And would explain why there's no equivalent investigation for Renee Good's murder.

I’ve actually been transcribing protest chants since the 2010s. Since the 2017 Women’s March, I’ve put them up here: medium.com/@norikomanabe

Thanks for posting!

Here is my second blogpost on ICE protest songs and chants, from the Minnesota general strike and after Alex Pretti’s killing, with a large section on singing at protests and more songs about ICE. medium.com/@norikomanab...

Social media varies, but BlueSky is pretty open. Twitter has become unusable; I only still have an account there because many Japanese people I follow haven’t migrated out of it.

The mainstream media in the US is controlled by a small number of Republican billionaires (eg Bezos owns the Washington Post, Ellison owns CBS News), and formerly liberal outlets like the NYTimes has been cowed into submission. Many Americans read non-US outlets like the BBC or the Guardian instead.

It’s good that he said this, unlike W. But the first paragraph shows his denialism. We are, evidently, a country that guns down its citizens in the street. That is a problem, and it needs to be recognized and resisted.

That having been said, for many countries (eg UK, France, Japan), the governmental capital is the same as the city with the most economic capital, and their biggest papers are in those cities--London, Paris, Tokyo. That's not the case in the US--NYC isn't the capital.

I agree with you that repetition is key to helping participation along. Thomas Turino talks about this nature of participatory music in the second chapter of this book. Many protest songs, esp. Freedom Songs, have this characteristic. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Many thanks for letting me know about your song! I've included it in the blogpost in a subsection titled "other participatory singing," since the song seemed well-designed for a call-and-response. Thank you again!

Thank you - I've made that correction.

it's also happening on X as you know, and seems to be happening somewhat on Threads.

That's very nice! I like the constant refrain, "chip, chip, chipping away at the ICE."

Here's the first blogpost on ICE protest chants and songs, from January 13. medium.com/@norikomanab...

Survey after survey is showing that nearly 2/3 of US voters disapprove of ICE's actions. It's time Republicans were reminded of that.

especially the Republicans.