This Week with David Rovics

PRESS CONFERENCE: Portland Palestinians and Jews Share Grief and Demand Ceasefire and Aid to Gaza

Today (October 30th, 2023) an extremely moving press conference was held in front of Senator Merkley's office in downtown Portland, Oregon, to insist that Merkley represent his constituency and call for an immediate ceasefire. Speakers included two Palestinians from Gaza whose families are under bombardment, many of them killed, injured, or out of water and suffering terribly (Nael Saker and Mohammed Nabil), and a former resident of Israel who has Israeli family members currently held hostage in Gaza (Joel Beinin).

I don't believe there were any members of the press present at the press conference, although all of the local outlets were contacted by the organizers. I was providing the sound, so I hastily decided at also record the press conference with my phone, since no one was recording the event with anything fancier than that.

The Social Engineering of the Circular Firing Squad

I'll soon be singing at antiwar rallies in various European countries, but it's unlikely you'll see me on stage singing at any of the upcoming protests in Portland, Oregon.  It's not because I don't want to, and the reasons why are worth a mention.

The Geopolitics of Genocide and the Social Engineering of Complicity

For genocide to be committed, the perpetrators need political cover along with lots of weapons and money, and the rhetorical groundwork needs to be laid.

Mandolas Not Missiles

Here's the concert from my living room I just did, a week before I head to Scandinavia for the CEASEFIRE TOUR of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway.

Being Goldstein

How did so much of what we once thought of as the left become an anti-intellectual, identity-obsessed cult, and how did I become Emmanuel Goldstein?

Portland Jews Say No To Genocide

 And then they start shouting at one another afterwards.

Alternative Realities and Cycles of Genocide

The western media helps maintain necessary levels of ignorance in the domains they control, while the rest of the world decries another ongoing genocide, brought to us by settler-colonialism and empire.

Discussion with John and Paula on Palestine

Last Friday I had another of my periodic discussions with John Coleman and Paula de Angelis, this one focused on the Israeli genocide in Gaza. 

Palestine Teach-In

A backgrounder on Palestine, annotated with relevant songs.  More at davidrovics.com/palestine.

Genocidal Ironies

The thing about the saying, "whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger," is it's often not true.