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Cordova

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".
I am a fisherman, so were my parents
(continuer)
envoyé par giorgio 24/9/2010 - 06:17
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Guanajuato

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..
I was raised in Guanajuato
(continuer)
envoyé par giorgio 18/8/2010 - 08:44
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Union Makes Strong

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".
Back in the Depression - farmers held the line
(continuer)
envoyé par giorgio 1/8/2010 - 08:47
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Up the Provos (Song for Francis Hughes)

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".
He grew up on a farm in a troubled Irish land
(continuer)
envoyé par giorgio 13/7/2010 - 13:17
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The Last Lincoln Vet

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.
They were old when I was young
(continuer)
envoyé par giorgio 13/7/2010 - 13:09
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Song for the Mavi Marmara

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.
In 1948 they were driven out at the point of a machine gun
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envoyé par giorgio 11/7/2010 - 19:01
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Sixty Thousand More

Sixty Thousand More
[2005]
Lyrics & Music by David Rovics
Album: Beyond The Mall
I was driving down the highway
(continuer)
envoyé par giorgio 31/5/2010 - 12:42
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Minimum Wage Strike

Minimum Wage Strike
[1998]
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
(continuer)
envoyé par giorgio 31/5/2010 - 12:26
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Welcome to the European Union

Welcome to the European Union
[2003]
Lyrics & Music by David Rovics
Album: Who Would Jesus Bomb
I landed in Denmark and there was Burger King
(continuer)
envoyé par giorgio 20/5/2010 - 08:10
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Death Of Mother Jones

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.
The world today is mourning
(continuer)
envoyé par giorgio 14/4/2010 - 08:29
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Trading With The Enemy

Trading With The Enemy
[2001]
Lyrics & Music by David Rovics
Da/From "Living In These Times"
David Rovics' Official Website
I saw her in the city center
(continuer)
envoyé par giorgio 14/4/2010 - 08:12
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Battle of Blair Mountain

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".
1921 was the year seems like yesterday to me
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envoyé par giorgio 13/4/2010 - 12:16
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Song for Ginger Goodwin

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".
He grew up in Yorkshire County
(continuer)
envoyé par giorgio 13/4/2010 - 12:08
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Whoever wins in November

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.
Whoever wins in November
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envoyé par giorgio 13/4/2010 - 08:47
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The Best Democracy Money Can Buy

The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
[2003]
Album: Who Would Jesus Bomb?
I can't stand the news
(continuer)
envoyé par giorgio 13/4/2010 - 08:14
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Glory And Fame

Glory And Fame
[1993]
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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envoyé par giorgio 9/10/2009 - 09:38
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All The Ghosts That Walk This Earth

All The Ghosts That Walk This Earth
[2004]
Album "Songs for Mahmud"
I'll tell you what happened
(continuer)
envoyé par Alessandro 6/10/2009 - 15:32
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No One Is Illegal

No One Is Illegal
2001
Da/From "Living In These Times"
David Rovics' Official Website
The clouds gather in your forests
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envoyé par Alessandro 6/10/2009 - 13:11
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Black Flag Flying

Black Flag Flying
[2008]
Album "The Commons"
Come all you sailors near and far
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envoyé par Alessandro 6/10/2009 - 11:10
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Age Of Oil

Age Of Oil
L'ERA DEL PETROLIO
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envoyé par Kiocciolina 7/10/2008 - 11:42
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Behind The Barricades

Behind The Barricades
DIETRO LE BARRICATE
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envoyé par Kiocciolina 7/10/2008 - 11:15

After We Torture Our Prisoners

After We Torture Our Prisoners
DOPO CHE AVREMO TORTURATO I NOSTRI PRIGIONIERI
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envoyé par Kio 20/8/2008 - 15:18

Song for Chile

Song for Chile
CANZONE PER IL CILE
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envoyé par Kiocciolina 29/12/2007 - 18:08
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After The Revolution

After The Revolution
DOPO LA RIVOLUZIONE
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envoyé par Kiocciolina 29/12/2007 - 15:11
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I Wanna Go Home

I Wanna Go Home
VOGLIO ANDARE A CASA
(continuer)
envoyé par Kiocciolina 17/8/2007 - 09:06

Drug War

Drug War
Oltre alla Drug War c'è anche la War on Drugs che ha delle cifre impressionanti:
http://www.drugsense.org/wodclock.htm
Alessandro 9/7/2007 - 16:02
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From Kabul To Khartoum

From Kabul To Khartoum
DA KABUL A KHARTOUM
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envoyé par Andrea V. 2/5/2007 - 12:46

How Many Soldiers Per Gallon Does Your SUV Get?

How Many Soldiers Per Gallon Does Your SUV Get?
I saw you driving by
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envoyé par adriana 10/3/2007 - 08:31

Haditha

Testo ripreso dal sito ufficiale dell'autore
By the Euphrates River
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envoyé par adriana 10/3/2007 - 08:08
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Operation Iraqi Liberation

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.

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Alessandro 16/11/2006 - 12:12
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Candle For Durruti

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... (continuer)
Well the headline on the paper said the good guys won the war
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 18/8/2006 - 17:34
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Song For Hugh Thompson

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.
Hugh Thompson was a pilot, just like many more
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 18/8/2006 - 17:16
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We Just Want The World

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.
When we're living in the White House
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 18/8/2006 - 17:11
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The Flag Desecration Rag

The Flag Desecration Rag
[December 1998]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
From/da "Live At Club Passim"
David Rovics' Official Website
They tried to pass an amendment in the U.S. Congress
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 18/8/2006 - 17:07
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We Are Everywhere

We Are Everywhere
[July 2002]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
From/da "Hang A Flag In The Window"
David Rovics' Official Website

"It’s true. I would say this is the single most important fact that we should always remember." -David Rovics.
When I say the hungry should have food
(continuer)
envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 18/8/2006 - 16:25
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In One World

In One World
[March 2002]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
From/da "Hang A Flag In The Window"
David Rovics' Official Website

"Based on a story I read in the Palestine Monitor about a Palestinian refugee from the city of Haifa who went to visit the home of his birth and met the Jewish refugees from Iraq who were living there." -David Rovics.
It took a long time, but I made a home here
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 18/8/2006 - 16:22
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By The Time They Nuke D.C.

By The Time They Nuke D.C.
[July 2002]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
From/da "Hang A Flag In The Window"
David Rovics' Official Website

"As research into mini-nukes continues at the Y-12 Nuclear weapons factory in Tennessee, the specter of nuclear terrorism becomes ever more real." -David Rovics.
I want to write this song
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 18/8/2006 - 16:13
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I Have Seen The Enemy

I Have Seen The Enemy
[July 2002]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
From/Da "Hang A Flag In The Window"
David Rovics' Official Website

"Any relation to any politicians, living or dead, is entirely coincidental." -David Rovics.
He has no feelings for the dead
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 18/8/2006 - 16:04
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Good Kurds, Bad Kurds

Good Kurds, Bad Kurds
[May 2002]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
From/Da "Hang A Flag In The Window"
David Rovics' Official Website

"I wrote this after watching a documentary of the same name. There may not be a more glaring example of the contradictions in US foreign policy than our policy towards the Kurdish nation." -David Rovics.
Saddam Hussein gassed the Kurdish people
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 18/8/2006 - 14:11
Parcours: Du Kurdistan
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Bomb Ourselves

Bomb Ourselves
[March 2002]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
From/Da "Hang A Flag In The Window"
David Rovics' Official Website

"Another song inspired by Dubya" -David Rovics.
The President got on TV and there was nary a dry eye, he said he loved his country and mom and apple pie
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 18/8/2006 - 11:40
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The Village Where Nothing Happened

The Village Where Nothing Happened
[January 2002]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
From/Da "Hang A Flag In The Window"
David Rovics' Official Website

"Based on an article by Richard Lloyd Parry that originally appeared in the Independent (UK)." -David Rovics
The Army commander spooke to the media
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 18/8/2006 - 11:37
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Drink Of The Death Squads

Drink Of The Death Squads
[March 2002]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
From/Da "Hang A Flag In The Window"
David Rovics' Official Website

"True story first told to me by Katie Knight from the Colombia Support Network in Montana. Something like half of the union organizers that are killed in the world each year are Colombian. Colombia is also the biggest recipient of military aid in the hemisphere. This, of course, is a coincidence." -David Rovics.
Coca-Cola came to Colombia
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 18/8/2006 - 11:34
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Hang A Flag In The Window

Hang A Flag In The Window
[March 2002]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
Da/From "Hang A Flag in the Window"
David Rovics' Official Website

"US foreign and domestic policy is a hotbed of contradictions. Many of the lines in this song came directly from the mouth of the president-select himself." -David Rovics.
We want a safer country
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 6/8/2006 - 18:14
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Behind That Gate

Behind That Gate
[November 2002]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
Da/From "WWJB"
David Rovics' Official Website

"Another SOA-related song, which I wrote the morning of the 2002 protest at the gate to Fort Benning. The irony of the situation was stated most eloquently over breakfast to me by Bruce Gagnon -- that the cops would be searching peaceful protesters for hidden weapons outside of the world's biggest terrorist training camp." - David Rovics.
The judge condescended to the people
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 6/8/2006 - 18:08
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Return

Return
[June 2003]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
Da/From "Return"
David Rovics' Official Website

"Al awda" -David Rovics.
i can't help it.
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 6/8/2006 - 15:40
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The Key

The Key
[March 2003]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
Da/From "Return"
David Rovics' Official Website

"I was trying to write a song for Sami Al-Arian, currently being held in solitary confinement in the US for the crime of being an outspoken Palestinian. In one of the interviews with him I found on-line he mentioned his grandmother, and the key around her neck. This song is for her." -David Rovics.
Let me tell you about a lady
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 6/8/2006 - 15:38
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Strike A Blow Against The Empire

Strike A Blow Against The Empire
[April 2003]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
Da/From "Return"
David Rovics' Official Website

"Silence is the voice of complicity, that’s the point. If you know what’s going on and you’re just sitting by and trying not to do harm, that’s not good enough. What have you done? What will you do? They’re killing your family." -David Rovics.
When the rich man on the TV
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 6/8/2006 - 14:41
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Promised Land

Promised Land
[February 2003]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
Da/From "Return"
David Rovics' Official Website

"Everyone can, and must, be understood. This is a song from the perspective of Mohamed Atta." -David Rovics.

NOTA. Per chi non lo avesse presente, Mohamed Atta è stato il capo del commando degli attentati dell'11 settembre.
Life could've been different
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 6/8/2006 - 14:38
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Reichstag Fire

Reichstag Fire
[January 2003]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
Da/From "Return"
David Rovics' Official Website

"Given history, those of us who weren’t born yesterday must ask the obvious question: Who knew what and who did what and why is the government so terrified of asking these questions?" -David Rovics.
The planes hit New York City
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 6/8/2006 - 13:29
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Resistance

Resistance
[November 2002]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
Da/From "Return"
David Rovics' Official Website

"The name of the enemy always changes, but the war between the haves and the have-nots continues to rage, as it has for the past several thousand years, as it will until there’s sanity in the world, or until there is no more world." -David Rovics.
You can say that it's about the savages
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envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 6/8/2006 - 13:27
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Occupation

Occupation
[February 2003]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
Da/From "Return"
David Rovics' Official Website

"The infrastructure of terror." -David Rovics.
You ask me how it is
(continuer)
envoyé par Riccardo Venturi 5/8/2006 - 18:28




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