Critical Mass is touring the country promoting the Jericho march and RAIL has hosted a few concerts with them. Critical Mass promotes anarchism as the solution to imperialism. But even with our disagreement with their anarchist positions, the overwhelming majority of Critical Mass' music has an excellent political message and our unity in fighting the criminal injustice system made Critical Mass' performance an excellent addition to the concert. Headlining the concert was Tree, a popular Massachusetts band with 3 CDs out and a large following. Tree is also promoting the Jericho march and played the benefit to help with our efforts to fund the RAIL contingent to the march.
Tree does a lot of environmentalist work and also features some good anti-imperialist politics.
This song salutes the I.W.W. and Tree seems to go along with the pro-white working class line that white folks in this country are, on the whole, exploited by the capitalists. RAIL doesn't buy this when we can see that even though white workers make less than their bosses they still earn quite enough to be bought off and supporting imperialism as a group. A lot of the youth who came to see Tree were not into the music for the politics. But this provides an excellent opportunity to influence youth and we salute Tree for keeping the politics in their music and hammering on the messages. RAIL made sure to insert a strong political theme into the show and we challenged all the youth to check out our literature, find out the facts about the system for themselves and take seriously the task of changing society for the better.