This Week with David Rovics
This podcast features audio essays, interviews, concerts, and new topical songs.
Episodes
My adopted home town of Portland, Oregon is once again in the international headlines, and this calls for a little primer.
Everything else happening in the world aside, we are at a fascinating juncture in the history of humanity. Assuming we live long enough to witness it, many people would say we're on the cusp of a new reality, represented by the three words, Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Ai Tsuno's fourth album gracefully explores this theme. For this special edition of This Week with David Rovics I bring you Where the Algorithms Rule: ...
Chet Gardiner has delivered a remix of "Invisible Rulers" that sounds just like the collision of the rumor mill with the propaganda machine! And with that, the next album is coming. This'll be track #1.
When I heard on the news that the Global Sumud Flotilla was being attacked by drones and Abba music, I was struck by the muse.
As the Trump administration tries hard to capitalize on this latest instance of political violence in the USA, Chet Gardiner has for us a remix which vastly improves everything.
Renee DiResta's book, Invisible Rulers, does a brilliant job of introducing us to the modern online age -- an age which she characterizes as one during which the rumor mill and the propaganda machine have, in so many ways, collided.
He spent most of his short life feeding off of algorithms, and now the algorithms are feeding off of him.
We're at another one of those seismic moments in technological development as it applies to the arts and most other things.
With the addition of Amherst, Massachusetts, the Ministry of Culture's October tour of the northeastern US now includes 10 confirmed gigs! And I recorded a little musical October Tour PSA as well... Radio and other audio people please feel free to use!
Olympia's beloved Zahid Chaudhry remains in ICE detention in Tacoma. A wounded veteran of the US military, in his wheelchair, was detained by ICE. A cherished member of the community and a loving father, taken from his small children. Here's Chet Gardiner's lovely remix.
Most people in Olympia seem to know Zahid Chaudhry, and everyone who knows him loves him, including me. He's the most effusively affectionate leftwing military veteran in a wheelchair you're ever likely to meet. And now he's in ICE detention, being tortured in Tacoma.
More info: keepzahidhome.carrd.co
And I don't even live in Gaza.
What do we need? Historical knowledge, vision, optimism, organization, and deep culture. When do we need it? Always.
A song for a photograph, for the photographers, the artists, the journalists, and all who are finding effective ways to tell the stories. In this case, the stories of a genocide. Latest remix from Chet Gardiner. If anyone knows where to find the photo I wrote the song about, please tell me.
In preparation for Sunday's vigil for Gaza that I'll be singing at (12-2 pm at 12th and Hawthorne SE here in PDX) I did a livestreamed concert from my living room to practice some relevant songs.
While Israel continues its genocide of the Palestinians, all the Republicans in the Senate and half of the Democrats voted once again to continue facilitating the genocide. This song names the names of the genocide-supporting Democratic Senators, all of whom should obviously not be in positions of power -- all of whom should be locked up in the Hague, for that matter. This version is another brilliant remix from Chet, bound eventua...
Another powerful remix from Chet Gardiner to drive home the message of the song I wrote just the other day, following announcements from Israel-supporting, war-profiteering leaders like Starmer, Carney, and Albanese that they might just consider recognizing the state of Palestine --if there are any Palestinians left alive come September, and if Hamas gives up and the Palestinians who haven't been killed yet pretend effectively "pl...
The western powers talking about recognizing the state of Palestine sometime in the fall if certain outrageous conditions are met is the very definition of the term, "gaslighting."
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