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I Can't Breathe

I Can't Breathe
from The Other Side, released August 31, 2015

I wrote this song, "I Can't Breathe," after the death of Eric Garner. Unfortunately, it's now also about George Floyd.


I Can't Breath, non respiro! Le stesse parole di Eric Garner 5 anni fa e oggi di George Floyd, afroamericano di 46 anni, ucciso per soffocamento da un agente di polizia a Minneapolis, USA davanti a diversi passanti che hanno iniziato a riprendere la scena. Nel video si vede il poliziotto che lo blocca a terra con un ginocchio all'altezza del collo rimanendo in quella posizione con tutto il peso del corpo per diversi minuti nonostante le proteste dei presenti.

Wake up in the morning, nowhere you can hide
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27/5/2020 - 22:52
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1933

1933
[2018]
Parole e musica di David Rovics
Album: Historic Times
History doesn't repeat, they say, but it often appears it does
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envoyé par hmmwv 24/5/2020 - 19:27
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Neither King Nor Kaiser

Neither King Nor Kaiser
[2014]
Lyrics & music by David Rovics
Album: When I'm Elected President & Wayfaring Stranger (double album)

NeitherKingNorKaiser is the tag the Europe-based campaign is using to remember the imperial carnage that was World War I in a more accurate light.

It was a war that was opposed by the majority, and fought on behalf of the few.
A hundred years ago today
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envoyé par giorgio 4/5/2020 - 14:25
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The Draft Is Coming

The Draft Is Coming
David is brilliant but this song shows a surprising lack of unnderstanding of America's military strategy at home. Vietnam taught American politicians that a draft results in protests & makes war unpopular. We now boast of our all-volunteer military because it keeps Americans supportive of war. But the majority of the massacre-ing is done by mercenary forces like Blackwater (now operating under different names) because soldiers are subject to ptosecution for ear crimes
2/5/2020 - 10:28
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Paul Wolfowitz

Paul Wolfowitz
AMAZEBALLS.
persona nongrata 2/5/2020 - 09:48
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Still Waiting for the Change

Still Waiting for the Change
[2011]
Lyrics & music by David Rovics
Album: Ten New Songs (double album)

A song for president Obama. (And his entire party. And the other party, too, for that matter) ..
A perfect example of a politician. That is, he unfailingly represents the basic truth about politicians worldwide – that it doesn't matter what they say, or how eloquently they say it. All that matters is what they do. And with Obama, what he says and what he does have nothing to do with each other. Any progressive person who still thinks otherwise is either deluded or not paying attention (or both).
I remember in 2008
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envoyé par giorgio 21/4/2020 - 15:25
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Waiting for Their Checks to Come

Waiting for Their Checks to Come
[2020]

At least ten million renters in the US began the month of April, 2020 by withholding their rent -- for most of them, because it was either pay rent this month, or eat. Those among the now teeming ranks of the unemployed and housing insecure in the US who qualify for it are now anxiously awaiting the money the federal government says it will start disbursing in the coming week.
The world shut down last month
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envoyé par adriana 12/4/2020 - 13:49
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The Pandemic of 1918

The Pandemic of 1918
[2020]
Lyrics & music by David Rovics
Album: Viral Solidarity

The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, the deadliest in history, infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide—about one-third of the planet’s population—and killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million victims, including some 675,000 Americans. The 1918 flu was first observed in Europe, the United States and parts of Asia before swiftly spreading around the world. At the time, there were no effective drugs or vaccines to treat this killer flu strain. Citizens were ordered to wear masks, schools, theaters and businesses were shuttered and bodies piled up in makeshift morgues before the virus ended its deadly global march..
A world war was raging,
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envoyé par giorgio 9/4/2020 - 09:33
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Viral Solidarity

Viral Solidarity
2020

"We recorded my latest ditty, "Viral Solidarity," Saturday evening in Brisbane, Australia, at what will probably be my last gig for a little while. Now I'm back in the US, heading home to Portland, to see what happens next."
(David Rovics)
There's foreboding in the air
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15/3/2020 - 15:45
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Frieden Und Freiheit

Frieden Und Freiheit
[2015]
Album : The Other Side

Franz Jacob (August 9, 1906 – September 18, 1944) was a German Resistance fighter against the National Socialists and a Communist politician.
Franz Jacob was a man, grandfather of a friend of yours
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envoyé par DQ82 28/12/2018 - 14:29
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They All Sang the Internationale

They All Sang the Internationale
[2015]

Album : The Other Side

Katharina Hochmuth Jacob (March 6, 1907 – August 23, 1989) was a teacher and member of the German Resistance movement against National Socialism. She was married to Franz Jacob, a German Resistance fighter who was executed by the Nazis.
Katharina Jacob, long before she took that name
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envoyé par Dq82 28/12/2018 - 14:24
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Denmark 1943

Denmark 1943
[2015]
Album : The Other Side
When we heard the news that we were to be arrested
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envoyé par Dq82 28/12/2018 - 14:14
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Stolpersteine

Stolpersteine
2016
1939

Stumbling stones. A German artist named Gunter Demnig started putting little bronze squares in the sidewalks of German cities in 1992. Now there are thousands of them in several different countries in Europe. They are placed in front of the homes and workshops from which people were taken to be sent to concentration camps, primarily. It's a powerful form of art, turning much of Germany into a permanent exhibit, a constant reminder of what has been, and what must never be.

Pietre d'inciampo. Un artista tedesco Gunter Demnig ha iniziato a posizionare delle piccole lapidi di bronzo sui marciapiedi delle città tedesche nel 1992. Adesso ce ne sono migliaia sparse in diverse nazioni europee, posizionate di fronte alle case o alle botteghe, da cui le perosne sono state prelevate per essere portate nei campi di sterminio. E' una forma d'arte piena di forza, che trasforma la Germania... (continuer)
When I first showed up in Deutschland, camping on the Rhine
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envoyé par Dq82 27/12/2018 - 15:57
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Ice

Ice
[2018]

State terror. For the children and their parents.
She left late at night out of sight of the gangs
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envoyé par adriana 11/7/2018 - 10:43
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Land Day

[2018]

1976/2018. Land Day was originally declared in the wake of a massacre carried out by Israelis against Palestinians protesting against ongoing theft of their land by Israel. Now we have a far bigger massacre to add to the ongoing saga.David Rovics
Another day, another massacre of children
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envoyé par adriana 17/5/2018 - 17:28

I Won’t Be a Slave

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I Won’t Be a Slave
Una canzone di David Rovics dedicata alla Lowell Mill Girls.
Testo trovato su Genius

THE LOWELL FACTORY GIRL

No more shall I work in the factory
Greasy up my clothes
No more shall I work in the factory
Splinters in my toes

Pity me, my darling
Pity me, I say
Pity me, my darling
And carry me away

No more shall I hear the bosses say
"Boys, you better dauf"
No more shall I hear those bosses say
"Spinners, you better clean off"

Pity me, my darling
Pity me, I say
Pity me, my darling
And carry me away

No more shall I hear the drummer wheels
Rolling over my head
When factories are hard at work
I'll be in my bed

Pity me, my darling
Pity me, I say
Pity me, my darling
And carry me away

No more shall I wear the old black dress
Greasy all around
No more shall I wear the old black bonnet
With holes all in the crown

Pity me, my darling
Pity me, I say
Pity me, my darling
And... (continuer)
B.B. 7/5/2018 - 09:51
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East Kilbride

East Kilbride
[2018]
Live in Huston

A friend in Berlin sent me a story about how the entire Chilean Air Force was essentially grounded for a time as a result of the actions of union engineers in Scotland who refused to repair the engines of their fighter jets after the 1973 coup.
Jet fighters bombed the palace, we all watched it on TV
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envoyé par adriana 28/1/2018 - 10:47
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A Brief History of Jerusalem

A Brief History of Jerusalem
[2018]

It's been in the news a lot lately, since Trump announced his plan to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. So here's a little history for those who don't know.
From the frozen north with shields and swords
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envoyé par adriana 28/1/2018 - 10:38
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Rojava

Rojava
[2017]

Album: Ballad of a Wobbly
Listen to me, friends, from New York to California
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envoyé par adriana 12/12/2017 - 14:37
Parcours: Du Kurdistan
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Leila and Majnun

Leila and Majnun
[2017]

Album: Ballad of a Wobbly
When Leila met Majnun it was at a traffic light
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12/12/2017 - 14:32
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Ballad of a Wobbly

Ballad of a Wobbly
[2017]

Album: Ballad of a Wobbly
When I came to this country, left Scotland far behind
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envoyé par adriana 12/12/2017 - 14:20
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Failed State

Failed State
2017
Album: Ballad of a Wobbly
When you're working two jobs and living in a tent
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envoyé par adriana 7/10/2017 - 10:55
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Robotar

Robotar
[2013]
Lyrics and music: Elona Planman
Text och musik: Elona Planman
Testo e musica: Elona Planman
Album: Drömtåget [2015]
elonaplanman.com

Elona Planman, giovane strega svedese che l'Adriana avrebbe volentieri scovata in un sabba, ma che invece più prosaicamente ha scovata sulla pagina del Libro De' Ceffi (leggasi: Feisbuk) di David Rovics (uno che ha 162 canzoni su questo sito, no, tanto per dire...), è una parecchio tosta. Una, insomma, da mettercisi immediatamente a “lavorare” sopra. Probabilmente, e anche a giudicare dal suo sito ufficiale, in Svezia (e in Scandinavia) non ha nessun bisogno di essere conosciuta; solo che, come è lecito e anche piacevole immaginare, la Elona scrive e canta solo in svedese (dico “piacevole” perché a me piace immensamente chi non abdica all'inglisc'). Urge quindi, visto quel che scrive e canta, dedicarsi un po' a questa ragazza “punk” sì, ma che... (continuer)
På bussen är allt stilla fast
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envoyé par Adriana & RV 3/9/2017 - 07:52
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America Has Never Been So Great

America Has Never Been So Great
[2017]

Album: Punk Baroque

Ask anyone who wants to "make America great again" -- exactly when was it great?David Rovics




Razzismo, povertà, violenza.

Due domande sorgono spontanee:

1) Quando è stata grande l'America?



2) Come farà Trump a renderla grande?

(articolo non tradotto)

By Kim Petersen

July 27, 2017 "Information Clearing House" -  “Make America Great Again” was Donald Trump’s campaign slogan. It appeals to the people whose hearts beat with patriotic fervor. But what does such a slogan explicitly point out?

Syntactically, Trump is telling Americans that the United States of America is not great. A country can only become something again when it is currently not that something it seeks to recapture – in this case, that something is greatness. So currently the US is not great according to the mantra of Trump.

Two questions are raised by this?

1. When was America great?

2.... (continuer)
America has never been so great, but it could be 
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envoyé par Dq82 17/8/2017 - 12:25
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The Ghost of Ethel Rosenberg

The Ghost of Ethel Rosenberg
[2017]

Album: Punk Baroque

Decades after the electrocutions of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, we learned that although the state had reason to believe Julius Rosenberg was a Soviet spy, they had nothing on Ethel. They gave her the death penalty in order to make her husband talk. Neither of them did.David Rovics


Il caso Rosenberg è una vicenda che, negli anni della guerra fredda, e in pieno clima dimaccartismo, coinvolse i coniugi Julius ed Ethel Rosenberg e colpì profondamente l'opinione pubblica mondiale, quando i due furono processati, giudicati colpevoli e condannati a morte come spie dell'Unione Sovietica.

Nello specifico, i coniugi Rosenberg furono accusati di cospirazione attraverso lo spionaggio e incriminati con l'accusa di aver passato ad agenti sovietici dei segreti sulle armi nucleari.

Con la desecretazione degli atti, si è scoperto che effettivamente Julius Rosenberg fu una spia sovietica, ma che la moglie Ethel fu condannata solo per fare pressione sul marito, e accusata dal fratello per proteggere sua moglie.
Throughout the Second World War the Allies managed to unite 
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envoyé par Dq82 17/8/2017 - 11:32
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Oklahoma, 1917

Oklahoma, 1917
[2017]

Album: Punk Baroque

A tribute to the almost entirely forgotten period of Oklahoma history when socialism was mainstream, and a secret organization known as the Working Class Union had 35,000 active members.
David Rovics
The wisdom a story imparts
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envoyé par adriana 11/6/2017 - 09:44
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Gather Round

Gather Round
[2017]

Album: Punk Baroque

Most English-language labor songs were written sometime before 1932. This is an update.
David Rovics
Gather round all you workers
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envoyé par adriana 11/6/2017 - 09:37
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Age of the Robber Barons

Age of the Robber Barons
[2017]

Album: Punk Baroque

Inequality in the United States in 2017 is greater than it has been since the 19th century -- the Age of the Robber Barons.
David Rovics
There was a time when the rich did not pay tax
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envoyé par adriana 11/6/2017 - 09:29
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1848

1848
[2017]

Album: Punk Baroque

And then every once in a very rare while, there are years like 1848, where the masses across multiple borders rise up all at once, and overthrow the existing order. Which they did throughout Europe back then, regardless of what you may have heard.David Rovinc
The famine had affected many people
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envoyé par adriana 11/6/2017 - 09:13
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If This Were a War

If This Were a War
[2017]

Album: Punk Baroque

A song about what happened in that parking lot in Dallas in the summer of 2016.David Rovics
If this were a war, if he were a soldier
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envoyé par adriana 11/6/2017 - 09:09
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Just a Renter

Just a Renter
[2017]

Album: Punk Baroque

In a city where half the population are renters who have no idea whether their rent will double over the course of the next year, there is no community. Half the city is hoping a new organic supermarket will open up near them, and the other half are hoping it will burn down. That's not a community, that's class war. David Rovics
Ten thousand yuppies just moved here
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envoyé par adriana 11/6/2017 - 09:02
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Song for a Refugee

Song for a Refugee
[2017]

Album: Punk Baroque

There's this concept that has been talked about so much in so many different contexts that it seems to have been rendered meaningless. But it's not. Humans should have rights -- because they are human, no matter where on Earth they happen to find themselves, regardless of citizenship or lack thereof.
David Rovics
I breathe the air that you do
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envoyé par adriana 11/6/2017 - 08:50
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Upon Our Shores

Upon Our Shores
[2015]

2 September 2015: The limp body of a 3-year-old Syrian refugee named Aylan Kurdi washed up on a beach in Turkey. Here's the song David Rovics wrote the next day.
Da questa pagina

2016
1939
Did you get up in the morning, see your kids off to school
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envoyé par adriana 2/9/2016 - 11:31
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Syria, 2013

Syria, 2013
[2013]

Album :Spies Are Reading My Blog

"21 August 2013: Hundreds of people in Syria were killed in a chemical attack. Despite no clarity in terms of who carried out the attack, the leaders of the western world immediately jumped to the conclusion that it had been carried out by the government's forces, and started making plans to bomb the country."
There's an uncivil war in Syria, one hundred thousand dead
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envoyé par adriana 22/8/2016 - 08:21
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God's Gift to the Caliphate

God's Gift to the Caliphate
[2015]

Album : 1939

A song for Daesh's chief recruiter, Donald Trump.-David Rovics
He was born a rich man, then he got richer still
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envoyé par adriana 17/8/2016 - 12:05
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Here at the End of the World

Here at the End of the World
[2014]

Album : Songs For Mahmud


It’s really crazy being alive today, and having the knowledge that our species is on the edge of extinction, and those in power in most of the world just go on pretending it’s not happening. It’s really surreal, really depressing, really maddening, among other things.David Rovics
Standing here on a highway
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16/8/2016 - 15:07
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Pebble Mine

Pebble Mine
[2013]

Album : Spies Are Reading My Blog

"There are so many reasons to oppose a gargantuan new mining project, I don’t know where to start."
They’ve been trying now for thirty years or more
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envoyé par adriana 16/8/2016 - 11:54
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TPP 101

TPP 101
“TPP 101” appears on the 2014 Bandcamp album, All the News That’s Fit to Sing.

The TPP is the US-Pacific trade deal. TTIP is the one between the US and Europe. They are both horrible for the working class around the world, and great for the capitalist class, which is how these trade deals work. Which is why real progressives always oppose them, and corporate lobbyists love them. Is your local Congressperson supporting the deal? That is an indication that he or she is a corporate thug. If the corporate thug pretends to be progressive, support of these trade deals is a clear indication that they are bullshitting in order to get votes. They’re clearly more interested in those envelopes stuffed with cash they’re getting from the pharmaceutical companies.
David Rovics
Free traders and traitors, bankers and thieves
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envoyé par adriana 16/8/2016 - 11:05
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Vanunu

Vanunu
2013
Everything Can Change

Mordechai Vanunu (in ebraico: מרדכי ואנונו‎, anche noto con il nome di battesimo cristiano John Crossman; Marrakech, 13 ottobre 1954) è un ex tecnico nucleare israeliano. Nato in Marocco da una famiglia ebraica ortodossa sefardita della città di Marrakech, emigrò in Israele con i parenti nel 1963. Nel 1986 rivelò al Sunday Times l'esistenza di un piano segreto di armamento nucleare da parte dello Stato di Israele, che all'epoca avrebbe posseduto 220 testate nucleari, tra 200 bombe atomiche più il materiale sufficiente per realizzare 20 bombe all'idrogeno. All'epoca lavorava alla centrale nucleare di Dimona, che ufficialmente doveva essere solo un luogo di produzione di energia nucleare a scopo civile. In seguito alle rivelazioni, agenti israeliani lo rapirono in Italia, lo drogarono e lo trasportarono in Israele, dove una corte lo processò in segreto con accuse di tradimento e spionaggio, condannandolo a 18 anni di prigionia.
I was born in Marakesh and I thought life was good
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envoyé par dq82 23/5/2016 - 18:58
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Free Abu Sakha

Free Abu Sakha
2016
Letter to My Landlord

Mohammad Abu Sakha è stato arrestato il 14 dicembre 2015 alle 4 circa mentre stava attraversando il posto di blocco militare Zaatara vicino a Nablus per andare a lavorare nel villaggio di Birzeit, vicino a Ramallah. Abu Sakha lavora come formatore e interprete presso la scuola di circo palestinese dal 2007. Era uno studente. È diventato un artista circense e un allenatore al circo nel 2011. Ha partecipato a molti spettacoli in Europa e negli Stati Uniti. Partecipa inoltre a numerose tournée in Palestina. Doveva partecipare a corsi di formazione fuori della Palestina nel mese di marzo e giugno 2016.
Un ordine di detenzione amministrativa di sei mesi è stato emesso contro Mohammad a partire dal 25 dicembre 2015 e termina il 13 giugno 2016. L’accusa militare afferma che Abu Sakha è attivo in un’organizzazione illegale secondo gli ordini militari di occupazione.... (continuer)
He grew up in Jenin, where his neighbors lived and died
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envoyé par dq82 23/5/2016 - 18:44
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Ballad of CeCe McDonald

Ballad of CeCe McDonald
[2015]

Album : The Other Side
There are a lot of white men in this world who turn out a lot like Dean
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22/5/2016 - 10:09
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Aleppo

Aleppo
Album :1939
When the bomb went off that killed your mother
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envoyé par adriana 22/5/2016 - 09:44
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The Golden Rule

The Golden Rule
[2016]

Veterans for Peace have fixed up the old Golden Rule boat that sailed to the Pacific in 1958 against nuclear testing, and nuclear weapons. The boat's back in action, the anti-nuke mission remains, and I wrote a song...
Albert was in Pearl Harbor, that's just where he happened to be
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envoyé par adriana 22/5/2016 - 09:05
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If You Bomb Somebody

If You Bomb Somebody
[2017]

Album: Punk Baroque

Terrorist attacks. They're always trying to figure out why someone would do that, while fastidiously ignoring the elephant in the living room. This song is about the elephant.
They haven't even started cleaning up the mess
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envoyé par adriana 22/5/2016 - 09:01
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Good-Bye Portland

Good-Bye Portland
[2016]

I've been writing a lot of songs on this subject, but here's another one. Gentrification, ethnic cleansing, chaos, genocide, whatever you want to call it. It's happening to Portland. Everybody's leaving aside from the baby millionaires. San Francisco, Seattle, New York City, Boston, now it's here. Welcome to cancerous growth. Welcome to rampant, uncontrolled capitalism. Welcome to America. Home to no one but the millionaires. The rest of us are just hanging on to the edges, being told we should be grateful that there was a bush growing on the side of the cliff that we could grab onto before going splat into the ravine.
I grew up in the suburbs, the ones where you do not stay
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envoyé par adriana 22/5/2016 - 08:54
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Kobane

Kobane
[2015]

Album : The Other Side
Since the risings started there are many tales you could tell
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envoyé par adriana 22/5/2016 - 08:44
Parcours: Du Kurdistan
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1492

1492
2016
1939
In 1492 Colombo crossed the Ocean
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envoyé par adriana 8/4/2016 - 16:43
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Death Of Mother Jones

Death Of Mother Jones
[1930]
Canzone di autore anonimo.
La prima incisione è di Gene Autry, 1931.
In alcune compilation, come “Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?: American Song During The Great Depression” (1977) e “Poor Man, Rich Man - American Country Songs Of Protest” (1989).
Testo trovato su Union Songs

Ripresa anche da Joe Glazer nel suo “Down In A Coal Mine” del 1974.

Quindi David Rovics – cui la canzone è stata impropriamente attribuita in origine – è solo l’ultimo arrivato in ordine di tempo…

Nel 1930 moriva, ultranovantenne, la leggendaria Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, insegnante ed ‎agitatrice sociale, organizzatrice dell’United Mine Workers e fondatrice dell’Industrial Workers of ‎the World, in prima linea in tutti i grandi scioperi dalla seconda metà dell’800 fino al massacro di Paint Creek (1912), a quelli di Ludlow‎‎ (1914) e Matewan (1920) e alla battaglia di Blair Mountain.

Quando scioperare significava davvero qualcosa e chi lo faceva sapeva cosa rischiava (non solo qualche ora di paga sulla pelle degli altri)…
Bernart Bartleby 19/5/2015 - 12:20
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Song for Ginger Goodwin

Song for Ginger Goodwin
Penso che la storia di Albert "Ginger" Goodwin meriti qualcosa di più di un breve copia/incolla.

Immigrato dal Yorkshire, dove già lavorava nelle miniere di carbone, Ginger Goodwin finì nelle miniere del Cumberland canadese, vicino a Vancouver. Appena arrivato, disgustato dalle pessime condizioni di lavoro, si diede subito da fare per organizzare i suoi compagni e nel 1912 fu certamente tra coloro che parteciparono al lungo sciopero dei minatori del Cumberland durato fino all’inizio della guerra in Europa, nel 1914. Perso il lavoro per via del suo impegno sindacale, Ginger Goodwin si trasferì a Trail, British Columbia, dove fu assunto come addetto agli altoforni. Ben presto lì divenne un esponente sindacale e dirigente del Partito socialista.

Quando gli USA entrarono in guerra nel 1917, Ginger Goodwin si proclamò obiettore di coscienza, perché riteneva che la classe operaia non dovesse... (continuer)
Bernart Bartleby 20/4/2015 - 13:06
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The Popular Wobbly

The Popular Wobbly
[1920]
Parole di T-Bone Slim
Sulla melodia dell’allora molto popolare ragtime “They Go Wild, Simply Wild Over Me” (1917), di Joseph McCarthy e Fred Fisher.
Nell’edizione del 1920 del “Little Red Songbook”, il libretto di canti dell’Industrial Workers of The World (IWW), i cui membri erano appunto noti come “Wobblies”

Testo trovato su Political Folk Music Dot Org
Interpretata, tra gli altri, da Pete Seeger, Utah Phillips, David Rovics e Joe Glazer.





Come mai “tutti si scagliavano selvaggiamente” contro i militanti dell’IWW?
Perchè il suo cantore, lo svedese Joe Hill, fu assassinato dal Governo dell’Utah nel 1915?
Come mai nel 1916 la polizia di Everett, Washington, sparò sui wobblies in sciopero uccidendone 5?
Perchè il wobbly Frank Little fu barbaramente linciato in Montana nel 1917?
Come mai il wobbly Wesley Everest, veterano decorato della Grande Guerra, fu linciato a Centralia,... (continuer)
I’m a mild mannered man as can be,
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envoyé par Bernart Bartleby 19/4/2015 - 14:52




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