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Macklemore announces Free Palestine Tour

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Macklemore announced he will launch the Free Palestine Tour this fall after being removed from Ed Sheeran’s tour this month over his pro-Palestinian performance .

The “Thrift Shop” rapper took to Instagram on Monday and jokingly said that his “schedule freed up a bit,” announcing three performance dates in Dublin, London and Paris next month.

“What happened to me is bigger than one artist or one stage,” he wrote. “When the billionaire class can decide which voices are allowed on stage and which ones are too dangerous to hear, everyone should be paying attention.”

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DSA candidate Angie Nixon says "this is not about three letters"

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Trump administration to ask supreme court to allow third-country deportation policy

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Dee Brock, original director of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, dies at age 96

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Was Hitler behind niece's death? Documents raise questions about alibi

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