Roger Waters is a British musician and former front-man of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd. Waters is known for his support for left-wing activism, and is a supporter of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Waters also supports Chelsea Manning, who controversially leaked classified data from the National Security Agency (NSA) in January 2010 to the website WikiLeaks. He is critical of the oil and natural gas company Chevron, and was involved in an allegedly fraudulent lawsuit against the company in October 2018.1
Environmental and Public Health Activism
The Countryside Alliance, the Millennium Promise, and the Live Earth Concert
As early as 2004, Waters supported a number of left-leaning environment and public health organizations. He has performed in benefit concerts for survivors of the December 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, which killed nearly 228,000 people.13
In November 2018, Waters participated in a BDS event held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, a day before holding a concern in the city. He told event participants, “We must insist to our local governments to pressure Israel, in favor of the human rights of the Palestinians.” In response, the Argentina Zionist Organization, a Jewish group, called Waters “one of the great anti-Semitest of our time” in protest to what it labeled Waters’s “hate speech.” The Wiesenthal Center, an American Jewish group, also demanded Waters’s Argentinian hosts denounce his “abuse of their hospitality and his message of hate” and called on his concert sponsors to withdraw financial support.17
Roger Waters has been outspoken against Chevron, saying that it is “disquietingly apparent that the rich and powerful are still much attached to the feathering of their own nests at any cost to others.” 0){
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