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Song for Aaron Bushnell

Song for Aaron Bushnell
(2024)

On February 25, 2024, Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old serviceman of the United States Air Force, died after setting himself on fire outside the front gate of the Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C. Immediately prior to the live-streamed act, Bushnell said that he was protesting against "what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers" and declared that he "will no longer be complicit in genocide", after which he doused himself with a flammable liquid and set himself on fire.

As he burned, Bushnell repeatedly shouted "Free Palestine!" while one Secret Service officer pointed a gun at him and two others attempted to extinguish him.
Self-immolation of Aaron Bushnell - Wikipedia
On the 25th of February, 2024
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6/3/2024 - 23:01
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Lines Are Drawn

Lines Are Drawn
(2024)

One of the most well-known aspects of the Second World War was that the virulently anti-communist leaders of countries like the United Kingdom made an alliance with the Soviet Union, because of the mutual interest they all thought they had in defeating Hitler. Here we are again -- but where's the united front against fascism?
Around the world people try to read the signs
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28/1/2024 - 15:09
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Antisemite

Antisemite
(1 Jan 2024)

Word on the street is the Zionist narrative is losing traction, so to help shore it up I have written a wee jingle for the ADL.
If you are a fan of democracy
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6/1/2024 - 18:31
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Just Like the Nazis Did

Just Like the Nazis Did
December 14, 2023
After so many decades of patronage
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25/12/2023 - 18:11
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Without Henry Kissinger

Without Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger's reign of terror is over (having been very effectively passed on to his protege, Antony Blinken).
He was born in 1923
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25/12/2023 - 18:05
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It’s Christmas Eve

It’s Christmas Eve
December 24, 2023
It’s Christmas Eve, stores are stuffed to the gills
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25/12/2023 - 18:01
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Once the Last Palestinian's Killed

Once the Last Palestinian's Killed
2 dec. 2023

Once the last Palestinian is killed, then the pundits and politicians will say "how could we have known," and they'll open another museum.
In the Congress and the Bundestag you’ll see them wring their hands
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25/12/2023 - 17:56
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They're Killing Off the Journalists of Gaza

They're Killing Off the Journalists of Gaza
Samer Abudaqqa had his camera in his hand
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17/12/2023 - 23:55
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They Were Raising a White Flag

They Were Raising a White Flag
They were raising a white flag
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17/12/2023 - 23:48
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At the End of World War 3

At the End of World War 3
2022
Also recorded by Chet Gardiner

It is abundantly evident that the world is closer to a nuclear holocaust than at any time since 1962.
At the end of World War 3, amid the lightning and thunder
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9/7/2022 - 18:28
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So This Is What It's Like

So This Is What It's Like
[2019]
Parole e musica di David Rovics
Album: Strangers & Friends

"To live in a country with concentration camps." - David Rovics
So this is what it's like to live in such a place
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inviata da hmmwv 16/4/2021 - 20:18
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The Pogroms of 1969

The Pogroms of 1969
2020
Rebel Songs (free the immagination)
You could say it started long ago, or keep one lifetime in your sights
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inviata da Dq82 27/3/2021 - 11:16
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I Dreamed I Saw Anne Feeney

I Dreamed I Saw Anne Feeney
(2021)

An old friend of mine and Anne's suggested I do another rewrite of Earl Robeson's song about Joe Hill. I began with carrying out Robert's songwriting assignment, but then it turned into this. I miss you, Anne.
I dreamed I saw Anne Feeney, it was on a picket line
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13/2/2021 - 19:53
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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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Normandy

Normandy
2020
Viral Solidarity
If I could live to see the day, say eighty years from now
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inviata da Dq82 7/12/2020 - 19:55
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Say Their Names

Say Their Names
2020
Say their names
Jacob Blake(1) was walking to his SUV
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inviata da Dq82 7/12/2020 - 19:43
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Elijah Played the Violin

Elijah Played the Violin
2020
Say their names

Elijah Jovan McClain, un massaggiatore afroamericano di 23 anni di Aurora in Colorado, fu ucciso la sera del 24 agosto 2019 a seguito di un'aggressione perpetrata dagli agenti di polizia Nathan Woodyard, Jason Rosenblatt e Randy Roedema e di un'iniezione di ketamina come sedativo dai paramedici. Un cittadino di Aurora aveva segnalato alla polizia che McClain si stava comportando in modo sospetto indossando una maschera da sci. La stessa persona aveva però anche indicato che non credeva che qualcuno fosse in pericolo e che pensava che McClain fosse disarmato. I tre poliziotti [1] dichiararono che le loro telecamere a corpo andarono fuori uso durante una colluttazione con McClain ma le riprese della telecamera di almeno un ufficiale dimostrano che l'affermazione era falsa. La registrazione mostra come all'agente fu chiesto di allontanare la telecamera dall'immagine di... (continua)
His family moved from Denver to Aurora
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inviata da Dq82 7/12/2020 - 19:08
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Ballad of Lachlan Macquarie

Ballad of Lachlan Macquarie
2020
Say their names

Lachlan Macquarie (Ulbha, 31 gennaio 1762 – Londra, 1º luglio 1824) è stato un generale scozzese. Fu governatore coloniale nel Nuovo Galles del Sud, in Australia, ed ebbe un ruolo cruciale nello sviluppo economico e sociale del territorio, che sotto la sua guida cominciò la transizione da colonia penale a libero insediamento.
Lachlan Macquarie was a Scotsman who
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inviata da Dq82 7/12/2020 - 19:03
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November 2020

November 2020
[2020]
The election has been won but the loser won't concede
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inviata da hmmwv 25/11/2020 - 22:01
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Born on the Fourth of July

Born on the Fourth of July
[2020]

I'm watching a country built on the foundations of slavery, genocide, real estate speculation and fantasy crumble before my eyes. May it crumble faster, and may I live to see the dust settle.
As I walk down the streets of this city
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inviata da adriana 7/7/2020 - 09:29
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Ballad of Alvaro Luna Hernandez

Ballad of Alvaro Luna Hernandez
[2020]
Lyrics & music by David Rovics
Album: Notes from a Failed State

A handsome man targeted by the local police in Alpine, Texas from an early age, Alvaro Luna Hernandez has been in prison since 1996, for the crime of daring to defend himself against a racist police officer with murderous intent.
Alvaro Luna Hernandez
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inviata da giorgio 15/6/2020 - 08:45
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If They Defunded the Police

If They Defunded the Police
[2020]

No matter what is said about it, the ruling class in the US will not defund the police. To do so would be to overthrow their brutally unequal, sick form of society. But it's nice to imagine what it might be like to be liberated. David Rovics
If they defunded the police, what would we do
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inviata da adriana 13/6/2020 - 17:00
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As I Watch Minneapolis Burn

As I Watch Minneapolis Burn
[2020]
Notes from a Failed State
Are people still lynched in America – and what happens when they die
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inviata da adriana 30/5/2020 - 07:58
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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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inviata da 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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inviata da 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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inviata da 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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inviata da adriana 12/4/2020 - 13:49
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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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