This Week with David Rovics

Prison Radio with Mic Crenshaw, Opium Sabbah and David Rovics

Adam Carpinelli interviewed me, Mic Crenshaw and Opium Sabbah about our new music video ("Free Em All") and album (Take the Power Back) yesterday for the Prison Pipeline show in KBOO. 

Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox

My old friend and fellow anti-imperialist, Cindy Sheehan, has a weekly show called Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox.  I was her guest this week, and it was a pleasure catching up with her, reminiscing about old times, and talking about our experiences with cancel culture.

Libertarianism Is Not Fascism

I may be a voice in the wilderness here, but that's OK.  It's a very nice patch of forest, you should come visit.

Gorilla Radio

Chris Cook interviewed me for his radio show/podcast, mostly about Spotify, free speech, and Canadian truckers. I'm on with him for the last half.

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

Anyone who tries to boil the disinformation debate down to questions of free speech vs. censorship is either trying to distract you from the wizard behind the curtain, or they don't know he's there.

Discussion with Mat Ward, musician/journalist

I had a very interesting conversation today with Mat Ward in Sydney, Australia, who has a great new album out called Why I Protest.

Anatomy of a Cancellation

If you play by the rules of the cancel culture, the cancel culture rules.  This is my response to being publicly disinvited from singing at a rally last Saturday, due to false allegations spread by Twitter trolls apparently being believed.

Biden’s Brinkmanship

It may very well be the case that President Biden is bringing the world closer to nuclear annihilation than any president since Kennedy.

New song: ”City Workers Strike Song”

If the District Council of Trade Unions isn't given a better deal than what the City of Portland, Oregon currently has on offer, union members have voted overwhelmingly to strike.  The strike is set to begin on February 10th.  In the meantime, I wrote a sing-along for the occasion.  I'll sing it in front of City Hall at 2 pm on Saturday, at the city workers' rally -- come all ye workers and join us!

Octave Mandolin Jam

For this week's winter Wednesday livestream session, we introduce the octave mandolin, and we talk smack about Spotify, NATO, and more.