Some Public Figures Now Regret Signing Harper’s Open Letter Against ‘Cancel Culture’

Green Day, Mick Jagger, Lorde, Blondie and REM have all signed an open letter to prevent the unauthorised use of their music at political rallies.Jagger, who has previously denounced Donald Trump for playing The Rolling Stones at his rallies, joined forces with the extensive list of artists and the Artists Rights Alliance (ARA) ahead of the US elections.In an open letter penned by the ARA, they demand that the major US national political party committees “establish clear policies requiring

coronavirus pandemic.The 350-capacity venue is set to launch with a series of socially-distanced and digitally-streamed shows, ahead of welcoming audiences at full capacity once government guidelines allow – provisionally planned for early 2021.The first show will come from Birkenhead’s very own She Drew The Gun, who will play to a socially distanced crowd on Saturday, September 19.“We believe that Future Yard is needed now, more than ever before,” said Future Yard founder Craig

Stars of rock, pop and hip-hop have had enough of hearing their songs pumped at political rallies without the green light. So they’re standing up for their rights.

Glee star Naya Rivera’s younger sister Nickayla Rivera has shared a very emotional tribute to her the late actress.The star, who had played Santana Lopez on the hit show, was found dead this month after she went missing during a boat trip with her four-year-old son Josey in Lake Piru, California. Heartbroken Nickayla shared a sweet snap of herself kissing her sister on the cheek to Instagram, and beneath it penned an open letter to Naya.

in response to a letter earlier this week from 280-plus staffers of the paper and parent company Dow Jones that criticized the opinion section and called for better labeling of opinion pieces and stronger fact-checking of op-eds.“It was probably inevitable that the wave of progressive cancel culture would arrive at the Journal, as it has at nearly every other cultural, business, academic and journalistic institution.

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T.I. has written an open letter to Lloyds of London, calling out its role in the transatlantic slave trade.Back in June, the organisation acknowledged its previous ties to the slave trade.

T.I. is placing Lloyd's of London "on notice."

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorOn July 9, the same day that Live Nation Entertainment was sued by a furloughed executive claiming race and gender discrimination, the company’s CEO Michael Rapino posted an open letter to employees across the world promising greater diversity in the years to come, along with a $10 million investment to “focus on developing, promoting and hiring Black and underrepresented talent.”With 2025 as a target date, the document pledges to double the overall percentage of

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorOn July 9, the same day that Live Nation Entertainment was sued by a furloughed executive claiming race and gender discrimination, the company’s CEO Michael Rapino posted an open letter to employees across the world promising greater diversity in the years to come, along with a $10 million investment to “focus on developing, promoting and hiring Black and underrepresented talent.”With 2025 as a target date, the document pledges to double the overall percentage of

Dua Lipa, Charli XCX and Elton John are among the stars who have signed an open letter to the government calling for a ban on “conversion therapy”.The practice is used with the aim of “changing an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity, per The Trevor Project’s definition.“Conversion therapists use a variety of shaming, emotionally traumatic or physically painful stimuli to make their victims associate those stimuli with their LGBTQ identities,” the organisation says.

Neil Young has penned a letter to President Trump and updated the lyrics to one of his famous songs just days after rebuffing the president's use of his music at a July Fourth event on the footsteps of Mount Rushmore in South Dakota.

Harpers calling for the end of cancel culture.The letter warns against the development of “censoriousness” and “an intolerance of opposing views”.Rowling, who has recently spoken of her views on transgender rights and has sparked a controversial discussion, said on Twitter that she was “proud to sign this letter in defence of a foundational principle of a liberal society: open debate and freedom of thought and speech.”The letter acknowledges “powerful protests for racial and social justice”, but

Dozens of artists, writers and academics have signed an open letter decrying the weakening of public debate and warning that the free exchange of information and ideas is in jeopardy amid a rise in what they call “illiberalism.”

published in Harpers Bazar reads: ‘The free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted.’‘It is now all too common to hear calls for swift and severe retribution in response to perceived transgressions of speech and thought.’ The letter also makes clear that its signatories would welcome ‘robust and even caustic counter speech from all quarters.’‘The way to defeat bad ideas is by exposure, argument, and persuasion, not by trying to

Naman Ramachandran “Harry Potter” writer J.K Rowling, “Handmaid’s Tale” author Margaret Atwood and “Midnight’s Children” writer Salman Rushdie are amongst 150 public figures to have signed a letter condemning the practice of ‘public shaming,’ or cancel culture as it is known popularly.Cancel culture is a term used to describe individuals who have shared an unpopular opinion or have past behavior that’s deemed offensive, who are ‘canceled’ on social media.

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