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

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

In this hour I talk with Portland Tenants United founder and Portland City Council candidate, Margot Black -- votemargot.com!

Discussion With Margot Black

A week ago I did a little webinar called Pandemic Songwriting.  This is the followup webinar, on what you might do with those songs you've written, if you're interested in sharing them with the public, and possibly making a little money while doing so.

DIY Music In A Time Of Pandemic

In this hour with Seattle-based songwriter, Jim Page, we talk about life in and out of quarantine, essentially expendable workers, the past, the present, the future, and the craft of songwriting.

Jim Page

In this hour I talk with Food Not Bombs founder, Keith McHenry, and we hear about all the many ways the local authorities are trying to kill off their unhoused residents, and what Food Not Bombs is trying to do to keep them alive.

Discussion With Keith McHenry

In this hour with Australian historian and anarchist, Paula De Angelis, we talk about life during the pandemic, contrasts between the situation in Australia, the US, and the UK, mutual aid, the Industrial Workers of the World, the Song News Network, and other subjects.

Discussion With Paula De Angelis

In this hour with Walter Chi-yan TOM, immigration lawyer and human rights activist from Montreal, Quebec, we talk about many different aspects of the response in Canada to the pandemic, the situation with asylum-seekers in detention, foreign students at Concordia and McGill universities, the history of anti-Asian racism, mutual aid, and at the end, a little bit on Tiananmen Square, where Walter spent some time in 1989.

Discussion With Walter Chi Yan Tom

From my living room in Portland, Oregon, I spent the hour talking with my friend Tommy Sands in Rostrevor, County Down, in Ireland.  There were a few technical glitches with the connection, but mostly it worked, and we talked about current events in Ireland, the US, and elsewhere, and various little anecdotes from Tommy's very interesting life and times as a global traveler from a part of the world that was, for many decades, a hot spot for global news coverage.

Discussion With Tommy Sands

I spend the hour talking with one of the best organizers on the planet, Lisa Fithian, author of the 2019 how-to memoir, Shut It Down, currently working from home on the imminently-approaching #MayDay2020 #GeneralStrike!

Discussion with Lisa Fithian

I spend the hour with revolutionary organizer and author, Ahjamu Umi, talking about the current historical moment, the upcoming wildcat strikes, other historical moments, effective organizing methods, revolutionary Pan-Africanism and a lot of other things.

Discussion with Ahjamu Umi

Here's today's livestreamed concert in audio form.  Thanks to ATTAC in Cologne, Germany for sponsoring this free, public concert I gave to the world from my living room.

May Day Solidarity Concert

This week's open mic featured a stellar cast of characters from both sides of the Atlantic, mostly singing songs they wrote recently, about different aspects of the pandemic.  This is the second open mic of the series!  Sign up for the next one at www.davidrovics.com/pomm.

Pandemic Open Mic Mondays #2

I spend the hour talking with hiphop artist and Move organization member, Mike Africa, Jr., about music, tours that aren't happening, being born in prison, giving bicycles to children, organic gardening, and having the police bomb your family home.

Mike Africa, Jr

I spend the hour talking with PM and AK Press founder, Ramsey Kanaan, about the nature, history, and vagaries of independent publishing, roughly from the 1960's to the present.

Discussion with Ramsey Kanaan

A concert aimed at kids, roughly aged 4-8 or so, along with anyone else who might enjoy songs about pirates, puppies, and poop.  You can hear more songs at piratechorus.com.

Concert for Quarantined Kids

I spend the hour talking with KBOO Community Radio's web guru and long-time activist and intellectual, Jenka Soderberg, about this current historical moment, schooling and unschooling, the potential of mutual aid, the role of social media in society, and many other subjects.

Jenka Soderberg

Singer/songwriter, writer, podcaster (on Spotify, Substack & Patreon), libertarian socialist, dad, lover of life.