Following the controversy that Amazon Web Services is presenting Las Vegas music festival Intersect, over 150 musicians (UPDATE: now over 200) have signed a "No Music for ICE" open letter "ledging to boycott participating in Amazon-sponsored festivals or partnerships until the company stops supporting human rights violations through its contracts with ICE and other US government agencies." The letter was organized by "an ad-hoc group of artists and activists," including Sadie Dupuis (Speedy Otiz), Evan Greer, Adult Mom, Joey La Neve DeFrancesco (Downtown Boys), @k8_or_die, Carmen Perry (Remember Sports), and Jes Skolnik. The letter reads:

It has recently come to light that Amazon Web Services, an Amazon subsidiary with known ties to ICE and law enforcement, is hosting a festival marketed as an experience “where music, technology, and art converge.” We the undersigned artists are outraged that Amazon continues to provide the technical backbone for ICE’s human rights abuses (read more). We pledge to not participate in Amazon-sponsored events, or engage in exclusive partnerships with Amazon in the future, until Amazon publicly commits to: * Terminate existing contracts with military, law enforcement, and government agencies (ICE, CBP, ORR) that commit human rights abuses * Stop providing Cloud services & tools to organizations (such as Palantir) that power the US government’s deportation machine * End projects that encourage racial profiling and discrimination, such as Amazon’s facial recognition product * Reject future engagements w/ aforementioned bad actors. We will not allow Amazon to exploit our creativity to promote its brand while it enables attacks on immigrants, communities of color, workers, and local economies. We call on all artists who believe in basic rights and human dignity to join us. Follow @NoMusicForIce on Twitter for updates and information related to this letter. *Note that partnerships refers to Amazon Exclusives, Amazon Originals, Research & Development collaborations, and all other exclusive content partnerships To add your name to the letter, fill out this form.

Sadie Dupuis added:

My music peers’ collective outrage at the announcement of Amazon’s Intersect festival made several of us realize how desperately we need to formalize our concerns. Cartoonists Against Amazon, No Tech for ICE, Whole Worker, and other groups against Amazon’s partnership with Palantir and support of ICE have set tremendous examples, showing solidarity with those most impacted by invasive technologies. They’ve demonstrated how powerful it can be to take a hard stance against accepting money earned on the suffering of others. Navigating the ethics of the music industry can be tricky, but it shouldn’t be tricky to say no to opportunities that are complicit with ICE. Doing so would be antithetical to many of our missions as artists, and it’s time to say we won’t.

Deerhoof's Greg Saunier said:

One would think that shame would be enough. One would think that providing AI and facial recognition technology to military and law enforcement, during a time of mass deportations, crackdowns on popular protests, and flagrant incidents of police brutality would give one pause. But that's not the way Amazon works. As Teresa Carlson, vice president of the worldwide public sector of Amazon Web Services, explains Amazon's priorities during this era of what many are calling a neo-fascist takeover of several world governments including our own, ‘We are committed to our customer, and we are unwaveringly committed to the U.S. government and the governments we work with around the world.’ We musicians are therefore organizing something more than shame. A boycott!

Indie rapper Sammus said:

The powers that be at Amazon have been relentless in their pursuit to make this company indispensable to the ways many of us live -- and even with an understanding of Amazon's complicity and centrality in reinforcing various structures of oppression, it often may feel too difficult to evade their reach. This is one way that we can and must push back. As creatives we have to recognize the power we possess in effecting change and sending a message not just through the art we produce but also the channels through which we share it. We have to draw lines and this is one I am choosing to draw because nobody should ever have to live under the kind terrorism that ICE has inflicted upon countless immigrant communities.

Evan Greer said:

Lots of companies do unethical stuff. Amazon seems to enjoy it. They’re trying to bonegraft themselves to government agencies and authoritarian structures to make their monopoly status impossible to challenge. As big tech and surveillance capitalism creep further and further into the music industry, it’s no surprise that artists are fighting back.

And last but not least, Immortal Technique added, "Power without accountability is tyranny."

"No Music For ICE" is following in the footsteps of "No Tech For ICE." As The Washington Post points out, protesters interrupted the Amazon Web Services Summit at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in NYC in July. It was one of eight cities that immigration activists rallied in that week, according to an Al Jazeera article that explains "Amazon's role in the US immigration crackdown."

Here's the full list of artists who signed the "No Music For ICE" letter;

25th Hour

2nd Grade

5-Track

Abby Weems / Potty Mouth

Absolute Value

Adia Victoria

Adrian Jade Matias Bell (Nightjars)

Alanis Alvarez

Alex Anwandter

Alex Chips

Alex Edgeworth, Bed Bits

Alex Menne

Alicia Velasquez/Alice Bag

Ally Einbinder / Potty Mouth

Alyssa Milman, Puppy Angst/Blushed

Amar Lal

Amber Capwell

Amy O

Andy Chervenak

Andy Molholt

Angel Aura

Angela Seo & Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu

Anna Berlin

Anna Burch

another cultural landslide

Ashley Ninelives

Atmosphere

Audrey Zee Whitesides

Ava Luna

B Taylor

Baby Jessica

Battle Ave.

Baywitch

Beck Kitsis, SIGNAL

Bethlehem Steel

Big Joanie

Big Ups

Blushed

Bobby Brown (Rentboy)

Boneth Ahaneku

Branwen Shoop

Bri Adams (Many Rooms)

Brian Browder

Brian Kupillas

Bueno

Cam LaFlam

Camino 84

Carlos Truly

Carly / CARLY SPARKLY

Casey Weissbuch

Cave Babies

Chastity Belt

Christopher Santiago

Circuit des Yeux

Clear Channel

Corbin Jones

corey foxton

corey marc fogel

Cortez disecado

Curt Oren

Dama Scout

Damon & Naomi

Dave Sweeten

David Settle

Deadlee

deepcouch

Deerhoof

Devon Geyer

Devon Welsh

Diet Cig

Don Giovanni Records

Dougie Poole

Downtown Boys

DRILL

Dummy

Dylan Baldi (Cloud Nothings)

Dylan Hanwright

Echo Vessel

Ellen Kempner

Emily Yacina

Emma Lee Toyoda

Eva Treadway (Pllush, The She’s)

Evan Greer

FACS

Fellow Robot

Fern Mayo

Flash Trading

Flasher

Floral Tattoo

Flying Fish Cove

Foxhound

fuck yeah, dinosaurs!

Funeral Cone

G. L. Jaguar / PRIESTS

Gauche

Generacion Suicida

Geoff Rickly / Thursday

Ghost Voice

Girl Underground Music

Girlpool

Glen Robinson

gobbinjr

Gold Light

Grace Coleman

Graves

Greg Rutkin: LVL UP / Cende

Gregory Cordeira/ Goblin USA

Guy Picciotto of Fugazi

Hannah Epperson

Hannah Moroz

Hark

Harry and the Potters

Heaven’s Club

HEELE

Hether Fortune

Holy Gifts

Hopeful Utopian

Human Futility

Hurray for the Riff Raff

Hurry Up

HXXS

Immortal Technique

insignificant other

Ivy Gray-Klein, Corey Flood

J. Mamana

Jacquie Cotillard

Jeff Rosenstock

Jes Skolnik, Daddy’s Boy/National Tattler

JJ Demon

Joe Piotrowski

Johanna Warren

John Rossiter

Jon Lipscomb

Jon Samuels, Yowler & Friendship

Jonathan “Bällz” Ramer of The Chode’s, Rotted Remains,Devil Fish,Toxic

jordan c weinstock!, american poetry club / it takes time records

Jordan Lee (Mutual Benefit)

Jordan Price

Josephine Shetty, Kohinoorgasm

Josie Wails (JJ Demon and Greaze)

Julia Shapiro

Julian Fader

Juliet Quick

K / Damage Control

Kaeley Pruitt-Hamm

Kal Marks

kamikaze nurse

Kate M. (Hellrazor, The Glow, Potty Mouth)

Katie Alice Greer, Priests / Sister Polygon Records

Kelly Moran

Kiana Saroce

Kitty

Kliph Scurlock

Krissy Lassiter, Krissanthemum

Kristel Jax, Brigitte Bardon’t

La Neve

Lala Lala

Lamniformes

Landlady

Lee Bains III

Leo Heikkila, Butterfly

Lightning Bug

Lilah Larson

Lilith

Lily Mastrodimos / Long Neck

lina tullgren

Lisa Prank

Lisa/Liza

Lizzi Bougatsos

Lola Johnson

Lola Kirke

Lorenzo Gehlen

Lowercase Roses

Lucas Knapp

Lydia Ainsworth

Mac Nero Music

Madeline Babuka Black / Yucky duster

MANEKA

Mason Lynass

Math Erao (Absolute Fantasy)

Mayah Kadish

Maymind

Michael Cormier (Friendship, Hour, Michael Cormier, Dear Life Records)

Michael DeForge (Moul D, Creep Highway)

Michael Falcone, Hellrazor (guitar) / Speedy Ortiz (drums)

Mike Caridi / LVL UP / The Glow

Mike Huguenor

Miserable chillers

mister goblin

Mister Lies

Mitchell Fisher

Mixed Deuce

Mothers

Myst Mach

Nat Baldwin

Needle Teeth

Neilson Family

neo-detritus

Neutral Shirt

New Bomb Turks

Nicola Leel

Night Witch

Noah Klein

Owen Ashworth

Peter Katz (Peaer)

Phil Harty from Smile for the Sky

Pictoria Vark

Pictureplane

Pile

Pill Wonder

Pinkwash

Privacy Issues

Puppy Angst

Rachel Levy

Radiator Hospital

Red Widow

Remember Sports

Rentboy

Ricky Eat Acid

Riobamba

Rituals of Mine

Rosie Tucker

Ryan Vo

Sadie Dupuis (Speedy Ortiz / Sad13)

saltlick

Sam Farzin / Media Jeweler

Sam Gas Can

Sami

sammus / dr. enongo lumumba-kasongo

Sarah Tudzin - illuminati hotties

Scooter Jay

Seán Barna

Semaphore Mgmt

Shady Bug

Shamir

Sheer Mag

SIGNAL

Skrizzy

Spencer VH

Star Rats Records

Stevie Knipe (Adult Mom)

SUPER of the Rio Grande Valley

SVUVN

Tara Thiessen

TASH LC

Tasha

Ted Leo

Terror Pigeon

The Acid Flashback at Nightmare Beach

The Black Madonna

The Cowls

The Ensuing Disaster

The Holy Dark

The Kominas

The New Adventures

The Ophelias

The Roland High Life

The True Jacqueline

Thin Lips

Tim Kasher

Told Slant

Told Slant

Tom Wherrett

Tomberlin

Tough Age

Tristan Whitehill (Euglossine)

Troy Colby

TV Flesh

Tyler Andere

Tyler Bussey

Ushamami

Verdigrls

Versing

visibilities

Walking Bombs

War On Women

What Cheer? Brigade

WHY?

Xenia Rubinos

XETAS

YACHT

Yohuna

Yum

Yuppy

Zach Burba, iji

ZENIZEN

ZOLA JESUS