#David rovics

[joy-haver]

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Solidarity forever : IWW | Wikipedia article on railway abandonment | All used up : Utah Phillips | The commonwealth of toil : Joe glazer | We have fed you all for a thousand years : IWW | John Henry | I don’t want your millions mister: The Almanac Singers | The big steel rail : Gordon Lightfoot | Chattanooga choo choo | Paradise : John Prine | We have fed you all for a thousand years | I’ve been working on the railroad | We have fed you all for a thousand years | ballad of a Wobbly: David rovics | Ralph Chaplin Speaks | The MTA | Freight Train : Elizabeth Cotton | Freight train blues : Bob Dylan | The city of New Orleans : Arlo Guthrie |Hobos lullaby : Woody Guthrie | Night trian: James brown

[antifainternational]

Hey so like three years ago I think I sent a post asking, effectively, about some criticisms of generally accepted antifascist philosophy that David Rovics made on a like, three hour podcast that was posted on YouTube.

I know I was waaaaaay all over the place and super rambly and it was probably a weird/maybe uncomfortable thing to get in your inbox. Long story short- I was dealing with hella anxiety and undiagnosed CPTSD (at the time, I’ve got a good therapist now and I’m medicated, and they’re both very well managed now) that was partially triggered by events going on during the summer of 2020. I guess I just wanted to apologize for any weirdness, frustration, stress, or problems that might have caused. Realistically I’m probably overthinking this and y’all probably don’t even remember that, but I’ve wanted to clear things up for awhile, so I am. I was pretty embarrassed about the whole thing, even on anon.

Hope you guys are well and have an excellent day. Also, free Palestine. ✊🏻🇸🇩

Oh hey! It's been, well, more than a minute, hasn't it? You're right that we actually didn't remember our conversation very well but we looked it up again to refresh our memory. First: we're well-pleased to hear that you've been able to get help with your mental health, that you're taking good care of yourself, and that you're feeling much better now than you did when you wrote to us in early 2021. Second: no need to apologize! For one thing, you were putting forth well-intentioned and thoughtful arguments in a respectful way. We're always here for that! A movement that won't pause and do some self-reflection or take some self-criticism from time to time isn't a very good movement, after all. Finally: this might be a good time to see what's happened with David Rovics and violent white nationalist leader Matthew Heimbach since Rovics platformed Heimbach in a fawning, two-hour video filled with softball questions and lots of head-nodding agreement about the "anti-white racism" which Heimbach whines about being a victim of.

On the other hand, we now have this meme thanks to Matthew Heimbach (center, with glasses)

Since then, and after immense public pressure, Rovics did remove the video of his interview with Heimbach. But! Rovics' next move was to talk about the whole affair in an interview with a notorious anti-semite and Holocaust denier, during which Rovics also agreed that "people should be able to ask questions about the Holocaust." and that antifa were "likely Russian agents." Rovics went further then this, hosting and interviewing the noted anti-semite Gilad Atzmon in a discussion about "Jewish identity/tribal politics." All this, of course, led to more public denouncements of Rovics and more criticism. His response has been to cast himself as a victim of "cancel culture" and to categorize his critics as puritan radicals obsessed with identity politics. More disturbingly, Rovics has singled out two critics - researchers Shane Burley and Spencer Sunshine, both of whom are Jewish - and insinuated that they may be Mossad agents, working to discredit him on behalf of the Israeli regime. In the summer of 2023, Rovics publicly doxxed alleged members of Rose City Antifa and then quibbled that he hadn't actually doxxed anyone because he only published their names and social media handles, not their home addresses, in a lengthy essay he self-published in which he also describes notorious far-right extremist and grifter Andy Ngo as "a conservative journalist" and a victim of baseless attacks by antifascists. Rovics appears to have not learned anything from all of this or changed his views in any way. About a year ago, he wrote a rambling screed where he defended TERFs and "feminists," and villainized trans women ("who were raised as boys," Rovics claims for no apparent reason) as the real problem, for their refusal to allow fascist to hold public space or use platforms to broadcast their bullshit. This, according to Rovics, is the real problem - antifascists refusing to concede public space to fascists. So in summation, thanks for reaching out, glad you're doing better, and 100% fuck David Rovics.

[paintingsandrecords]

a platypus; ink and watercolor

last seven day’s listening:

joan armatrading - whatever’s for us

tom lehrer - songs by tom lehrer

bruce cockburn - stealing fire

tim barry - spring hill

david rovics - living in these times

tim barry - the roads to richmond

fugazi - fugazi

the uncluded - hokey fright

they might be giants - secret music, vol 2

[grand-army-radio]

This goes out to Wat Tambor.

[rebelrhoads]

(National Day Laborers)

[gwydionmisha]

David Rovics - The Commons

[punkass-diogenes]

The spirit of Phil Ochs lives on

[rosaluxembae]

Condolences to anyone who likes a character but that piece of media's tags are just full of that character's stans being vicious

[anarchypumpkincowboy]

It’s sleepy time please allow me rest I beg of you brain please I am so sleepy

My brain:

I grew up on this mountain it’s in my very soul so when the company moved next door started digging for the coal tearing up the mountain with drillers and draglines I knew then what needed to happen to those mines

10,9,8 SOMETIMES THATS JUST HOW IT GOES 3,2,1 GET OUT BEFORE IT BLOWS

[joy-haver]

hey leftie ppl, what’s ur fave leftie music???

[intheholler]

Any recommendations for catchy songs about specific American historical events? Hurricane by The Band of Heathens (unless I'm mistaken, it's pretty explicitlu about Katrina) and The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald are examples.

i love the song hurricane, but i didn't know about the other til now. thank you for the inadvertent rec!

also i don't know about catchy necessarily but i do have a few historical event tunes to recommend.

It's About Blood by Steve Earle is about West Virginia coal mining disasters, at the end of which he lists by name around two dozen victims of specific disasters. this one gives me chills. this whole album Ghosts of West Virginia does actually

Big Time in the Jungle by Old Crow Medicine Show is about snatching up poor, uneducated southern boys and shippin em off to Vietnam. pretty catchy, v fuckin dark by the end

Battle of Blair Mountain by David Rovics is about,, well,, the battle of blair mountain

Seneca Creek by Charles Wesley Godwin mentions the WV flood of 1985 though is about the singer's grandparents iirc

... and as i made this list i realized i sure talk a lot about and revere west virginia for someone whos never lived there (but plans to <3). anyway here's some stuff to balance it

Casey Jones by The Grateful Dead is about a conductor in Tennessee who stayed on a runaway train to let others escape to safety and ultimaetly died (and is catchy as fuck actually)

Battle of New Orleans by Johnny Horton is pretty straightforwardly about the war of 1812

Ohio by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young is about the Kent State Massacre

American Pie by Don McClean was written in response to the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. Richardson Jr. i feel like everyone knows this song but maybe not the actual meaning, i didn't know til a few years ago. so maybe i'm just behind

anyway if yall know any please add in reblogs or leave in the replies, i love this kinda thing

[natalieironside]

I have never met a man more determined to sully his own name or ruin his own life than David Rovics

[haveyouheardthisband]

[soup-mother]

i wonder what transmisogynistic "the left are trying to cancel me" grift david rovics is on at the moment

[polyamorousmood]

i've been slowly chipping away at a friend's polyphobia, and just got him to be actually kind of ok w it thanks to a ace dad advice, progress is being made!!!

and it'll never be for him, but it's s l o w l y changing from sending me a song about cheating (scotty doesn't know) after i send him "polyamory song by david rovics"; to "3 minutes in and the guy is talking about how he is in a relationship with 3 other guys. I thought i had an open mind but i just still have a hard time understanding polyamory. Probably just me being insecure tho, maybe i should work on that. Sorry if i was insensible."

It's not perfect, but it's progress! maybe i'm just excited because i worked on that for months, but hey, it's nice to have one (1) less bigoted person in the world, right?

Yo! That's wonderful news! I never dog on anyone for progress. Hell, I never dog on anyone for "I have concerns but I'm keeping my mouth shut because its not my business" lol

It being a friend of yours must feel really good that you can talk to him with fewer reservations now 🤗 And you're doing good work! It'll help others as we get more acceptance, more numbers, and more out.

And it doesn't have to be for him! He can be supportive without ever touching a poly relationship himself and that's not like, a personal failing or anything (much though I may tease my friends that it is😜)

The important thing is that he's normal about it lmao. And you did that! Through the power of love and friendship! I guess you're living an anime now, sorry you found out like this

[homoerotisch]

The Internationale, in English, German, Yiddish, French, and Arabic / De Internationale, by Klavan Gadjé / They All Sang The Internationale by David Rovics