This Week with David Rovics

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.

Land Day Every Day

Near a fence that the western press refers to as a border, there has been a massacre of unarmed civilians carried out by heavily-armed soldiers most every Friday since last March.

Behind Closed Doors

Like many other people, I've been fairly transfixed by recent Senate hearings.  #IBelieveHer

If You're Going to Santa Cruz

Last night I was kicked out of a building for the first time in my 51 years.  It happened in Santa Cruz, California.

Death in Hambach Forest

A 27-year-old journalist named Steffen Meyn fell to his death last Wednesday at Hambach Forest in Germany.  I have visited the forest, the forest protectors, the neighborhood, and the gigantic, open-pit coal mine that dominates the area on many occasions.

Refugees In The Family

If most white supremacists in the US were aware of their own family histories, they probably wouldn't be white supremacists.

Remembering Occupy Wall Street

The Global Financial Crisis began in earnest 10 years ago this week, and the first of the series of global protests that began with a protest in Zuccotti Park in Manhattan on this date in 2011.  I was there.