Rage Against The Machine are donating $475,000 to reproductive rights organisations

nme.com:

Rage Against The Machine have pledged US$475,000 (£387,000) to reproductive rights organisations in Wisconsin and Illinois, following the recent overturn of Roe v.

Wade yesterday (June 24).The band issued a statement on social media today (June 25), announcing that they will be donating the entirety of a sum of money that their fans raised “from the sale of our charity tickets at Alpine Valley and the United Center”.Rage Against The Machine went on to say that they are “disgusted” by the recent Roe v.

Wade repeal, adding that the decision will “have a disproportional impact on poor, working class and undocumented BIPOC communities”.A post shared by Rage Against The Machine (@rageagainstthemachine)“Like the many women who have organised sophisticated railroads of resistance to challenge these attacks on our collective reproductive freedom, we must continue to resist,” the band concluded.Earlier this year, the band shared a statement supporting abortion rights in the US, following a leaked draft from the Supreme Court privately voting to overturn Roe v.

Wade.Yesterday, it was announced that the US Supreme Court has officially overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade case that made abortion in the United States legal on a federal level.Rage Against The Machine are now the latest in a growing list of artists that have spoken out against the ruling.