Rapid Response Choir

... hope and optimism and music.

Rapid Response Choir Please read all about us at the Rapid Response Choir website

Virginia is for Singers! Northern Virginia chapter now forming -- sign up at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Practice location etc still under development -- join now and help get us rolling.

Violence should have no place in our country.

If there's a vigil or prayer service for the injured National Guard members, we would welcome the chance to support that - reach out to admin@rapidresponsechoir.org

Thank you for fighting for our scientists and for NASA here in Maryland! #IndivisibleMD 🇺🇸

(around the Spotify logo) GET ICE OUT OF SPOTIFY ICE DOESN’T NEED A PLAYLIST. IT NEEDS ACCOUNTABILITY. • Cancel your Spotify Premium subscription until Spotify removes all ICE ads • Demand Spotify immediately terminate all ICE and DHS advertising contracts. • Urge artists and podcasters to speak out.

Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE.

A platform built to connect creators and listeners is helping an authoritarian regime build up its secret police force.

But we’re not going to idly accept that. We’re going to make Spotify listen: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify

Just ordered 25 kazoos and sheet music

Ohio National Guard member Sgt. Devon Beck was not amused by this satire. On September 11, 2025, Mr. O’Hara saw Sgt. Beck, along with several other Guard members, walking in uniform in the Logan Circle neighborhood, near the intersection of 14th and R Streets NW. Mr. O’Hara calmly walked behind the Guard members, began playing The Imperial March aloud on his phone, and started recording. In less than two minutes, Sgt. Beck turned around and threatened to call D.C. police officers to “handle” Mr. O’Hara if he persisted. Mr. O’Hara continued recording and playing the music. Sgt. Beck contacted the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). Defendant MPD Officers Brown, Campbell, Reyes-Benigno, and Lopez Martinez came to the scene and, in essence, did what Sgt. Beck had threatened, putting Mr. O’Hara in handcuffs and preventing him from continuing his peaceful protest.

The DC ACLU is suing on behalf of a man who was arrested by a National Guardsman and MPD officers for playing the Imperial March (from Star Wars) as an act of protest. www.acludc.org/app/uploads/...

> I think this is a good nonviolent way to confront the illegal and immoral actions of this administration. I also think it's something ICE would find extremely obnoxious.

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> I want to do more than just be angry/sad about what’s happening and find a joyful way to be involved

> Saw and heard you at today’s No Kings Rally and was inspired

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Thanks all to who are signing up at rrchoir.org/join -- and for these lovely comments from NK2:

> I spontaneously encountered you today (10/18) at the No Kings II protest. And singing with the group for a few songs was a highlight of my day 🎶

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Thanks for singing for truth, joy + democracy
#nokings #freedc
@rapidresponsechoir.bsky.social

Singing at a honk and wave ain't easy, but we were not deterred.

R1C Indivisible did a great job knitting together a protest along US Route 1 entering DC. And OMG: The monarchs! Can't wait for their photos.

With 40+ choir members, and hundreds of passersby joining in, NK2 was our biggest single day event yet AND we had simultaneous events in Hyattsville, MD, and Chesterton, MD.

Want to start your own chapter? Reach out and we'll get you started!

"All you fascists bound to lose..."

Amazing day in DC on Pennsylvania Ave - "This joy that I have, the world didn't give it to me..."

❌👑2️⃣ - Come sing with Rapid Response Choir at No Kings 2 in DC!

See joining information at beta.rrchoir.org/join/ -- you'll get an invite with more info...

(Check out the NK1 video for some of the fun: bsky.app/profile/jaym...)

YouTube video by Francoise Becker Epstein Files

Went to the BFF/Why can't we be friends? statue on the National Mall on Sunday for a pop-up concert by @rapidresponsechoir.bsky.social .
Made a video of it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSDk...
#TrumpAndEpstein #TheSecretHandShake #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles

An @onthemedia.bsky.social hat makes an appearance at a @rapidresponsechoir.bsky.social event. Two entities that help me make it through these times!

Our members out in West Hyattsville today, offering support to a neighborhood that's been targeted by ICE, including the horrific arrest that occurred in a busy intersection on Wednesday.

Our communities stand together. Thank you @rapidresponsechoir.bsky.social for joining us.
#meltice

This Is What Democracy Sings Like Want to fight fascism? Start a choir.

“It makes me feel so much comfort and joy to wake up and say, ‘Well, the news is awful, but at least we’re here, trying to do something about it.’” - Peter Burkolder, @rapidresponsechoir.bsky.social via @Sojo.net
This is what advocacy looks like.
Read more:

Upset at budget airline’s role in ICE deportations, 100 rally at BWI The protesters said they wanted to pressure the airline and discourage people from flying with Avelo.

"about 100 people gathered Sunday near BWI to raise awareness about the airline — and protest its role in deportations," incl. Rapid Response Choir rapidresponsechoir.org and @thirdactmd.bsky.social members.

Upset at budget airline’s role in ICE deportations, 100 rally at BWI The protesters said they wanted to pressure the airline and discourage people from flying with Avelo.

our protest today with @docs4campclosure.bsky.social @rapidresponsechoir.bsky.social @mdcdsa.bsky.social @orhoco.bsky.social @eyesonice-bmore.bsky.social @eyesonice-md-cc.bsky.social @eyesonice.bsky.social @stopavelo.bsky.social @dsainternational.bsky.social @indivisible.org

Give the @rapidresponsechoir.bsky.social a follow. Here they are with a new verse for the union song, “Which Side Are You On?”

Right now, Avelo Airlines is on the side of ICE and concentration camps and not on the side of common decency. #BoycottAvelo #AveloWorksWithICE

Highway overpass to Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) with signs that read: Avelo Airlines Fuels Fascism.

Avelo Airlines is fueling ICE’s deportation machine — for $150M.

We showed up today outside of Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) to say:

Not in our city. Not in our name. #StopICEFlights

Protest Avelo Airlines for profiting from ICE cooperation · Indivisible Avelo Airlines took a $150 million contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to operate flights — a move aimed at stabilizing its finances. While Avelo’s flights out of BWI currentl...

HELL NO to silence. The RRC will be there leading songs! Join us: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

Texas Moms Rising 27 children at summer camp died in catastrophic flooding in Texas last week. This is every parent's nightmare. Our hearts break for these children, the more than 100 other people who lost their lives ...

The RRC will be singing in support of Texas Moms Rising actionnetwork.org/events/texas... - July 21, the Ellipse. Join us, won't you?

Very nice 138th birthday party across from the Canadian embassy in DC this morning. You're welcome to sing a long at home, folks! Thank you, @rapidresponsechoir.bsky.social, for a very meaningful event (and the shady location).

A great moment! Americans celebrate Canada Day by serenading the Canadian embassy in DC, a good reminder that most of us are not down with any of Trump's lunacies. Many thanks to @climateboomer.bsky.social for leadership!

I once sang O Canada! in Scots Gaelic at the cèilidh that closed an immersion week in Toronto, but that was a good 10 years ago. Better to be singing it in English at tomorrow's Canada Day friendship serenade at the embassy in DC. Just printed out my songbook from rapidresponsechoir.org/songs