From SXSW to Ticketmaster to Spotify: Musicians organize against industry corporate overlords

Since 2020, United Musicians and Allied Workers (UMAW) and its allies have made notable strides for working-class musicians. Now, their sights are set on even bigger gains for the working class.

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. 

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