Check Out Tom Morello—Live and Via PSA

by Tula Connell, Apr 7, 2006

One of our AFL-CIO Media Affairs staff, Gabrielle Coppola, reminds us that even though the seventh annual National Student Labor Week of Action officially spanned March 27–April 4, students across the country continue to take action.

According to Coppola:

Determined to stop the corporatization of education, student activists from Vermont to Florida to California are demanding a living wage for campus workers, while Chicago youth joined Florida farm workers to confront McDonald’s about its poverty wages and poor labor practices. The movement for fair wages, organizing rights, and affordable education on college campuses is still going.

Musician and activist Tom Morello of Audioslave, and Gladys Cisneros, a student activist at Georgetown University who helped win a living wage for campus workers last year, created a public service announcement (PSA) about this year’s week of action.

For more information about the PSA, visit www.studentlabor.org.

Meanwhile, Morello and singer Boots Riley, who have stood with workers over the years, will perform in concert Saturday, April 8, from 9:30 p.m. to midnight at Jammin’ Java in Vienna, Virginia. Doors open at 9 p.m.

Morello and Riley are recipients of the AFL-CIO’s Arts and Activism Award and have lent their talents at rallies, for radio spots and have participated in the AFL-CIO-sponsored Tell Us The Truth Tour in November 2003, raising issues of media consolidation and globalization. They will be joined by roots-rock band, The U-Liners.

The concert is a fund-raiser for Axis of Justice, an organization formed by Morello and Serj Tankien from musical group System of a Down, to link their fans with political causes and grassroots organizations.

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