Solidarity & KYR by Material Support

One of Material Support’s main goals is providing aid to people on the ground fighting to make a better world. In this spirit, we in the band would like to call attention to our comrades mobilizing in Charlottesville, Virginia to protest and disrupt the “Unite the Right” gathering occurring this Saturday, 8/12/17. There will be violence at this event. Regardless whether a single rock is thrown, or shot fired, violence is being perpetrated when white racial supremacy is normalized. Fighting in the street against those advocating the economic, cultural, and literal genocide of entire groups of people based on the pigment of skin is not misguided violence, it is self-defense. We stand in firm solidarity with our Antifa comrades and others in Charlottesville and support their use of a diversity of tactics to remind all fascists that they are bound to lose.

Seeing as we are going down the Charlottesville ourselves, but not until two weeks later, we would like to support how we can from abroad. We will be releasing another song, “Know Your Rights,” and make it available for download with our other materials. All monies raised on our Bandcamp page from today (8/10/17) until we play our show in Charlottesville (8/27/17) will be collected and given to local bail funds or activist groups mounting defenses against the Unite the Right event. If you don’t trust us to give money to community organizations then please contribute directly to those that we will most likely direct our fundraising to:

Solidarity Cville Anti-Racist Legal Fund: https://fundly.com/solidarity-c-ville-7-8-anti-racist-legal-fund

From Palestine to the Philippines, STOP THE U.S. WAR MACHINE!