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Tom Morello and Rise Against A Concert of Solidarity & Resistance To Defend Minnesota! with Al Di Meola, Ike Reilly and Bruce Springsteen!

From @springsteen : I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free, Bruce Springsteen Lyrics: Through the winter’s ice and cold Down Nicollet Avenue A city aflame fought fire and ice ‘Neath an occupier’s boots King Trump’s private army from the DHS Guns belted to their coats Came to Minneapolis to enforce the law Or so their story goes Against smoke and rubber bullets By the dawn’s early light Citizens stood for justice Their voices ringing through the night And there were bloody footprints Where mercy should have stood And two dead left to die on snow-filled streets Alex Pretti and Renee Good Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice Singing through the bloody mist We’ll take our stand for this land And the stranger in our midst Here in our home t...

From @springsteen : I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free, Bruce Springsteen Lyrics: Through the winter’s ice and cold Down Nicollet Avenue A city aflame fought fire and ice ‘Neath an occupier’s boots King Trump’s private army from the DHS Guns belted to their coats Came to Minneapolis to enforce the law Or so their story goes Against smoke and rubber bullets By the dawn’s early light Citizens stood for justice Their voices ringing through the night And there were bloody footprints Where mercy should have stood And two dead left to die on snow-filled streets Alex Pretti and Renee Good Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice Singing through the bloody mist We’ll take our stand for this land And the stranger in our midst Here in our home t...

Join Dita Amory, Robert Lehman Curator in Charge, Lehman Collection, and Max Hollein, Marina Kellen French Director and CEO,  to virtually explore Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck. Beloved in Nordic countries for her highly original style, Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck (1862–1946) is relatively unknown to the rest of the world. Overcoming immense personal struggles and working in a remote location for decades, she produced a powerful body of work through sheer force of will. This exhibition affirms her rightful place in the story of modern art. Following Schjerfbeck’s journey from art school in Paris to her final days in Sweden, the exhibition illustrates her shift from traditional and realistic subjects to a simplified, spare style. In the early 1900s, using her mother and neighbors as models, she painted abstractly, paring down her subjects in form and color and developing a bold, new language. Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck is the fir...

 Springsteen Denounces ICE Deployments and Renee Good’s Killing In a surprise appearance in New Jersey, the musician dedicated his song “The Promised Land” to Ms. Good, who was killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis this month. gift article at this link ->   https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/arts/music/springsteen-ice-minneapolis.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GFA.kYTr._6-cCOuavZJF&smid=bs-share Cuban Detainee in El Paso ICE Facility Died by Homicide, Autopsy Shows Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/us/el-paso-ice-detainee-homicide.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GVA.Z3vV.lsMcQDAyq4Uk&smid=tw-share Federal agents shot and killed a registered nurse in Minneapolis on Saturday. The 37-year-old man was identified by his parents as Alex Pretti, an intensive care unit (ICU) nurse at the Veterans Administration. #shame ##https://www.medpagetoday.com/nursing/nursing/1195...