This Week with David Rovics

New song: "Meanwhile in Gaza"

The Israeli government has shut off the Gaza Ghetto completely, so no food can get in.  After a brief message from our sponsors, this holocaust now continues.

The People Want Music

I have some free advice to anyone trying to organize a memorable protest or a successful social movement.

Jury Duty

I don't know what came over me, but this time when I got the summons for jury duty, I didn't make up a reason why I couldn't do it.  Next time I get such a summons, I'll make sure I'm out of town, or have a sick child to care for.

"What do you mean you haven't seen the new Dylan movie?!"

Somehow I have a lot to say about a movie I haven't seen yet. Sort of a non-review here.

"It's A Coup" REMIX

OK, now they're firing all the military lawyers who are supposed to be responsible for determining whether a command is legal or not.  Folks, this is definitely a coup, in case there was any question.  This is not a corruption cleanup operation, it is a dictatorship installation operation.  Here's Chet Gardiner's hopping remix of the song I wrote about it earlier this month.

New song: "What's Going on Here, Montreal?" #FreeYvesEngler

To the list of allegedly democratic, free countries where the police arrest journalists for writing in opposition to Israeli fascism, we may now add Canada.

"The Richest Man in the World Says So" REMIX

A really lively remix of this song I wrote earlier this month (that Elon Musk earned every penny of), with an especially counterpunctual bass line, from Chet Gardiner's studio in Hawai'i.

Punishment and Appeasement

"The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and thus we drift toward unparalleled catastrophe."  Albert Einstein 

Remembering Joan S. Livingston

I learned belatedly that the wonderful and brilliant woman on the left of this photo, Joan S. Livingston, died last month, at the age of 70. This photo is from December 1st, 2024, last time I was in Boston, playing at the Community Church of Boston, where I had seen her so many times before.

New song: "It's A Coup"

Another song for the ongoing DOGE coup d'etat.