( RollingStone.com ) -- Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello spent Monday at the Wisconsin protests , performing acoustic songs at a rally and delivering a fiery speech to the thousands inside of the capital rotunda who are protesting Governor Walker 's attempt to end the right of state employees to collectively bargain . `` What 's happened so far might be the most inspiring 24 hours of my life as an activist , '' Morello tells Rolling Stone . `` I 've never seen this kind of outpouring of unapologetic , steel-backboned support for union causes in the United States . The Madison police were delivering bratwurst to the protesters inside the capitol , and the kids were thanking them . It was unbelievable . '' Rolling Stone : Tom Morello rocks Wisconsin protesters . At a freezing cold rally outside of the capital , Morello was joined by Rise Against frontman Tim Mcilrath , Wayne Kramer of the MC5 and Boston folk group Street Dogs . The show mixed classics like Neil Young 's `` Ohio , '' Bob Marley 's `` Get Up , Stand Up '' and Morello 's driving acoustic version of Rage Against the Machine 's `` Guerilla Radio . '' `` No matter what Gov . Walker , the Mubarak of the Midwest , says , this land is your land , '' Morello said before singing Woody Guthrie 's `` This Land is Your Land . '' `` Never give up and never give in ! '' Rolling Stone : Tom Morello 's top ten protest anthems . If Governor Walker 's bill passes , it would effectively destroy Wisconsin 's civil servant unions ; many fear that other Republican-controlled states would attempt to follow suit . `` I come from a coal-mining town in central Illinois where everybody was union , '' says Morello . `` For almost 30 years , my mom was a public high school teacher in Libertyville , Illinois . I grew up with a firm belief that the leverage we have as working people is through the union . It 's the only counterweight to the raw greed of corporate power . For the past 22 years , I 've been a union man in L.A. as a member of the Professional Musicians Local 47 . '' Rolling Stone : Rage Against the Machine rock for immigrants ' rights in California . After the rally , Morello entered the packed Capitol rotunda , which had been occupied for the past week , grabbed a bullhorn , and made one of the most rousing speeches of the day . `` This is what they do in times of economic crisis , '' Morello said . `` They think people are n't paying attention , that they can just sneak through this legislation that would rob us of decades , centuries of social progress . We did n't pick this fight . [ Governor Walker ] tapped us on the shoulder and said 'let 's fight . ' And now we 're gon na knock his legislative teeth out . '' Reporting by Patrick Doyle . Copyright © 2010 Rolling Stone .
Outside of the capital , Morello was joined by other musicians to protest . `` I come from a coal-mining town in central Illinois where everybody was union . '' In the Capitol rotunda , Morello grabbed a bullhorn and made a speech .