Protests Launch to Disrupt Corporate Cannabis at SXSW 2019

Social equity advocates and criminal justice reform organizations announce protests to disrupt Former House Speaker John Boehner and Adam Bierman’s keynote speeches at SXSW 19’ this weekend.

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Scoff at protests? Well, don’t. Even Harvard agrees that they’re a successful vehicle for demanding change, back in a 2011 study. Especially in getting the community “politically activated”, reads the report. And, with the rise of a select few quickly accruing all the political and financial power post cannabis legalization, folks in the equity and repair advocacy world would agree with the findings.

Cannabis equity advocates joined criminal justice reform organizations today in announcing demonstrations to protest keynote speaker’s along with other acts of opposition to disrupt corporate cannabis at SXSW 2019.

SXSW, best known for blending festivals and seminars that “celebrate the convergence of the interactive, film, and music industries” has added a “Cannabusiness Track” to the annual festivities set to takeover Austin, Texas this year. Social equity advocates are organized and prepared to seize this opportunity, too; highlighting that the conference is “taking place less than a mile from Travis County Jail, where people of color are still disproportionately incarcerated for cannabis possessions, [and] while multibillion-dollar conglomerates that are disproportionately controlled by white men” are thriving.

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