Our Commitment to Justice, Solidarity, and Boycott

Our Commitment to Justice, Solidarity, and Boycott

As a cultural business rooted in values of justice, dignity, and freedom, we recognise our ethical responsibility to refuse complicity in systems of oppression. We cannot be neutral in the face of apartheid, occupation, and the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people.

We affirm our support for the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS), including the cultural boycott guidelines advanced by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). Inspired by the international cultural boycott of apartheid South Africa, we understand that meaningful solidarity requires more than statements — it requires action.

Our Boycott Principles

In line with BDS and PACBI guidelines, our commitments are based on:

• Targeting complicity, not identity: We oppose institutions, corporations, and projects that enable or whitewash oppression — not individuals.

• Gradualness: We recognise that systemic change requires incremental steps.

• Sustainability: Each action should be durable and build towards wider transformation.

• Context-sensitivity: We adapt our approach to balance ethics, effectiveness, and the material realities of artists and workers.

Current and Ongoing Actions

Technology & Equipment

• We have stopped all new purchases from Hewlett Packard (HP), replacing them with Epson and other non-complicit alternatives.

• We will no longer purchase Dell products. Existing equipment (such as monitors) will be run to the end of its life cycle but not replaced through Dell.

• We are phasing out reliance on Amazon, shifting business purchasing directly to suppliers and ethical distributors.

• Whilst we currently rely on Google Workspace for operations, we recognise Google’s complicity through Project Nimbus. We are committed to exploring ethical alternatives and developing a transition plan that ensures sustainability.

• For phones and computers, we prioritise second-hand and refurbished Apple devices and commit to running all equipment to end-of-life in recognition of the exploitation of Congolese minerals.

Travel & Accommodation

• We will no longer use Booking.com or Airbnb for artist or business accommodation bookings where alternatives exist.

Web Services

• All artist websites have been migrated away from Wix, an Israeli company.

Insurance & Banking

• We are reviewing and transitioning away from AXA insurance, due to its investments in arms companies complicit in Israel’s genocide against Palestinians.

• We have reviewed our banking services to ensure we are not indirectly funding arms companies or financial networks fuelling wars in Sudan and elsewhere.

On Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube, and Ethical Streaming

We recognise the growing ethical concerns with Spotify, particularly CEO Daniel Ek’s investment in Helsing, a company developing AI-driven military technology, alongside Spotify’s broader exploitation of artists.

We also recognise that Amazon Music is directly tied to Amazon, a corporation complicit through its Project Nimbus contract with the Israeli government and military, providing cloud and AI infrastructure crucial to Israel’s regime of apartheid and ongoing genocide.

Similarly, YouTube, owned by Google, is implicated in the same Project Nimbus contract and has also faced widespread criticism for silencing Palestinian voices whilst amplifying Israeli state narratives.

As a business:

• We will support any of our artists who choose to remove their music from Spotify, Amazon Music, or YouTube, assisting with logistics and amplifying their decision.

• For those who remain, we respect their decision and the financial realities behind it.

• We will promote and research ethical alternatives such as Bandcamp, Resonate, and other fair-pay, non-complicit platforms, whilst encouraging audiences to support artists directly wherever possible.

Global Solidarity

Our solidarity is not limited to Palestine. We recognise that systems of oppression are interconnected, and that global struggles for justice are bound together.

• In the Democratic Republic of Congo, multinational corporations profit from the extraction of cobalt, coltan, and other minerals essential to global tech supply chains. This fuels armed conflict, displacement, and systemic violence, whilst Congolese communities are denied sovereignty over their land and resources. We commit to prioritising refurbished and second-hand devices, running existing equipment to end-of-life, and avoiding unnecessary new purchases to reduce our complicity in this exploitation.

• In Sudan, people are enduring devastating violence, displacement, and mass killings as competing armed factions — fuelled by foreign interests and profiteering corporations — obstruct the Sudanese people’s right to peace, democracy, and self-determination. We commit to reviewing our banking and financial relationships to ensure we are not indirectly complicit in the arms trade or profiteering networks sustaining this violence.

• In Western Sahara, Morocco continues its illegal occupation and exploitation of resources, from phosphates to fisheries, whilst Sahrawi people face repression and exile. We commit to avoiding suppliers linked to Morocco’s exploitation of Western Sahara’s resources.

We also acknowledge and express solidarity with:

• Indigenous peoples worldwide, resisting ongoing settler-colonialism and land theft.

• Communities in Yemen, enduring one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, fuelled by arms companies also complicit in Palestine and Sudan.

• Rohingya and other oppressed peoples in Myanmar, facing ethnic cleansing and dictatorship sustained by corporate and state complicity.

Why We Act

Israel openly uses culture and technology as tools of propaganda and repression, artwashing its crimes whilst maintaining a regime of settler-colonialism, apartheid, and occupation. The same global systems of exploitation — extractive industries, arms corporations, financial institutions, and cultural platforms — link Palestine, Congo, Sudan, and many other struggles.

By refusing complicity, we stand with the overwhelming majority of Palestinian artists, writers, and cultural institutions who have called for boycott. We also extend our solidarity to Congolese, Sudanese, Sahrawi, Indigenous, Yemeni, Rohingya, and other communities fighting for freedom and justice.

Our solidarity is grounded in international law, universal human rights, and the principle of doing no harm. Just as cultural boycott played a role in ending apartheid in South Africa, we believe it can and must play a role today in the struggle for freedom, justice, and equality across the globe.

Until Palestine — and all oppressed peoples — are free, we remain steadfast in honouring the boycott call and building non-complicit, justice-centred cultural work.