David Rovics
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The Last Lincoln Vet The Last Lincoln Vet
Most of those who survived the war spent the rest of their lives serving humanity in one way or another. The few survivors are now in their nineties.
I'm Taking Someone With Me When I Go I'm Taking Someone With Me When I Go
I wrote this song after the last high school massacre. I don't remember where it was, but it followed the typical pattern ostracized teenage boy finally snaps and shoots pretty, popular girls who tend to ignore kids like him. There will be more.
Sugihara Sugihara
During the Nazi holocaust in Europe there was a Japanese Schindler, and his name was Sempo Sugihara. I heard about him through my friend Ben Manski, who is alive today because of this man and his wife Yukiko.
Riot Dog Riot Dog
This song is about a particularly legendary dog who I may have met, not sure, but in any case his name is Loukanikos and he has been photographed at every riot in Athens over the past two years, always right up in the faces of the police.
Up the Provos (Song for Francis Hughes) Up the Provos (Song for Francis Hughes)
After reading Ten Men Dead (great book) I had to write a song about one of the hunger strikers and this is what happened.
Union Makes Us Strong Union Makes Us Strong
This song represents the most fundamental message I and others like me are trying to communicate in union we can achieve anything.
In the Name of God In the Name of God
A song for Dr. George Tiller, assassinated May 31st, 2009. I read about it in the Guardian after arriving on a flight from London.
Song for the Eureka Stockade Song for the Eureka Stockade
A fabulous, true story and the defining moment of Australian labor history. There were people involved from 23 nations, actually, but 20 fit better in the chorus. Never trust a songwriter for accuracy of details...
Brad Brad
A song for my friend Brad Will who was shot to death on October 27th, 2006 with a camera in his hand, filming for NYC Indymedia on the barricades in Oaxaca City.
Berkshire Hills Berkshire Hills
Shays' Rebellion was a pivotal moment in US history. As a result we got the Bill of Rights, among other things.
Atif and Sebastian Atif and Sebastian
It's a somewhat complicated case which I tried to sum up in a poem (which I originally thought might be a song). Atif Rafay and Sebastian Burns are innocent men who have been in prison for many years already, for a crime they didn't commit.
Pirates of Somalia Pirates of Somalia
There are many more fascinating and terrible details to the story than you'll find in this little ditty.
Lebanon 2006 Lebanon 2006
If you're gonna burn your bridges you might as well bomb them, too.
John Brown John Brown
Henry Ward Beecher was a well-known minister in New England, but was better known internationally as the designer of the state-of-the-art Sharps rifle. He'd ship his rifles out to the abolitionists in Kansas in wooden crates marked "Bibles."
Luis Posada Luis Posada
Luis Posada Carriles is a mass murderer with quite a bit more innocent blood on his hands than your average member of Al Qaeda, but he's not in prison, he's a free man in Miami, one of the many rightwing Cuban terrorists who are beloved by the US gov
Guanajuato Guanajuato
A song for one of the hundreds of would-be Mexican immigrants who die of thirst on the US-Mexico border every year.
Free Free
I originally wrote this as a song but realized it works better as a poem. It's for Jeffrey Luers, and all the other good people who have had to suffer outrageously long prison sentences for politically-motivated property destruction (otherwise known
