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Rage Against The Machine performed a free concert in protest of America’s two-party political system on August 14, 2000 – the opening night of the Democratic National Convention. They performed across from the Staples Center, where recently-impeached-but-then-acquitted-and-still-serving-President Bill Clinton was speaking. The concert was originally planned by MTV as a part of their “Choose or Lose” 2000 election participation campaign to promote youth voting. However, given Rage’s reputation – including an incident a few months prior while filming the video for “Sleep Now in the Fire” with Michael Moore that caused the New York Stock Exchange to close, a controversial burning of the American flag during their high-profile set at Woodstock ’99 and the general aura surrounding their latest album The Battle of Los Angeles, released less than a year before – the city of Los Angeles rejected MTV’s applications. So Rage arranged to instead perform as part of a previously organized protest on an, taking the prime spot of the convention’s first night protest. The  allegedly dispatching . After the concert a gathering of reported