Tom Morello, Rise Against & more playing Minnesota benefit concert

A show happening this Friday (1/30) at First Avenue in Minneapolis will raise money to the families of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, both of whom were shot and killed by ICE agents. “A Concert of Solidarity & Resistance to Defend Minnesota” will feature Tom Morello, Rise Against, Al Di Meola, Ike Reilly, and “very special guests.” Tickets are on sale now.

“If it looks like fascism, sounds like fascism, acts like fascism, dresses like fascism, talks like fascism, kills like fascism and lies like fascism, boys & girls it’s fucking fascism,” Morello says. “It’s here, it’s now, it’s in my city, it’s in your city and it must be resisted, protested, defended against, stood up to, exposed, ousted, overthrown and driven out. By you and by me. We are coming to Minneapolis where the people have heroically stood up against ICE, stood up against Trump, stood up against this terrible rising tide of state terror. Where the people have stood up for their neighbors and themselves, for democracy and justice. Ain’t nobody coming to save us except us and it’s now or never.”

Meanwhile, Bruce Springsteen just released new new protest song “Streets of Minneapolis.”