At Liberty Live from SXSW! Feat. Tom Morello

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4.8 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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This week, At Liberty comes to you from Austin, TX, where we recorded in front of a live audience with Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave, and The Nightwatchman. We sat down to discuss “Atlas Underground,” Morello’s new album of “social justice ghost stories,” as well as his decades of activism on issues like criminal justice reform, income inequality, unions, free speech, and mental health. Morello also announced his new role as an ambassador for the ACLU’s Campaign for Smart Justice, a nationwide effort to reduce the U.S. jail and prison population by 50 percent and to combat racism in the criminal system. Learn more about the Campaign for Smart Justice at www.aclu.org/smartjustice.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the ACLU 100 at South by Southwest.
0:08.0	It's a great pleasure to be here with you for a live taping of At Liberty,
0:12.0	the ACLU's weekly podcast on the latest civil rights and civil liberties issues of the day.
0:23.2	Today we couldn't be happier to have with us the one and only Tom Morello.
0:28.9	Thank you very much.
0:30.0	Thank you very much.
0:30.8	Happy to be here.
0:32.4	You know him from Rage Against the Machine, Audio Slave, the Night Watchman, and from playing with Bruce Springsteen,
0:40.0	Ben Harper, Boots Riley, and many, many, many more. You might also know him as your adversary
0:46.9	in an epic guitar battle in Guitar Hero. He dropped a new album last year called Atlas Underground with collaborations ranging from
0:56.4	Big Boy to Marcus Mumford.
0:59.3	Morello has been a lifelong activist addressing criminal justice reform, income inequality,
1:05.1	unions, free speech, and mental health.
1:08.3	We'll talk today about his life, music, and activism over the last 25 plus years
1:12.9	and share some exciting news about his newest role in the movement. Tom Morello, welcome to the podcast.
1:18.2	Thank you very much. Hello, everybody. What's up? From this very stage last night, you played an
1:25.4	amazing concert. Thank you very much.
1:28.4	And one moment was particularly striking.
1:31.1	At one point you had projected on a screen behind you the phrase,
1:34.7	Every government is run by liars.
1:38.7	This phrase seemed to capture something essential about your worldview.
1:42.4	We've seen a new wave of activism as people respond to
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