This Week with David Rovics

Live in Boulder: What Can Be Gleaned from Old Recordings

If a photo from twenty years ago can sometimes transport you to a time and place, what about a live concert recording?

The Left: How We Can Build It and How We Can Destroy It

Whether the left develops an inclusive orientation towards organizing the working class, or the exclusive orientation of a dystopic cancellation cult, is up to all of us.

Conflict, Compromise, and Controversy in Centralia

Whatever it is that happened or is happening now in Centralia, come November, 2023, there will be a new, town-sanctioned IWW plaque in Centralia Square.

New song: ”Centralia”

In November of this year, after 124 years, the statue in the center of Centralia, Washington memorializing the deaths of four members of the American Legion will finally be joined by a plaque remembering IWW organizer, Wesley Everest, and our fellow workers who were sentenced to 25-40 years in prison for defending their union hall as it and other IWW halls across the country were under attack by the same organized groups of war veterans doing the bidding of our newly-formed national secret police force, the FBI -- which was created with the express intention of destroying the radical labor movement.

The Historic Failure of No-Platforming

If we were to try to assess the overall impact of no-platforming campaigns over the course of the past century, what would we conclude?

Sharing Trolls with Andy Ngo

What do a popular conservative journalist and a little-known leftwing musician have in common? Ask our trolls.

Cancellation Campaigner Gets Cancel Culture Discussion on KBOO Cancelled

Here's a broadcastable response to me being prevented from appearing on a radio show at my local community radio station this week here in Portlandia.

New song: ”I Heard A Rumor”

For untold numbers of people, the reality of living online via corporate anti-social media platforms means a life lived in fear of committing a transgression and being targeted for cancellation by dedicated armies of trolls.  This I already know.  Whether any of you out there who already know this also think this song captures the feeling well is another matter, but it's an effort at that.

The Left: Understanding Our Divisions

Another effort at trying to make some sense of a wildly divided US left.

Touring With Trolls

Reflections from five weeks on the road in Denmark, England, Scotland, and Ireland