"The Last Internationale" honors Human Rights Day with song remembering 1948 plane crash victims

The new band honors the memory of the dead with "Deportees"

Published December 10, 2013 7:00PM (EST)

   (Jared Sagal)
(Jared Sagal)

In 1948, a plane carrying 28 passengers, mostly Mexican migrant workers, crashed near Fresno, Calif. Today, on Human Rights Day, indie band "The Last Internationale" offers a song in their memory, "Deportees."

The band's debut album, executive produced by Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello, will be released this coming spring.


By Prachi Gupta

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