David Rovics @drovics Twitter profile

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David Rovics

@drovics

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"On the Streets of London (Free Sarah Wilkinson)" #FreeSarahWilkinsonNOW

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David Rovics

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5 years

BREAKING NEWS: There are no cross-Canada trains running, because the tracks are blocked by Mohawks and others across the colonized nation. Thousands of travelers and billions of dollars worth of freight is currently not moving.

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David Rovics

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I'm 57 years old today, and I feel wiser already. All I want for my birthday is a permanent ceasefire.

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David Rovics

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2 years

When not on stage, I'll be staffing the Free Julian Assange table along with these wonderful folks!

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I also wrote a song about the rail blockade, which has not been retweeted thousands of times...

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5 years

Wet'suwet'en

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David Rovics

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2 years

Plans for next weekend include a little gathering outside of Belmarsh Prison on Julian Assange's 51st birthday.

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Wet'suwet'en

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3 months

The bizarre fact of the day is I've just received $190 from Facebook. It's a reward for the high degree of engagement on my page, at least 95% of which seems to be coming from Hasbara bots.

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2 years

The day after I play in Leuven, the Free Assange Wave rally and concert in Brussels is going to be wonderful.

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Come join me and Stella and many others in Brussels on Saturday -- 2 pm at Place de la Monnaie.

Free Assange - #FreeAssange

@FreeAssangeNews

2 years

Prime Minister @BorisJohnson and Home Secretary @pritipatel can & must stop the extradition of Julian Assange A UK Judge previously ruled "it would be oppressive to extradite him to the United States" Email Boris & Patel: #PritiPlease #DontExtraditeAssange

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New song: "Killing the Messenger (Free Julian Assange)"

New song: "Killing the Messenger (Free Julian Assange)" | David Rovics

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4 years

That was the best gig, serenading the mayor, while occupying the entire block in front of his condo.

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Folksinger @drovics plays "Burn it Down" and the crowd is more than happy to join in. #pdxprotest #PortlandProtest #BlackLivesMatter #Portland

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David Rovics

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3 years

The timing of my upcoming visit to London ended up being very good. On the afternoon before I play my first of two London concerts, on October 23rd, I'm looking forward to singing at this rally against extraditing Julian Assange.

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David Rovics

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3 years

Today in London, I'll see you at the rally against extraditing Julian Assange in the afternoon -- and in the evening, come to the show at the Telegraph at the Earl of Derby pub!

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David Rovics

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2 years

In union we will win! Congratulations Starbucks workers on a whole lot of successful organizing.

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David Rovics

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1 year

Rico Brouwer put together this little video from footage she took at the rally for freedom for imprisoned Australian journalist, Julian Assange that took place on Saturday, June 24th in Parliament Square, London, England. #FreeJulianAssangeNOW

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David Rovics

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2 years

Tuesday in the center of Trondheim, Norway. #DontExtraditeAssange

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David Rovics

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2 years

On April 11th, 2019, award-winning journalist and war crimes whistle-blower, Julian Assange, was abducted by police & taken to be imprisoned within the London gulag behind me in this video, where he awaits extradition to face 175 years in prison in the US.

Free Assange - #FreeAssange

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Behind These Prison Walls by @drovics filmed in front of Belmarsh Prison, London #FreeAssangeNOW #DropTheCharges #NoExtradition

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5 months

Commander-in-Chief: stay out of this war that Israel has provoked with Iran. Do not support this genocidal regime that claims to represent us. It does not.

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David Rovics

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6 months

Congratulations, George Galloway! May both Labor and the Tories suffer many more such defeats.

Galloway Back in Parliament, Declaring Duopoly Defeated

George Galloway won a crucial by-election in the North of England on Thursday in which the Gaza genocide played a key role. Galloway said his victory heralded the demise of Labour-Tory dominance in...

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David Rovics

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3 years

Happy birthday, Woody Guthrie

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8 months

New song: "Antisemite"

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New song: "Antisemite"

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4 years

There is an historic struggle taking place right now in North Portland. All hands on deck. #EvictionAbolition

To the Barricades: The Red House and the Future of Eviction Defense

Portland, Oregon has been in the headlines again over the last few days, and this trend will continue. The reasons for the headlines will vary depending

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David Rovics

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9 months

New song: "They're Killing Off the Journalists of Gaza"

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3 years

I just wrote a friend in Cuba and Facebook told me I was violating their community standards by messaging him, although we've exchanged many messages in the past. I hope that was some kind of mistake. That's alarming.

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2 years

New song: "Smashing Elbit Systems"

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New song: "Smashing Elbit Systems"

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David Rovics

@drovics

2 years

My friends John and Gabriel Shipton will be on the road for almost 2 months all over the USA showing a beautiful documentary and talking about John's son, Gabriel's brother, Julian Assange, who is facing 175 years in prison for exposing US war crimes.

Watch The Film - Ithaka

Watch The FilmFeatured ScreeningsHost a screeningPast ScreeningsScreenings by State and TerritoryHost a ScreeningOrganise your own community screening to

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David Rovics

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4 years

The latest number is US renters are $70 billion behind on rent, with the chasm between rich and poor growing by the month. Do you trust the government to fix this without a lot of encouragement? Join your local eviction defense squad today.

Portland Emergency Eviction Response

When they come to evict your neighbors, what will you do? Hopefully, before you're faced with that choice, you will have already joined your local eviction ...

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David Rovics

@drovics

3 years

I hope Julian Assange can be home with @StellaMoris1 and their children soon. If there's any justice in this world, Biden, #DropTheCharges . Don't criminalize journalism -- or whistleblowing.

Stella Assange

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Amazing song and video by @drovics #FreeAssangeNow #DropTheCharges

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David Rovics

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2 years

Shireen Abu Akleh was executed.

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5 months

New song: "Boycott, Sanction and Divest" #FreePalestine

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New song: "Boycott, Sanction and Divest" #FreePalestine

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David Rovics

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8 months

#AirDropAidForGaza

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David Rovics

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2 years

Free Assange Rally and Concert promo

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Free Assange Rally and Concert promo

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David Rovics

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4 years

Did you know that 65% of artists in the US are currently fully unemployed, and 95% of us have lost income during the pandemic? Some of the things you may learn from this interview with the author of the new book, The Death of the Artist.

David Rovics

@drovics

4 years

Discussion with Bill Deresiewicz, author of The Death of the Artist

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New song: "When Julian Met Stella"

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David Rovics

@drovics

2 years

I sang a few songs and had a wee rant outside the gates of Belmarsh Prison yesterday on the occasion of Julian Assange's 51st birthday, being spent in his prison cell. #FreeJulianAssange

Julian Assange Birthday David Rovics Sings 'Behind These Prison...

3 July 2022HMP Belmarsh plays host to #JulianAssange 51st Birthday Celebration Vigil at the gates of UK's Gitmo of Woolwich . As the US-UK expands the Europe...

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2 years

The event: Free Assange Concert and Rally The place: EU HQ, Brussels, Belgium The date: April 23rd, 2 pm

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4 years

#CancelRent

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#eattherich

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David Rovics

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2 years

It'll be a busy weekend in London! Friday 11 am the Free Assange Bus visits the Home Office. Friday 8 pm concert at Draper's Bar & Kitchen (as part of the Marxism Festival). Sunday noon Julian Assange 51st birthday vigil at the gates of Belmarsh Prison.

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David Rovics

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1 year

On the occasion of Julian Assange's 52nd birthday, Rico Brouwer made a music video for the song, "Behind These Prison Walls."

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5 months

Hello world. Today, April 10th, I turn 57 years old. For years now, every time this happens I have two thoughts. One is that Rachel Corrie was born on this day, and I think of her parents, and how especially awful they must be feeling today.

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4 years

I can't believe I'm listening to the Vice President of the world's biggest military power, neck deep in the blood of millions of people only in the past couple decades alone, saying with a straight face, "violence never wins." #DefundThePolice #DefundThePentagon

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Stop the Genocide

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Stop the Genocide

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5 months

The Ballad of UK Lawyers for Israel

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The Ballad of UK Lawyers for Israel

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4 years

Who is Dimitris Koufontinas, and why does the CIA and the mayor of Athens both want him dead? Today in Counterpunch.

November 17th, 1973 and the Legacy of State Terror

In a prison hospital in Athens, Greece, a man named Dimitris Koufontinas lies unconscious most of the time. Almost a month into a water-only hunger

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4 years

Everything you need to know about the moral legitimacy of the US government is in this photo. Let's end this madness. Join your local eviction defense squad today. Another world is possible.

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David Rovics

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4 years

Have you ever found yourself surrounded by masked rioters being chased by flag-waving patriots and thought, I’ve seen this movie before? My latest piece in Counterpunch, an open letter to Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys.

An Open Letter to Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys (CC: ANTIFA)

Have you ever found yourself surrounded by masked rioters being chased by flag-waving patriots and thought, I've seen this movie before? I woke up this

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2 years

When Julian Met Stella

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8 months

"Song for the Houthi Army" with Arabic subtitles!

عبدالقدوس بن مفضل 🇾🇪🇵🇸

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مترجم من قلب أمريكا يشكر الفنان الأمريكي @drovics الجيش اليمني على تضامنه بالقول والفعل مع الشعب الفلسطيني المظلوم .. وبدورنا نبادلك الشكر على حرية ضميرك الإنساني وكلماتك الرائعة 🇾🇪🇵🇸 #اليمن_مع_فلسطين #اليمن_قول_وفعل #غزة_تنتصر

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David Rovics

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2 years

Staffing a Julian Assange Defense Committee table at the Tolpuddle Martyrs' Festival only weeks after Julian Assange spent his 51st birthday in Belmarsh Prison, the parallels were impossible to ignore.

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David Rovics

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4 years

When I was a baby, in the late 1960's, there was a physical antiwar coffeehouse, run by antiwar activists, largely veterans, across from every military base in the US. Serving coffee, hosting concerts and speakers, and building the antiwar movement within the ranks of soldiers.

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1 year

Participating in the speakout for Julian Assange in London last weekend was a highlight of the tour. Here's us singing "Behind These Prison Walls" earlier in the tour in Roskilde. (Full concert at .)

Behind These Prison Walls

The most famous person ever produced by Australia is being indefinitely detained in a maximum-security British prison, forever awaiting extradition to the US...

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6 months

This evening is the penultimate gig on the tour of England, in the great city of Leicester, where UK Lawyers for Israel has failed to get it canceled. Come and bring your Palestinian flags! There will be no hate speech against people at this gig -- only against genocide.

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4 years

The waves of evictions are coming, and the more organized we get now, the better.

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2 years

Killing the Messenger (Free Julian Assange)

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9 months

"From the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea" VIDEO REMIX

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5 years

Behind These Prison Walls -- final cut, with subtitles

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4 years

New album is out. Basically a history of the past 3 months in #Portland , Oregon. If you know anyone who might like to review it, please share. #SayTheirNames

Say Their Names, by David Rovics

13 track album

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@drovics

7 months

Crowds are beginning to gather outside the court where Julian Assange is facing extradition from a British prison to a US one.

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3 years

"Behind These Prison Walls" --

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"Behind These Prison Walls" -- dontextraditeassange.com

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9 months

New song: "Just Like the Nazis Did"

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New song: "Just Like the Nazis Did"

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8 months

Hamza Al-Dahdouh and his car was only the latest target: "They’re killing off the journalists of Gaza, day after day after day after day -- hoping they can hide their crimes this way"

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3 years

For the full story:

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3 years

I endorse these messages. Very much.

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3 years

A Palestine primer for those looking for some relevant background to the madness you're watching unfold.

The Third Intifada: a Backgrounder

In much of what remains of the left in places like the US and the UK people busily form Circular Firing Squads for the purposes of eliminating

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David Rovics

@drovics

2 years

NORWAY: This Tuesday, May 10th, 2022, 4 pm at Torgscenen in the center of Trondheim, Norway, come support freedom for imprisoned journalist, Julian Assange. #DontExtraditeAssange

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Behind These Prison Walls

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The only reason I haven't been barred from Germany like Yanis Varoufakis was is the Stasi wasn't paying attention on my last visit. Here I am, Stasi! Ban me, too -- I'm also against the genocide of Palestinians, which your state is actively facilitating.

The Speech That Got Me Banned From Germany

Today, Yanis Varoufakis was banned not just from visiting Germany but from participating in video conferences about politics hosted in Germany. Here’s the plea for humanity and justice in Palestine...

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David Rovics

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2 years

The efforts of the bipartisan war criminals from the US to hide their crimes have involved not only imprisoning whistle-blowers, but also journalists, such as Julian Assange, who is facing extradition to the US and a potential 175-year prison sentence.

Behind These Prison Walls

Here's the final cut of the music video, with subtitles.

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4 years

As the United States of Amnesia struggles to figure out what just happened, I also have some thoughts on the Beer Belly Putsch.

Questions n the Wake of the Beer Belly Putsch

After seeing some very strange, amnesiac discussion threads on social media, I have a few words to consign to the screen. Naturally, social media and the

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5 months

Seattle!

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5 years

I'm going to Belmarsh prison tomorrow afternoon to see how close I can get to having a visit with imprisoned, award-winning journalist, Julian Assange. Working on a new song for the occasion...

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David Rovics

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10 months

New song: "From the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea"

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6 years

Someone recorded me singing this song at one of the many concerts I've given at #HambachForest over the years. It goes out to all the folks there now.

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David Rovics

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4 years

The suspension on evictions in the state of Oregon has just been extended until September 30th, and our rehearsal for a #rentstrike continues. Here's the letter which we just sent to our landlord, as July 1st approaches.

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6 months

New song: "This Is Genocide"

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4 years

Many of the posters stay up for weeks, while some get ripped down by landlords -- in the middle of the night, when no one is watching. They're scared of us. #rentstrike

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2 years

Very much looking forward to participating in the Free Assange rally in Brussels next month, and also happy to be part of the webinar on Thursday with Jeremy Corbyn and other wonderful folks.

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4 years

I was asked today if I'd sing at a socialist youth conference next month (online). Being invited to sing at any kind of youth conference is not only something I feel compelled to say yes to, but now that I'm well into my fifties, I have to brag about it as well.

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9 months

New song: "Song for the Houthi Army"

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6 months

New song: "Flour"

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1 year

In 2002 the Israeli military destroyed the Jenin refugee camp, as they are doing right now at this moment again, killing untold numbers of Palestinian children in the process, like the last time they did this. There was a response last time, too.

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1 year

Khader Adnan has just died in prison, on another hunger strike. One more victim of Israeli torture and Israeli apartheid. Long live #KhaderAdnan . This song is from his first hunger strike.

Khader Adnan, Bobby Sands

Both hunger strikers, both freedom fighters. This is a track from my 17-song album, Everything Can Change, which can be downloaded in full here: http://davidrovics.bandcamp.com/album/everything-ca

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1 year

My Facebook account was hacked this morning. Someone has been sending messages to people via my Page accounts. They're very adaptable and are learning how I communicate, improving in their efforts to phish for various pieces of apparently useful information.

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3 years

My new term for left cancel culture is anarcho-puritanism. Whatever we call it, we really need to grow out of this witch trial shit. This is not how we build a movement. Look at the Twitter accounts of these people who attack me. All they do is attack fellow leftists.

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2 years

Merry Christmas from the land of the free.

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2 years

Just finishing the book, the Trial of Julian Assange by Nails Melzer. Anyone who wants to understand the depth of the corruption and secrecy rife within the state apparatus in the US, the UK, and Sweden needs to read this book. Julian is a political prisoner in a gulag.

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2 years

Happy New Year from the Rovics-Maeda-Paravicini clan!

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What makes the prospect of the liberation of Kelly Butte so beautiful is the knowledge of how horrific the history of the place is. If you want to understand how the class war against us works, it's all in the history of Kelly Butte. Today in Counterpunch.

"They're Dirty!" Standing Up at Kelly Butte

Increasingly, there are many worlds within this city of Portland, Oregon. There are the real estate moguls and investment bankers who are experiencing the greatest profits in the history of civiliz...

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Photos by the brilliant photojournalist, Guy Smallman, at today's rally against extraditing Julian Assange to the country whose intelligence services have been plotting to kill him (the USA).

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3 years

BBC News - Protesters hit Amazon buildings on Black Friday

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I'll be doing a concert for Palestine at a lovely new venue in downtown Portland, Oregon on January 20th. 100% of proceeds from ticket sales go to the Independent Middle East Media Center, which is a vital antidote to Israeli propaganda.

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4 years

PDX: A landlord is threatening to change the locks and illegally lock out a tenant at 10227 N Macrum Street. If you are able, please head over now. Tenant is seeking immediate support.

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In the 1980's, girls also went to school in Afghanistan. And they went to college in Moscow. And their government was violently overthrown by a CIA-funded and CIA-armed army called the Mujahideen. The current leader of the Taliban was a member of this army.

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5 years

Behind These Prison Walls

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1 year

Laying flowers at the grave of Karl Marx

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4 years

Wow, just heard Senator Cory Booker's analogy between the burning of the Congress in the War of 1812 and yesterday's siege. It was basically plucked from a high school history book, and totally inaccurate. The US slave state started the war by burning York, Ontario to the ground.

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9 months

New song: "Baby Jesus Lying in the Rubble"

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New song: "Baby Jesus Lying in the Rubble"

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