![]() He didn't say, "I'm joining BDS," but he did say, "Palestinians should have human rights too." And that's amazing, because there's not many of us in this industry that are prepared to even go that far. You know what I was so happy about today? John Legend, finally in an interview with someone, came out. Either you believe in that and that's the foundation of where you stand, or you don't. If I wrote it on a postcard and stood on it, I would say this is my platform: Do you or do you not subscribe to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights from Paris in 1948? Interestingly enough, that's the same year as the Nakba and the same year as the settler colonial Zionist movement started in Palestine.īecause if you do, the question is entirely black and white. They don't want us to focus on that, which is what I focus on. When somebody criticizes the Israeli government, if they call them an anti-Semite loudly enough and long enough, it may just divert people from paying attention to the fact that that person you're calling an anti-Semite is almost certainly an advocate of basic human rights for all our brothers and sisters all over the world irrespective of their religion, or color, or nationality, or anything else. RW: I've been actively involved in BDS for about 15 years now, and it's occurring to more and more and more people as the years go by that the attacks on me and others that support basic human rights for the people of Palestine are increasingly viewed through exactly what you just described, a smoke screen. ĪC: T here's all this smoke and fire about your support for the BDS, the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement. They're only interested in other things, like ruling the world or. The world is divided into people who actually are interested in, I dunno, the planet, human rights, love, daylight, sunshine, butterflies – all that shit – and people who don't give a fuck about any of it. I think we make baby steps forward and then some asshole makes huge steps backward, and you have to start crawling forward again. Roger Waters: Just trying to save the world, man. ![]() In fact, line by line, word by word, expletive by expletive, THIS is every song Waters ever wrote: "Money," "Welcome to the Machine," "Another Brick in the Wall." Every emphasis equals an accent note on the recording – not one of its 72 minutes shrill or hysterical.Ĭue it up, then, and to paraphrase another standard our subject wrote, set the controls for the heart of the sun, 2020.Īustin Chronicle: What's on your mind these days, sir? So, no soundtrack here, save for a mention of Meddle and its side-long "Echoes." And The Wall.Īnd all right, every single album he conceived and composed after The Dark Side of the Moon. 19 in London on the occasion of a keynote appearance at the subsequently canceled SXSW, Roger Waters should analyze global news on prime time. Every word, 7,900 or so, concerns politics. Pink Floyd fanatics be warned: This document contains NO music.
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