Zack de la Rocha's speech at Coachella 07

[SIJAR]

I just love this band.

[PantherFUCKING420]

How stupid 'Malone. So only poor people can raise a voice about these issues?

[Sw1tchBladeMalone]

Isn't Zack Rich? - LoL. How can you criticize a System when you're a millionaire. Just saying. BTW: I have been listening to rage for 15 years, and I'm seeing the irony of t.

[mattycap1]

@Sw1tchBladeMalone i wouldnt say rich. just well off, alot of his money goes to charity. they also played alot of free shows

[Creeveyable]

from Truman on...

question for all Americans... I'm not really an american so i don't really know...

why is ratm against JFK??? he said... From Truman on... I need an answer please

[lapopofighting]

@Creeveyable I'm not completely sure, but I imagine it's because of the attempts to overthrow Fidel Castro such as the Bay of Pigs invasion.

[Griffin2529]

Clear evidence of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Mom or Dad drunk allot, or used a lot of weed….then you get zack…he continues the brain damage by smoking dope everyday.

[antidote319]

@Griffin2529 Lmao great theory buddy...

[bob1987ify]

I say let 'em give whatever thoroughly inaccurate political speech they want. They're entertainers; they're bound to do so at one point in their life. There's a reason kings didn't make their court jesters into lords.

[bob1987ify]

Rage Against the Machine makes an art out of copying every single aspect of MC5. LAWL

[case138]

why does it have to be "every rich white one of them"? IF YOU HAVE CONTROL AND POWER, are YOU going to give it up?????? we as a society are too quick to judge and don't appreciate a fucking thing any more? if you win the lottery and make millions, are you going to give it up?

[dannyzee4]

if i saw george bush or blair in the street with no guards I'd smack him in the face so fucking hard. Also, if cameron gets elected in the UK and makes the rich richer faster and invades Iran I'll be watching out for him. I wonder what Bush is up to nowadays actually....

[bulletinman]

Agents of the CIA?

[colbath1]

i like how he puts the whole thing is just fucked

[Guerillaradio13]

amen brother (zach)

fuckin love this band

amazing live! :)

[WrappedInDarkness94]

Wow.. ok I fully agree with him.

[breadstick94]

zach is my idol

[SlashySlash17]

Just because they would be put on trial, and then hung and shot, doesn't mean they should be.

Just take the power back, no need for killing, we out number them...

[WalkSeeknDestroySell]

No. They are war criminals. Fuck them they deserve it.

[Yownanymous]

@SlashySlash17 Of course we'd need to kill the capitalists to get rid of this severe illness from humanity. It is the ONLY mental illness I would want to get rid of completely from humanity so don't go calling me a Nazi.

[jcougarfootball21]

zack has lots of charisma

[Terraforman]

Zack is so awesome.

[ogisaac]

this day as fucken magical.  craziest show ever

[NDawgZapatista]

Zack is just a guy. He's not a prophet, he's not a god, he just has a message. He makes sure his voice is heard, no matter what. Like the time they set up and played on wall st. That sent a blatant message that you can't stop us. Like I said, he's just a guy, let him educate you, but don't worship him. That's where you fall into dogma. Oh, and, btw, not everyone from the south is an ignorant redneck. Everyone has something to contribute, so, like Bad Religion said, RAISE YOUR VOICE! NOW!!

[BjGard]

AND HOW... cause your a dumb white trash redneck from the south that thinkgs YAYYYY WALL MARTS ARE GOOOOOD

[Football12guy]

haha you really from canada?

[breadstick94]

hey dumbass wake up

[Football12guy]

i'm wide awake you piece of shit

[breadstick94]

hahaha up urs dike

[Football12guy]

classic you pussy

[breadstick94]

shove it up ur ass u pathetic cunt

[mccunning]

this is exactly why the song and main point of this song is to wake up and see what our government has become,This man has become manipulated and brainwashed by society and the media into thinking our government is doing everything right, there just wearin us away by slowly taking our rights and freedoms, what happens when they take away all our guns? And then before you know it maybe our freedom of speech. You're wide awake? You're in a deep sleep.

[icebergbart216]

Best political speech, bc it's true!

[ZeroSkater62095]

This gave me goosebumps O_o

This Guy Is A Legend,If Not A God,A Message

[ashhwednesday]

what's the name of this song?

[ZeroSkater62095]

"Wake Up"

[Partyphotographer]

so true!! americans, take action

[plyboardkanine]

Hegemony is man's desire to control others.

[StonesFan85]

man FUCK fox news

[felong1]

99% who cheer will not do anything lol

[m87rxufftive]

that's true indeed. and i think 50% of the audience didn't even understand zack's message. sucks, i know.

[TrenteSylphs]

Got a chance to witness that shit for myself..

The American Gov is a Pathological Narcissist or an abusive relationship. It'll fuck you up, then tell you they love you & insist that the only way you can co-exist is to do exactly as they say..

[KYOOBED]

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO true

[jonnymoochalatti]

WHAT ZACK SAID!

[BritishSmith]

In reply to that yanks comment, i assure you i know whats going on perfectley well, but thankyu for asking, and secondly, the governement isnt some elitist group, its just people, who other people have voted for. If you dont like the currecnt system, vote for someone who wnats to change it. sounds pretty simple.. But no ones voting for anyone like that, so it just seems to be you wanting the change. Oh well.

[fauxjewboy2]

man didnt you listen? voting doesnt make a difference because the entire system is broken. you cant fix something if the tool is broken.

[JAMcreations]

Haha you're such a misguided fool.

[BritishSmith]

If All Amiricans wanted change then there would be change, foe example the American revolution, they got rid of the largest imperialist institute in the world, im sure the current Gov. would be no problem, but there isnt any of this, so they dont want change.

[Kasad9]

A really good song and a really good speech! Very inspiring! People should be made more aware of things like this.. get a glimpse of what's really going on in the world.

[tegofido]

i just couldnt stand to press the reply button on that brits comment, but i guess the actual things that are going on ust seeped into his brain causing bad simptoms of not knowing shit, so wake the FUCK up people please, things have to change this is a difrent time with a more advanced way of life mking it harder for us to get the change we want. wake up people, open your mind but dont let there lies get in.

[JAMcreations]

It's called hegemony: the process in which the ruling class persuade the subject class into believing that their dominant ideology is in the interests of everyone. The American people aren't offered an alternative, people have already been brainwashed to hate Marxism for no reason - and big business media groups aren't going to advertise an alternative to Capitalism because that's the very system that made them into the rich, elitist and exploitative bastards which they are.

[Partyphotographer]

word.. the economic crisis the whole world is facing these days, mainly because of the US, should open people's eyes to the bad things about the ideology of Liberalism and the capitalist system and consider just a few points from the view of Marx's theories

[IndustrytC]

Thank you.

[yngvaigilbsteen]

The whole world is due for a change. Not just the U.S.

[ragethetool]

oh my god, his voice gives me chills.

Rock on

[DJSnakeboy]

this should be broadcasted to all of the states people should hear and know whats really going on

[5150bythenight]

Nazi Scrapbooks From Hell....youtube.

[zacknasty26]

amazing.  it gives me chills every fucking time.

[5thElementHipHop]

That was pretty hardcore

[delphiote]

Hang them.

THEN give them a trial.

Then shoot the corpse!

(I was there that day. It was totally awesome!)

[tegofido]

then let them rot on a field next to a bush and just to make sure we put chainEs around them just to make sure those evil bastards dont wake up, and let there corpses just rot and get eaten off by animals.WAKE UP

[viperxiv]

"RATM hasn't sold out..." Of course not, how you sell out when you've been a sellout since the beginning? It's sad that anyone can mistake shallow, inflammatory, unsubstantiated and irrational blather by a shot jock as a "message" that "the world needs to hear."

[jhnbhnm]

are u the thickest twat on the planet how the fuck have they sold out there music comes from what they think they arent trying to sell records they are trying to let people know how shitty the world is being ruled..

[yngvaigilbsteen]

Zack and the boys have strong opinions and I think, ultimately, they would like to see a greater good, but if you think they're not interested in selling music and making a decent living...you're crazy. : )

[W70UnitProductions]

One of the only good bands who managed to stay true to theirselves while having mainstream exposure.

[haxage]

hell YES.

RATM is amazing. enough said.

[Krazakyle99]

what song is this cause it rocks

[Martin259]

Wake up, Its of the selftitled album

[brown5131]

Zach shaves his balls. It all sounds cool but he's a scared puppy. With a lot of musical talent. I love him.

[frogswallop]

Really? Do you call openly expressing your political beliefs on national television on pain of intimidation by neo-patriots and Government Agencies the act of a coward? Do you call a constant activism for the release of wrongly imprisoned individuals that the rest of the world ignores the act of a trend-setter? A man who constantly cites Noam Chomsky rather than CNN? Wake up.

[donkeyfieldmouse]

Nohing says pussy like standing up for yourself. nah wahtever.

[DeuceRage]

Zack De La Rocha is an absolout political hero for having the balls to stand up on stage and put down the most powerful government in the world! Im behind him all the way! This message should be broadcast worldwide!

[asthenia166]

america tries to make peace with every other country

but then they go into iran?

they dont trust them?

and ewhatabout the viewnam war?

what about slaves?

government still discreminate more than

others do

[Truman165]

zach de la rocha is a fucking hero. Anyone who says that RATM sold out is full of shit. This message needs to be heard

[babaoriley8]

Zach's right i totally agree but tried, hung and shot thats a little too much

[YertleDaTurtle]

Explain how it's too much? It's called Capitol Punishment. Being warned that Bin Laden was planning to attack America in the security briefings in the following August before September 11th. Bombing the innocent people of Iraq who had never once threatened to attack us. I'm not trying to back you into a corner, but just listen to what the man is saying. This band knows their shit.

[babaoriley8]

Oh am I aware of the band knowing their shit, i just read the speech and that pretty much changed my mind, it isnt too much he proves a solid point. Yertledaturtle thanks

[BBucketHHead]

Y? Too much Those Fuckers have Killed Thousands of innocent Children through Starvation, Bombing and BEing fucking shot a Hung and a trial is NOT ENOUGH

[weloveyoudimebag]

thousands?

MILLIONS.

[jumpnjza2]

yeh man....4 million expected to die of starvation.

[babaoriley8]

its fucked up, we gotta figure out what we can do abt it.

[jumpnjza2]

fuck that shit...if i could i'd hang all those war criminal fuckwits...

[thejax1]

zach de la rocha gains even MORE respect in my book... congratulations. fuckin rock on.

[thejax1]

zach de la rocha gains even MORE respect in my book... congratulations. fuckin rock on.

[fatmike10]

yeh delarus you're right, socialism is equality for all cos everyone under that regime is equally repressed and persecuted. and yeh communism did kill millions, about 100 million in the 20th century alone. facism isn't the way forward but neither is socialism.

[Aversion0]

This is nothing but truth, act out people even if its just a little, stand up and fight back, the longer we take to fight back the longer it will take us to change it, thats why we need to start now, turn off the fucking tv, get smart and find ways to attack the system, anyone can do it don't let anyone tell you otherwise. This country is due for change so lets start now.

[delarus]

intelectuals are socialists, and today in all the countrys are winning the socialist ideas, because..

SOCIALIST=EQUALITY FOR ALL HUMAN RACE

FACISM=HATE AND DEATH

CAPITALISM=SAVE YOURSELF

[delarus]

neonazis say holocaust is fake

neonazis say comunist kill millions of ppl

neonazis say all inmigrants are criminals

neonazis say kill all other ppl who dont be white and cute xD.

neonazis say hate and death is the only way

SORRY NEONAZIS BUT THE OTHER WAY IS DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM

[panch87]

fuck it-

[fatmike10]

sorry to burst all your "revolutionary" bubbles but the vast majority of people in the west dont care enough about the world to want to change it. people are content. if they werent then why isn't there a repeat of 1789, 1848-9, 1917 or 1949? im not condoning it, im just saying it how it is.

[thelimbokid]

...Yeah, 'cause Truman was SO rich (not). And what's wrong with whites? And which RACE of whites? French? Irish? Fucking racist guido.

[milburnus928]

wot the fuk are u opn about he is on about presidents of america u spaka not french or irish people so its ovious n secondly wot the fuk wich race of whites? theres only 1 race of whites but diferent natonaloties. he didnt say out against whites it was a figure of speech coz of the amount of fukin raceism in america luk at new orleans! fuk u ya bush suckin prick

[wrca06]

right on, man.

[BloodKnightZero]

They need to put this speech on a shirt. I'd wear that with pride.

[ugotmarooned63]

i agree

i would buy that shirt and wear it everywhere were ppl wont want it

[ugotmarooned63]

true that

great speech

break down the system we r in

WAKE UP

[animepunk182]

wow he looks the same but short hair now i liked it kind of long

[ernievzla]

well tell me whats the alternetive system???

im sure its not comunism lol

[y2kcjc]

the alternative system is very similar to the current system, except the candidates are not whipped by the corporations, there are more than 2 candidates for president, and the things they do are genuine, with integrity, and done for the good of mankind.

It's sad that these basic needs that are integral to progress are looked upon as fantasy with the current situation.

[milburnus928]

the alternitave system is 2 have other parties that arent consertive democrats are conservative n republicans are NEO conservative how about a liberal majority? the world wud be a better place coz oil greedy pricks wudnt be in power

[JAMcreations]

Yes, it's Communism - and not the way you're thinking either. I can tell by the way you talk that you think Communism is just what Stalin did.

[ernievzla]

che guevara is a psycho fool!!!!

that's all i've got to say

[direregicide]

i heard the officials gave them shit afterwards for what zack had said in that speech, land of the free my ballz

[Autologic293]

wake up you dreamers. we are in a dog eat dog world where our own leaders are turning against us. now, it is time for US, THE PEOPLE, to take the power back. Unfortunately, with all this SHIT on the television blinding us, and lying to us, that we dont know what direction to go. It is up to US, THE PEOPLE to rise against the brutality of these evil corporate nationalists. We will prevail. What is done in the dark will be brought to the light eventually.

[bdavies1717]

some people need to wake the fuck up and open their ears to what people like zack have to say...RATM for life

[Nozakii]

haha thats so true :D

[anisesrule]

im not so big on the anti whiteness, i wonder if he realizes his band mates are white?

[mikefalzone]

hes not anit white. hes just making a statement about how every president has been a "rich white male".

that is all..thank you and goodnight

[airbornephish]

I'm a huge Rage fan, and was there for this show.... I find it funny how Zach speaks about "white people" being an evil force though. There are black and hispanic people in the Bush administration also.

[KingGlutrok]

I prefer the term "chocolate" to describe these people.

[mige23]

Wrong. He means rich white male hegemony. That is why they hate and fear change. It threatens their illegitamate dominance. There is, however,civilizied decent white people from around the world that support their(rich white male dominance)downfall. Which has already started.

[thesoulman573]

I think Zack de la Rocha is one of the best political activists who ever lived. And I belive that this speech he gave was probably one of the greatest speeches I've ever heard and I totally agreed with what he said. RATM is the best. RATM forever!

[seanthekazman]

whas zack quoting chompsky on the entire quote or just all the presidnets would be hung

[skatergutarist77]

ratm is the best ever zack is the king of all music

[trickmast]

fuck yeah man, respect

[mojorasol]

participate in this cultural revolution...

[wonatesics]

if you think they should run for president you're clearly missing the point of their music. they sound like every pissed off half bit punk rocker. there views are in no way radical, underlined by the fact that you have to pay absurd amounts of money just to hear them in person. our rage against the machine works for the machine? we're fucked.

[intelevend]

oh i mean ofcourse you know all those benefit concerts they do oh yea we paying soo much for those. You realize they do get payed something but most of the money from those concerts go to the organizations they are performing for. think before you talk dumbass

[CalabreseMPC]

ZACK FOR PRESIDENT!!!!!

[changospank1]

hell yeah dude i was there u took some vids too but its way too shaky

[frustrat62]

They should all run for president.

[callyjohnwell]

Goosebumps.. i seriously wonder if Zach would be successful if he ran for president.. i'd vote for him. you?

[beyourself123123]

yeh i would defo vote for him no question

check out subliminal army just type them into google n have a listen

[dotEmfour]

Amen, Brother Zach.

[alstvc]

I wonder what the Native Americans think? About US Governments?

[fysh117]

FUCK YEA! vive le revolucion! this is why this band is awesome, they advocate the destruction of this shit cuntry, its shit leaders and its shit government

[ihatemalus]

No fucktard, reconstruction not destruction.

[fysh117]

destroy then rebuild 'fucktard'

[malegoldenangel]

got it: "A good friend of ours said that if the same laws were applied to U.S. Presidents as were applied to the Nazis after World War II that every single one of them, every last rich white one of them, from Truman on would've been hung and tried and shot. In this current administration there's no exception. They should be hung and tried and shot...as any war criminal should be."

in the internet are debattes bout that speech wheter zack vrossed the line or not, wut yall think?

[claudiotinoue]

"A good friend of ours said that if the same laws were applied to U.S. Presidents as were applied to the Nazis after World War II that every single one of them, every last rich white one of them, from Truman on would've been hung to death and shot. And this current administration there's no exception. They should be hung and tried and shot...as any war criminal should be.

[claudiotinoue]

but the challenges that we face they go way beyond administrations, way beyond elections, way beyond every four years of pulling levers, way beyond that, because this whole rotten system has become so vicioulsy cruel that in order to sustain itself it needs to destroy entire countries and profit from their reconstruction in order to survive. thats not a system that changes every 4 years, its a system that we have to break down generation after generation..."

[malegoldenangel]

can sume1 please write this speech down? if yes, thanks a lot, i dont understand everything accousticly.thanks already if sumeone got time to do me that favor

!

[scurvyrideronthestor]

Hah, I love Rage and agree with their message...but "hung, tried, and shot" seems a bit out of order hahaha...

[jmnjimmy]

... your an idiot, look at the war they've created, 700,000 people are dead for nothing but oil, They broke international l aw and used chemical weapons on civilians in fallujah, in my opinion they should be torturd then hung

[M3talH3ad3030150]

lol hes saying that if they were hung then tried, then shot, they would be dead while they were being tried. wouldn't really make much sense now would it?

[jmnjimmy]

oh siight, soz, yeah i'd have to agree with you there

[Raq1988]

Haha Zack my man ! .... no fucking way they will ever die RATM 4 Ever....

[RuthRadio]

haha fuck yeah man! amen to that!

[LoUsIf]

RIGHT ON ZACK GO FOR THE GOLD!!

[sfernandez49]

OOooh this one has great audio. Thanks for posting.

[Tigri44]

Zacks right

[mdtacor]

stop moving i'm getting dizzy lol

[tiowey]

we need ratm more than ever now! regroup and record!!!!!

[capita12]

ahmen brotha

[AnelyMG]

yessss please!!!!!!!

[YertleDaTurtle]

I don't believe in leadership, I believe in uniting.

[videoonsight]

At least we don't hijack civilian aircraft and fly them into buildings. Sorry Zack, but after 9/11, you won't get much sympathy from the American people who survived such a cowardly attack on innocent people. One must lead, if others are to follow. The attacks on America stopped when these terrorist fucks realized that we weren't going to tolerate their way of life. Iraq was a piece of shit country before we attacked it. Our ideology is superior to theirs and that is why America must lead.

[dazinith]

it is sad that you still believe that garbage. ever wonder how hitler justified his wars to his people? he convinced them there was a pressing exterior TERRORIST threat (read about the Reichstag).. 9/11 wasn't terrorists, it was a shock and awe campaign to kick off our desired wars of aggression (let me guess, you still think we were innocently attacked at the gulf of tonkin too?). read about the war games on the morning of 9/11 and stop being so easily manipulated.

[LanceMJoseph]

silly nazi, wars are for kids.

[ImpeachYesterday]

then sign up and go fight retard!

Thats a thing that NEVER occurs to flag waving, retard Repugs. You make me sick.

[Nicotag]

America is a hole of shit. suck a tail pipe and rid this world of your imperialistic seed. Rid the world of your bullshit high ego built upon the corpses of the dead. Your industries and individualized ego centric ideology is the cause of all the bad in the world. Save your soul, kill yourself.

[DeSmetownescbc]

yeaaa right.. America is fucked up but not nearly as bad as the middle east.. were not killing our selves in the name of religion and planning terrorits acts against other countries, and we are merely stopping the deaths of innocent lives by having troops in the middle east killing every one of those bastards over there

BTW great rage song

[RUNRUT]

Hah, right. We are terrorists, because terrorism means to strike terror in the people. We have accomplished that feat in Iraq so we are equally terrorists as the "middle east" is. And who is innocent? Because surely this country is not innocent, We are not preventing the deaths of innocent lives but merely escalating the situation so that the stakes will be higher.

[capita12]

yeah that has alot to do with iraq and the people in it right.

[FORDCOUNTRY]

"Our ideology is superior to theirs and that is why America must lead."

Get out of MY country, Adolf! And take your goddamned fascist "ideology" with you.

The Bush Criminal Empire are the fascists who funded Hitler in the first place. LOOK IT UP, you FAUX news brainwashed Busheep!!

They created Hitler. They created Bin Laden. Hinkley, who shot Reagan, was a friend of the family. Bush Sr AND Dick Nixon were both in Dallas on 11-22-1963. Why is that??

[frozensheep]

wow, i can tolerate political debates in comments about a video on you tube, but conspiracy theories man? Stop fucking with peoples heads about what happened in the past. Zack is talking about the current shitty system not what they did a long time ago.

[RUNRUT]

It's your mentality Videoonsight that makes this world a shitty place. Nobody is superior, we are equal, stupid humans. You really think our War is the reason there has not been another terrorist attack? We have open borders, our ports where grain ships come in are allowed all the way into the harbor, from counties in the middle east, before getting inspected, any number of things could be on those ships. Thats why Bush has the worst approval ratings lower than Hoover during the depression.

[JAMcreations]

At least you don't hijack civilian aircraft and fly them into buildings? Oh no, you just invade an entire country on a false premise and murder 655,000 people. Your ideology is a piece of shit you Fascist wanker. What's to say there would have been any more attacks on American soil anyway? It happened once.

[DMCrimson]

This video is awesome, but it doesn't really show how much the crowd popped at the end of his speech when he says, "generation after generation after generation..." Being at that concert is one of the best experiences of my life.

[jujubean435]

=') i was touched ratm forever

[RUNRUT]

Well said, thank god Zach is back!

[JauriAragon]

WOW i love you guys