On January 26, 2000, filming of the music video for “Sleep Now in the Fire” caused the doors of the New York Stock Exchange to be closed and the band to be escorted from the site by security. Directed by Michael Moore, the video was shot on the steps of the Federal hall building, in downtown Manhattan, across from the NYSE. The band invited fans to join them in the shoot and approximately 300 showed up. After the breakdown of the shoot, the band members, along with many of their fans, stormed the doors of the NYSE. De la Rocha was shoved away from the entrance after briefly entering through a side door. They then succeeded in forcing the NYSE to lock its doors during the middle of the trading day. After the incident, Morello was quoted saying, “Our protest stopped trading at the stock exchange for the last two hours of the day. I guess we stopped downsizing for at least a couple of hours.“ Footage of enthusiastic Wall Street employees headbanging to the music, police attempting to take Tim Commerford’s bass as he refused to quit playing, and the emergency doors of the New York Stock exchange closing were all used in the final video. “We decided to shoot this video in the belly of the beast”, said Moore, who was arrested during the shooting of the video: despite having a federal permit for the location, they did not have a sound permit. No one other than Moore was arrested in relation to the incident.
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