Author David Rovics
Barack Obama
His first name is the last name of an Israeli Prime Minister
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Contributed by donquijote82 2014/1/27 - 12:41
Ballad of Saed Bannoura
2016
1939
Saed Bannoura (b. 1973) is a Palestinian journalist working for the Bethlehem-based IMEMC (www.imemc.org). Saed currently lives in the United States. He is confined to a wheelchair since 1991 after being shot repeatedly by an Israeli death squad, who had infiltrated a demonstration in Bethlehem. In his own words:
When the man noticed that I had realized their true identify he pulled a small automatic gun from under his shirt, and I ran away knowing that even if I surrendered to him then, I would have been immediately assassinated, as had happened to so many Palestinian martyrs before me.The man ran after me, along with the other undercover death squad members, until I came to an area were he was standing above me on a hill, just five meters away from me. When he shouted at me again, I began to turn, and I could see his eyes, or at least, what was visible of them from under his... (Continues)
1939
Saed Bannoura (b. 1973) is a Palestinian journalist working for the Bethlehem-based IMEMC (www.imemc.org). Saed currently lives in the United States. He is confined to a wheelchair since 1991 after being shot repeatedly by an Israeli death squad, who had infiltrated a demonstration in Bethlehem. In his own words:
When the man noticed that I had realized their true identify he pulled a small automatic gun from under his shirt, and I ran away knowing that even if I surrendered to him then, I would have been immediately assassinated, as had happened to so many Palestinian martyrs before me.The man ran after me, along with the other undercover death squad members, until I came to an area were he was standing above me on a hill, just five meters away from me. When he shouted at me again, I began to turn, and I could see his eyes, or at least, what was visible of them from under his... (Continues)
Saed Bannoura is a friend of mine
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Contributed by donquijote82 2014/1/27 - 12:35
Song Itineraries:
The Palestinian Holocaust
Aurora Massacre
2013
Everything Can Change
Il 20 luglio 2012 James Holmes, ex dottorando di neuroscienze ventiquattrenne, ha aperto il fuoco durante la proiezione della prima del film Il cavaliere oscuro - Il ritorno in un cinema di Aurora, in Colorado negli Stati Uniti d'America. L'attacco ha ucciso 12 persone e ne ha ferite 58
Everything Can Change
Il 20 luglio 2012 James Holmes, ex dottorando di neuroscienze ventiquattrenne, ha aperto il fuoco durante la proiezione della prima del film Il cavaliere oscuro - Il ritorno in un cinema di Aurora, in Colorado negli Stati Uniti d'America. L'attacco ha ucciso 12 persone e ne ha ferite 58
The survivors will hug and tell their stories
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Contributed by donquijote82 2014/1/27 - 12:25
Song Itineraries:
Weapons: our daily home war
Brad
[2006]
2015
Ten Thousand Miles Away
In memoria di Brad Will, 26 anni, giornalista e fotoreporter indipendente americano, attivista di Indymedia, militante ambientalista, per la giustizia sociale e i diritti umani, ucciso il 27 ottobre 2006 a Oaxaca, Messico, da paramilitari filogovernativi durante gli scontri che opposero la popolazione in rivolta alle forze di polizia e ai «grupos de choque» organizzati dal governatore corrotto e dispotico, il priista Ulíses Rúiz.
Si vedano anche, per esempio, En tu silencio e Oh, I Really Like The Cops.
2015
Ten Thousand Miles Away
In memoria di Brad Will, 26 anni, giornalista e fotoreporter indipendente americano, attivista di Indymedia, militante ambientalista, per la giustizia sociale e i diritti umani, ucciso il 27 ottobre 2006 a Oaxaca, Messico, da paramilitari filogovernativi durante gli scontri che opposero la popolazione in rivolta alle forze di polizia e ai «grupos de choque» organizzati dal governatore corrotto e dispotico, il priista Ulíses Rúiz.
Si vedano anche, per esempio, En tu silencio e Oh, I Really Like The Cops.
I remember when we met
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Contributed by Dead End 2013/2/24 - 17:00
What Do You Call It?
(Nov 18, 2012)
2013
Everything Can Change
2013
Everything Can Change
What do you call it when a movement takes up arms
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2012/11/19 - 11:39
Song Itineraries:
The Palestinian Holocaust
Riot Dog
[2011]
Testo trovato qui
Thodoris detto Louk, abbreviazione per Loukanikos (da “λουκάνικο”, ossia “salsiccia”) è il cane mascotte dei manifestanti di Atene, in particolare dei ragazzi di Exarchìa, il quartiere universitario (ed anarchico) cuore della grande rivolta contro la classe dirigente ed i capitalisti nazionali e internazionali che con le loro politiche e speculazioni vorrebbero mettere in ginocchio la Grecia.
Louk, che partecipa in prima linea a tutte le manifestazioni, è l’erede del grande Kanellos (da “κανέλλος”, ossia “cannella”) il primo “riot dog” a comparire sulla scena, ospite del Politecnico ateniese e morto di vecchiaia nel 2008.
Kanellos e Louk hanno una miriade di video su YouTube e ora anche un paio (e forse più) di siti dedicati:
Kanelos
Rebel Dog
Testo trovato qui
Thodoris detto Louk, abbreviazione per Loukanikos (da “λουκάνικο”, ossia “salsiccia”) è il cane mascotte dei manifestanti di Atene, in particolare dei ragazzi di Exarchìa, il quartiere universitario (ed anarchico) cuore della grande rivolta contro la classe dirigente ed i capitalisti nazionali e internazionali che con le loro politiche e speculazioni vorrebbero mettere in ginocchio la Grecia.
Louk, che partecipa in prima linea a tutte le manifestazioni, è l’erede del grande Kanellos (da “κανέλλος”, ossia “cannella”) il primo “riot dog” a comparire sulla scena, ospite del Politecnico ateniese e morto di vecchiaia nel 2008.
Kanellos e Louk hanno una miriade di video su YouTube e ora anche un paio (e forse più) di siti dedicati:
Kanelos
Rebel Dog
Lots of folks are revolting
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Contributed by Bartleby 2011/7/5 - 16:02
Occupy Wall Street (We're Gonna Stay Right Here)
(2011)
"I wrote the song for the Occupy movement. I landed in Philadelphia after 5-1/2 weeks on tour in Europe on September 16th and headed up to Brooklyn, where I had a gig that night. The next day was the first day of these ongoing protests on Wall Street and around the country and the world. In the course of a 7-week tour of the US and Canada I visited 18 Occupations.
This song has been well-received by Occupiers and their supporters, so I thought I'd spend a day at Big Red Studio when I got home to Portland, and I did -- with a stellar cast of musicians: Jarrod Kaplan on percussion, Arcellus Sykes on bass guitar, with Billy Oskay producing and engineering and Jim Cuda assisting.
As with any of my songs, you're welcome to play it, use it in videos, sing it, etc. If you want to sing it, it's easy - 3 chords: D, A and G!
(David Rovics)
This song has been well-received by Occupiers and their supporters, so I thought I'd spend a day at Big Red Studio when I got home to Portland, and I did -- with a stellar cast of musicians: Jarrod Kaplan on percussion, Arcellus Sykes on bass guitar, with Billy Oskay producing and engineering and Jim Cuda assisting.
As with any of my songs, you're welcome to play it, use it in videos, sing it, etc. If you want to sing it, it's easy - 3 chords: D, A and G!
(David Rovics)
Because this is where they buy the politicians
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2011/10/15 - 22:34
Trading With The Enemy
[2001]
Lyrics & Music by David Rovics
Da/From "Living In These Times"
David Rovics' Official Website
Lyrics & Music by David Rovics
Da/From "Living In These Times"
David Rovics' Official Website
I saw her in the city center
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Contributed by giorgio 2010/4/14 - 08:12
Osama Bin Laden Is Dead
[2011]
Big Red Sessions
Big Red Sessions
It was a commando operation of courage and skill
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Contributed by Lorenzo Masetti 2011/5/11 - 22:27
New Orleans
[2005]
Halliburton Boardroom Massacre
Halliburton Boardroom Massacre
Everybody knew that it could happen
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Contributed by DonQuijote82 2011/2/17 - 11:00
Tunisia 2011
2011
The Big Red Session
I've been glued to Al Jazeera for six weeks now, more than usual, captivated by events in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, and elsewhere. I wrote this on the plane from Honolulu to Portland. Feel free to go to http://www.davidrovics.com and click the "donate" button to help me make a better recording of this song if you're so inclined.
(David Rovics)
The Big Red Session
I've been glued to Al Jazeera for six weeks now, more than usual, captivated by events in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, and elsewhere. I wrote this on the plane from Honolulu to Portland. Feel free to go to http://www.davidrovics.com and click the "donate" button to help me make a better recording of this song if you're so inclined.
(David Rovics)
Mohamed had a vegetable stand, this was his family's plight
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2011/2/8 - 22:26
The Village Where Nothing Happened
IL VILLAGGIO IN CUI NON È SUCCESSO NIENTE
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2011/2/5 - 14:48
Song for Bradley Manning
2011
The Big Red Session
I wrote a song for Bradley Manning, the brave soldier who allegedly made off with all those files that Wikileaks has done such a brilliant job of publicizing.
The Big Red Session
I wrote a song for Bradley Manning, the brave soldier who allegedly made off with all those files that Wikileaks has done such a brilliant job of publicizing.
Private Manning was an analyst if what they say is true
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2011/1/4 - 20:08
Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler
[2010]
Lyrics & Music by David Rovics
Album: Ten New Songs
"Hearing the stories of out-of-work fishing communities in Louisiana, thinking about the history of the Cajun people, and how the refugees from Canada are now becoming refugees again. This time the reason is not the British Empire, it's a transnational corporation with a very British and very imperial history.."
Lyrics & Music by David Rovics
Album: Ten New Songs
"Hearing the stories of out-of-work fishing communities in Louisiana, thinking about the history of the Cajun people, and how the refugees from Canada are now becoming refugees again. This time the reason is not the British Empire, it's a transnational corporation with a very British and very imperial history.."
We came to Canada a long time ago
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Contributed by giorgio 2010/12/2 - 08:10
Floating Down the River
2009
Ten Thousand Miles Away
David Rovics è uno dei grandi poeti dei nostri tempi, una voce combattiva e umana che ascolto spesso per consolarmi dell’orrore in cui viviamo immersi.
David Rovics rappresenta per me anche il meglio degli Stati Uniti, la grande curiosità per il mondo e la vita, la forza, una volta presa coscienza, di non scendere a compromessi. La capacità di usare anche la violenza, ma senza mai spaccare il capello in quattro. Con un amore profondo per tutto ciò che descrive, che lo mette diverse spanne al di sopra dei semplici arrabbiati.
(Miguel Martinez da Kelebeker Blog)
Ten Thousand Miles Away
David Rovics è uno dei grandi poeti dei nostri tempi, una voce combattiva e umana che ascolto spesso per consolarmi dell’orrore in cui viviamo immersi.
David Rovics rappresenta per me anche il meglio degli Stati Uniti, la grande curiosità per il mondo e la vita, la forza, una volta presa coscienza, di non scendere a compromessi. La capacità di usare anche la violenza, ma senza mai spaccare il capello in quattro. Con un amore profondo per tutto ciò che descrive, che lo mette diverse spanne al di sopra dei semplici arrabbiati.
(Miguel Martinez da Kelebeker Blog)
There’s an upright piano
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2010/12/1 - 23:20
Saint Patrick Battalion
Transalted by Luis Angel Sanchez de Lachina “Txino”
Da/From/D'après David Rovics' Official Website
Da/From/D'après David Rovics' Official Website
Saint Patrick Batailoi
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Contributed by adriana 2006/9/18 - 20:30
Cordova
[2010]
Lyrics & Music by David Rovics
Album: Ten New Songs
"On Earth Day last I was on a plane headed to Europe, reading Riki Ott's fantastic book, One Last Drop, about Exxon Valdez disaster, just as the oil began to gush off the Louisiana coast. Anyway, this song is about a particular incident in 1993 when fishermen blockaded the harbor".
Lyrics & Music by David Rovics
Album: Ten New Songs
"On Earth Day last I was on a plane headed to Europe, reading Riki Ott's fantastic book, One Last Drop, about Exxon Valdez disaster, just as the oil began to gush off the Louisiana coast. Anyway, this song is about a particular incident in 1993 when fishermen blockaded the harbor".
I am a fisherman, so were my parents
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Contributed by giorgio 2010/9/24 - 06:17
Guanajuato
[2009]
Lyrics and Music by David Rovics
Album: Ten Thousand Miles Away
A song for one of the hundreds of would-be Mexican immigrants who die of thirst on the US-Mexico border every year..
Lyrics and Music by David Rovics
Album: Ten Thousand Miles Away
A song for one of the hundreds of would-be Mexican immigrants who die of thirst on the US-Mexico border every year..
I was raised in Guanajuato
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Contributed by giorgio 2010/8/18 - 08:44
Song Itineraries:
The War of Labour: Emigration, Immigration, Exploitation, Slavery
Union Makes Strong
[2010]
Lyrics & Music by David Rovics
Album: Ten New Songs
"I was just fiddling around on the guitar one day and this is what came out. I was thinking of stories Bob and Jo Steck used to tell about the 1930's in their respective homes – Bob in Iowa and Jo in New York City. I suppose this song represents the most fundamental message I and others like me are trying to communicate – in union we can achieve anything".
Lyrics & Music by David Rovics
Album: Ten New Songs
"I was just fiddling around on the guitar one day and this is what came out. I was thinking of stories Bob and Jo Steck used to tell about the 1930's in their respective homes – Bob in Iowa and Jo in New York City. I suppose this song represents the most fundamental message I and others like me are trying to communicate – in union we can achieve anything".
Back in the Depression - farmers held the line
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Contributed by giorgio 2010/8/1 - 08:47
Sugihara
[2010]
Lyrics and Music by David Rovics
Album: Ten New Songs
"There are persistent myths about Japan being a basically homogeneous society made up of obedient drones. It's not, and never has been in fact a serious reading of Japanese history is full of dissent of all kinds, going back many centuries.
During the Nazi holocaust in Europe there was a Japanese Schindler, and his name was Sempo Sugihara.
I heard about him through my friend Ben Manski, who is alive today because of this man and his wife Yukiko. Ben and his grandfather, Samuil, are what some call Sugihara Survivors".
Lyrics and Music by David Rovics
Album: Ten New Songs
"There are persistent myths about Japan being a basically homogeneous society made up of obedient drones. It's not, and never has been in fact a serious reading of Japanese history is full of dissent of all kinds, going back many centuries.
During the Nazi holocaust in Europe there was a Japanese Schindler, and his name was Sempo Sugihara.
I heard about him through my friend Ben Manski, who is alive today because of this man and his wife Yukiko. Ben and his grandfather, Samuil, are what some call Sugihara Survivors".
He was raised in Gifu, on the islands of Japan
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Contributed by giorgio 2010/7/14 - 09:04
Up the Provos (Song for Francis Hughes)
[2010]
Lyrics and Music by David Rovics
Album: Ten New Songs
"After playing a gig at Roddy McCorley's on the Falls Road in West Belfast, spending the entire night after the gig singing rebel songs with members and relatives of a band called “the Irish Brigade”, and then after reading Ten Men Dead (great book!) I had to write a song about the 1981 hunger strikers and this is what happened".
Lyrics and Music by David Rovics
Album: Ten New Songs
"After playing a gig at Roddy McCorley's on the Falls Road in West Belfast, spending the entire night after the gig singing rebel songs with members and relatives of a band called “the Irish Brigade”, and then after reading Ten Men Dead (great book!) I had to write a song about the 1981 hunger strikers and this is what happened".
He grew up on a farm in a troubled Irish land
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Contributed by giorgio 2010/7/13 - 13:17
Song Itineraries:
Conflicts in Ireland
The Last Lincoln Vet
[2010]
Lyrics and Music by David Rovics
Album: Ten New Songs
It's strange getting older.. When I was young the old people around me were the 1930's generation, veterans of the massive Depression-era struggles of the day. Bob Steck lived a few miles down the road from my mother in Connecticut and was, among other things, a veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and spent 16 months in one of Franco's concentration camps. He died a couple years ago at the venerable old age of 95, and this song is for him and others like him. Many of them of course were killed in battle in Spain long ago. Most of those who survived the war spent the rest of their lives serving humanity in one way or another. The few survivors are now in their nineties.
Lyrics and Music by David Rovics
Album: Ten New Songs
It's strange getting older.. When I was young the old people around me were the 1930's generation, veterans of the massive Depression-era struggles of the day. Bob Steck lived a few miles down the road from my mother in Connecticut and was, among other things, a veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and spent 16 months in one of Franco's concentration camps. He died a couple years ago at the venerable old age of 95, and this song is for him and others like him. Many of them of course were killed in battle in Spain long ago. Most of those who survived the war spent the rest of their lives serving humanity in one way or another. The few survivors are now in their nineties.
They were old when I was young
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Contributed by giorgio 2010/7/13 - 13:09
Song Itineraries:
The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 and Franco's Dictatorship
Song for the Mavi Marmara
[2010]
Lyrics and Music by David Rovics
Album: Ten New Songs
I had friends on several of those boats, including the Mavi Marmara. Just when the most cynical of leftists thinks Israel can't possibly do something even more outrageous than the last outrage, they go and do it. They massacred unarmed activists trying to bring basic necessities in to help alleviate the suffering of a besieged, hungry population. Read Kevin Neish's firsthand account of the raid on the ship.
Lyrics and Music by David Rovics
Album: Ten New Songs
I had friends on several of those boats, including the Mavi Marmara. Just when the most cynical of leftists thinks Israel can't possibly do something even more outrageous than the last outrage, they go and do it. They massacred unarmed activists trying to bring basic necessities in to help alleviate the suffering of a besieged, hungry population. Read Kevin Neish's firsthand account of the raid on the ship.
In 1948 they were driven out at the point of a machine gun
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Contributed by giorgio 2010/7/11 - 19:01
Sixty Thousand More
[2005]
Lyrics & Music by David Rovics
Album: Beyond The Mall
Lyrics & Music by David Rovics
Album: Beyond The Mall
I was driving down the highway
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Contributed by giorgio 2010/5/31 - 12:42
Minimum Wage Strike
[1998]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
Da/From "We Just Want The World"
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
Da/From "We Just Want The World"
When I awoke one morning -there was a feeling in the air
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Contributed by giorgio 2010/5/31 - 12:26
Welcome to the European Union
[2003]
Lyrics & Music by David Rovics
Album: Who Would Jesus Bomb
Lyrics & Music by David Rovics
Album: Who Would Jesus Bomb
I landed in Denmark and there was Burger King
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Contributed by giorgio 2010/5/20 - 08:10
Death Of Mother Jones
[1931]
Lyrics & Music by anonymous
Album: PayDay at Coal Creek [1998]
"Mother" Mary Jones fought tirelessly for workers' rights in the coal mines and the textile mills, and was, in her long life, as beloved by the Knights of Labor in the 1870's as she was by the Industrial Workers of the World in the early twentieth century, which she helped found in 1906.
Lyrics & Music by anonymous
Album: PayDay at Coal Creek [1998]
"Mother" Mary Jones fought tirelessly for workers' rights in the coal mines and the textile mills, and was, in her long life, as beloved by the Knights of Labor in the 1870's as she was by the Industrial Workers of the World in the early twentieth century, which she helped found in 1906.
The world today is mourning
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Contributed by giorgio 2010/4/14 - 08:29
Battle of Blair Mountain
[2004]
Album "Songs for Mahmud"
"I read the book by Lon Savage, Thunder In the Mountains, and wrote this song, about the biggest battle in the West Virginia Coal Mine War of 1920-21".
Album "Songs for Mahmud"
"I read the book by Lon Savage, Thunder In the Mountains, and wrote this song, about the biggest battle in the West Virginia Coal Mine War of 1920-21".
1921 was the year seems like yesterday to me
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Contributed by giorgio 2010/4/13 - 12:16
Song Itineraries:
The War of Labour: Emigration, Immigration, Exploitation, Slavery
Song for Ginger Goodwin
2009
Ten Thousand Miles Away
"Last summer I had the pleasure of singing at an event in northern Vancouver Island that happens every year in memory of Albert "Ginger" Goodwin (1887-1918)
a prominent local labor organizer who was killed by an agent of the state on July 27 1918 because he refused to fight in a bosses' war".
Ten Thousand Miles Away
"Last summer I had the pleasure of singing at an event in northern Vancouver Island that happens every year in memory of Albert "Ginger" Goodwin (1887-1918)
a prominent local labor organizer who was killed by an agent of the state on July 27 1918 because he refused to fight in a bosses' war".
He grew up in Yorkshire County
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Contributed by giorgio 2010/4/13 - 12:08
Whoever wins in November
[2005]
Album: For The Moment
There may have been a distinction between those two war criminals. Perhaps even a distinction that we might call significant, but certainly not one that will, in itself, allow our species to survive.
Album: For The Moment
There may have been a distinction between those two war criminals. Perhaps even a distinction that we might call significant, but certainly not one that will, in itself, allow our species to survive.
Whoever wins in November
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Contributed by giorgio 2010/4/13 - 08:47
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
[2003]
Album: Who Would Jesus Bomb?
Album: Who Would Jesus Bomb?
I can't stand the news
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Contributed by giorgio 2010/4/13 - 08:14
Glory And Fame
[1993]
Album: We Just Want The World .[2005]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Album: We Just Want The World .[2005]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
"I already recorded this song on my CD, Make It So [1996], and might not have recorded it once again, except that when Anne Feeney heard me sing it around a campfire at the Kerrville Folk Festival, she said she liked it but that it might stand a little editing. I had long thought that myself, and after she made the suggestion, Chrysler helped me cut out half the verses during a long drive one night someplace in the Midwest. My other name for the song is "Labor History 101." I used to call it "Ballad of the Proletariat," but Pete Seeger suggested I change the title, pointing out that "proletariat" is a "long, Latin word" which "might as well be in Swahili, or Chinese." I originally wrote the song in the spring of '93, and it has obviously been a victim of the "folk process."
I pulled the stones for the emperor,
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Contributed by giorgio 2009/10/9 - 09:38
All The Ghosts That Walk This Earth
[2004]
Album "Songs for Mahmud"
Album "Songs for Mahmud"
I'll tell you what happened
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Contributed by Alessandro 2009/10/6 - 15:32
No One Is Illegal
The clouds gather in your forests
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Contributed by Alessandro 2009/10/6 - 13:11
Black Flag Flying
[2008]
Album "The Commons"
Album "The Commons"
Come all you sailors near and far
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Contributed by Alessandro 2009/10/6 - 11:10
Guantanamo Bay
Bonne continuation.see also\voir aussi: "GUANTANAMO BAY" song by J.D.SAGE at <www.jdsage.com >
J.D. 2007/4/11 - 17:36
Bellissima vignetta di Dave Granlund (riportata da Internazionale n.792/2009) che sintetizza magistralmente cosa farà la nuova amministrazione Obama rispetto all'accertamento delle responsabilità degli agenti federali coinvolti nelle torture ai presunti terroristi catturati dopo l'11 settembre 2001.
Il cartello recita: "Amnistia per gli agenti della CIA responsabili degli interrogatori"
"Fiuuu! L'attesa del verdetto è stata una vera tortura!"
Il cartello recita: "Amnistia per gli agenti della CIA responsabili degli interrogatori"
"Fiuuu! L'attesa del verdetto è stata una vera tortura!"
Alessandro 2009/4/26 - 16:53
Hummer [For The Military Targets Among The SUV's]
![Hummer [For The Military Targets Among The SUV's]](img/upl/hummer.jpg)
[2005]
Lyrics and Music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
Album: Waiting For The Fall
David Rovics' Official Website
Lo Hummer, come tutti o quasi sanno, è un SUV. Uno di quegli automezzi, enormi e inutili che da tempo infestano e appestano anche le nostre città, dato che sono divenuti degli status symbol. Ingombranti, inquinanti, boriosi, stupid "simboli" della vuotezza dei nostri tempi, dato che, nel traffico caotico delle nostre città, oltre a non servire assolutamente a nulla (e menomale che sarebbero Sport "Utility" Vehicles!), si rendono protagonisti di infrazioni di ogni genere -dovute perlopiù all'impossibilità di parcheggiarli- e anche di incidenti mortali o comunque gravi, come quelli recentemente accaduti nel centro di Milano. Ma guai a toccarli, i SUV! Non si può! Fanno "mercato", dato che il mercato "di lusso" tira sempre di più, anche se la gente si indebita... (Continues)
Lyrics and Music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
Album: Waiting For The Fall
David Rovics' Official Website
Lo Hummer, come tutti o quasi sanno, è un SUV. Uno di quegli automezzi, enormi e inutili che da tempo infestano e appestano anche le nostre città, dato che sono divenuti degli status symbol. Ingombranti, inquinanti, boriosi, stupid "simboli" della vuotezza dei nostri tempi, dato che, nel traffico caotico delle nostre città, oltre a non servire assolutamente a nulla (e menomale che sarebbero Sport "Utility" Vehicles!), si rendono protagonisti di infrazioni di ogni genere -dovute perlopiù all'impossibilità di parcheggiarli- e anche di incidenti mortali o comunque gravi, come quelli recentemente accaduti nel centro di Milano. Ma guai a toccarli, i SUV! Non si può! Fanno "mercato", dato che il mercato "di lusso" tira sempre di più, anche se la gente si indebita... (Continues)
Here it comes, flying down the center lane
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Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2008/5/30 - 20:34
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Al posto del commento del "Suvvista Itagliano" mettiamo su questa pagina le foto delle CCG Cars. Cominciamo con la mitica R4 rossa di Adriana:
CCG/AWS Staff 2009/1/14 - 19:47
After We Torture Our Prisoners
DOPO CHE AVREMO TORTURATO I NOSTRI PRIGIONIERI
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Contributed by Kio 2008/8/20 - 15:18
Palestine
Penso che invitare lo Stato di Israele come ospite d'onore al Salone del Libro di Torino, nel sessantesimo anniversario dalla cruenta fondazione di quello Stato, sia un atto politico e non culturale. Altro sarebbe stato invitare nel 2007 o nel 2009 a quella stessa manifestazione i grandi autori israeliani e di fede ebraica che oggi segnano significativamente con le loro opere la letteratura mondiale. Altro sarebbe stato invitare come ospiti d'onore a questo Salone i più grandi uomini di cultura israeliani e palestinesi, dando così uguale dignità sia alla fondazione dello Stato ebraico che alla disperata e degna resistenza del popolo palestinese contro una delle più brutali e prolungate occupazioni militari nella storia dell'umanità...
Non voglio contraddire il Presidente Napolitano (per quanto io sia convinto che egli sia il classico "uomo per tutte le stagioni", di quelli abituati a passare... (Continues)
Non voglio contraddire il Presidente Napolitano (per quanto io sia convinto che egli sia il classico "uomo per tutte le stagioni", di quelli abituati a passare... (Continues)
Alessandro 2008/5/9 - 13:30
Drug War
Oltre alla Drug War c'è anche la War on Drugs che ha delle cifre impressionanti:
http://www.drugsense.org/wodclock.htm
http://www.drugsense.org/wodclock.htm
Alessandro 2007/7/9 - 16:02
Lebanon (2006)
Created September 2006
2009
Ten Thousand Miles Away
2009
Ten Thousand Miles Away
Two soldiers had been captured
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Contributed by adriana 2007/3/10 - 08:26
How Many Soldiers Per Gallon Does Your SUV Get?
I saw you driving by
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Contributed by adriana 2007/3/10 - 08:31
Haditha
Testo ripreso dal sito ufficiale dell'autore
By the Euphrates River
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Contributed by adriana 2007/3/10 - 08:08
Operation Iraqi Liberation
Iraq, soldato Usa ammette stupro irachena e omicidio
Barker davanti alla corte marziale Usa. Eviterà esecuzione
16/11/2006
ROMA. Un soldato americano ha ammesso ieri di avere stuprato una ragazzina irachena di 14 anni e di avere ucciso lei e tutti i membri della sua famiglia. James Barker, riferisce la Bbc online, ha ammesso le proprie colpe all'inizio del processo marziale a suo carico in corso negli Usa.
L'ammissione di colpevolezza permetterà all'imputato di evitare la pena capitale. Barker è uno dei quattro soldati Usa accusati dell'omicidio. Tutti i sospetti appartengono alla Seconda Brigata di Elite della 101esima Divisione Aerea.
L'avvocato di Barker, David Sheldon, ha spiegato che il suo assistito ha deciso di collaborare con al Corte e di testimoniare contro gli altri sospettati. I tre imputati che dovranno rispondere di stupro e omicuidio sono Jesse Spielman. Paul Cortez e Bryan Howard.
http://www.lastampa.it/redazione/cmsSe...
Barker davanti alla corte marziale Usa. Eviterà esecuzione
16/11/2006
ROMA. Un soldato americano ha ammesso ieri di avere stuprato una ragazzina irachena di 14 anni e di avere ucciso lei e tutti i membri della sua famiglia. James Barker, riferisce la Bbc online, ha ammesso le proprie colpe all'inizio del processo marziale a suo carico in corso negli Usa.
L'ammissione di colpevolezza permetterà all'imputato di evitare la pena capitale. Barker è uno dei quattro soldati Usa accusati dell'omicidio. Tutti i sospetti appartengono alla Seconda Brigata di Elite della 101esima Divisione Aerea.
L'avvocato di Barker, David Sheldon, ha spiegato che il suo assistito ha deciso di collaborare con al Corte e di testimoniare contro gli altri sospettati. I tre imputati che dovranno rispondere di stupro e omicuidio sono Jesse Spielman. Paul Cortez e Bryan Howard.
http://www.lastampa.it/redazione/cmsSe...
Alessandro 2006/11/16 - 12:12
August 18, 2006: an historical date for AWS. Contribution of David Rovics' songs is finally over, a record hardly to be beaten by any single author. The songs will be gradually translated into Italian. Thank you David for all you've done and you will do further!
Riccardo Venturi 2006/8/18 - 17:56
Candle For Durruti
[1988]
Lyrics and music by Al Grierson
Testo e musica di Al Grierson
Testo ripreso da / Lyrics available at David Rovics' Official Website
"Written some time after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this song is a tribute to La Pasionaria, Durruti, the Lincoln Brigade and all the others around the world who fought and generally died in defense of freedom in Spain. The Spanish Civil War is seen by many as the real beginning of WWII, and also represents perhaps the most spectacular outpouring of international solidarity the world has ever seen. Though the war in Spain was won by the Spanish fascists (with the aid of Hitler's planes, Mussolini's troops and America's oil), the legacy of the International Brigades who went to defend Spain's democractic government continues to inspire many today."
David Rovics
« Scritta qualche tempo dopo la caduta del Muro di Berlino, questa canzone è un... (Continues)
Lyrics and music by Al Grierson
Testo e musica di Al Grierson
Testo ripreso da / Lyrics available at David Rovics' Official Website
"Written some time after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this song is a tribute to La Pasionaria, Durruti, the Lincoln Brigade and all the others around the world who fought and generally died in defense of freedom in Spain. The Spanish Civil War is seen by many as the real beginning of WWII, and also represents perhaps the most spectacular outpouring of international solidarity the world has ever seen. Though the war in Spain was won by the Spanish fascists (with the aid of Hitler's planes, Mussolini's troops and America's oil), the legacy of the International Brigades who went to defend Spain's democractic government continues to inspire many today."
David Rovics
« Scritta qualche tempo dopo la caduta del Muro di Berlino, questa canzone è un... (Continues)
Well the headline on the paper said the good guys won the war
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Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2006/8/18 - 17:34
Song Itineraries:
The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 and Franco's Dictatorship
Song For Hugh Thompson
[December 1998]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
David Rovics' Official Website
Da/From "We Just Want The World"
"I was in a wonderful cafe (Hyperion Espresso) in Fredericksburg, Virginia, when I read in the paper about this helicopter pilot who landed in My Lai near the end of this horrible massacre perpetrated upon Vietnamese peasants by American troops. I never knew until I read this article that certain American troops were also involved with finally putting an end to it. The only reason Hugh Thomson's heroic story emerged after thirty years was because the government of Vietnam was preparing to give him a medal for his actions, and the U.S. Army decided it wanted to try to avoid being upstaged." - David Rovics.
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
David Rovics' Official Website
Da/From "We Just Want The World"
"I was in a wonderful cafe (Hyperion Espresso) in Fredericksburg, Virginia, when I read in the paper about this helicopter pilot who landed in My Lai near the end of this horrible massacre perpetrated upon Vietnamese peasants by American troops. I never knew until I read this article that certain American troops were also involved with finally putting an end to it. The only reason Hugh Thomson's heroic story emerged after thirty years was because the government of Vietnam was preparing to give him a medal for his actions, and the U.S. Army decided it wanted to try to avoid being upstaged." - David Rovics.
Hugh Thompson was a pilot, just like many more
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Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2006/8/18 - 17:16
Song Itineraries:
War in Viet Nam as seen from the U.S.
We Just Want The World
[December 1998]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
From/da "We Just Want The World"
David Rovics' Official Website
"We Just Want the World -- not its ashes. There's certainly no future for any of humanity's hopes and dreams if the earth itself is strangled to death by oil spills and chainsaws." -David Rovics.
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
From/da "We Just Want The World"
David Rovics' Official Website
"We Just Want the World -- not its ashes. There's certainly no future for any of humanity's hopes and dreams if the earth itself is strangled to death by oil spills and chainsaws." -David Rovics.
When we're living in the White House
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Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2006/8/18 - 17:11
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