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Vijay Iyer Solo at Cafe Oto - UK Jazz News Vijay Iyer’s solo piano performance on the second night of his two day debut at Cafe Oto was one of the most moving and powerful performances heard at this intimate venue. What Iyer brought with him a...

“one of the most moving and powerful performances heard at this intimate venue”

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Vijay Iyer no Centro Cultural de Belém: notas de esperança em piano solo - Rimas e Batidas Sonhar com um mundo melhor.

“Sonhar com um mundo melhor.”

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Pay attention to a key propaganda tactic in moments of public unrest. Officials will say things that suggest they care about whatever outrages the public, but it's carefully designed to not commit them to structural changes. Pacify-->distract-->wait-->resume business as usual.

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You should read this.

James Baldwin, “A Report from Occupied Territory” (1966)

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BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.

Imagine this in a trial.

Devastating first-hand witness to Alex Pretti's killing

Declaration filed in federal court:

"I don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him."

been here

i had to go look this up again. this is the ongoing logic in law enforcement: if you kill, lie about it

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JUST IN: In a new lawsuit, Minnesota officials say DHS mishandled evidence from today's crime scene and made "astonishing" law enforcement decisions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

1. Wasn’t at a protest
2. Was disarmed when they shot him while he was face down
3. New gun rights rule: the second amendment is when conservatives can carry guns everywhere, but if anyone else has a gun we can kill him on sight

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I said this last time but their real position is “if you disagree with us we can kill you.”

RIP Michael Parenti.

The storm is up, and all is on the hazard.

Immigrant families protest at Texas facility housing 5-year-old boy, father detained in Minnesota Dozens of immigrant families protested behind the fences of a Texas detention facility where a 5-year-old boy Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent this week after being detained in Minnesota.

Concentration camp victims protest! The incredible bravery and fortitude and care involved in doing this ✊🏽

‘some of them holding signs that included “Libertad para los niños,” or “Liberty for the kids.”‘

Modern policing is descended from slave patrols.

The cops do not exist to protect and serve you. That is a carefully constructed lie.

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You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Please remember that whatever ICE says about this killing will be a pack of lies. Whatever Noem says about this killing will be a pack of lies. Whatever Trump says about this killing will be a pack of lies. Whatever Vance says about this killing will be a pack of lies.

This has already been demonstrated as a foolproof counterinsurgency strategy directed at anti-genoc!de protestors since oct ‘23

This is the standard pattern. State actors provoke, people respond peacefully, state actors escalate violently. Media reports say “protests turned violent” or “protestors clash with law enforcement“ which normalizes further escalation.

State terror facilitates its own escalation by design.

Alex Pretti filming

Alex Pretti directing traffic while filming and observing ICE

Not that we don’t protest too — we do — but Renee Good and Alex Pretti (and those who witnessed and documented their executions) were legally observing ICE kidnappings and alerting their neighbors to ICE presence. It’s not a protest, it’s a public service. It’s how we’re protecting our neighbors.

Another thing I learned in the town hall is that the events in Minneapolis are being well-documented because of the thousands of people who trained to become legal observers after the murder of George Floyd

An office building lit up in the dark with a crowd of people holding signs in front of it.

HAPPENING NOW: A massive crowd is gathered in freezing temperatures outside ICE headquarters in DC to demand ICE OUT OF ALL COMMUNITIES NOW.

German media likens US border patrol official’s coat to ‘Nazi look’

They actually can’t lie more than they already do and video evidence is entirely meaningless, as the past few years of atrocities filmed in Gaza have shown.

Mood in minneapolis right now

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.