Neil Young is serious about boycotts. Last year he stopped using Facebook and Instagram due to Meta's "use of chatbots with children," and later removed his catalog from Amazon Music due to Jeff Bezos' support of Donald Trump's administration. Now, he's announcing a boycott of all Trump-supporting companies, including Apple and Verizon.
In a new post on Neil Young Archives, he wrote:
Mornin' folks….It's a new day….a big day for my Flip phone. I noticed it says VERIZON on it. Of course I can't use a Verizon phone. Verizon is a supporter of TRUMP with big $! What can i do? I'm checking with our office to see if i can get a T-Mobile Flip phone. T-Mobile is not a supporter of the Trump Fascist regime.
This is not a joke. i love my old Flip! One idea i have to keep Flip is just to change services and drop Verizon service like a cold fish. It's the money i give Verizon for my service that's doing the damage! Not my old phone I bought years ago. This might work! I'm going to see if I can just drop Verizon and move to T-Mobile.
On the Editorial page here at NYATC, I follow the list of companies backing the Fascist Trump Regime. One by one, I am cancelling all contact with each of them. This is not easy, but the alternative - me giving money I got from you to the Regime that backed the illegal killings of two Americans. That can't happen. So I keep going back to the list on Editorial Page 5 of the NYATC. I listen to the man in the left column, telling me what I can do to help, and I am trying to do it. I'm trying to not support the companies that support the regime with huge donations, just to cover their own asses, while people are being shot on the streets of America, not just Minnesota, AMERICA!
As I type this, HEY THIS IS AN APPLE COMPUTER!—— I have to stop and re-assess. No more upgrades! That feeds Apple, Apple supports "The Regime'.
I'm stopping right now to call my business manager and make sure i do not upgrade anything from Apple. Ok. she says I can still keep the computer. It's paid for already…but no more upgrades. That is money going to APPLE now. Tim Cook, the CEO, falling over backwards to support the regime! He was at the 'Melania' premiere at the White House just the other night, kissing ass. Yikes! What a world.
I have to re-assess everything I am doing. I will sue Apple if my computer doesn't work without the new costly upgrade. What about Warner Brothers?
I'll keep you posted folks.
He also recently gifted his discography to Greenland amid Trump's threats to seize the territory and has been speaking up against ICE.
