Discussions With David is an hour-long interview program that I've been doing live, livestreaming at davidrovics.com/quarantine and on YouTube, Periscope/Twitter, Facebook and VK at 10 am Pacific most days of the week during the pandemic crisis.  Each episode is also archived here on SoundCloud as well as on a playlist on my YouTube channel, and it goes out as an episode of the This Week with David Rovics podcast, which you can subscribe to on all the usual podcasting platforms.

Discussions With David

A collection of interviews and podcasts I've done in 2020 related to eviction defense, rent control, historical rent strikes, and related subjects.   Most recent at the top.  Find out more:  www.artistsforrentcontrol.org

Eviction Defense, Rent Strikes and Related Discussions

A collection of audio essays on the general theme of the social engineering of society by "social media," corporate media, and the rest of the power structure.

This playlist begins with the most recent and ends with ruminations I recorded at the beginning of 2021.  Everything here also can be found in written form at davidrovics.com/thisweek and if you look me up on Substack.

Social Engineering

Occasional, bite-sized chunks of anarchist commentary and culture.  Each episode consists of an audio essay followed by a song.  Available wherever you get your podcasts.

This Week with David Rovics

If we were to try to assess the overall impact of no-platforming campaigns over the course of the past century, what would we conclude?

The Historic Failure of No-Platforming

Whether the left develops an inclusive orientation towards organizing the working class, or the exclusive orientation of a dystopic cancellation cult, is up to all of us.

The Left: How We Can Build It and How We Can Destroy It

I've heard from so many people asking for my response to this song that I had to listen to it, learn it, make a couple minor edits to it, cover it, and write an essay about it.  Here's the podcast version of it.

Why I Love the Song, "Rich Men North of Richmond" (After Slightly Revising the Lyrics)

What if we collectively organized as a class against those rich men north of Richmond, in defense of our mutual class interests, like guaranteed, actually affordable housing for everyone?

From Little Things, Big Things Grow

If you spend most of your time going down rabbit holes, it's easy to develop tunnel vision.

The Mind-Warping Effects of Rabbit Holes

Ever wake up one morning and realize you've been a pawn in someone else's game, when you thought you were making history instead?

The Social Engineering and Paralysis of the US Left

The way press coverage of the housing crisis is done, including the relative lack of it, is an insidious and terribly destructive example of social engineering.

In Sight But Out of Mind

Senator John McCain is dead.  Speak good of the dead.  Good -- he's dead.

John McCain

No, not Shakespeare -- Hamlet, North Carolina.  September 3rd, 1991.

Remembering Hamlet

AP is reporting several of the children separated from their parents have been sexually abused in captiviity.  Unfortunately, sexually abusing children after separating them from their parents is as American as apple pie.

Child Separations

The CIA-backed military coup in Chile on September 11th, 1973 resulted in thousands killed and tortured over the course of a brutal dictatorship that began that day.  It also gave rise to some impressive acts of solidarity.  In Scotland, workers at the factory that repaired all the engines for the entire Chilean Air Force refused to touch a fascist engine.  For a time, it was revealed recently, the entire Chilean Air Force was grounded as a result.

September 11th, 1973

The Global Financial Crisis began in earnest 10 years ago this week, and the first of the series of global protests that began with a protest in Zuccotti Park in Manhattan on this date in 2011.  I was there.

Remembering Occupy Wall Street

Here's the audio version of the livestreamed broadcast I did this morning on various platforms, at 10 am Pacific Time.  It's me yapping for an hour about songwriting, mostly, and answering related questions from folks who tuned in live on either YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Twitch, Linked In or VK.  If you'd rather watch it, you'll find it archived on all those platforms.

Pandemic Songwriting

My first interview victim on this new Discussions With David series of livestreamed broadcasts I'm doing from my living room is Peter Werbe, founding editor of the Fifth Estate newspaper, and longtime Detroit-area talk show host.

Discussion with Peter Werbe

In this hour I talked with London-based photojournalist, Guy Smallman, about a wide-ranging variety of subjects that Guy has extensive and very current knowledge of, including mutual aid in London, Afghan refugees in Greece, and the corruption of the ruling parties of the UK.

Discussion With Guy Smallman

In this hour with songwriter and author, Robb Johnson, we talk about school, parenting, being quarantined with children, the history of education, tour cancellations, viral pandemics and other exciting subjects.  Robb has a new book out on PM Press titled The People's Republic Of Neverland: The Child versus the State.

Discussion With Robb Johnson

In this hour with Maire McNally -- revolutionary, history buff, and grandmother from Belfast, Ireland -- we talk about life under quarantine, the plight of essential workers, Irish politics currently and historically, the history of civilization, the IRA, the commonality of liberation struggles around the world, and many other things.

Discussion With Maire McNally

An interview of particular interest to anyone involved with the struggle for affordable housing.  The book Henry wrote that we discuss is about one of the leaders of the rent strike in Glasgow that led to the UK government freezing rents throughout the entire country.

Discussion With Henry Bell

The new CDC ruling kicks the can down the road nationwide until the end of 2020.  Let's be prepared for 2021.  Another world is possible.

Eviction Abolition:  The Time Is Now

I spend the hour with Cheri Honkala, co-founder of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union and the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, talking to me from Philadelphia.

You'll also find this interview as the latest episode of This Week with David Rovics, wherever you get your podcasts.

Discussion With Cheri Honkala, poorpeoplesarmy.com

Where to from here for Portland Emergency Eviction Response (PEER)?  A few thoughts on intentions, tactics, and building eviction defense networks.

You'll also find this as an episode of This Week with David Rovics, wherever you get your podcasts.

Next Step in Eviction Response

Singer/songwriter, writer, podcaster (on Spotify, Substack & Patreon), libertarian socialist, dad, lover of life.  I also write songs as part of Ai Tsuno, which you can look up on all the streaming platforms.