Rage Against the Machine’s Zack de la Rocha showed of his chops as a political and social activist on Wednesday with the release of a poem in support of the Occupy Wall Street protest movement. Read the full poem after the jump.
Photo by Marv Watson.
The singer/songwriter/activist has been involved in political and social movements for years, and Rage Against the Machine is regarded as one of the most politically charged bands to receive regular radio play. De la Rocha has spoken at the UN in response to the Abu-Jamal incident, supported the Zapatista movement in Mexico, and released several politically salient albums while performing with Rage Against the Machine.
Check out the entirety of de la Rocha’s poem below:
“This poem is dedicated to the Occupy movement whose courage is changing the world. Stay Strong. We are winning.” – Zack de la Rocha
The beginning spills through city veins
Into the arteries
And under powers poison clouds
We move like the shadows
Through the alley ways
Through nightmares bought and sold as dreams
Through barren factories
Through boarded schools
Through rotting fields
Through the burning doors of the past
Through imaginations exploding
To break the curfews in our mindsOur actions awaken dreams of actions multiplied
A restless fury
Once buried like burning embers
Left alone to smolder
But together stacked under the walls of a dying order
All sparks are counted
Calloused hands raised in silence
Over the bonfire of hope unincorporated
It’s flame restores tomorrows meaning
Across the graveyards of hollow promises
As gold dipped vultures pick at what is left of our denialAnd the youngest among us
Stare at us stoned like eyes determined
And say
Death for us may come early
Cause dignity has no price
At the corner of now and nowhere
Anywhere
Everywhere
Tomorrow is calling
Tomorrow is callingDo not be afraid
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