This Week with David Rovics

Forms of Isolation

As we hunker down wherever we are, so many of us living in places with dysfunctional health care systems on a good day, as we wait for the waves of death currently occurring in Italy, Spain, and New York, to reach our regions, we are collectively having radically differing experiences of isolation.

Unprecedented Precedents

What do Donald Trump, 1848, Covid-19 and Winston Churchill have in common?  Some thoughts on the subject, in podcast form.

Anarchists For Bernie

Given the fact that the DNC just makes up the rules as they go along and they would prefer fascism to socialism, given the options, a Sanders nomination to be the Democratic candidate is a very long shot.  Getting the nomination and then winning the presidency is, for so many reasons, an even longer one.  A Sanders presidency, if he won, would then be violently opposed by the powerful elite and their pawns.  A successful Sanders presidency may, however, be the only thing that could prevent our complete descent into fascism in the US.

PDX: Taking City Hall

If Chloe Eudaly can keep her seat, and Margot Black wins hers, we could have a pro-worker, pro-renter majority in the Portland City Council.  Locals:  launch party today!

Waiting For Something To Happen: An Audio Memoir

This audio memoir consists of 16 episodes of about a half hour each.  They'll be going out to my paid subscribers weekly, until the end of April, 2020.  Here's a 10-minute sample.  You can find out more at davidrovics.com/audiomemoir.

Jock: prisoner in a captured state

Australian Jock Palfreeman has been in prison in Sofia, Bulgaria for over 11 years for a crime he didn't commit.  In October he got paroled, but so far this has just meant being transferred to another prison -- and powerful elements in Bulgarian politics are now aiming to get his parole canceled, through a process they're inventing as they go.

If I Had A Hammer

Can a hundred thousand people with sledgehammers change the world?

A Week in the Northeast

A prison, a protest, an art exhibit, a family farm, an antiwar conference, rent control, World War 1 and Hunter Biden.

The Penny Campaign for Streaming Justice

It's time to take on the vulture capitalists in Stockholm and San Francisco.  Streaming justice now.

The Making of an Album

Just as I'm in the midst of a crowdfunding campaign for my next album, the press is once again announcing the Death of the Album.  I beg to beg.  I mean to differ.