Stop the promotion of hate-speech in the music community

Stop the promotion of hate-speech in the music community

The Issue

Pitchfork.com , organizers of the annual Pitchfork Festival in Union Park, continue to lend financial and social support to the popular music ensemble Deafheaven. A founding and still-performing member of this group has a documented history of using violent, homophobic slurs since at least 2010. Festival-goers, and businesses who rely on the Pitchfork Festival as an annual revenue boost and marketing hub, demand that the site cease their continued support of this band, until such time as meaningful reparations are enforced, and a substantial effort to promote healing and tolerance in our communities is undertaken.

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The Issue

Pitchfork.com , organizers of the annual Pitchfork Festival in Union Park, continue to lend financial and social support to the popular music ensemble Deafheaven. A founding and still-performing member of this group has a documented history of using violent, homophobic slurs since at least 2010. Festival-goers, and businesses who rely on the Pitchfork Festival as an annual revenue boost and marketing hub, demand that the site cease their continued support of this band, until such time as meaningful reparations are enforced, and a substantial effort to promote healing and tolerance in our communities is undertaken.

The Decision Makers

U.S. House of Representatives
2 Members
Mike Quigley
U.S. House of Representatives - Illinois 5th Congressional District
Danny Davis
U.S. House of Representatives - Illinois 7th Congressional District
Luis V. Gutierrez
Former US House of Representatives - Illinois-4

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Petition created on September 22, 2015