rage against the machine - freedom

"Freedom" was a single released by Rage Against the Machine from their self-titled album in 1994.

The song is played in Drop D tuning on the guitars and has a distincitve riff in the intro and chorus. The band would normally close their shows playing Freedom due to the infamous breakdown followed by an intense ending; which they sometimes adapted parts of Township Rebellion (another Rage song) for. An example of this is featured on The Battle of Mexico City DVD. Since their reunion, the song has been played as part of the encore along with Killing in the Name.

The video for "Freedom" is focused on the case for Leonard Peltier, who was one of the leaders of the American Indian Movement. The band is performing live in a small venue throughout the video. During the video, footage from the Peltier case is examined and detailed with shots of Peltier and other members of AIM. There is also a reenactment of what took place on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

The video clips of this reenactment are from the documentary "Incident at Oglala".

During most of the video quotes from Sitting Bull and general AIM information scrolls along the bottom of the screen. The video ends with a picture of Leonard in prison and the phrase "justice has not been done".

from wikipedia.