Morello VS FTAA / Fox News

Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello made this statement in a FTAA in protest in San Ysidro, California:

When we use our common sense and oppose a plan that will hurt millions of people, the mass media, the politicians, the late?night comedians, and the snide bastards on the Fox News Channel call us 'radicals.' They called us radicals when we opposed the pharmaceutical companies, who in the name of greater profits sought to deny the poor people in South Africa access to affordable AIDS medications. We said, as the Zaptistas say, '?Ya Basta!', 'Enough already!' And the pharmaceutical companies backed down... Now they call us 'radicals' again, because we oppose the FTAA and corporate globalization. But is it radical to say that people need access to jobs? Is it radical to say that people should get a good day's pay for a hard day's work? Is it radical to say that all people deserve to eat, live and work in conditions of peace, freedom and justice? If so, Fox News, then I am proud to be a radical.Morello closed with the following: "There is fear in their eyes. We can beat them, and we will beat them. In the words of Cesar Chavez, 'You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore,' and we are not afraid anymore. Corporations were created by man. And if we built them up, we can tear the sons of bitches down.

Check out the article this came from at Launch. Morello's views sum up the attitude of many musicians who have made their views known with this issue, most vocally Propagandhi and The (International) Noise Conspiracy.