Sticking Up For What You Believe In

Recently Tom Morello, guitarist of Audioslave and former guitarist of Rage Against the Machine was arrested for "unlawful assembly." Morello famous for his politically aware music with Rage was found at a protest along with 400 other people rallying for immigrant hotel workers' rights. Morello had this to say about arrest: "In these political dark ages, it's important for us to stand up for one another," and "These hotel workers by the airport make 20 percent less wages than hotel workers around the rest of Los Angeles. We're here to express our solidarity with them, to help them unionize and to help them close the gap between their sub-poverty wages and the millions and millions of dollars the people who own these hotels make." The most interesting thing to note is the protestors along with Morello actually gave the police department their information the day before to make the whole arresting process faster.

Although Morello was arrested, I'm so glad to see that he continues to fight for what he believes in. I have previously wrote about Politics and Music awhile back and here is the link if you with to read: How Many Times Must the Cannonballs Fly, Before They are Forever Banned? It's certainly one thing to see musicians taking their political beliefs in the studio but it is another to see these same musicians out in the forefront standing up for what they believe in. It is these musicians which separate the artists who use politics as a tool for popularizing or making their music fit into a certain category and those who have pure and undisputed passion in politics. I for one like to see artists taking their beliefs and thoughts into action, what are your feelings towards this?