Suggestion for new renamed "cause": simply "no nukes"  OR  "no nukes, no one, no where: NO!"

Thanks, David. It's a great use of 'did what I had to do' which is sometimes used to excuse less heroic actions than Mordecai's. Soto's suggestion of a simple & straightforward campaign title is one I agree with. However, this campaign - I think - is intended to put a spotlight on the bravery of whistleblowers worldwide, and the pathological possibilities and secrecy of the nuclear estate wherever it rears its ugly head. A possibiity for a new name - and, given the ability of those whose views differ, or who just want to be clever about disabling/hacking into the campaign's IT, the campaign might need a succession of names - is 'Telling nuclear truths' which can conveniently be contracted to TNT and has the double meaning provided by 'telling' being readable as the action of the campaign, and as a description of truths about the nuclear estate.

Thats great David. Im going to learn this gret song myself and sing it

Wonderful tribute to Mordechai, big thanks to my friend Natasha for sharing! I live in the US, just a 52 yr. old women who works for a cheese company in the Mid West. I will be sharing this with everyone!

Thak you so much for your bravenes to sing about the horible things realy happen every day.Especialy at the holi land.Its so sad tht I but everyone is looking away or tells me:"Thats not your cup of tee!"

Thath country coulb be the real paradise but the polititons turned it too a hell for both sides.People whant peace but powerfull states erning the lots of money whith that war.

Very moving song.  How many other songs  are there about Mordecai Vanunu?

Enough songs for a for a CD?.  See also "Nine by Four" by Comrade Sir Henry.

Brilliant stuff, brother. Morde himself referred me to this. You understand him well.

Please catch up on Vanunu's Supreme Court Appeal for FREEDOM from Israel scheduled to be heard on Christmas Day: goo.gl/nWnesE

The danger of ignoring obvious historical parallels to unfolding events is the prospect of repeating them.

Just Like the Nazis Did

Sleep For Weeks

The words "collateral damage" have come to mean dead civilians. This song puts those words in context.


Collateral Damage

you loved your sweet country for all of your life
like your mother and father before you
the land runs deep, so deep in your blood
your flesh and your bone and your sinews
descendants and ancestors, deep as it goes
a relative circle as far as your eye
it can all be undone in the flash of an instant
mechanical thunder that bruises the sky

(chorus)
goodbye to my relatives, all of my life
never again will I see
you won't have a name when they fly the big airplanes
collateral damage is all you will be

from a faraway place where the language is strange
they come with their angry machines
and the clouds rain a metal that hurts when it falls
and it shatters the ground, making everything scream
and the children run crippled, the old people hide
the babies are caught in the rubble debris
but the strangers don’t know you, you are only a number
and how can they respect what they can’t even see

(chorus)

a mother is more than a number to a baby
who now has to grow up on it’s own
and a grandfather blinded and crippled at his age
is more than just a statistical drone
all of these people are human beings
and deserve to be more than a footnote
this cynical language of killing is killing us
caught like a bone in humanity’s throat

(chorus)

so if you see a ghost in the lonely wind blowing
like shrapnel the sound of the rain
and it’s speaking a language you don’t understand
but you know what it means just the same
it’s too late for innocence, all of that’s over now
don’t say that you didn’t know
when they come to collect for the damages owed
the collateral may be your own

(chorus)

Collateral Damage

Hammer

David Rovics 8/11/2008 gig at Beginnings, Briceland, CA produced by Andy Caffrey

This piece was inspired by Conlon Nancarrow; not that I'm very familiar with his work, but his method was enough to inspire me to create a piece in a similar style to his own. It was made using one note, replicating it and dragging it to exactly the right place as many times as I needed, for both piano and harpsichord. That is, until I added in a new sound at the end, giving a lot of distortion to it.

I did not expect it to become as popular as it has, given that it was a rather momentary, on the spur, and random creation, and it is less conventionally accessible than many of my other pieces. My only regret may be that this has overshadowed my other work in terms of popularity.

I've created a sequel, and am currently working on a third Conlon Nancarrow inspired piece, but so far they've not measured up to the original. However, there are some interesting and exciting twists in the second piece, 'The Next Level', and I've put the third piece to the side, 'Piano Madness: The Spirit of Conlon Nancarrow Returns', having been unsatisfied with it, though I may attempt it again at some point.

Conlon Nancarrow Tribute

The San Patricios -- the international brigade you've probably never heard of (half a century before the Spanish Civil War).  This version is from Live in Rostrevor (2016) with Lorna McKinnon on harmonies.

St. Patrick Battalion

Episode 1: Tolpuddle Martyrs Part 1

There are various causes of deadly new novel viruses, as I have recently learned, along with many of you.  One of them is climate change, so we can be sure we'll be seeing more of them.  But whatever the reasons for the fatality rate of Covid-19, we do know why the last global pandemic, the so-called "Spanish Flu" in 1918 was so extremely deadly.  It was a pandemic caused by the particular conditions of the trenches of World War 1, and the movements of troops around the world at the end of the war.  This war virus ultimately killed more human beings on planet Earth in six months -- in every corner of the globe -- than the carnage of World War 1 caused in four years.

Recorded live as part of the Viral Solidarity Concert project at Big Red Studio on April 2nd, 2020.

The Pandemic of 1918

A song for Mordechai Vanunu, Moroccan-Israeli who blew the whistle on the Israeli nuclear weapons program and was kidnapped off the streets of Rome by Mossad and imprisoned for 18 years, most of them in solitary confinement. 

This is a track from my 17-song album, Everything Can Change, which can be downloaded in full here:
http://davidrovics.bandcamp.com/album/everything-can-change

Vanunu

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

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