Tom Morello At Occupy May Day In Union Square (VIDEO)

Tom Morello and his "guitarmy" led the Occupy Wall Street masses from Bryant Park down to lower Manhattan in New York on Tuesday, stopping to perform for a captive audience in Union Square, alongside Dan Deacon, Immortal Technique and Das Racist.

"Shall I teach you the words to 'Worldwide Rebel Songs' and we all sing it together?" Morello asked the crowd, which hummed with agreement. "Alright, it goes like this."

Watch Morello lead the audience in song:

See photos of Morello, Dan Deacon and Das Racist performing at Union Square:

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• Tom Morello

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• Tom Morello, about to sing "This Land Is Your Land."

• Das Racist

• Dan Deacon

• Das Racist

• Das Racist

All photos and video by Gazelle Emami

 

Comments

[Carlariz]

04:50 PM on 05/02/2012

Bulls on Parade!!!!!!!!!!!!

[FreeSwingingSoul]

03:27 PM on 05/02/2012

I respect Tom Morello for taking a stand and doing this. But quite frankly, Tom's solo music is aweful IMHO. When I saw him live last summer, I couldn't help but think "His band is only on stage because of Tom's millions. Because without him bankrolling this project, there's no way a band with music that bad would make it." But to each his own. At least he's taking a stand politically instead of snorting his millions like so many other rock stars.

[Carlariz]

04:49 PM on 05/02/2012

I feel the same way, he is not the same without Zack

[blueagle8u]

11:04 PM on 05/02/2012

I agree too!

[jaf]

01:18 PM on 05/02/2012

Tom Morello is one of the reasons that I cling to some small hope of turning America toward progress and justice.

[Hare]

12:23 PM on 05/02/2012

Big hand for those who want a better world!

[bc906]

12:16 PM on 05/02/2012

hey Tom how much money are you worth I bet millions, and I bet you have accountants and lawyers who protect you from paying the maximum amount to the IRS, get a clue Tom is the 1% and does not want to ever leave it, he just wants to support OWS as long as his money is safe

[PTerrys]

01:05 PM on 05/02/2012

He also has a Harvard lib arts degree, and THEN he was a stripper... so he put his time in being poor and exploited.

[Estreet1964]

11:56 AM on 05/02/2012

Hell freakin' yeah!

[driverstest]

09:49 AM on 05/02/2012

What a joke! Most of us must occupy a desk in order to provide for our families and cannot take a day off to protest against those we need to sign our paychecks. Talk about out of touch!
How many jobs have any in the crowd created or even took a chance to start a small business.

[texasprogressive]

10:19 AM on 05/02/2012

Many of these people have lost their jobs because of the sluggish economy.

[AlexNYC]

11:18 AM on 05/02/2012

An absurd post. The current unemployment for college grads is as high as 20% because there are not enough living wage jobs to go around, due to the recession and the outsourcing of jobs overseas. Starting a business takes capital and banks are not lending to small businesses, especially start-ups, and particularly students with outstanding college loans. The protesters are atempting to bring a voice to the growing income inequality and corrupt political system influence by corporate money.

It appears you're the one that is out of touch and lacking in empathy.

[american-dolt]

09:33 AM on 05/02/2012

Thanks Tom, I wish other Prominent Musicians would get Involved.

[Roger Cottrell]

05:42 AM on 05/02/2012

Good to see the Occupy movement continuing its momentum but, as Noam Chomsky said in the Guardian yesterday, we need to decide "what next." Building Occupy branches in the unions and councils of action to connect occupy with other causes and institutions might be a start. The laughable deployment of anti-aircraft batteries on council flats in London is clearly meant to intimidate anti-capitalist protesters during the Olympics. The ruling class are clearly rattled by this phenomenon and if their not threatened by it why don't they simply ignore it?

[SamKnause]

06:44 AM on 05/02/2012

Check out Democracy Now.

http://www.democracynow.org/

They discussed the movement for 45 minutes yesterday.

The powers that be are terrified of the movement.

[Roger Cottrell]

06:51 AM on 05/02/2012

I know! Excellent that MAY DAY has been REPOLITICIZED!