All Irish bands scheduled to play South By Southwest (SXSW) in Texas have pulled out in protest of the US Military’s sponsorship and involvement in the Israel-Gaza conflict.
All Irish bands scheduled to play South By Southwest ( SXSW ) in Texas have pulled out in protest of the US Military’s sponsorship and involvement in the Israel-Gaza conflict. In solidarity with the people of Palestine , all artists funded by the Irish government to play SXSW in Texas have cancelled their appearances, citing the US military’s ‘super sponsor’ status of the festival, and its inextricable links to weapons companies enabling genocide.
“We cannot in good conscience attend an arts festival that has ‘The US Army’ as a ‘Super Sponsor’ and is platforming RXT (formerly Raytheon), Collins Aerospace, and BAE Systems, the very companies selling the weapons that have murdered 31,000 Palestinians, over 21,000 of them women and children,” Kneecap, the first of the Irish artists to boycott the festival, wrote in a statement on Monday. “These organisations are literally profiting from and facilitating war crime
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