{"id":1548705,"date":"2022-07-11T13:01:14","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T17:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1548705"},"modified":"2022-07-11T13:04:14","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T17:04:14","slug":"rage-against-the-machine-pretends-to-still-be-relevant-calls-to-abort-the-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rage-against-the-machine-pretends-to-still-be-relevant-calls-to-abort-the-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Rage Against the Machine Pretends to Still Be Relevant, Calls to &#8220;Abort the Supreme Court&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frage-against-the-machine-pretends-to-still-be-relevant-calls-to-abort-the-supreme-court%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1548705&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><\/p>\n<h2>Band rages against  roe v wade overturn <\/h2>\n<div id=\"authorDate\">\n<p>\u00a0on&#038;nbsp11th July 2022 @ 5.00pm <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<figure title=\"he band appeared at Wisconsin\u2019s Alpine Music Theater on Saturday as part of its &#039;Public Service Announcement&#039; tour\">\n<div class=\"articleImage\">\n<p><span class=\"creditNew\">\u00a9\u00a0press<\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption>he band appeared at Wisconsin\u2019s Alpine Music Theater on Saturday as part of its &#8216;Public Service Announcement&#8217; tour<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>&#8216;Punk&#8217; band Rage Against the Machine (RATM) blasted the recent SCOTUS decision on abortion during a weekend show with calls to <em>\u201cabort\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 the Court while criticizing <em>\u201cforced birth\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 in a country with rampant gun violence, no universal health care, or guaranteed paid parental leave.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In their first concert in 11 years, the band appeared at Wisconsin\u2019s Alpine Music Theater on Saturday as part of its \u201cPublic Service Announcement\u201d tour.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to provoking visuals, Border Police officers hunting an individual, refugees in a boat spotted by a helicopter, as well as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer dummy being beaten, the band highlighted the issue of abortion following the recent Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.<\/p>\n<p>During the performance of \u201cFreedom,\u201d their final single from their self-titled 1994 album, the band displayed a message on a screen reading:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Forced birth in a country with no universal healthcare and where the cost of giving birth is $4,000 to $15,000.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The message was followed by another decrying alleged economic hardships for parents in America:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Forced birth in a country that is the only wealthy country in the world without any guaranteed paid parental leave at the national level.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The next caption highlighted the alleged racial impact of abortion restrictions:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Forced birth in a country where Black birth-givers experience maternal mortality two to three times higher than that of white birth-givers.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The following one pointed to gun violence, apparently linking the right to abortion and the likelihood of a child being a victim of such violence:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Forced birth in a country where gun violence is the number one cause of death among children and teenagers.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The final message called to <em>\u201cABORT THE SUPREME COURT.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Last month, the band said it was \u201cdisgusted\u201d by Roe being overturned, and it pledged to donate $475,000 to abortion groups in Wisconsin and Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>The alternative rock band is known for voicing its political ideology, both in its music and off-stage.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, RATM guitarist Tom Morello proposed the formation of a \u201cChildren\u2019s Liberation Army,\u201d made of \u201cdisgruntled vets\u201d to take on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ok people of good conscience &#038; disgruntled vets I\u2019m thinking of putting together a Children\u2019s Liberation Army to take on ICE. WHOS IN?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Morello (@tmorello) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tmorello\/status\/1008941210172514304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 19, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Previously, Morello urged people to \u201cstand up against\u201d Donald Trump, referring to the former president as a \u201cfrat house rapist\u201d and war-mongering racist.<\/p>\n<p>The band\u2019s bassist Tim Commerford claimed anyone who voted for President Trump is as racist as the man himself.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAnyone who voted for him is racist, he\u2019s a racist. And as a racist who voted for a racist, you have an opportunity to make it right, and admit that you made the wrong decision,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n<p>Commerford, a self-described \u201cconspiracy theorist,\u201d had previously told Rolling Stone magazine he does not believe \u201cISIS is real\u201d and NASA never landed on the moon.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/neonnettle.com\/news\/19565--woke-canadian-military-allows-dyed-hair-and-face-tattoos-to-be-more-inclusive-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;Woke&#8217; Canadian Military Allows Dyed Hair and Face Tattoos to Be More &#8216;Inclusive&#8217;<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Band rages against roe v wade overturn  \u00a0on&#038;nbsp11th July 2022 @ 5.00pm   \u00a9\u00a0press he band appeared at Wisconsin\u2019s Alpine Music Theater on Saturday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1548789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1548705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1548705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1548789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1548705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1548705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1548705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}