South by Southwest has discontinued its partnerships with the US Army and defense contractor Rtx Corporation for the 2025 festival in response to concerns from numerous artists who withdrew from the 2024 event.
“After careful consideration of our offerings, we are revising our sponsorship model,” the Austin-based festival announced in a statement this week (via The Daily Dot). “As a result, the US Army, and companies who engage in weapons manufacturing, will not be sponsors of SXSW 2025.” Along with the US Army, SXSW has ceased its partnership with Collins Aerospace, a subsidiary of weapons manufacturer Rtx Corporation (formerly known as Raytheon).
In response to Israel’s invasion of Gaza, over 80 artists withdrew from the 2024 SXSW lineup, protesting the festival’s sponsorship ties with the US Army and Collins Aerospace. SXSW initially depended the relationships, saying in a statement that, “The defense industry has historically been a proving ground for many of the systems we rely on today.
“After careful consideration of our offerings, we are revising our sponsorship model,” the Austin-based festival announced in a statement this week (via The Daily Dot). “As a result, the US Army, and companies who engage in weapons manufacturing, will not be sponsors of SXSW 2025.” Along with the US Army, SXSW has ceased its partnership with Collins Aerospace, a subsidiary of weapons manufacturer Rtx Corporation (formerly known as Raytheon).
In response to Israel’s invasion of Gaza, over 80 artists withdrew from the 2024 SXSW lineup, protesting the festival’s sponsorship ties with the US Army and Collins Aerospace. SXSW initially depended the relationships, saying in a statement that, “The defense industry has historically been a proving ground for many of the systems we rely on today.
- 6/26/2024
- by Scoop Harrison
- Consequence - Music
The National Security Agency has given Tucker Carlson a lesson in spycraft and fake news. One which looks certain to crank up the volume in the now war of words, real and imagined.
In a rare social media rebuke, the agency shot down the Fox News Channel host’s recent self-described “shocking claim” that he and his primetime show were caught in an intelligence web.
A statement from Nsa regarding recent allegations: pic.twitter.com/vduE6l6YWg
— Nsa/Css (@NSAGov) June 30, 2021
Just now Carlson on-air called the Nsa’s comments “an infuriating dishonest formal statement.” He went on to call it, “a entire paragraph of lies written purely for the benefit of the intel community’s lackeys at CNN and MSNBC.” Carlson then bloviated “the Nsa has read my private emails without my permission, period. That’s what we said. Today’s statement from the Nsa does not deny that.
In a rare social media rebuke, the agency shot down the Fox News Channel host’s recent self-described “shocking claim” that he and his primetime show were caught in an intelligence web.
A statement from Nsa regarding recent allegations: pic.twitter.com/vduE6l6YWg
— Nsa/Css (@NSAGov) June 30, 2021
Just now Carlson on-air called the Nsa’s comments “an infuriating dishonest formal statement.” He went on to call it, “a entire paragraph of lies written purely for the benefit of the intel community’s lackeys at CNN and MSNBC.” Carlson then bloviated “the Nsa has read my private emails without my permission, period. That’s what we said. Today’s statement from the Nsa does not deny that.
- 6/30/2021
- by Dominic Patten and Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
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