People of the Sun

This song was first written about the original California Chicano natives. As it developed, the lyrics changed to focus on the Zapatista Movement in southern Mexico. The Zapatistas, an army of indigenous farmers in Chiapas, Mexico, launched an armed uprising on January 1, 1994.

At a 2010 concert in Brazil, Zack de la Rocha dedicated the song to the MST (Landless Rural Workers of Brazil Movement), a "mass social movement, formed by rural workers and by all those who want to fight for land reform and against injustice and social inequality in rural areas."