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Saint Patrick Battalion

Saint Patrick Battalion
Versione live di Lee Brickley

Dq82 7/12/2020 - 20:20
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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

I Won’t Be a Slave

anonyme
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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Today in Charlottesville

Today in Charlottesville
Usa, auto si lancia su un corteo antirazzista: un morto e 30 feriti in Virginia

Tragedia dopo gli scontri e le cariche della polizia a Charlottesville. Tutto è nato dalla protesta dei suprematisti bianchi contro la rimozione di un statua del generale Lee da un parco. Il governatore della Virginia proclama lo stato d'emergenza: "Nazisti non sono benvenuti qui". Arrestato l'autore dell'attacco: ha 20 anni. Fbi apre un'inchiesta federale. Trump condanna: "No alla violenza di qualunque parte sia". Ma piovono critiche perché non nomina mai i suprematisti. In serata cade elicottero della polizia impegnato nella vigilanza: due vittime

Una manifestante morta e 30 sono rimasti feriti a Charlottesville, nello stato della Viriginia, dopo che un'auto si è lanciata contro un corteo antirazzista formatosi per contrastare una protesta dei suprematisti bianchi. La tragedia è arrivata dopo una notte di... (continuer)
Dq82 13/8/2017 - 10:49
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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.
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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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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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Barack Obama

Barack Obama
BARACK OBAMA
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envoyé par Anonimo 3 17/11/2014 - 18:34
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Khader Adnan, Bobby Sands

Khader Adnan, Bobby Sands
[2014]

Album: Falasteen Habibti

Khader Adnan, Bobby Sands” talks about the Israeli policy of indefinite detention without trial of Palestinians. A similar policy on the part of the British occupation authorities in Northern Ireland was a major element in what fueled the growth of the IRA in the early 1970's. Many Palestinian and Irish activists are acutely aware of these parallels, as was Khader Adnan, who refused food almost until death, when Israel agreed to release him. For 66 days he didn't eat – which is exactly how long Bobby Stands was on hunger strike, leading to his early death.
Khader Adnan grew up near Jenin City
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envoyé par adriana 24/8/2014 - 15:20
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Israeli Geography 101

Israeli Geography 101
[2014]

Album: Falasteen Habibti

“Israeli Geography 101,” refers to one of the many elephants in the living room when it comes to Israel/Palestine. Israeli leaders are constantly bemoaning the idea that Hamas refuses to acknowledge Israel's “right to exist.” But neither they nor the western media will explain that one of the reasons Hamas and others are reticent about this “acknowledgement” is that the government of Israel refuses to acknowledge where its own national borders begin and end.
Netanyahu is in a tizzy, his eyes are filled with hate
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envoyé par adriana 24/8/2014 - 14:28
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Gaza

Gaza
[2014]

Album: Falasteen Habibti

“Gaza,” was written during the massive Israeli bombardment of July, 2014. But it's actually a song about how daily life was for Palestinians in Gaza in the decade or so preceding that.
One point eight million people surrounded on all sides
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envoyé par adriana 24/8/2014 - 14:00
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Trayvon

Trayvon
2013 Spies are reading my blog

Canzoni dedicate a Trayvon Martin:
Trayvon Jasiri X
Justice! Godswill
We Are Trayvon Plies
Trayvon Martin Tribute Papoose
Super Life Chaka Khan
Hoodiez Willie D
I wonder why Rick Ross
The Ballad of Trayvon Martin Will Hoge
Justice (if You're 17) Wyclef Jean
No More Innocent People Dying Kamal Imani
Trayvon David Rovics
Sandra's Smile Blood Orange
Call It What It Is Ben Harper
Angel Down Lady Gaga
Sad News Swizz Beat
Black America Again Common


Trayvon Martin era un ragazzo afroamericano di 17 anni.‎



Il 26 febbraio 2012, mentre passeggiava verso le 19 in una strada di Sanford, Florida, era stato ‎segnalato alla polizia come sospetto da George Zimmerman, un membro di un gruppo di vigilantes ‎della zona chiamato Neighborhood Watch. Zimmerman aveva ritenuto di segnalare la presenza di ‎Martin perché questi si muoveva in modo, a suo dire, sospetto... (continuer)
A boy went to visit his father out of town 
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envoyé par donquijote82 28/1/2014 - 12:08
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John Brown

John Brown
2009
Ten Thousand Miles Away

John Brown (Torrington, 9 maggio 1800 – Charles Town, 2 dicembre 1859) è stato un attivista statunitense, simbolo della causa antischiavista cui si dedicò anche mediante la lotta armata e per cui pagò con la vita. Egli fu infatti impiccato in seguito al fallito assalto all'arsenale federale di Harper's Ferry con le cui armi voleva dare il via ad una rivolta grazie al sostegno degli schiavi nelle contee occidentali dello Stato della Virginia.
La canzone John Brown's Body, di cui esiste anche una versione italiana, fece di lui un eroico martire della causa nordista. Essa perciò, adottata come canzone di battaglia dell'Unione durante la Guerra Civile Americana, divenne popolare.
Owen Brown was an abolitionist
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envoyé par donquijote82 28/1/2014 - 11:29
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Israeli Geography

Israeli Geography
2015
Meanwhile In Afghanistan
Netanyahu is in a tizzy, his eyes are filled with hate
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envoyé par donquijote82 28/1/2014 - 11:19
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Breivik

Breivik
2015
Meanwhile In Afghanistan
They say he acted alone for a Europe white and free
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envoyé par donquijote82 28/1/2014 - 10:57
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Holy Land 5

Holy Land 5
2015
Meanwhile In Afghanistan
They grew up among the bombs of the occupation
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envoyé par donquijote82 28/1/2014 - 10:38
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God Bless the USA

God Bless the USA
2013
Into A Prism
God bless all the Indians living in their reservations
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envoyé par donquijote82 27/1/2014 - 18:48
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Comets of Kandahar

Comets of Kandahar
2013
Everything Can Change
The Twin Towers came down in 2001
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envoyé par donquijote82 27/1/2014 - 16:48
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Bonobo Song

Bonobo Song
2013
Into A Prism

Con il medesimo argomento si veda Bonobo power
There are lots of different monkeys on this lovely planet Earth
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envoyé par donquijote82 27/1/2014 - 15:58




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