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Catseye (Katsii Tennen)'s avatar

YES - a live concert shared on zoom

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Jena Ball's avatar

Wouldn’t that be lovely?

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Leon Brown, Jr.'s avatar

Thanks, Jena!

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Jena Ball's avatar

No need for thanks. I am simply appalled and had to say something. Thank you for reading along.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

What’s happening is abhorrent 😳 I have no words.

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Sara Siegler's avatar

I suggest contacting Jon Batiste for music collaboration?

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Jena Ball's avatar

I would LOVE to work with him. Soooo much love and talent. Any idea how to contact him?

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Sara Siegler's avatar

Maybe through the Isolation Journals (written here on substack by his wife Suleika… actually Jon just joined substack under his own name)? I think they are on tour through early April, but in this digital age that shouldn’t matter, right?

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Jena Ball's avatar

Ohhhhh great suggestion. Thank you, Sara. Just found his wife. She's AMAZING.

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E. Jean Carroll's avatar

GOOD IDEA, JENA!!

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Jena Ball's avatar

Thanks Auntie E. I am reaching out to folks I’ve worked with before in Ukraine and on Song Flight. We shall see. Any suggestions and connections welcome.

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Margot Potter's avatar

It is beyond the pale, shocking and disturbing. She is one of many who have been disappeared without due process. The video of Kristy Noem standing in front of the men in prison in El Salvador shows the depth of the depravity of the people in charge here. These are crimes against humanity.

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Jena Ball's avatar

I couldn't agree more. Crimes perpetrated by people who have clearly lost their humanity.

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Jennifer Keen's avatar

I saw the video of her being taken by men in black with masks. It made me sick. Physically sick. We officially live in a country similar to Russia where if you talk against the government you go to a Gulag, similar to what Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote about in his book The Gulag Archipelago which I read in high school never thinking that in my life the United States would have any similarities to the brutal Stalinist regime. But here we are...with Trump who has taken his playbook directly from these evil shits. The key is to not be fearful even though it is absolutely horrifying. But to keep resisting. That young woman needs to be found and taken out of wherever they have her. This is utterly a horror show.

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Jena Ball's avatar

Exactly. Well said.

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Jim Sanders's avatar

And soon the skies will dense with polluting black smoke when the American Inquisition begins.

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