David Rovics

David Rovics is a frequently-touring singer/songwriter and political pundit based out of Portland, Oregon.  His website is davidrovics.com.
 

Wadi Gaza is Arabic for Babi Yar and Aaron Bushnell is American for Szmuel Zygelboym

Dublin Riots: the Social Engineering of Xenophobia in Ireland

Ceasefire Tour Roundup

Discovering Buffy

The Gaza Ghetto Uprising

Attacking Medea Benjamin: A Short Primer on the “Anarchists” of Empire and Identity Politics

Reflections on Occupy Wall Street Before the Next Banking Collapse

A Very Brief History of Capitalism, Empire, and the Yellow Peril

Tortuguita’s Playlist

Remembering Robert Hoyt

Why Real Artists Don’t Like Capitalism Or Identity Politics, And Other Things You’ll Never Hear On NPR

10 Ways the Left is Vulnerable to Cancellation Campaigning and How We Might Overcome This Tendency

Street Roots Joins the Cancel Culture? (Or, How I Became “Controversial”)

The Progressive Industrial Complex and Our Fascist Future

Palestine Action: Smashing Elbit Systems

Singing in the Shadow of Belmarsh

Singing for Sectarians

Merrick Garland: Drop the Charges Against Julian Assange

Breaking Even in the Gig Economy

Talking with Anarchists About Gun Control

Great Replacements

When the Shooting Ended

Free Speech, Expensive Speech, Censorship, Social Media Algorithms, and Anarcho-Puritanism

Anatomy of a Cancellation

Biden’s Brinksmanship

Neil Young, Joe Rogan, and a Swedish Billionaire

The State of the World (and a Few Predictions)

Movement Music After the Movement Fades: Reflections on Phil Ochs

Desmond Tutu Opposed Capitalism, Israeli Apartheid and US/UK Imperialism, Too

Busking in the Metaverse

Killing the Messenger

The Politics of Moral Outrage

Tigard, Oregon: Ground Zero in the Fight for Affordable Housing

Refugee Ancestors

The Far Left and the Far Right Actually Have a Lot in Common

Remembering the Battle of Blair Mountain

Confessions of an Ecumenical Leftist

The Campaign Against Me

The Coming Crash

The Death of Aziz Choudry

The Third Intifada: a Backgrounder

Cancel Culture Conundrums

“They’re Dirty!” Standing Up at Kelly Butte

The Sweeps Stop Here?

Fixing the Stream, Shaking Up Spotify

The Housing Crisis: One Year After Lockdown

Heeding Germany

Resistance Songs: Remembering Anne Feeney

November 17th, 1973 and the Legacy of State Terror

Platforming Fascists