In the punk world

There are ways to protest besides a boycott. In the punk world, it is not uncommon for bands to take the money, then talk shit about the sponsor onstage. In 2024, after San Francisco artist the Ferocious Few was booked for a show called “Fleet Fest” during the expensive display of military porn that is Fleet Week, singer Francisco Fernandez got up on stage at the pier, in front of a massive Navy ship, and changed his lyrics to be about the U.S. funding genocide. Someone eventually cut the power. Source: ‘How Could You Be Against Joy?’: Bay Area Artists Are Turning on the Civic Joy Fund via The Weird Way I Found Out About the Insidious San Francisco 'Civic Joy' Fund