Tom Morello: Still Raging
Ralph Nader Radio Hour
Ralph Nader
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Tom Morello, activist, and lead guitarist of “Rage Against the Machine,” joins us to discuss the uses of music in protest, his latest album “The Atlas Underground Fire,” and his new gig writing op-eds for The New York Times. Also, child advocate, Robert Fellmeth, stops by to shed light on a situation right out of a Charles Dickens novel: the state stealing social security checks from foster children. Plus, Ralph answers your questions.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Tom Morello and you're listening to the Ralph Nader Radio R. |
| 0:03.7 | Stand up, stand up, you've been sitting way too long. |
| 0:12.2 | Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio R. |
| 0:13.7 | My name is Steve Scrovan along with my co-host, David Feldman. |
| 0:16.5 | Hello, David. Good morning. |
| 0:18.6 | Good morning, very exciting interview we're going to have today. |
| 0:21.4 | And we have to help us do that, not help us do it. |
| 0:24.6 | They actually do it. |
| 0:25.4 | Is the man of the hour, Ralph Nader? Hello, Ralph. |
| 0:27.5 | Hi, one of the world's best guitars with a social conscious coming up, Tom Morello. |
| 0:33.6 | That's right. |
| 0:34.1 | You know, music and activism go hand in hand. |
| 0:37.7 | Striking workers chant while they hold their picket lines, demonstrate |
| 0:41.6 | to sing protest songs while they march. |
| 0:43.8 | Plus music is an accessible way to spread the word about your cause. |
| 0:47.9 | Tom Morello has always imbued his music with activism and his activism with music. |
| 0:53.5 | Our listeners may know him from his band Rage Against Machine, his collaborations |
| 0:57.5 | with filmmaker Michael Moore, or his demonstrations with the Garment Workers Union |
| 1:01.6 | and the Occupy Wall Street movement. |
| 1:04.0 | He'll be our first guest today. |
| 1:05.3 | We look forward to discussing his long history of civic action as well as his new |
| 1:09.6 | opinion column in the New York Times. |
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