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Imagine emigrating with your partner from Chile to Boston, only to witness fascist horrors unfolding in the U.S. similar to those implemented by Augusto Pinochet, the dictator who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990. In the latest installment of The Bad Penny’s ongoing series On Tyranny, we talk with the impossibly kind and commendably upbeat Juls Garat and Claudio Marcio of post-punk band Pilgrims (formerly Pilgrims of Yearning) about why they’re unsure touring the States would be safe for them, their new album Gemini (due Feb. 13) and getting a thumbs-up from Robert Smith of The Cure.

Visit Pilgrims’ Bandcamp page for more information on the band.

For even more on the resistance against fascism, go to The Bad Penny‘s On Tyranny archive. And don’t miss these recent installments of the series:

• Anarchist Art Collective INDECLINE’s List of Essential Reads

• Musician Joe Turmes, No Kings Organizer, Says What You Can Do to Help Resist Fascism

• Thalia Zedek Suggests ‘Artists Should Boycott Playing the United States’

• Too Much Joy Discuss the Existential Ruin That MAGA Has Inflicted Upon Us

• Locust’s Bobby Bray Says Bands Have ‘Responsibility’ to Tour Red States, Recalls Yeah Yeah Yeahs Solidarity

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