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Tom Morello, Das Racist Lead Occupy Wall Street Concert in New York (PHOTOS)
- Posted on May 1st 2012 7:12PM by Dan Reilly
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At around 4PM, Morello and his followers arrived at the square to kick off the show in front of a huge crowd of OWS demonstrators, who represented as many ages, races and causes as we could imagine. At once, the demonstration seemed like a summer festival thrown into political convention adjacent to 5th avenue's St. Patrick's Day parade.
Morello took the stage and began with a story about Korean guitar makers who unionized and were fired. Tom organized a benefit concert for them, but a day before the show, the devastating of earthquake of 2010 hit Haiti, and the guitar makers voted to give 100% of the benefit's profits to aid the Caribbean country. Dedicating his first song to them, the audience and everyone around the world whose on their side, Morello then taught the gathering the words to his "World Wide Rebel Song," saying, "If you can't remember them, just raise a militant fist in the air and sing, 'Na, na, na... '"
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Morello then announced that he would perform Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land," professing that the folk hero "would be headlining today" if he were alive. "They censored this song when you were kids but we're gonna put the real words back in," Morello said. "We have two minutes left. If they pull the plug, don't you dare fucking stop!"
While the plug did go out momentarily, Morello and the guitarmy finished the song and gave way on the stage to several speakers, including undocumented students and workers who demanded immigration reform. Latin jazz singer and drummer Bobby Sanabria was up next, and urged the crowd to scream in favor of jazz music and protest the Grammys' elimination of 31 categories.
After more speeches, Das Racist took the stage for a rowdy pair of songs beginning with "Michael Jackson." While it seemed many of the occupiers, many of them holding signs in Spanish, didn't know what to make of the group, a small group of the younger contingent enthusiastically responded to the hip-hop trio's bounding energy. With organizers signaling to them to wrap it up, the group concluded their second and final song, "Rainbow in the Dark," by forgoing their microphones and screaming out into the crowd, then using the podium mike to chant the last lines, giving way to a Dan Deacon dance party.
At this point, we were forced to leave, owing to obligations, not any NYPD pressure. In fact, we witnessed no animosity between anyone during the couple hours we spent in Union Square, though I'll admit to being a bit creeped out by seeing dozens of police motorcycles lined up outside our office in anticipation of the march downtown. The protests are currently heading downtown outside of our office, so we'll see if the peace can remain (the sirens we hear from our window could indicate otherwise). Meantime, check out our photos from the amazing event above!
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May 02 2012 at 1:13 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThe Occupy Movement is NECESSARY for our citizens to expose the corruption which Big Business has infected our Government with. Every single person occupying the streets and protesting Corporations is a hero and a patriot. I was compelled to lend a hand and create some new posters for the movement which you can download for free on my artist’s blog at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/11/propaganda-for-occupy-movement.html
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But if I tell that obvious truth about the ongoing program of genocide against my race, the White race, Liberals and respectable conservatives agree that I am a naziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.
They say they are anti-racist. What they are is anti-White.
Anti-racist is a code word for anti-White.
Everybody says there is this RACE problem. Everybody says this RACE problem will be solved when the third world pours into EVERY White country and ONLY into White countries.
The Netherlands and Belgium are just as crowded as Japan or Taiwan, but nobody says Japan or Taiwan will solve this RACE problem by bringing in millions of third worlders and quote assimilating unquote with them.
Everybody says the final solution to this RACE problem is for EVERY White country and ONLY White countries to “assimilate,” i.e., intermarry, with all those non-Whites.
What if I said there was this RACE problem and this RACE problem would be solved only if hundreds of millions of non-blacks were brought into EVERY black country and ONLY into black countries?
How long would it take anyone to realize I’m not talking about a RACE problem. I am talking about the final solution to the BLACK problem?
And how long would it take any sane black man to notice this and what kind of psycho black man wouldn’t object to this?
But if I tell that obvious truth about the ongoing program of genocide against my race, the White race, Liberals and respectable conservatives agree that I am a naziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.
They say they are anti-racist. What they are is anti-White.
Anti-racist is a code word for anti-White.












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