Check out Rage guitarist Tom Morello, in this interview conducted a few months ago as we were just getting started here at GRITtv.
Morello was in the middle of his Axis of Justice tour, donating box office proceeds to local issues at every stop -- Road Recovery, Sweet Home New Orleans, Amnesty International, Iraq Veterans Against the War.From mpetersonMN on YouTube, here's the Rage Against The Machine acapella performance outside the state capital building in Minnesota. The band was kept from the stage by law enforcement, so they waded into the sea of people in front of the stage and rocked the house through a megaphone. Things wind up with a rousing group chant of "f* you, I won't do what you tell me."
Then, most of the crowd merged with the Poor People's March; what happened next is reported here. Hint: lots of tear gas.
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