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New seeds of protest
BEN LUNN reports from a new music festival in New York, and singles out a breathtaking composition that protests directly against femicide in Mexico
A memorial against femicide Mexico, in front of the Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico, 9 November 2020 [Nanahuatl/CC]

 

STAYING in New York in the midst of a heatwave, where the smell of tarmac and weed shaped the air, isn’t necessarily my ideal set-up for a conference and music festival; but fate had other ideas. 

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