In 2011, Waters joined the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement and advocated for “people around the world support the Palestinians in their civil, nonviolent resistance.” The BDS movement is largely criticized in the U.S. Roger Waters had been critical of the state of Israel since at least 2009, when he criticized Israel’s wall around the West Bank, which was constructed after the Palestine Liberation Organization declared the Second Intifada in 2006. Waters also performed in the environmentalist Live Earth concert in 2007. The organization has received $50 million personally from the liberal billionaire donor George Soros. In 2007, Roger Waters became a spokesman for the left-leaning nonprofit Millennium Promise, which provides funding development programs in Africa. Waters, who was an avid fan of fishing, opposed the law until he decided to move to the United States the next year. The group opposed the controversial British Hunting Act of 2004, which bans most forms of wild animal hunts-most prominently foxhunting–in England and Wales. Waters was also involved with the Countryside Alliance, a British rural life interest group. He has performed in benefit concerts for survivors of the December 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, which killed nearly 228,000 people. Environmental and Public Health Activism The Countryside Alliance, the Millennium Promise, and the Live Earth ConcertĪs early as 2004, Waters supported a number of left-leaning environment and public health organizations. 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. Waters also supports Chelsea Manning, who controversially leaked classified data from the National Security Agency (NSA) in January 2010 to the website WikiLeaks. Waters is known for his support for left-wing activism, and is a supporter of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Roger Waters is a British musician and former front-man of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd.
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