Rage Against The Machine

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Zack de la Rocha in Toronto, 1993

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Zack de la Rocha dedicating Fistful of Steel to women.

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“The world surges, the nation’s nervous The crowds awaken, they can’t disperse us We ain’t at your service, won’t stay sedated Won’t state our numbers for names and remain faceless We dignified, they can’t erase us.”

— Zack de la Rocha, A Report to the Shareholders / Kill Your Masters

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RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE by Mark Baker

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Rage Against the Machine at Rock For Choice 1993

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Zack de la Rocha at Download Festival, 2010

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Zack de la Rocha

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Because of the colonial process that a lot of our people have gone through, we’ve been stripped away from our roots. For example, we don’t, for the most part, understand that we are people of the Nahuatl tribes, the old Aztec tribes, and our belief was in a god called Omecihuatl, which was a god of two genders, okay? And it was a god who realized the importance of Woman. Woman was the giver of life, we had that relationship, we worshiped her, and that’s something that’s lost sometimes in Rap music because of the nature of colonization and how it’s effected our minds, ya know, some of us are still enslaved by that sexist and oppressive thought that has been engrained within our minds because of the oppressive society under which we live. So ya know, I don’t back it. […] Sex sells, whether it is within music or other forms of media, and I think he (Ice Cube) is using that, and it’s unfortunately not a very intelligent approach, I feel. It’s not a humanistic approach that is necessary to evoke the consciousness in all people. Our women are, like I said, to our culture, by root, THE MOST important person within the community. I mean, they’re the givers of life.

Zack de la Rocha talking about sexist behavior (via nerd–vana)

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“I was born with the voice of a riot A storm, lightning, the function, the form Far from the norm, I won’t follow like cattle I’m more like the catalyst, calm in the mix of battle”

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If anyone in California is interested in adopting a dog or a cat, Kerns County Animal Shelter ( one of the most disgraceful shelters in California ) is being shut down. Dogs are being sold for 15$ and cats for 5$ ( all are fixed with shots. )

Every animal will be put down by September 30th.

Go here for more information. 

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got some rage tshirts

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“No court decision can pave the road for justice. Only the community fighting for their dignity can do that. So we are going to keep singing and keep swinging knowing full well that for an unjust law to stand it has to be obeyed.” –Zack de la Rocha

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