Artists Speak Out
The film explores the rise of hate groups like The Federation for American Immigration Reform “FAIR” and how organizations such as the Southern Law Poverty Center are tracking their growth and influence on Arizona’s political landscape. The film seeks to remind the audience that the immigration industrial complex has had an important role in the creation of laws like SB1070 not only in Arizona but also throughout the country.
“this climate of hate has to change and this is just one instrument. What everyone has to recognize here as well is that this is one tactic in a medley of tactics that we are using to change the climate, the political climate in the state of Arizona and it is one that we are asking people all around the world, not just in Arizona and not just in the united states, but all over the world to help us with”
The Sound Strike is a coalition of Artists that have committed to supporting the International Boycott of Arizona in the wake of the passage of SB 1070. The film includes interviews with Zack De La Rocha, Conor Oberst, Rodrigo and Gabriela and Gogol Bordello’s Eugene Hutz, members of the Sound Strike.
The film explores the rise of hate groups like “FAIR” and how organizations such as the Southern Poverty law center are tracking their growth and influence on Arizona’s political landscape. The film seeks to remind the audience that the immigration industrial complex has had an important role in the creation of laws like SB1070 not only in Arizona but also throughout the country.
Co-produced by Producciones Cimarrón and Big Noise Films
-Alfredo Guitierrez, Somos America
“These [laws like SB 1070] are ‘field tests’ for FAIR [Federation for American Immigration Reform]…to stoke the anti-immigrant fires as much as possible”
-Heidi Beirich, Southern Law Poverty Center
“It is sad, it is unjust and [What is happening in Arizona] is something that should not be happening to no one, to no human being.”
-Gabriela, of Rodrigo y Gabriela
“As a band we consist of all immigrants and we know each other’s stories really well…we can’’t really be down with any fear creating laws…we have many songs about brutality of immigrational process…these issues are not new they have always been there.”
-Eugene Hütz, Gogol Bordello
“It is a global issue, and us as musicians have to make people aware of what is happening and through that channel change a little bit of their mentality”
-Rodrigo, of Rodrigo y Gabriela
“I have played a lot of shows in Arizona and I have fans there and I hope they don’t feel we are trying to punish them because that is not what it is about…If the choices are some kind of action, even if it is somewhat imperfect, or no action at all you know we have to chose some kind of action”
-Conor Oberst
“We have to become this kind of cultural interruption that says enough is enough, this signal, this flag that’s waved internationally saying that enough is enough.”
-Zack de la Rocha
Co-produced by Producciones Cimarrón and Big Noise Films
