Behind These Prison Walls

If Europe loses Julian Assange, Europe will lose its soul

Bloody Sunday - Stiff Little Fingers

David Rovics: So This Is What It's Like

This Week with David Rovics: So This Is What It's Like: Living among the concentration camps of America. Concentration camps in the United States are nothing new.

David Rovics: The United Tent Cities of America

This Week with David Rovics: The United Tent Cities of America: I viscerally remember a particular protest I participated in with Portland Tenants United that involved using tents as a symbol of the impending homelessness that will result if the landlords keep on raising the rent the way they've been doing.  It's a common, useful symbol, that communicates well in a picture, a tent.  But there was that one protest when a bunch of actually homeless teenagers asked us, "what are you going to do with those tents when you're done?"

David Rovics: Taking On Spotify

This Week with David Rovics: Taking On Spotify: Why We Need A Global Campaign: How should independent musicians survive in the streaming age?

David Rovics: Pete Seeger Was A Movement Musician

This Week with David Rovics: Pete Seeger Was A Movement Musician: If Pete Seeger were still with us, how would he be celebrating his 100th birthday?  Probably by chopping wood.

David Rovics: How Do You Strangle A Corporation?

This Week with David Rovics: How Do You Strangle A Corporation?: In this week's missive we explore the question: how do you strangle a corporation, when it doesn't have a neck?

David Rovics: Before the Flood

This Week with David Rovics: Before the Flood:  I am, it might reasonably be said, a climate refugee – though a very comfortable one. Escaping the forest fires to run a little cafe in Denmark is hardly a sacrifice. But if the cafe might be a good retirement plan for me, it won't be for my children – far too soon, the whole country in which Cafe Hellebaek is located will likely be underwater.

Rammstein - Deutschland (Official Video)

Well... you can be sure of controversey when Rammstein starts kickin' shit again :)

*bring the popcorn

David Rovics: Why Did This Just Happen Again?

This Week with David Rovics: Why Did This Just Happen Again?: Another heavily-armed, sociopath fascist has carried out a carefully-planned, extremely cold-blooded, videotaped massacre.

David Rovics: Blowing the Whistle in 1943

This Week with David Rovics: Blowing the Whistle in 1943: Being a writer of weekly columns and topical songs, these things are supposed to be at least somewhat temporary in nature.

School Strikers: "Dear adults, use your power"

This Friday 15 March, 100,000s of children will fill the streets around the world to demand real climate action -- it's our job to respond and help build the fossil free future they need.

David Rovics: The Venezuela Deception

This Week with David Rovics: The Venezuela Deception: If you are getting your news from mainstream media, whether it's from supposedly "conservative," "liberal," or "objective" outlets, whether a corporate-owned or so-called "public" network, if you're in the US, the UK, and many other countries, you are being lied to.

David Rovics: The Bombs, Smokescreens and Fig Leaves of Progress

This Week with David Rovics: The Bombs, Smokescreens and Fig Leaves of Progress...: It has certainly not been a slow week for news, as the pundits say. Military conflict between India and Pakistan, threats of war agains...

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This Week with David Rovics: The War on Refugees

This Week with David Rovics: The War on Refugees: Note:  the State of Emergency I expected to be declared has been declared.  If you missed episode 28 of This Week with David Rovics, State...

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