free

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/12/headlines/rumeysa_ozturk_released...

Free Mahmoud Khalil

I'm sure there are several people who need freed after ICE and the military invaded Los Angeles.

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/6/9/los_angeles_protests_immigration_i...
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/6/12/congressmember_delia_ramirez_ice_...

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https://www.democracynow.org/2025/6/13/ilhan_omar_trump_ice_authoritaria...

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/6/10/los_angeles_protests_trump_milita...

JEAN GUERRERO - New York Times contributing opinion writer and author of Hatemonger: The White Nationalist Agenda:

"I want to be clear about what is happening here. The federal government is going into the diverse communities of Los Angeles to terrorize them. They are showing — ICE is showing up outside of schools, outside of Home Depots, outside of other workplaces. They’re snatching people off of the streets, off of their — outside of their homes, in front of their children, often without warrants.

But what’s happening in these protests is that people of all races and backgrounds are putting their bodies on the line to protect their friends, their neighbors, their family members from these arrests. And it is a beautiful thing to see. I was just at one of the protests yesterday, where I spoke to grandmothers, you know, white grandmothers, who are going out to protect people that they love and who they’re afraid could be picked up by ICE. I spoke to Latinas who are, you know, afraid of being racially profiled and arrested because of the indiscriminate nature of these arrests, but they are nevertheless putting their bodies on the line, because they’re citizens and they believe in using their privilege to defend the people that they care about."

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"Human rights groups around the world are condemning Israel’s attack on the Freedom Flotilla ship called the Madleen.
They’re saying it’s a war crime. The ship was sailing to Gaza with vital humanitarian aid for Palestinians, who are being starved by Israel’s strict blockade since early March, with 11 activists and one journalist on board. Israeli soldiers in the early hours of Monday — they have not, the activists, been heard of or located since. Those detained include the renowned Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg..."

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/6/9/madleen_gaza_flotilla_israel_abduc...

https://risingupwithsonali.com/anti-genocide-activists-sail-to-gaza-agai...

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wesflexner's rocknroll show
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Listen: https://anonrocknroll.com/2025/05/14/glen-friedman-fearless-vampire-kill...

One of my favorite sections of an afternoon. I'm eating lunch in my living room while reading a new book: Fearless Vampire Killers….Bad Brains Photographs by Akashic Books———> By Glen E. Friedman.

I now am using a Flex Capacitor. Now, I'm at A7 in the 1980’s New York looking at Bad Brains perform in a space the size of either Skylab or the Legion of Doom. I'm looking at PMA inspiring cultural evolution in the context of rejection of our fascist government.

In Fearless Vampire Killers, Friedman follows Bad Brains from A7 into the L.A. Sunset Strip. A7 is a small NY punk venue. L.A. is where Bad Brains sneak Black Flag on stage because Black Flag was banned because of punk riots. Fearless Vampire Killers is Glen E. Friedman in a moment working for skateboard media while participating in hardcore punk. Punk, and Hip Hop unleashed Bad Brains, Dead Kennedys, Public Enemy, BDP, Beastie Boys etc. Friedman took iconic flicks of all of these icons.

Punk and Hip Hop REJECTED 80s fascism until Hip Hop and grunge changed all of society. Friedman is legendary for documenting our culture’s icons – Dischord, Def Jam, and of course BAD BRAINS.

Friedman included 90 black and white photos from 81-82. Bad Brains Daryl Jennifer, and HR add commentary into Fearless Vampire’s Killers. We witness Friedman's relationship of being a skateboard punk kid at a show and then having his work document legendary moments.

Friedman’s photos inspired organic cultural evolution with the visuals of Bad Brains and later Public Enemy.

"Do you think Hip Hop, punk and skating will defeat fascism again in 2025 via cultural evolution?”

Listen: https://anonrocknroll.com/2025/05/14/glen-friedman-fearless-vampire-kill...

ICE KIDNAPPED RUMEYSA OZTURK AND SENT HER INTO A LOUISANA POLITICAL PRISON CAMP

http://democracynow.cachefly.net/democracynow/360/dn2025-0327.mp4?start=...

"Over a thousand protesters gathered near Tufts University on Wednesday after masked plainclothes immigration agents snatched Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts Ph.D. student and Fulbright scholar, from the streets of Somerville, Massachusetts. Surveillance video shows agents approaching her on the streets near her home Tuesday evening and handcuffing her while she screamed for help. Tufts University’s president said the school had no prior notice of her arrest. Last March, Ozturk co-wrote a piece in the student newspaper criticizing the Tufts administration’s response to Palestinian solidarity protests on campus that were calling for divestment from Israel. Democracy Now!'s Hany Massoud and Ariel Boone were in Somerville at Wednesday's protest. “One of our community members was taken by armed agents of the state who kidnapped her from right outside her home,” said Lea Kayali, an activist with the Palestinian Youth Movement. “People are here to stand up for the movement that she was punished for supporting.”

ACLU hasn't posted a petition..
ACLU is sending Lawayers..

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/in-new-filing-rumeysa-ozturk-urges-c...

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Winston Hytwr - Hue Nose
Bad Brains - Fearless Vampire Killers
Larry Willis - Inner Crisis
Yung lean w robyn w Charli XCX - 360 Remix
Dystopia - The Middle
Oasis - Supersonic
Pavement - Range Life
Deathly Fighter - Contactors
El Michel's Affair - Kodak
el Hajj el Malik Shabazz Speaks About Palestine
The Third Pyramid Band - Auto Mazar
Ngozi Family - Nizakupanga Ngzo
The Black Keys - Baby Girl
Sharp Pins - Chasing Stars
Tyler, The Creator w Roy Ayers - Find Your Wings

The Black Keys 2025 No Rain No Flowers Tourdates

via Brooklyn Vegan https://www.brooklynvegan.com/the-black-keys-announce-summer-tour-with-g...

02-21 Tempe, Arizona - Innings Festival
03-27 Lima, Peru - Arena 1
03-29 Bogotá, Colombia - Estéreo Picnic Festival
04-02 Mexico City, Mexico - Pepsi Center
04-05 Monterrey, Mexico - Tecate Pa’l Norte
05-23 Durant, OK - The Grand Theater at Choctaw Casino & Resort Durant
05-25 Colorado Springs, CO - Ford Amphitheater +
05-27 Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre +
05-29 Bonner, MT - Kettlehouse Amphitheater +
05-30 Boise, ID - Outlaw Field at the Idaho Botanical Garden +
05-31 Bend, OR - Hayden Homes Amphitheater +
06-01 Berkeley, CA - Greek Theatre at UC Berkeley =
06-03 Los Angeles, CA - The Greek Theatre =
06-07 Austin, TX - Moody Amphitheater =
06-08 Rogers, AR - Walmart AMP =
06-11 Wilmington, NC - Live Oak Bank Pavilion =
06-12 Raleigh, NC - Red Hat Amphitheater =
06-14 Asbury Park, NJ - .... Pony Summer Stage =
06-26 Odense, Denmark - Tinderbox
06-29 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg - Rockhal
07-01 Berlin, Germany - Zitadelle Spandau
07-02 Dübendorf, Switzerland - The Hall
07-04 Marmande, France - Garorock
07-05 Hérouville Saint-Clair, France - Beauregard Festival
07-06 Nort-sur-Erdre, France - La Nuit de L’Erdre
07-08 Leeds, England - Millennium Square
07-09 Manchester, England - Castlefield Bowl
07-11 London, England - Alexandra Palace
07-12 Bruges, Belgium - Cactus Festival
07-13 Weert, Netherlands - Bospop Festival
07-15 Vicenza, Italy - AMA Music Festival
07-16 Rome, Italy - Rock in Roma
07-19 Benicàssim, Spain - Festival Internacional de Benicassim

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The Third Pyramid Band - Plastic Reptiles
Jefferson Airplane - Today
Janis Joplin - Work Me, Lord
Ngozi Family - Nizakupanga Ngzo
Andy Votel avec Clita Johnrose - Hand of Doom
Deathly Fighter - Contactors
Lord Sko w Curren$y - Understand
Oasis - Where Did We Go Wrong
Malcolm X Discusses Palestine.
Googoosh - Bemoon Ta Bemoonam
Charli XCX w Caroline Polachek - Everything is Romantic
Tyler, The Creator w Roy Ayers w Sydney Benner w Kali Uchs - Find Your Wings
Three Studies For A Crucifixation - Appalachian Folkhymn 3000
Melt Banana - Who Did It? Who Dig It?
Clairo - Love Songs