Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello: “I Was Called Here by People of Madison and Friends in the Union”

By: Jacob Wheeler | February 22, 2011

Following a knockout performance in front of the Wisconsin State Capitol, where he closed his set with a rendition of Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land”, Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine and the Night Watchman told GRITtv’s Laura Flanders yesterday what brought him to Madison to support workers’ rights.

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In addition to shooting videos for The UpTake, Jacob Wheeler is a contributing editor at the progressive political magazine In These Times, publishes the Glen Arbor Sun in his native Michigan, and authored "Between Light and Shadow," a recent book about the Guatemalan adoption industry. Wheeler's stories have appeared in such magazines as the Utne Reader, Earth Island Journal, Rotarian and Teaching Tolerance magazine, and newspapers including the San Francisco Chronicle and Christian Science Monitor. He speaks fluent Spanish, German and Danish.

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