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...plenty of those on Saturday as well. I should acknowledge, though, that the crowd didn't seem to mind much. They sat patiently while speakers touched on themes including the Iraqi trade embargo, amnesty for illegal immigrants, and of course, the Left's soon-to-be-executed favorite son, Mumia Abu-Jamal...
...Politically inspired rock band Rage Against the Machine's new hit CD, The Battle of Los Angeles, includes a plea to free Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was convicted of killing a police officer...
...same reason that foreign policy and judicial deliberations are held in secret: to insulate the proceedings from political pressures. It does not deserve its newfound position as a poster child for globalization and the focus for all anti-corporate discontent, including such extraneous causes as the "Free Mumia" signs filmed...
...Rocha, now 29, draws inspiration for his lyrics from bands like Public Enemy and writers like James Baldwin and Eduardo Galeano. Songs on the new CD take on the media coverage of the Gulf War and the plight of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a black journalist on death row whom many people (De la Rocha included) feel was unjustly convicted...
...hard to be a radical band in moderate times; it's hard to believe, in the age of the Backstreet Boys and a booming Dow, that music has meaning beyond SoundScan figures. Nonetheless, Rage's rock-hop music takes on racism and capitalism while also offering vocal support to Mumia Abu-Jamal and the Zapatista rebels. And with a Chicano singer (dreadlocked Zack de la Rocha) and an African-American guitarist (wizardly Tom Morello), the band looks like the future of America. Rage's new CD--with songs like Calm Like a Bomb and Guerrilla Radio--promises to be uncompromising...