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Coachella Owner Donates to LGBT Hate Groups, Denies Climate Change

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This week, the 2017 Coachella line-up was released to a typical flurry of excitement. Along with headliners Kendrick Lamar and Radiohead, the big news was that the popular Indio, California festival was finally able to nab Beyoncé for an official spot—as the first woman headliner in ten years.

Coachella is at this point a cultural force, shaping the summer festival season as well as, for better or worse, influencing an entire subset of festie fashion. And yet with recent revelations about the far-right political leanings of Coachella’s overseeing ownership, attendees may want to think twice before nabbing up their tickets—and musicians might want to divest from the event in the future.

Several music websites, including Consequence of Sound, AfroPunk and FACT, point out that Coachella is operated by Goldenvoice, a major national music production company which is owned by Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG). AEG is the entertainment corporation of Philip Anschutz, a climate change denier and Koch Brothers associate who has donated some of his billions to anti-gay organizations, among others, at least one of which—Mission America Coalition—has been classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center for its promotion of travel restrictions for HIV-positive citizens, among other radically right-wing views. Anschutz was also a major backer of Colorado’s Prop 2, which passed and would have broadly legalized discrimination against LGBTQ people before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional.

Anschutz is openly anti-union, having funded anti-teachers union movies like Waiting for Superman and Won’t Back Down through his holding Walden Media, and was a founding funder of the Discovery Institute, which according to the SPLC has on its agenda the promotion of “intelligent design”—creationism—in public schools. He has donated to the Koch Brothers’s Cato Institute, and, as the owner and operator of the pro-fracking Anschutz Exploration Company, he has sued entire towns for their anti-fracking regulation and has been an avid supporter of the Keystone XL Pipeline. In his capacity as a music promotions tycoon and with Coachella, Anschutz is essentially mining the spending power of an ostensibly liberal youth culture and using our own money against us.

Anschutz first made his fortune in the oil and gas industries and eventually began investing in entertainment; under AEG, he currently owns stakes in the LA Clippers and Lakers, and fully owns the Staples Center. In 2001, AEG acquired Goldenvoice, two years after it first launched the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. In October, he was featured in a special issue of Forbes focusing on “the richest people in America.”

http://jezebel.com/coachella-owner-donates-to-lgbt-hate-groups-denies-cli-1790797840

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* inserts "pretends to be shocked" gif

Can this thrash be put on the northpole?

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the owner of coachella is aeg live who also own most concert arenas in the US/EU, idk why coachella is the specified event

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This is old and was a popular headline once it was spread on social media after the line-up was announced. I believe it was disputed so it may be fair to offer the other side of the story, too.

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Can we put Gaga in a time machine and make her not get involved with it anymore? :awkney: 

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10 minutes ago, Azor Ahai said:

Old news proven fake.

Queen of Gays would never go to such a place

I would be very surprised if this was "proven fake" considering that Philip Anschutz is one of the large  "dark money" donors that helped get ultra-right super conservative Gorsuch get appointed to the Supreme Court, along with Robert Murdoch....

 

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39 minutes ago, LG said:

the owner of coachella is aeg live who also own most concert arenas in the US/EU, idk why coachella is the specified event

this.

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