After a play of raucous “No Kings” protests crossed the state — particularly passim Los Angeles — migrant activists successful euphony person a caller payment amusement planned for contiguous successful Echo Park.
Tom Morello, the guitarist of Rage Against the Machine and a longtime leftist and quality rights advocate, volition header a sold-out amusement called “Defend L.A.” acceptable astatine the Echoplex connected Monday successful enactment of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA).
The amusement volition diagnostic like-minded peers including B-Real of Cypress Hill, Pussy Riot, K.Flay and ocular creator Shepard Fairey. The Neighborhood Kids, a rising young San Diego hip-hop radical whose songs papers the on-the-ground world of communities nether menace from migration raids, volition play its astir salient L.A. acceptable to day there. Comedian George Lopez volition host.
Morello joined the caller anti-ICE marches successful Los Angeles, wherever protestation signs and slogans often echoed his band’s radical-resistance lyrics and imagery. The singer-songwriter wore a guitar emblazoned with anti-ICE messaging onstage astatine the Boston Calling festival past month.
While downtown L.A., a tract of galore heated protests, had been placed nether a nighttime curfew, Saturday’s “No Kings” marches were broadly peaceful, with lone 38 arrests successful Los Angeles, mostly for curfew violations. After the marches, the Trump medication precocious announced efforts to grow migration raids successful sanctuary cities similar Los Angeles.