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‘Are they sending SWAT in?’ And then, from around the corner, they see hundreds of people in business clothes coming closer, chanting ‘Suits! For! Rage!’ They’re fans! They play it a third time and start hearing a rumble. Nothing’s happening-a couple cops talking into their radios. So they get there, they play the song one time. Rage were going to shoot a music video for one of their songs, Michael Moore directed it and the idea was they were gonna show up on Wall Street and play loud in the middle of the day, and when the cops came, and when Wall Street people came and yelled at them, even if it got shut down, that would be the video. There’s a story I tell, which was told to me by Tom Morello. Rapper Boots Riley confirmed the latter part of SPIN’s reporting in a 2018 New York Times interview: “As one of them told the film crew, ‘I hope you don’t have any money in there, because if you do, it’s on autopilot.’” “Any blip in the Dow came earlier in the day, when Rage-loving stockbrokers were lured outside by a metal heavier than gold,” wrote SPIN’s Mark Schone.
Once police moved in to grab him, members of Rage ran across the street “as if on cue.” The magazine also reported that trading never stopped. When officers stepped in at 2 p.m.-one hour into the shoot-he promised to finish shooting by 3:30 and keep the band off the sidewalk.Īccording to SPIN, however, Moore “steadily cranked the volume” for the next hour and then moved the band onto the sidewalk at 3:15. According to interviews with people involved in the shoot, Moore provoked the police. However, the band would have been able to enter the stock exchange’s gallery after receiving security clearance at the Visitor’s Center.Īn article in the May 2000 issue of SPIN magazine cast a skeptical eye at Moore’s story. MTV News reported at the time that only members of the stock exchange and credentialed traders were allowed into the building because of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. “For a few minutes, Rage Against the Machine was able to shut down American capitalism-an act that I am sure tens of thousands of downsized citizens would cheer.” “We decided to shoot this video in the belly of the beast,” said Moore. The band’s members allegedly made it through the building’s first set of doors before security hit a button that shut down the Exchange. According to the filmmaker, Rage rushed the New York Stock Exchange across the street while he was being threatened with arrest. After the band ran through six takes of “Sleep Now in the Fire,” the shoot was broken up by the New York City Police Department, Moore claimed on his website.
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