This Week with David Rovics

New song: "When the West Was Won"

In May, 1887, a gang of white men led by someone named Bruce Evans carried out a series of massacres of Chinese gold miners in northeastern Oregon, robbing miners of everything, and killing all of them, at each camp the gang found.  Although some of them confessed to their heinous crimes, a jury refused to convict them.  Instead, the name of mass murderer, Bruce Evans, is engraved in an arch to the memory of the Pioneers who settled the area, in the town of Enterprise, Oregon.

Discussion with TV Smith, punk rock legend

We spend the hour with legendary British punk rocker, talking about his latest album, Lockdown Holiday, and lots else, plus we get a live song from the album, and my favorite oldie...

New song: "Puritan Slaughter"

For all those killed in the massage parlors of Georgia on March 16th, 2021.  On the anniversary of the My Lai Massacre.

Discussion with Joshua Morris on American Communists

We spend the hour with Joshua Morris, who is working on a book based on oral histories he collected -- working title: The Many Worlds of American Communists.

The Housing Crisis: One Year After Lockdown

One housing activist's assessment of where we are now with the ever-worsening housing crisis in the USA, and some lessons from 2020 on how we might begin to reverse course, with well-organized eviction defense campaigns as a primary tactic.

Say Their Names

Today is the first anniversary of the killing of Breonna Taylor by Louisville police. The jury for the trial of the cop who killed George Floyd is being assembled now. This is the third track from my new album. 

Discussion with Ben Grosscup, Executive Director of People's Music Network

We spend the hour with musician and organizer, Ben Grosscup, talking about the People's Music Network, doing popular education, and other subjects.

Discussion with John Lasdun on Working Class History

We spend the hour with one of the curators of the multi-platform Working Class History project.

"It's Been A Year" (with Virtual Bird)

I wrote this song about the past year of pandemonium, and within a couple days I received this amazing punk rock karaoke track from a musical entity I met on Reddit named Virtual Bird. I then added vocals, here in my living room, for the version we have here.

Anne Feeney -- A Musical Remembrance

A really wonderful, first-person collection of stories from friends of Anne Feeney, broadcast last night on the radio show, Heartland Labor Forum, on KKFI in Kansas City. (Lots of yours truly at the beginning of the hour.)