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Boycott Of Superstruct Entertainment Festivals
In 2025, a boycott campaign started against music festivals promoted by Superstruct Entertainment, owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, KKR private equity conglomerate since 2024. The campaign is motivated by KKR economic interests in Israeli settlements and other stakes in Israel economy that campaigners characterize as complicity in the Gaza genocide. Several artists canceled their performances at festivals such as Field Day (festival), Field Day in the United Kingdom or Sónar in Spain. The boycott in Spain has received support from the Ministry of Culture (Spain), Ministry of Culture and the left political parties Sumar (electoral platform), Sumar, United Left (Spain), United Left, Podemos (Spanish political party), Podemos and Republican Left of Catalonia. Background Since 2017, Superstruct Entertainment has built up a large portfolio of music festivals, with more than 80 events worldwide, and a particularly strong presence in Europe. In June 2024, the Kohlberg Kravis Roberts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boycott
A boycott is an act of nonviolent resistance, nonviolent, voluntary abstention from a product, person, organisation, or country as an expression of protest. It is usually for Morality, moral, society, social, politics, political, or Environmentalism, environmental reasons. The purpose of a boycott is to inflict some economic loss on the target, or to indicate a moral outrage, usually to try to compel the target to alter an objectionable behavior. The word is named after Captain Charles Boycott, agent of an absentee landlord in Ireland, against whom the tactic was successfully employed after a suggestion by Irish nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell and his Irish Land League in 1880. Sometimes, a boycott can be a form of consumer activism, sometimes called moral purchasing. When a similar practice is legislated by a national government, it is known as a Economic sanctions, sanction. Frequently, however, the threat of boycotting a business is an empty threat, with no signifi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
