• Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Here’s what they cancelled him for:

    for piano

    duration: 5’00"

    2024

    for Jayson Gillham

    dedicated to the journalists of Gaza

    I acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation, Traditional Custodians of the lands where I live, work, and create – lands on which First Nations communities have been creating and sharing music, art and culture for thousands of generations. I pay my respects to their Elders past and present, and I recognise the vital ongoing contributions First Nations communities continue to make on our music and arts scenes. This always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.

    I also acknowledge all Indigenous Peoples worldwide, their continued fight for freedom from settler-colonialism and occupation, and recognise the interconnectedness of these, all struggles for justice and work towards a world free from oppression for all everyone.

    He didn’t even dedicate it to journalists killed, just journalists. The headline is bullshit.

    He never mentioned Israel.

    EDIT: It just occurred to me that he wasn’t canceled for dedicating it to the journalists of Gaza. He was cancelled for calling Aboriginal people victims of settler-colonialism in Australia, which is objectively true…