And in more entertainment news, the Independent Spirit Awards were held in Santa Monica, California, Saturday, the night before the Oscars. “If Beale Street Could Talk,” the feature film based on the 1974 James Baldwin novel, took home best director and best feature. “Sorry to Bother You” won best first feature. This is director Boots Riley accepting the award.

Boots Riley: “This is a film that takes place in an office place and is the first one that I know that has class struggle in it, even though class struggle is happening every day when you’re on your jobs and you’re seeing that happen. For some reason, we thought we had to edit that out of our stories.”

Boots Riley went on to call on viewers to speak out against U.S. intervention in Venezuela.

Boots Riley: “The CIA is trying to have a coup in Venezuela. I haven’t been watching since I’ve been here, so they might be doing it right now. And we should all be putting our voices out to stop the U.S. from having regime change for oil in Venezuela.”

After Riley was cut off on stage, he continued to speak out on the issue backstage, raising the U.S.’s history of regime change in Chile, Iraq and Guatemala.