{"id":82804,"date":"2026-03-09T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/?p=82804"},"modified":"2026-04-01T08:52:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:52:45","slug":"the-growing-chorus-of-resistance-and-the-women-holding-the-baton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/the-growing-chorus-of-resistance-and-the-women-holding-the-baton\/","title":{"rendered":"The Growing Chorus of Resistance, and The Women Holding the Baton"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='storyblock storyblock-wider'>\r\n<div id=\"block_b73ea517dd61f6a97dd900104bc107c5\"\r\n    class=\"block-standout-header image-text aspect-1-1 \">\r\n\r\n    <div class=\"standout-header-inner none\">\r\n        <div class=\"standout-header-image\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"object-position: 50.944934186692% 41.618217054264%;\" src=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Singing-Resistance-Protest-Singing-Group-Singing.jpg\" alt=\"Singing Resistance Protest Singing Group Singing\"\r\n                    class=\"img-fluid\" \/>\r\n                                    <p class=\"caption\">Groups like the Resistance Revival Chorus (pictured here) are at the forefront of bringing singing back to U.S. protests. (Credit: Candice Helfand-Rogers)<\/p>\r\n                                    <\/div>\r\n\r\n        <div class=\"standout-header-text\">\r\n            \r\n                            <h1 class=\"entry-title\">The Growing Chorus of Resistance, and The Women Holding the Baton<\/h1>\r\n            \r\n            <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Protests against the Trump administration have been increasingly scored by voices joined in song. It\u2019s a return to form for U.S. movements \u2013 and it\u2019s largely women leading the way.<\/span><\/p>\n\r\n\r\n            <div class=\"entry-meta\">\r\n                <time class=\"updated\" datetime=\"2026-03-09T12:00:00+00:00\">March 9, 2026<\/time>\r\n\r\n                                                    <div class=\"author-meta\">\r\n                        <div class=\"author_thumbnail\">\r\n                                                                                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/CLHR-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/>\r\n                                                    <\/div>\r\n                        <span>\r\n                            <span class='by'>By <\/span>\r\n                            <a href=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/author\/candice-leigh-helfand\/\" title=\"Visit Candice Helfand-Rogers&#8217;s website\" rel=\"author external\">Candice 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.standout-header-image img {\r\n            aspect-ratio: 9\/16;\r\n        }\r\n\r\n        #block_b73ea517dd61f6a97dd900104bc107c5.block-standout-header .standout-header-text {\r\n            \/*margin-top: -2.5rem;*\/\r\n            flex-grow: 5;\r\n        }\r\n\r\n        #block_b73ea517dd61f6a97dd900104bc107c5.block-standout-header .standout-header-image {\r\n            flex-grow: 4;\r\n        }\r\n    }\r\n<\/style><\/div>\n\n\n<p><em>Note: The writer is a professional ensemble singer who performs with several choirs that address social-justice causes. She is not affiliated with the groups in this article.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a cold early-February evening in New York City, the first of what would become several \u201cICE Out Sing-Ins\u201d was held.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Co-hosted by two ensembles \u2013 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.resistancerevivalchorus.com\/\">Resistance Revival Chorus<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.middlechurch.org\/jerriese-johnson-gospel-choir\/\">Jerriese Johnson Gospel Choir<\/a> \u2013 as well as New York City\u2019s Interfaith Alliance, the event\u2019s purpose was singular: Teach the hundreds who assembled at Manhattan\u2019s Middle Church a set of songs to sing at protests against the Trump administration and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the Resistance Revival Chorus led the crowd in singing a particularly poignant piece \u2013 \u201cHold On,\u201d by Vermont song leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heidiannwilson.com\/\">Heidi Wilson<\/a> \u2013 a ripple <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/v_D-npxXsOI?si=KNx2nnDXCbO9MeSl&amp;t=1618\">began to visibly spread<\/a>. A few choir members reached out to embrace one another, followed by more. Within a minute, the entire ensemble was as bonded physically as they were musically, and spiritually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The moment serves as a metaphor for the broader, growing use this year of singing \u2013 group singing, specifically \u2013 as a form of <a href=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/a-new-resistance-tactic-proposals-to-legislate-mens-bodies\/\">resistance<\/a>. Many see it as a powerful act of intention, rippling out from a center until it touches all who are open to it.<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"block_c6b3f69c57f7408e55f08caa73198ba6\" class=\"wp-block related-post alignwide\">\n      <div class=\"wrap\">\n    <div class=\"section-title\">\n      <h4>Related<\/h4>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"post-wrap\">\n              <div class=\"thumbnail\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/why-we-must-shout-and-sing-against-oppressors\/\" class=\"post-image-link\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Afghan-Women-Taliban-Rules-Singing-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Afghan-Women-Taliban-Rules-Singing\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Afghan-Women-Taliban-Rules-Singing-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Afghan-Women-Taliban-Rules-Singing-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Afghan-Women-Taliban-Rules-Singing-84x84.jpg 84w, https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Afghan-Women-Taliban-Rules-Singing-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\n          <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"entry-text\">\n          <h3 class=\"post-title\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/why-we-must-shout-and-sing-against-oppressors\/\">\n              Why We Must Shout \u2013 and Sing \u2013 Against Oppressors\n            <\/a>\n          <\/h3>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n<p>The renewed interest in group singing as a protest tool \u2013 often associated with demonstrations in the 1960s and early 1970s related to the civil rights struggle and denouncing the Vietnam War \u2013&nbsp; cropped up after organizers in Minneapolis began responding to the killings of <a href=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/following-ice-shooting-of-civilian-women-leaders-express-outrage\/\">Renee Good<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/alex-prettis-death-provokes-outrage-sadness-among-nursing-community\/\">Alex Pretti<\/a> at the hands of ICE agents. In January, a small group there began singing, in English and in Spanish, to help console and unite a grieving community. Hundreds joined in. Videos of <a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/singingresistance\">Singing Resistance<\/a>, a musical grassroots collective based in Minneapolis, quickly went viral.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, organizers in dozens of other cities are forming their own chapters after seeing those early examples. Though Singing Resistance is focused on immigrant solidarity and anti-ICE campaigning, there is an expectation \u2013 and a hope \u2013 that group singing may soon be used at protests around other acts committed by the Trump administration, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/dozens-lives-girls-elementary-school-brutally-cut-short-after-us-israel-strikes-iran\/\">recent bombings<\/a> in Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Famous musicians have already taken notice. Singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile recently led some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DVEuV1hkvjG\/?igsh=Nnh4ZDJhNmZ2YXdq\">15,000 people<\/a> in singing protest songs \u2013 and was joined onstage at one point by members of Singing Resistance \u2013 at a solidarity concert she hosted in Minnesota. Performers from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-live-reviews\/bruce-springsteen-tom-morello-protest-minneapolis-setlist-1235508537\/\">Bruce Springsteen<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/article\/see-sara-bareilles-perform-a-new-song-christine-baranski-read-from-1984-more-at-the-public-theaters-peoples-filibuster\">Sara Bareilles<\/a> have been sharing new protest songs as well.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ArinMaya, co-musical director of the Resistance Revival Chorus, says \u201cthis moment we\u2019re in now, it\u2019s a continuation\u201d of work she and others have <em>been<\/em> doing. \u201cMusic, and song, and the power of song keeps us lifted, keeps us encouraged, keeps spirits high.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And many of these organizers and song leaders \u2013 those lifting others\u2019 spirits through music \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/hir.harvard.edu\/women-in-political-movements\/\">are women<\/a>, as they have been through history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-just-like-a-tree-that-s-planted-by-the-water\"><strong>\u2018Just Like a Tree That&#8217;s Planted By the Water\u2019<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Freedom Singers perform &quot;We Shall Not Be Moved&quot; at the March on Washington\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/duvoETGVvYU?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>The Freedom Singers perform &#8220;We Shall Not Be Moved&#8221; in Washington, D.C. in August 1963.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the U.S., protest singing has been a tool for organizers since the nation\u2019s founding \u2013 literally. Songs like \u201cYankee Doodle\u201d and \u201cFree Americay\u201d were used to push back against British imperialism as often as muskets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Singing also helped shape other sea changes in American history, from the movement to abolish slavery in the 1800s, to the Women\u2019s Suffrage and Labor movements of the early 1900s, on into the farmworkers&#8217; strikes, Civil Rights marches and anti-war demonstrations that would follow several decades later.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes people would sing new compositions in chorus with one another; other times, it would be familiar tunes featuring new lyrics. Many of both forms were taught, and often penned, by women. African-American spirituals like \u201cGo Down Moses,\u201d often sung by Harriet Tubman herself, \u201cWhich Side Are You On?\u201d written by union organizer Florence Reece, &#8220;We Shall Not Be Moved,&#8221; a hymn-turned-protest-song performed often by the Freedom Singers, gospel singer Shirley Caesar\u2019s own \u201cThis Joy\u201d and many others would regularly be sung as groups organized against oppression, theirs and others\u2019.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/miamioh.edu\/profiles\/cca\/tammy-l-kernodle.html\">Tammy Kernodle<\/a>, a PhD of music history and a professor at Miami University in Ohio, notes that organizers turned to group singing, time and time again, as a form of \u201cembodied resistance,\u201d or, \u201cwhen a group of people or a person goes into a space and they use their bodies to disrupt the energy of that space.\u201d And these physical acts \u2013 from sit-ins to singing \u2013 are unavoidably powerful, she adds, because \u201ceverything stops\u201d for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout the history of American protests, women have often served as song leaders. That includes suffragist Ethel Smyth, workers\u2019 rights activist Aunt Molly Jackson and domestic-worker-turned-folk-singer Odetta, as well as those involved in mixed-gender ensembles like the Hutchinson Family Singers of the abolitionist movement, and the Freedom Singers and Sweet Honey in the Rock (founded by another prominent activist, Bernice Johnson Reagon) of the Civil Rights era.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of Kernodle\u2019s favorite examples is voting-rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer. \u201cWe know [her] as an orator. We know her from the \u201864 Democratic Convention. But she always began those speeches with songs. And she would have people sing\u201d with her. Noted farmworker rights activist Dolores Huerta also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/latino\/dolores-huerta-song-cesar-music-sparked-farmworker-movement-rcna120262\">used music<\/a> to protest unfair working conditions for migrants, despite being better known as a speaker.<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"block_4d340dfd1f9c660f9c06dead986de882\" class=\"wp-block related-post alignwide\">\n      <div class=\"wrap\">\n    <div class=\"section-title\">\n      <h4>Related<\/h4>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"post-wrap\">\n              <div class=\"thumbnail\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/a-muslim-womens-choir-aims-to-break-taboos-about-public-singing\/\" class=\"post-image-link\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Women_in_Egypt-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Women_in_Egypt-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Women_in_Egypt-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\n          <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"entry-text\">\n          <h3 class=\"post-title\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/a-muslim-womens-choir-aims-to-break-taboos-about-public-singing\/\">\n              A Muslim Women&#8217;s Choir Aims to Break Taboos About Public Singing\n            <\/a>\n          <\/h3>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n<p>Indeed, \u201cwomen played an essential but often underrated role in such movements,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dorianlynskey.com\/\">Dorian Lynskey<\/a>, author of \u201c33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs.\u201d A lengthy list of prominent women artists have woven social justice into their musical work over the years, too, he notes \u2014 Marian Anderson, Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin, Joan Baez, Sin\u00e9ad O&#8217;Connor and Erykah Badu, and groups like Le Tigre and Pussy Riot. But it\u2019s the on-the-ground, in-group singing that Lynskey says is \u201cperhaps the most natural expression of solidarity and unity of purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beheldmusic.com\/\">Beheld<\/a>, a vocal ensemble based in Washington, D.C., that\u2019s performed at conferences, demonstrations and even the vigil following U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg&#8217;s September 2020 death, has woven that same spirit of women\u2019s sung resistance into their work. One of its members, Julie James, explains that \u201cthere&#8217;s a symbolism of [group singing]\u201d that makes it a potent protest tool. \u201cThe many are greater than the one. When you lift your voice with someone else&#8217;s, there&#8217;s this alchemy that happens, and it&#8217;s just holy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s the kind of singing civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King himself once <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/americanmasters\/why-is-music-so-important-to-protests-movements\/29837\/\">called<\/a> \u201cthe soul of the movement.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-we-who-believe-in-freedom-cannot-rest\"><strong>\u2018We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest\u2019<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"VocalEssence with Sweet Honey In The Rock - Ella&#039;s Song\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LoPofPzkJ4U?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Sweet Honey in the Rock performs &#8220;Ella&#8217;s Song&#8221; by Bernice Johnson Reagon with VocalEssence in February 2010.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the past several decades, however, group singing at protests has waned. The collective musical work never stopped \u2013 but it stopped being centered as an integral part of marches and demonstrations. If singing does occur, it\u2019s usually done individually by featured artists, and is still scant at best. Experts suggest a combination of reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve lost community spaces where people are used to singing together,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseamacmillan.com\/\">Chelsea MacMillan<\/a>, who is heading up much of the actions of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/singingresistancenyc\/?hl=am-et\">New York City chapter<\/a> of Singing Resistance, and who is a full-time climate organizer with <a href=\"https:\/\/greenfaith.org\/\">Greenfaith<\/a>. Even congregational singing in houses of worship is <a href=\"https:\/\/research.lifeway.com\/2016\/12\/30\/finding-our-voice-why-the-decline-of-congregational-singing-matters-and-how-to-fix-it\/\">on the decline<\/a>. And, she continues, \u201csinging has become so professionalized,\u201d with reality talent competitions such as FOX\u2019s \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d warping mass perception of the very act of singing into something one should only do if they excel at it \u2013 or be mocked for if they don\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lynskey offers another theory: The encroachment of American individualism into the music itself. Consider songs like \u201cWe Shall Overcome\u201d and \u201cGive Peace a Chance,\u201d once popular at protests. And, \u201cnote the use of \u2018we:\u2019 \u2018We shall overcome, \u2018All we are saying is give peace a chance.\u2019\u201d It\u2019s not a spirit seen in modern pop music, he adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 1990s also saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalacademies.org\/read\/6166\/chapter\/7\">deep cuts<\/a> in music programs at U.S. public schools. And more recently, the Covid pandemic did its own damage, turning group singing into dangerous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world-nation\/story\/2020-03-29\/coronavirus-choir-outbreak\">super-spreader events<\/a>, for a time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So while communal, crowd-involved singing moments still happen at concerts, and organizations like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/gaiamusiccollective\/?hl=en\">Gaia Music Collective<\/a> have been bringing accessible choral experiences to an increasing number of cities over the past few years, the practice is simply no longer an organic, expected part of American culture \u2013 or American protests. \u201cWe\u2019re not going to religious spaces anymore; we\u2019re not singing in schools; there aren\u2019t community spaces for singing,\u201d MacMillan summarizes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But once all eyes were drawn to Minnesota earlier this year, people were opened up once more to the ways in which music can be used in organizing \u2013 and the ways in which it can be woven into protests with intention.&nbsp;And women organizers and song leaders \u2013 like the members of the Resistance Revival Chorus, Singing Resistance and Beheld, those who kept the practice alive and waiting \u2013 have now been hopping on this current spike in interest to effectively guide folks back en masse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it\u2019s not just about making everyone feel good, these experts add. As ArinMaya notes, group singing \u201cdoesn\u2019t happen in a vacuum. It has to be connected to action.\u201d MacMillan points, for example, to the ways in which Minnesota organizers used group singing as a cry for ICE agents to defect, through songs like &#8220;It\u2019s Okay to Change Your Mind&#8221; by Minneapolis song leader Annie Schlaefer. (The tactic is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DUYlkQ0iTMC\/\">inspired<\/a> by the Serbian \u201cOtpor!\u201d movement of the 1990s to oust dictator Slobodan Milo\u0161evi\u0107 \u2013 by, in part, encouraging members of his regime to step away.)<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"block_4cc7182a4b65f3d686867a3ef6a2310d\" class=\"wp-block related-post alignwide\">\n      <div class=\"wrap\">\n    <div class=\"section-title\">\n      <h4>Related<\/h4>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"post-wrap\">\n              <div class=\"thumbnail\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/k-pop-demon-hunters-the-kids-movie-adults-need\/\" class=\"post-image-link\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/K-Pop-Demon-Hunters-Womens-Voices-Womens-Creativity-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"K-Pop Demon Hunters Womens Voices Womens Creativity\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/K-Pop-Demon-Hunters-Womens-Voices-Womens-Creativity-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/K-Pop-Demon-Hunters-Womens-Voices-Womens-Creativity-1-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\n          <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"entry-text\">\n          <h3 class=\"post-title\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/k-pop-demon-hunters-the-kids-movie-adults-need\/\">\n              \u2018K-Pop Demon Hunters\u2019 \u2013 The Kids\u2019 Movie Adults Need\n            <\/a>\n          <\/h3>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n<p>These organizations also do work beyond song-leading. Through their online channels, they share news updates and other critical pieces of information, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DVO7WjvjASp\/?igsh=YjI2dWg2cXR1Mzl1\">partner with like-minded groups<\/a> to further the social-justice work. And, Carlile\u2019s concert wasn\u2019t just about \u201cvibes\u201d \u2013 it raised <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2026\/feb\/23\/brandi-carlile-benefit-concert-minneapolis-ice\">over $600,000<\/a> for families affected by ICE activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The movement has grown legs. In Lower Manhattan\u2019s Foley Square, next to the building where ICE detainees are taken, several hundred people gathered at the end of February as part of a nationwide day of musical action organized by Singing Resistance. There were dozens of such rallies around the U.S. \u2013 in all, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DVeZFJxEgjj\/?igsh=dXQ5bnlmdHc5cGN0\">over 90 gatherings<\/a> were hosted, and over $100,00 was raised by attendees to aid immigrants directly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, organizers add, over 230 Singing Resistance groups have now been formed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Standing and singing in solidarity with the Lower Manhattan assembly was Brad Lander, former New York City comptroller and current Congressional candidate. He was drawn to attend the event, and to lead the crowd in singing African-American spiritual and anti-war song &#8220;Down By the Riverside,&#8221; after watching protesters in Minneapolis sing \u201cIt\u2019s Okay to Change Your Mind\u201d outside of ICE agents\u2019 hotels.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey found this way of showing how furious they are at the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti \u2026 and also found this beautiful song\u201d for expressing that rage, he said. \u201cPeople are steadfast \u2013 but soulfully so. And that comes out in the songs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-here-comes-the-dawn\"><strong>\u2018Here Comes the Dawn\u2019<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"836\" src=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Singing-Resistance-NYC-March-1024x836.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82834\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Singing-Resistance-NYC-March-1024x836.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Singing-Resistance-NYC-March-525x429.jpg 525w, https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Singing-Resistance-NYC-March-768x627.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Singing-Resistance-NYC-March-150x123.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Singing-Resistance-NYC-March-73x60.jpg 73w, https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Singing-Resistance-NYC-March-220x180.jpg 220w, https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Singing-Resistance-NYC-March.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hundreds gathered to sing together in protest of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement violence as part of a national Singing Resistance call to action. (Credit: Candice Helfand-Rogers)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>As part of its ongoing efforts, Singing Resistance has shared a <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.proton.me\/doc?mode=open-url&amp;token=BQK5QTR4CC#DGpUXiohUAE4\">toolkit<\/a> for organizers throughout the country, including a full songbook with tunes like \u201cHold On\u201d \u2013 the song that created the ripple effect seen at that first packed event in New York City\u2019s Middle Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The song&#8217;s simple-yet-fervent melody and slower tempo make it more of a prayer than a rallying cry \u2013 and movements need that spirit, too, says Melinda St. Louis of Beheld. \u201cSomething I&#8217;ve been loving about what is happening in this moment, what is happening in Minneapolis, and what is happening in uprisings all over the country is, it&#8217;s not just all f&#8212;ing wanting to punch something all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere&#8217;s something to group singing that [reminds us] not everything has to be a fist in the air,\u201d she continues. \u201cSometimes it is the embrace. It&#8217;s the wiping of a tear. It is just a human touch.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, she and several other sources noted, this too is often women&#8217;s work: Caring when it&#8217;s difficult, loving with bruised hearts, pouring from drained cups. Showing up unsteady, yet ready.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gathering the scared and the tired and transforming that exhausted assembly into a robust choir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet there is joy derived on both sides of that effort, \u201cHold On\u201d composer Wilson says. Joy, and restoration, and hope for something better on the horizon. \u201cIn this moment, collective singing offers us a chance to stand up against rising authoritarianism and violence in a way that is also simultaneously creating the world that we want to inhabit \u2013 one rooted in love.\u201d &#x25fc;&#xfe0f;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-element-ccf0c3a3\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Hold On&quot;\" width=\"422\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qZ4XO8p8P88?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>(Credit: Candice Helfand-Rogers \/ @curiouscatbird)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div id=\"block_502839ec0e7c487010b5ff4079af5030\" class=\"wp-block related-post alignwide\">\n      <div class=\"wrap\">\n    <div class=\"section-title\">\n      <h4>Related<\/h4>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"post-wrap\">\n              <div class=\"thumbnail\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/13-songs-by-women-artists-to-light-your-social-justice-fires\/\" class=\"post-image-link\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/24535126218_5391f17b5a_c-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"H.E.R. social justice protest songs women artists\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/24535126218_5391f17b5a_c-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/24535126218_5391f17b5a_c-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/24535126218_5391f17b5a_c-84x84.jpg 84w, https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/24535126218_5391f17b5a_c-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\n          <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"entry-text\">\n          <h3 class=\"post-title\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/13-songs-by-women-artists-to-light-your-social-justice-fires\/\">\n              13 Protest Songs by Women Artists to Light Your Social Justice Fires\n            <\/a>\n          <\/h3>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protests against the Trump administration have been increasingly scored by voices joined in song. 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