10/30/2004: The new video for Eminem's song "Mosh" was released online and on MTV last week. The video was produced by the Guerrilla News Network. GNN also produced a video for the song "White America," which exposes racism and the alienating effects of growing up in suburban America.

The lyrics of the song "Mosh" advocate political pressure as a means to bring about regime change, and in particular to the American troops home (from Iraq): "Stomp, push up, mosh, fuck Bush, until they bring our troops home..." Some of Eminem's earlier music has shown a disgust with aspects of the system, and more specifically, with parts of mainstream culture. In this song, Eminem says, "We got our own battles to fight / on our own soil." This would appear to be incitement to focus on local struggles--the soil that Eminem refers to appears to be the White House. The video indicates that women, children, and men of color, as well as white soliders are targets of the Bush administration.
Eminem seems to make a point of using language that would attract people who are already part of the movements against corporate globalization and the war: the word "Blechtell" (a reference to Bechtel, a corporate exploiter of the war and water rights all over the world) on the chalkboard, and the use of the phrase "No more blood for oil," for example.

The use of black bloc garb in the video appears to indicate anger and intent to take radical action. The video ends with the hooded-up crowd arriving at a building that resembles the White House, with Eminem at the front, ready to sign in and vote. However, the black bloc is a tactic that is largely used, at least in this country, by anarchists and anti-authoritarians, and anarchists don't vote.

Eminem has reportedly not endorsed any candidate in this race. Fans are reportedly planning to wear black hoodies to the polls on election day. Anarchist Chuck0 says, "Eminem is a fucking joke"

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