Following the Supreme Court docket’s determination to overturn Roe v. Wade, Lifeless & Firm shared pro-choice messages onscreen throughout a live performance at Jiffy Lube Reside in Bristow, Virginia final evening (July 8). Whereas performing “Throwing Stones” from Grateful Lifeless’s Within the Darkish, the band projected photographs of abortion and reproductive rights protestors and later flashed textual content on the display screen that learn, “Save our rights.” Watch a clip capturing that second under.
Lifeless & Firm are at the moment within the midst of their 2022 summer time tour. The jam band—that includes members of the Grateful Lifeless and John Mayer—have simply 4 exhibits left on the docket for this run. It marks Lifeless & Firm’s seventh tour because the band shaped again in 2015.
Bob Weir and his bandmates are the newest artists to talk out onstage after the overturn of Roe v. Wade, following artists like Olivia Rodrigo and Phoebe Bridgers. Final month, Rage Towards the Machine donated practically half one million {dollars} from ticket gross sales to reproductive rights organizations in Wisconsin and Illinois. Equally, Lizzo pledged to donate $500,000 of proceeds from her upcoming Particular tour to Deliberate Parenthood and abortion rights organizations, with Reside Nation matching her donation. Julien Baker, Faye Webster, Parannoul, Wednesday, and dozens of different artists appeared on Via the Soil II, an abortion funds profit compilation, as effectively.
Learn Pitchfork’s information “Assets to Defend Reproductive Rights After the Overturn of Roe v. Wade” and revisit “How Deadheads and Directioners Made the Web What It Is Right this moment” on the Pitch.
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