What Side Are You Standing On?
What Side Are You Standing On?
What Side Are You Standing On?
These words echoed around the planet as The Strokes band ended their powerful 2026 Coachella performance of their song “Oblivius.” The Strokes have been described as “one of the most influential bands of the early 21st century.” At their show over the weekend, they projected a searing montage of videos on a formidable array of screens that exposed the criminal nature of the U.S. government: governments overthrown and elected presidents murdered by the CIA from Latin America (Salvador Allende), to the Democratic Republic of Congo in West Africa (Patrice Lumumba), to Iran (Mohammad Mosaddegh), and many more. Images of recent bombings in the Middle East were superimposed with the words, “Over 30 universities destroyed in Iran” and a bomb exploding was shown with the caption, “Last university standing in Gaza.”
This is the kind of righteous stand that everyone with a platform needs to be taking now.