photo credit: Village Voice/ Rebecca Sweyne
For those of you following Cort Action on Facebook, you may have already known, but the Cort and Cor-tek guitar workers are at NGO Village at Fuji Rock Festival.
Fuji Rock Festival, which takes place in Nigata, Japan, is the largest rock festival in Asia, and takes place this year July 30 – August 1st.
Cort worker and their cultural workers in solidarity with them are especially excited since two bands in the lineup at Fuji Rock will support their demands to Cort, Fender and Ibanez.
One of the bands is Ozomatli :
Ozomatli's guitarist, Raul Pacheco, holds up "No Cort' during the samba line (July 2010)
Ozomatli. Source: beatcrave.com
And the other band is One Day as a Lion, featuring Zack de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine and drummer Jon Theodore from Mars Volta) who released an EP in 2008 and only began performing this year.
Zack de la Rocha performing in One Day as a Lion at Eagle Rock, LA (July 2010). Source: LA Times
One Day as a Lion
These dynamic bands, who have long stood up for worker rights all over the world, bring some incredible energy to the Cort worker campaign.
We hope that at Fuji Rock, music fans and the music industry will be paying attention to the truth – that the cheap guitars of Cort, Fender and Ibanez should not be made at the cost of worker exploitation!
Or, as the inspiration for One Day as a Lion’s name goes, IT IS BETTER TO LIVE ONE DAY AS A LION THAN TO LIVE A THOUSAND DAYS A LAMB.
Musicians standing up for guitar workers’ rights – this is the world we are aiming for.
Cort Guitar Workers ACTION! 