This Week with David Rovics

Earlier this month I had an in-depth discussion with the hosts of Behind the Lines on community radio in Canberra, Australia. We talked about my Australia tour being canceled, Iran, Ai Tsuno, & more.

Among the many terrible potential impacts of cancelation on a person, one of them is death.

Another scintillating conversation between me and Chris Cook for his Gorilla Radio Pod, in the second half.

What if a very wealthy person said to me, "I've got the money if you've got the plan"?  Here's the plan.

Ai Tsuno progress report.

It was a wide-ranging and very enjoyable interview with Trudy Leong for WZRD Chicago the other day.

The Velvet Unicorn interviewed me for her show on CFUV in Victoria, BC. This is the full interview, rather than the nice edited version she'll be broadcasting.

Dave Goodman and I talked for an hour or so for his radio show, Sound and Fury, on WMBR in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and it was a damn fine conversation.

Randy Caravaggio, shining light on Cuba in its darkest hour; David Rovics, minstrel of our Titanic times in the second half

Many people around the world are calling for the government of Pakistan to release the leader of the Awami Action Committee now, along with all of his unjustly-imprisoned colleagues. I had never heard of Ehsan Ali, or the Awami Action Committee, or, to be honest, the region of Pakistan known as Gilgit-Baltistan, where Ehsan Ali is from. After Ali's arrest, two months ago now, I began to hear from his supporters, who have embarked on a serious campaign to bring international attention to the state repression Ali and the Awami Action Committee are currently facing, with so many of the movement leaders having been jailed, and held in deplorable conditions, with Ali being denied vital medical care. No one who is protesting and engaging in civil disobedience on behalf of their people's ability to afford to eat should be persecuted like Ali is being persecuted. I was glad to see that people around the world are taking up this cause, and once they brought it to my attention, I wrote this song in the hope that it might help amplify their efforts.