Rocker Tom Morello was arrested in Los Angeles last night during a protest march to raise awareness for immigrant hotel workers' rights. The Audioslave guitarist, who performed under his Nightwatchman alias at a rally before the march, was charged with unlawful assembly for refusing to move from Century Boulevard, the main entry road to Los Angeles International Airport.

Four hundred other protesters were arrested at the 2000 strong march, which Morello and other organizers called, "The largest act of civil disobedience in the history of Los Angeles."

Morello and the other arrestees actually planned to be arrested and even gave the Los Angeles Police Department their driver's license numbers days before the event to speed up processing.

Speaking before the march, he told MTV, "In these political dark ages, it's important for us to stand up for one another. These hotel workers by the airport make 20 percent less wages than hotel workers around the rest of Los Angeles. We're here to express our solidaritywith them, to help them unionize and to help them close the gap between their sub-poverty wages and the millions and millions of dollars the people who own these hotels make."

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