This Week with David Rovics

Discussion with Ramsey Kanaan

I spend the hour talking with PM and AK Press founder, Ramsey Kanaan, about the nature, history, and vagaries of independent publishing, roughly from the 1960's to the present.

Discussion with Mike Africa, Jr

I spend the hour talking with hiphop artist and Move organization member, Mike Africa, Jr., about music, tours that aren't happening, being born in prison, giving bicycles to children, organic gardening, and having the police bomb your family home.

Pandemic Open Mic Mondays #2

This week's open mic featured a stellar cast of characters from both sides of the Atlantic, mostly singing songs they wrote recently, about different aspects of the pandemic. This is the second open mic of the series! Sign up for the next one at www.davidrovics.com/pomm.

Rich Peasants, Poor Peasants and "Mom-and-Pop Landlords"

Now that 1 out of 4 renters are either unable or unwilling to pay their rent in the USA, we are suddenly hearing in the press about the poor, suffering "mom-and-pop" landlords. But who are these "mom-and-pop" landlords?

#MayDay2020 Solidarity Concert #RentStrike #GeneralStrike

Here's today's livestreamed concert in audio form.  Thanks to ATTAC in Cologne, Germany for sponsoring this free, public concert I gave to the world from my living room.

Discussion with Ahjamu Umi

I spend the hour with revolutionary organizer and author, Ahjamu Umi, talking about the current historical moment, the upcoming wildcat strikes, other historical moments, effective organizing methods, revolutionary Pan-Africanism and a lot of other things. 

Discussion with Lisa Fithian

I spend the hour talking with one of the best organizers on the planet, Lisa Fithian, author of the 2019 how-to memoir, Shut It Down, currently working from home on the imminently-approaching #MayDay2020 #GeneralStrike!

Discussion with Tommy Sands

From my living room in Portland, Oregon, I spent the hour talking with my friend Tommy Sands in Rostrevor, County Down, in Ireland.  There were a few technical glitches with the connection, but mostly it worked, and we talked about current events in Ireland, the US, and elsewhere, and various little anecdotes from Tommy's very interesting life and times as a global traveler from a part of the world that was, for many decades, a hot spot for global news coverage.

Pandemic Open Mic Mondays

The first of the Pandemic Open Mic Mondays got off to a great start, aside from some minor technical problems.  It was livestreamed on the Facebook pages of Popular Resistance, Food Not Bombs, and the Song News Network, among other places.  We had a selection of wonderful guests from across the US, as well as Canada, England and Ireland.

Discussion with Walter Chi-yan TOM

In this hour with Walter Chi-yan TOM, immigration lawyer and human rights activist from Montreal, Quebec, we talk about many different aspects of the response in Canada to the pandemic, the situation with asylum-seekers in detention, foreign students at Concordia and McGill universities, the history of anti-Asian racism, mutual aid, and at the end, a little bit on Tiananmen Square, where Walter spent some time in 1989.