If you’re getting bored of us mentioning the stand a group of moral musicians have taken about Arizona’s recent immigration laws, then try writing to an Arizonan legislator. The US has been involved in several wars, tortures, and trafficking kidnapped people across borders in recent years and no major musician has dared speak out, so the fact a load of alt stars have got together to finally, eventually do something is great. Now Conor Oberst, who supported the Sound Strike through barring his bands from touring there and releasing a critical song, has written an open letter to Billboard magazine to counter critics from within the Arizonan music industry who were against the strike. He starts with fair points:

"If I return to Arizona to pay lip service to a roomful of kids at the Marquee it will do absolutely no good for anyone.  What I can do is to help organize, and play my small part in, what I hope is the largest and most effective boycott this country has seen in a long time…I fear that if we return to business as usual (under the guise of some civic movement) that this will all devolve into the typical grandstanding that is political activism in music. It might make us feel better but won't do a damn thing to change the minds of the radical, racist minority that seem to have controlled Arizona politics for decades. In short, it will lose its teeth."

Then he goes a bit overboard: "The only thing, clearly, that these people care about is Money and Power, that and the creation and preservation of an Anglo-Centric Police State where every Immigrant and Non-White citizen is considered subhuman. They want them stripped of their basic human rights and reduced to slaves for Corporate America and the White Race.  They are engaged in blatant class warfare.  It is evil, pure and simple." Erm, yes, perhaps dial it back a notch Conor, you’re starting to look like a tin foil hat wearing paranoid.