<P> Guantanamo is known around the world as one of the places where human beings have been tortured--from water boarding, to stripping, hooding and forcing detainees into humiliating sexual acts--playing music for 72 hours in a row at volumes just below that to shatter the eardrums . Guantanamo may be Dick Cheney's idea of America, but it's not mine . The fact that music I helped create was used in crimes against humanity sickens me--we need to end torture and close Guantanamo now . </P> <P> On October 9, 2010, the RATM made its first gig in Brazil and played at the music festival SWU Music & Arts in Itu . Despite sound problems and some flaws in the organization of the event, the first show on Brazilian soil had a major impact and has received good reviews . Tom Morello wore the cap of the Landless Workers' Movement (known in Brazil simply as MST) during the performance of the song "Wake Up" and the band dedicated "People of the Sun" to that social movement . According to the Brazilian Independent Media Center and other alternative media news websites, the TV channel Multishow, which had announced that would broadcast the full concert, censored the broadcast cutting it short after only 35 minutes of its onset, at the exact moment when the guitarist Tom Morello put on a cap of the MST . Instead of RATM's performance, the channel aired the erotic television show "Sexytime" that was expected to air 1 hour 25 minutes later . The channel claimed that the broadcast was interrupted due to technical problems after the public invaded the restricted area of the shooting crew; it is impossible to confirm which version is true . However, it is undisputed that the praise singer Zack de la Rocha made of the Brazilian Landless Workers' Movement was omitted from the Multishow Channel broadcast, and censorship has occurred at least in this respect . On October 10 Tom Morello stated on his Twitter account: "I understand the network cut away when I put on the PST hat . That means we're winning ." And then corrected: "Of course that's MST, not PST . PST stands for Post São Paulo Triatholon ." </P> <P> The band advocates for the release of convicted political prisoner, former Black Panther and life imprisonment inmate Mumia Abu - Jamal, for whom they wrote and recorded the track "Voice of the Voiceless" for their 1999 album The Battle of Los Angeles . The band performed at a benefit concert, and all the proceeds were donated to the International Concerned Family And Friends Of Mumia Abu - Jamal, and De la Rocha spoke before the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in support of Abu - Jamal . The band also raised funds and awareness for political activist and convicted double - murderer Leonard Peltier, and documented his case in the video for "Freedom". </P> <P> At a 1993 Lollapalooza appearance in Philadelphia, the band stood onstage naked for 15 minutes with duct tape on their mouths and the letters PMRC painted on their chests in protest against censorship by the Parents Music Resource Center . Refusing to play, they stood in silence with the sound emitted being only audio feedback from Morello and Commerford's guitars . The band later played a free show for disappointed fans . Tom Morello was arrested for civil disobedience in October 1997 during a union protest by garment workers and their supporters against the use of sweatshop labor by Guess? Billboards subsequently appeared in Las Vegas and New York featuring a photograph of the band with the caption "Rage Against Sweatshops: We Don't Wear Guess--A Message from Rage Against the Machine and UNITE (Union of Needletrades Industrial and Textile Employees). Injustice . Don't buy it ." </P>

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