THE STROKES TO PLAY CONCERT ON MAY 30 TO SUPPORT CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE KINA COLLINS

 The Strokes, the internationally renowned Grammy Award winning rock band, announced earlier today that they will be hosting a concert fundraiser and rally on May 30, 2022 at the Metro in Chicago to support Kina Collins, gun violence prevention advocate and Democratic candidate for Congress in IL-07. Tickets for the performance will go on sale tomorrow, May 20th, at 10AM CST here

This rare and intimate concert event will be the band’s first time returning to the Metro in 20 years. It is all happening for one reason: The Strokes are ready to elect Kina Collins to Congress!

“Kina Collins has lived the challenges on the ground in IL-7 and she’s exactly the kind of non-corporate, good-hearted, progressive-minded leader the world needs in these corrupt times,” said Julian Casablancas, lead singer and songwriter of The Strokes. “In a system dominated by super-pacs and profit-fueled political machines, Kina is rejecting all that, and choosing to fight for people’s actual needs and desires.”

“We are so excited to have The Strokes coming to Chicago to help our campaign reach a new level of momentum in the final stretch before election day on June 28th,” said Kina Collins. “Julian and I sat down recently, and he talked all about his passion for electing progressive working class leaders and transforming our Government. The Strokes are a huge band for so many voters in IL-7 and the Chicago area, and I really can’t wait to rally our supporters together and register some new voters.”

With just over a month until the June 28th primary, Kina’s campaign continues to build incredible momentum towards election day. The campaign has already knocked over 14,000 doors, made over 120,000 phone calls and earned the support of Sunrise Movement, multiple local Sunrise hubs, Northside Democracy For America, Indivisible National, several local Indivisible hubs, Elect Black Women PAC, Justice Democrats, National Organization for Women, and many more leading progressive groups from across the district and country.

A child of two union workers who grew up on the West Side of Chicago in Austin, Kina Collins  has dedicated her life to making change in her community since long before she was ever on the ballot. After witnessing a child murdered in front of her home, Kina went on to organize around gun violence prevention, lead the largest gun violence prevention nonprofit in the state of Illinois, and sit on the Biden-Harris transition team’s task force on gun violence. From leading the fight for gun safety, to fighting for accountability after the murder of LaQuan MacDonald, to organizing at a national level for health care, Kina has spent her life at the center of the most urgent fights facing her community. After watching working class communities like hers devastated by the pandemic and recession, Kina is running for Congress to deliver the bold, urgent leadership the current crisis demands.

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