10/14/2026
🗞️ HCJF IN THE PRESS 🗞️
Our Executive Director Gary Rhoades reflects on the connection between music, musicians, and movement work in a new article published by . He writes:
"Music cannot, by itself, desegregate a school, end a war, ward off a data center, or shut down a detention camp. We also have to be vigilant that the sensation of being inspired through music doesn’t substitute for the harder work of change. Yet music can turn sympathy or empathy into solidarity, isolation into community and, sometimes, an audience into a movement...
"We call the musicians because they lend a cause their voices, and sometimes the risks they take to do so also inspire. Sometimes the cause returns those voices enlarged—more audacious, more independent, more enduring. From Dr. King to No Kings and then to Power to the People, the call keeps going out. And sixty-three years after our namesake March, the Heartland Center for Jobs and Freedom is calling. At Justice Amplified, the musicians will help people find one another and a reason to keep going."
Extra big shout out to Midwest Music Foundation , Danielle Ate the Sandwich , Teazers KCMO , and .soundoftheleaves for continuing this tradition of musicians and social good!
Read the article here: https://www.thepitchkc.com/justice-amplified-calls-musicians-to-continue-the-legacy-of-protest-concerts-as-advocacy/
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