SONGS & STORIES OF SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE: David Rovics Plays for People and The Planet!

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>>>>>>>>>Singer/songwriter/poet David Rovics has been referred to as the “Troubadour for Our Times.”
Pete Seeger says, “Listen to David Rovics!”<<<<<<<<<<<Undermine food safety protections by making it harder for countries to adopt regulations such as labeling laws or banning GMOs.
>Dismantle the “Buy Local” movement by overturning government laws designed to keep taxpayer dollars in the local economy.
>Inhibit access to lifesaving medicine by extending monopoly drug patents for big pharmaceuticals.
>Curtail Internet freedom (our lifeline to each other!), spur further financial deregulation, roll back environmental laws, and more.
– adversely affect EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE—except the .01% corporate billionaires who wrote the TPP!
For more see: FlushTheTPP.org and PopularResistance.org
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Co-sponsors/endorsers include: North Texas Veterans For Peace; CODEPINK Greater Dallas; Dallas Peace and Justice Center; North Texas Light Brigade; Fort Worth & Dallas MoveOn Councils; DFW Progressive Allies; Bee Against Monsanto, Dallas; System Change Not Climate Change DFW; Pax Christi Dallas

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Some songs by David Rovics:

Pipeline
Best Democracy Money Can Buy
No Fracking Way
Who would Jesus Bomb?
Union Makes Us Strong
TPP 101
Occupy Wall Street
…and…
What If You Knew?

“If you knew that the earth was dying/ If they said this on the news…/ If you could see the ice caps melting…/ If you knew the bombs were falling/ If they showed them hit the ground/ If you could see the bodies flying/ If you could hear the sound…/ If every time we went to war/ To fight our evil foes/ they told you we were really fighting/ For the good of CEOs…/ If you knew that the whole planet / Depended on what you do…/ What if you knew?”

David Rovics was born in New York City but grew up in Connecticut. After a brief stint at Earlham College in Indiana, he moved to Berkeley, California, where he held a series of blue-collar jobs (he’s a member of the Industrial Workers of the World). By the early 1990s, he’d moved to Boston, where he hit the subways with an acoustic guitar and songs of protest.
He generally refers to himself as simply a “songwriter” or “musician,” but perhaps can be more fully described as an American acoustic protest singer.

Unlike most recording artists, Rovics makes all of his music available online for free and encourages fans to videotape his concerts. When he performs live, he doesn’t use a set list, but lets the concert unfold on its own.

Rovics believes music can connect people in ways nothing else can: “We’re using music at marches and rallies to inspire the troops. And…to educate people about things that are happening, and to talk about it in a way that hopefully might be more memorable than a speech… There’s something about music that makes people feel optimistic,” he says.

Rovics lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife and daughter. He writes for CounterPunch and Truthout.