This Week with David Rovics

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.

Santiago, Scotland

The CIA-backed military coup in Chile on September 11th, 1973 resulted in thousands killed and tortured over the course of a brutal dictatorship that began that day.  It also gave rise to some impressive acts of solidarity.  In Scotland, workers at the factory that repaired all the engines for the entire Chilean Air Force refused to touch a fascist engine.  For a time, it was revealed recently, the entire Chilean Air Force was grounded as a result.

Child Separations

AP is reporting several of the children separated from their parents have been sexually abused in captiviity.  Unfortunately, sexually abusing children after separating them from their parents is as American as apple pie.

Remembering Hamlet

No, not Shakespeare -- Hamlet, North Carolina.  September 3rd, 1991.

Ballad of John McCain

Senator John McCain is dead.  Speak good of the dead.  Good -- he's dead.