The Rude Mechanical Orchestra is a radical protest marching band based in Lenapehoking, the unceded occupied land of the Lenape Nation, colonially known as the New York City area. We play music and provide chant support in the streets at protests, marches, rallies, direct actions, community events, and more for the revolution and all its intersecting avenues, including (but not limited to): feminism, immigrant rights, queer and trans liberation, labor, peace, equitable community self-determination, decolonization, and racial, social, economic, housing, and climate justice. We actively resist and seek to dismantle racism, (cis)sexism, anti-queerness, ableism, ageism, classism, colonialism, zionism, antisemitism, apartheid, war, genocide, ecocide, gentrification, and all forms of oppression.

Through our music, we strive to bring joy and inspiration to the communities we are in solidarity with and to inspire new people into activism of all kinds. We pay tribute to the world’s cultures and the revolutionary role music has played throughout history. Internally, we work towards being a safe, welcoming place for all genders, ages, races, sexual orientations, disabilities, neurotypes, religions, ethnicities, and musical skill levels.