@davidrovics.bsky.social
Singer/songwriter, writer, podcaster (on Spotify, Substack & Patreon), libertarian socialist, dad, lover of life.
Info about all 6 gigs the Ministry of Culture will be doing in Illinois and Wisconsin between August 30th and September 7th can now be found at davidrovics.com/tour. Please spread the word if you know anybody in Illinois or Wisconsin!
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The western powers talking about recognizing the state of Palestine sometime in the fall if certain outrageous conditions are met is the very definition of the term, "gaslighting."
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After initially trusting an AI chatbot to give me an accurate account of a vote that had just happened in Congress, I recorded this updated rendition of my Genocidal Democratic Senators Song, for all who just voted to keep arming Israel.
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We're still waiting to confirm all the details about Milwaukee, but we can now add a beautiful Palestinian cafe in Chicago to the rest of the confirmed shows coming up in Illinois and Wisconsin! Details at davidrovics.com/tour.
03.08.2025 07:05 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
My latest and most urgently timely album, FROM AUSCHWITZ TO GAZA, is now up on Bandcamp, and will drop on Spotify and the other music streaming platforms on September 1st.
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In my most recent song, condemning senators who voted against blocking arms shipments to Israel, I got several of the names wrong, because I trusted the output of an AI chatbot instead of doing real research. My apologies to Sen Klobuchar et al. Updating the song imminently.
02.08.2025 20:32 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0US TOURS UPDATE: the midwest visit coming up in a few weeks will be great. Plans for the northeast in October are coming together more slowly... If there's anyone in the NY/New England area who might like to host a house concert anywhere I'd love to hear from you.
02.08.2025 14:03 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
The Ministry of Culture will be back in Illinois and Wisconsin a month from now! We have several dates free in case anyone wants to organize a house concert or something somewhere else. (Chicago, perhaps...?)
01.08.2025 02:35 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The brilliant Chris Chandler is doing intimate and profoundly moving shows with band all over the west coast, including his first visit to Alaska! Highly recommend. I'll be at Saturday's show.
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If it weren't for a very long flight, all the kangaroos and kookaburras, and everyone driving on the left side of the road, I might have thought I was still in the USA.
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MIDWEST TOUR: I'll definitely be including a visit to Indiana, along with Illinois and Wisconsin, and I have several free dates in early September when I could do another gig in any of the 3 states, if anyone might want to organize a house concert or something!
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If it weren't for a very long flight, all the kangaroos and kookaburras, and everyone driving on the left side of the road, I might have thought I was still in the USA.
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The next album, which will drop on the streaming platforms in September, will be titled From Auschwitz to Gaza and it will be very much like this playlist. I recommend you play the title track very loudly at a Gaza solidarity rally near you.
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FALL TOUR PLANS! Gigs in Wisconsin confirmed in Madison, Woodruff, and Milwaukee Sept 4-6. In late October, gigs confirmed in Boston & NYC. More midwest & northeast gigs wanted! Early Oct we could go elsewhere first, too, depending on possibilities that present... Denmark...?
30.07.2025 02:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0US TOUR PLANS! Confirmed gigs in Wisconsin in Sept include Woodruff & Milwaukee. Confirmed gigs in the northeast in Oct include Boston & NYC. More gigs wanted! For more possible midwest gigs in Sept to work I need to hear from folks ASAP.
28.07.2025 17:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0MIDWEST!!! I'm looking forward to visiting the midwestern US in early Sept. I'll be part of a Gaza benefit in Milwaukee on Sept 6. If anyone wants to organize a house concert or other event in early Sept I could go anywhere in Wisconsin, Illinois, and potentially beyond.
27.07.2025 18:16 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The world this week has lost a legendary musician and champion of oppressed people everywhere -- who came from a family of legendary musicians and fighters for peace and justice. Ziad Rahbani of Lebanon, son of Fairouz, rest in peace.
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This song is probably my best songwriting effort on the awful subject of Israel's continuing genocide of the Palestinian people by mass starvation. Chet Gardiner has provided us with another stellar remix.
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Highlight of the past week in my life was this Israeli woman burning her passport to the tune of "Where Were You (When the Jewish State Committed Genocide)" at Tuesday's rally in Canberra.
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Last gig in Australia on this tour is tonight in Maleny!
24.07.2025 22:10 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Some distinctions between Auschwitz and Gaza? Gaza is much bigger. And the genocide is being financed and armed by the US and most of the rest of the western world.
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The Ministry of Culture sang at today's rally calling for sanctions on Israel at the opening of parliament in Canberra. Photo by Alex Bainbridge.
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Hamada L @AHMED_ABUHAMAD_ β’ Translated by Grok Show original No bread in the city! Follow Not a grain of flour in the markets We literally can't find anything to eat! It pains me that I crave food, and it becomes the first and last wish of my day.
Samer & @Sssssssssssamer Follow β’ Translated by Grok Show original The sounds of my stomach are louder than the sound of the airplane.
@AHM3D_HAMDAN Follow I don't have the power to cover media anymore. My body is lean and I no longer have the ability to walk. 14:02 β’ 19/07/2025 β’ 114K Views
Nahed hajjaj @nahed_hajjaj99 Follow Today I didn't do any journalistic work. I left the house to the market to find anything to eat. I found nothing. No one found anything. How do I enter the room of my family, how do i tell my mother, that they have to starve another night tonight? Tell me what should I tell them?
Journalists in Gaza describing their starvation in real time
Originally compiled by @standing-together.bsky.social
CANBERRA: meet up at the entrance to the Griffin Centre at 5 pm TODAY for a BDS march around town, which will include music (us and others)!
21.07.2025 02:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0CANBERRA: Monday morning at 10 am Kamala and I will be hosting a workshop on using culture as a tool for building social movements, at the Griffin Centre.
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Vivien Langford made this audio montage from last weekend's rally in Sydney featuring an amazing speech followed by Kamala and I singing "I Support Palestine Action," and info about the National Convergence on Canberra, where we'll be thru Tuesday.
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We sang at the weekly rally for Gaza today in Canberra. Photos by Alex Bainbridge.
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Saturday: Canberra!
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Meanwhile here in Australia, the authorities are conducting pre-dawn raids in order to abduct and detain Palestinian grandmothers who escaped Israel's genocide. #FreeMaha
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