Once again, the PBS News Hour crouched under a benign “Arts” segment to hide a piece of unvarnished left-wing political advocacy, this time from Minneapolis/St. Paul. From Friday's edition:Co-anchor Amna Nawaz: Larger theater companies, music venues, and museums typically get more attention, but across the country, it is smaller arts organizations that are often closest to and addressing the needs of their local communities. Facing tougher economic pressures today, though, many are struggling to do that. Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown traveled to the Twin Cities for our series Art in Action, exploring the intersection of art and democracy, part of our Canvas coverage.Reporter Jeffrey Brown: For many, coming together has never felt so urgent, so necessary here in the Twin Cities. Waves of trauma from the murder of George Floyd to the COVID-19 pandemic to the recent ICE surge that left Renee Good and Alex Pretti dead have rocked the region over the last six years. Small community groups like TaikoArts Midwest have been on the front lines....After talking to “taiko drum” practitioner Jennifer Weir, Brown found an even more activist group, Mixed Blood Theatre, an anti-ICE brigade cosplaying as an acting troupe, and he basically mimicked founder Mark Valdez in their “interview.”Brown: Another local arts group, Mixed Blood Theatre, in neighboring Minneapolis, has also been in the thick of it. A group of writers was recently commissioned to chronicle events during the ICE surge in a series of monologues.Brown: The performance also raised money for the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota.(The ILCM’s website has a full section on avoiding ICE custody.)PBS reporter Jeffrey Brown with Mark Valdez, artistic director of Mixed Blood. Valdez: We are foremost a social justice organization, secondarily a theater company.....We use the tools of creativity of artmaking to disrupt injustice, to build community, to advance racial equity." pic.twitter.com/0XMBcxtZWp— Clay Waters