Rev. Jeff Doucette is a firm believer in the power of music as a form of resistance. The minister at Enniskillen Tyrone United, a rural church on the outskirts of Bowmanville, Ont., decided to host an evening of singing songs in solidarity with Minneapolis on Feb. 19. This comes after the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and amid the Trump administration’s widespread crackdown on immigrants.

Doucette says he was inspired by the many videos of people gathered in churches and out on the streets in Minneapolis using song as a form of protest and wanted to bring that movement to his........

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