This Week with David Rovics

One Day in Kenya

It was December 21st, on the Solstice in 2015 that a profound act of collective solidarity took place on the Kenya-Somalia border.  If you're looking for the conscience of humanity you might not find it in the White House, but you will find it on a bus in Kenya.

1848 and the Yellow Vests

The last time a leaderless movement against plutocracy arose in France was 1848.  It swept across Europe and ultimately left it radically transformed, with global repercussions.

Windmills and Camp Fires

In an age of Camp Fires and Paradise lost, let's remember Tvindkraft, the first industrial-scale windmill.

Just a Renter

The US is an extremely divided society.  One of its many divisions is that between landlords and renters.

Paradise Lost

We have seen the future of a world run by real estate speculators, property developers and transnational corporations -- it is the apocalypse.

Failed States of America

When daily life in a nation is best described as a constant series of predictable and preventable catastrophes that just keep on happening anyway, this nation is, by definition, a failed state.

Armistice Day Centennial

One hundred years ago this week, the "Great War" ended.  Every corner of the world is still living with the fallout.  Happy Veterans Day, or Armistice Day, depending.

Boys and Girls

Among the latest marginalized groups to be targeted by the Trump administration is the trans community.

The Corbyn Factor

It's well-known among those who follow the international press that the far right is growing in Europe.  What's less well-known, for some reason, is that the left is growing, too.  And nowhere is that more evident than in England.

Death in Detention

The government of Australia has ordered MSF doctors to leave Nauru, so the refugees there who are committing suicide will commit suicide some more.