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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.
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.
The True Revolutionary Meaning of Cinco de Mayo
Our colonizers and oppressors know what they do and have designed their corporations and market consumerism to reap super profits from Cinco de Mayo festivities in furtherance of the erasure of our true historical memory—through lies, myths, stereotypes, and revisionist history.
A Tribute to the Workers of the World
There can be no true freedom for the workers of the world under economic systems that exploit their labor and condition their mental processes by a series of spider webs that enslave labor for capitalist accumulation.
Texas Runs on Prison Slave Labor
As I write this, I sit in a Texas prison cell at Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) Ferguson Unit. I am currently under disciplinary sanction because I have peacefully withheld my labor power.
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.