From SXSW to Ticketmaster to Spotify: Musicians organize against industry corporate overlords
What's happening at SXSW—caused by the festival's inability to stay away from collaborating with genocidal war profiteers—is just one example of many major issues plaguing the music industry and its workers today.
Over the past few months, we've lost critical funding because we stand in solidarity with the most oppressed. We told the truth. And that makes some people uncomfortable. But we didn't build Scalawag for comfort. We built it for liberation.
Southern politics
The FIFA World Cup and U.S. Southern Host Cities
World Cup events, fan venues, and open spaces, watch-parties, and team games are not the place for Border Patrol or any draconian measures that deteriorate from the spirit of the World Cup and the societal connection it renders.
Arts & Soul
Commentaries on Protection and Safeness
On September 7, 2022, the Central Intelligence Agency published quite the article: Honoring Harriet Tubman: A Symbol of Freedom and an Intelligence Pioneer. How strange.
Race & Place
May Day: Exporting the Southern Plantocracy
The history of labor organizing in the South is distinct from other regions in the U.S. because of the history of antiBlackness which informs anti-worker, anti-union sentiments.
Essays & Letters
Surviving Fascism: Lessons from Jim Crow
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