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It’ll be led by Rage Against the MAchine and Conor Oberst and held Friday, July 23, at the Hollywood Palladium, Stephen Lemons reports:

Rage Against the Machine and Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band will headline the fundraiser, which Sound Strike is anticipating will raise more than $300,000 for such organizations as Phoenix civil rights leader Salvador Reza’s Puente Movement, and the Florence Project, a non-profit organization that provides free legal services to immigrants detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The concert is part of a week of activism heading toward July 29, the day SB 1070, Arizona’s new breathing-while-brown law, is scheduled to go into effect. The press release notes that this is [Rage’s] “first concert in their hometown of Los Angeles in 10 years.”