This Week with David Rovics

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.)

Paul Robeson's Love Song radio play trailer

I'm excited to share with you the trailer for Tayo Aluko's powerful and extremely timely new radio play, based on real events that took place in and around Peekskill, New York in 1949, called Paul Robeson's Love Song. The launch date: April 9th (Paul's birthday).

Discussion with Kevin Neish, activist and boat mechanic

We spend the hour with boat mechanic and red diaper baby, Kevin Neish, speaking to us from his home in Victoria, in Canada, on a wide range of subjects from updates on the Fairy Creek Blockade against clearcutting operations near Port Renfrew, BC, to very poignant as well as entertaining stories from Greece, Gaza, Guatemala and elsewhere.

Fifth Estate Live with Jess Flarity, sci fi author

Fascinating conversation today with Jess Flarity about sex dolls, video games, and how to write good science fiction.

New song: "It's Been A Year"

I awoke to the news yesterday that it had been one year to the day since the first confirmed case of Covid-19 in the state of Oregon. Over the course of the next 24 hours, I wrote this song.

Discussion with Tayo Aluko about Paul Robeson's Love Song

Tayo Aluko's new radio play, Paul Robeson's Love Song, is about important and terrible events that took place in and around Peekskill, New York in 1949. We spend the hour talking with Tayo about the play, and plans for its release on April 9th on www.tayoalukoandfriends.com.

Last Saturday Concert -- Live From My Living Room

Here's the archived version of the last-Saturday-of-the-month concert I just did live on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.  A wholly inadequate musical effort at a month in review.