This Week with David Rovics

Little Crow's Uprising and the Minnesota Famine of 1862

Revisiting history, events in Minnesota in 1862 and events in Israel and Gaza since October 7th have some remarkable similarities.

South By Southwest By Middle East

It turns out there are a lot of artists who don't want to play for exposure while children in Gaza are dying of it.

"Ballad of the TikTok Ban" Take 2!

I wrote this song about a year ago while on tour in Australia, and then promptly forgot about it.  But now that banning TikTok is back in the news with a vengeance, I revised "Ballad of the TikTok Ban" a bit, and made a slightly better recording of it this morning in my living room studio.

New song: "What I Learned from the Hasbara Trolls"

The thousands of troll accounts spewing genocidal propaganda on my Facebook posts are abhorrent and completely full of crap, but they have a fascinating narrative, albeit completely farcical.  All the more fascinating is the fact that, although obviously farcical to anyone with an actual clue, the western press and politicians generally accept the narrative as self-evidently accurate.

bearing witness

a concert for gaza.

The Living Wage for Musicians Act: Why We Should Support It and Why Big Tech Won't

On March 6th, representatives Rashida Tlaib and Jamaal Bowman introduced the Living Wage for Musicians Act. They're working with the United Musicians and Allied Workers union, and the Make Streaming Pay campaign.

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

The holocaust that is underway in Gaza is being enabled by the US government and denied by the mainstream US press.

Song for Aaron Bushnell

On the other side of the world, Aaron Bushnell's body burned in the same way the bodies of innocent people are burning every day in Gaza. As he burned he shouted repeatedly, "free Palestine."

New song: "Flour"

After using starvation as a Total War, strategic weapon of collective punishment, the Israeli occupation forces are using food tactically as a weapon of war as well.

What Are the Pro-Israel Trolls Trying to Accomplish?

2,000+ hateful comments and one week later, what I have I learned from the Hasbara Trolls?