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‘If You Support Anything, Let It Be Justice’: Tom Morello Talks ICE Protest Song ‘Pretend You Remember Me’
"Releasing this song now is in direct response to what we’ve seen happening, the state terror we’ve seen happening in this country," Morello says.
So there was no question, and there should be no surprise, that the Rage Against the Machine guitarist would address the Trump administration’s frenzied deportation efforts, particularly in Los Angeles, in song. “I was on the front lines in the battles of the Marines and cops and ICE in the streets of Los Angeles,” he says, “and blasting out of every car were Rage songs. “The reason why you saw one of the biggest protests in the history of the U.S. (against the ICE raids in Los Angeles) is there is a real fear that American fascism is about to kick down our door.
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