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Tom Morello To Release New EP In Aid Of SaveWorkers.org

• 31st May 2011

Tom Morello is set to release Union Town via New West Records on CD and vinyl on July 18th – with a free download of the title track available at SaveWorkers.org right now (link).

All profits from Union Town will benefit The America Votes Labor [sic] Unity Fund. The studio recording consists of eight pro-union songs featuring three TOm Morello originals, as well as the Woody Guthrie classic (This Land Is Your Land).

Morello stated after performing at an anti-union bill protest, “Performing in Madison, Wisconsin and seeing 100,000 people in the streets demanding justice inspired me to record an album of union fighting songs. I've been a proud union man for 22 years and my mom was a union public high school teacher, so for me this fight is very personal. Unions are a crucial counterweight to the raw corporate greed that torpedoed our economy, threatens our environment and wants to strip away decades of social progress. From Cairo to Madison, workers are pushing back and tyrants are falling. Here's a soundtrack for our fight.”

Tom Morello is an original member of rock bands Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave – the two bands selling a combined 30 million albums worldwide.

More information about the release can be found by following this link.

MSD