Zack de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine has written a poem to show his support for the ongoing Occupy movement. Rage, for their part, made an attempt to occupy Wall Street back in 2000 when the band attempted to enter the New York Stock Exchange and security officers denied entrance to the band and entourage. Frontman de la Rocha was shoved away from the entrance after briefly entering through a side door. Soon city police moved in to secure the building. Most of this appeared in the band's video for "Sleep Now in the Fire".
de la Rocha's last studio recording was One Day As A Lion's 2008 debut: One Day As A Lion.
The beginning spills through city veins
Into the arteries
And under powers poison clouds
We move like the shadows
Through the alley ways
Through nightmares bought and sold as dreams
Through barren factories
Through boarded schools
Through rotting fields
Through the burning doors of the past
Through imaginations exploding
To break the curfews in our minds
Our actions awaken dreams of actions multiplied
A restless fury
Once buried like burning embers
Left alone to smolder
But together stacked under the walls of a dying order
All sparks are counted
Calloused hands raised in silence
Over the bonfire of hope unincorporated
It's flame restores tomorrows meaning
Across the graveyards of hollow promises
As gold dipped vultures pick at what is left of our denial
And the youngest among us
Stare at us stoned like eyes determined
And say
Death for us may come early
Cause dignity has no price
At the corner of now and nowhere
Anywhere
Everywhere
Tomorrow is calling
Tomorrow is calling
Do not be afraid