This Week with David Rovics

Fifth Estate Live with Frank Joyce

We spend the hour with long-time Detroit-area organizer, journalist and author, Frank Joyce, discussing the election, the pandemic, white supremacy, the antiwar movement in the 60's and more recently, MLK's best speech, and much more.

Discussion with World War 3 Illustrated contributors

World War 3 Illustrated has been going on for several decades now and it's still going strong. The latest issue is #51, and this is a discussion with five of the artists who made it happen.

Discussion with Steve Wozniak

We spend the hour with inventor, prankster, and author of the memoir, I, Woz. We experience a somewhat bizarre degree of technical problems, mainly for the first 30 minutes, but it was a great interview anyway!

Discussion with Jon Frankel

Discussion with Jon Frankel, poet and author of many sci fi books including the just-published Isle of Dogs.

Fifth Estate Live with Dave Sands

We spend the hour with Detroit-based journalist, artist, organizer and Fifth Estate contributor, Dave Sands.

Discussion with Tom Jackson, Joe Public Films

We spend the hour with New Hampshire-based filmmaker, Tom Jackson, director of Greetings From Missile Street and many other documentaries, host of the podcast, Joe Public Speaking.

Thomas Pfaff interviews David Rovics about Phil Ochs

Thomas Pfaff has a popular show on German radio that is 15 minutes in length.  What you'll find here is the full interview he conducted with me earlier today, in English, which will be pared down to less than a quarter of the length of this podcast episode, and overdubbed into German, before it airs on the radio in Germany next month.

Pandemic Panhandling Update

Oh, how things have changed in the three months since my last missive on the subject of the marginal nature of surviving as an artist during, and before, the pandemic.

Discussion with Chris Inserra, SOA Watch organizer

We spend the hour with Chris Inserra, long-time Chicago-based choir director and organizer with School of the Americas Watch, talking about the upcoming online vigil and Chris's orientation and experience as an organizer within a very musical and very successful network.

Fifth Estate Live with Peter Werbe

We spend the hour with Fifth Estate magazine editorial collective member and long-time Detroit talk show host, Peter Werbe, talking about the election and other aspects of the current moment from an anarchist perspective.