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Voices Of The Future | Pok And The Spacegoats : Peace Not War [Disc 2]

Living Wage | The Uncouth! : Jonesy's War - EP

Living Wage | frank deresti and the lake effect : This Time

Living Wage | James Halifko : Destiny Garden

Living Wage | Suburban Lockdown : Laid to Waste

Everyone's Getting Rich | Jim Hightower : People Are Revolting (In the Very Best Sense of the Word)

The Corporate Welfare Song | Anne Feeney : Have You Been to Jail for Justice?

Defenders of Marriage | Anne Feeney : Hail to the Thieves, Volume III: Songs to Take Our Country Back! (Digital Version)

We Just Come to Work Here, We Don't Come to Die | Anne Feeney : Classic Labor Songs from Smithsonian Folkways

Have You Been to Jail for Justice? | Anne Feeney : Original Recordings

Peace Rant | Hope Machine : Folk Alliance International presents Songs of War and Politics Vol. 1

I Approve This Message | Roy Zimmerman : Thanks for the Support

Look, if any job is going to take up someone's life, it deserves a living wage. If a job exists and you have to hire someone to do it, they deserve a living wage. End of story. There's a lot of talk going around my workplace along the lines of, "These guys with no education and no skills think they deserve as much as us? Fuck those guys." And elsewhere on FB: "I'm a licensed electrician, I make $13/hr, fuck these burger flippers."

And that's exactly what the bosses want! They want us fighting over who has the bigger pile of crumbs so we don't realize they made off with almost the whole damn cake. Why are you angry about fast food workers making two bucks more an hour when your CEO makes four hundred TIMES what you do? It's in the bosses' interests to keep your anger directed downward, at the poor people who are just trying to get by, like you, rather than at the rich assholes who consume almost everything we produce and give next to nothing for it.

-Jens Rushing

* Freedom of Speech | Ice-T : The Iceberg - Freedom of Speech ... Just Watch What You Say

Welcome to Polyrical a podcast of Political Music. A soundtrack for the resistance. A Topical Solution for the Political Revolution

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* Woman's Work | Tracy Chapman : Matters Of The Heart

Political musicians have their fans and their critics and sometimes they are one in the same. Here are four songs about political songs for the fans and the critics.

* Political Song | Randy Kaplan : Fast Folk Musical Magazine (Vol. 7, No. 8)

* A Different Kind Of Love Song | Dick Gaughan : A Different Kind Of Love Song

* Sing About Love | Chumbawamba : The Boy Bands Have Won

* Sing A Song To Please Us | Leon Rosselson : The World Turned Upside Down: Rosselsongs 1960-2010

Bio



The last time David Rovics had a real job was when he was a part-time barista at a Starbucks in 1995. After having too many thoughts about killing all the white men in suits who never tipped that entered his workplace (which were most of the clientele), he quit that job quick. Since then he has been subsisting as a musician, playing in the streets and subways of Boston at first, and by the late 1990’s, touring internationally as a DIY protest singer. Except that he hates the term “protest singer.” But that’s how the mainstream media would dismissively define him and his ilk, anyway, so there you go.

If you’re using this bio to introduce David at a gig, you can be merciful to your audience and stop there. The music will be better than reading this narcissistic crap. But if you want all the gory details, keep reading (preferably to yourself).

David Rovics is the best Topical Songwriter, bar none. If you disagree, please tell me who is better, seriously, if there is someone better I want to be listening to them.

Rovics takes the details of an event or a movement and paints a picture that tells a story and puts that into context, socially, economically, politically.

* Eat the Rich | David Rovics : All the News That's Fit to Sing

* Welcome to the Working Class | David Rovics : All the News That's Fit to Sing

People don’t buy physical recordings much anymore, and most people rarely pay to download anything.  Mostly people get their music via streaming services these days — which is great for exposure, but terrible in terms of paying artists anything meaningful.

This situation has created a crisis for artists, many of whom have been unable to continue recording, touring, etc.  Those of us who still manage to make ends meet are either getting millions of streams on a monthly basis (pop stars and some others) or we have successfully adopted the paid subscription model of survival, in the tradition of community radio stations and small farmers throughout the US and elsewhere.

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David Rovics just released his latest album Punk Baroque, which includes songs about The Pulse Club mass murder in Orlando, Gentrification, Bombing, Refugees and Standing Rock. Listen to it, buy it on Band Camp.

* Minimum Wage Strike | David Rovics : Behind The Barricades - The Best Of David Rovics

* I Can't Breathe | David Rovics : The Other Side

* Dream Team | Michael Franti & Spearhead : Home

* i wanna change it | Otis Gibbs : one day our whispers

Hey Hey USA | Ginger Tom : Peace Not War [Disc 1] Bullshit Politicians | Propagandhi : Today's Empires, Tomorow's Ashes Silent Spring | emma's revolution : One Wise Users | Bruce Cockburn : Honor - A Benefit For The Honor The Earth Campaign Elephant | Tree : Tree Where Are We Gonna Work When The Trees Are Gone? | Jello Biafra & Mojo Nixon : If A Tree Falls Put Down That Weapon | Midnight Oil : Diesel And Dust Warakurna | Midnight Oil : Diesel And Dust US Forces | Midnight Oil : 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 When The Generals Talk | Midnight Oil : Red Sails In The Sunset What's That I Hear | Phil Ochs : There But For Fortune I Should Be Allowed To Think | They Might Be Giants : John Henry

Why | Supaman : Why - Single Graffiti Limbo | Michelle Shocked : Short Sharp Shocked I Ain't Afraid | Holly Near : Edge Gods At Odds | Hamell On Trial : The Happiest Man In the World Prey | Timbuk 3 : A Hundred Lovers Gospel Of Bondage | Bruce Cockburn : Big Circumstance El Fusilado | Chumbawamba : The Boy Bands Have Won Smashing of the Van | Chumbawamba : English Rebel Songs 1381-1914 Invasion | Chumbawamba : Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records The Day The Nazi Died | Chumbawamba : Showbusiness! The Power Of Song | Leon Rosselson : The World Turned Upside Down: Rosselsongs 1960-2010 A Pict Song | Billy Bragg : William Bloke Polyrical.com Patreon.com/unrelatedthings

Who's Gonna Build Your Wall? | Tom Russell : Who's Gonna Build Your Wall? -EP Rock the Empire | Junkyard Empire : Oppression, Anger, Awareness, Organize, Mobilize, Reclaim, Freedom F**k the President | Witchy Poo : Public Works President | Dan Bern : My Country II When I'm Elected President | David Rovics : All the News That's Fit to Sing Arrest the President | Tragedy : Intelligent Hoodlum / Saga of a Hoodlum What Are You Fighting For | Phil Ochs : The Early Years Another Country | Phil Ochs : The Broadside Tapes 1 I Ain't Marching Anymore | Phil Ochs : I Ain't Marching Anymore I'm Going To Say It Now | Phil Ochs : There But For Fortune That's What Makes Us Great | Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers · Bruce Springsteen : single Right Right Now Now | Beastie Boys : To the 5 Boroughs

Smash It Up | The (International) Noise Conspiracy : Survival Sickness Arrogance, Ignorance, And Greed | Show Of Hands : Folk The Banks Hail | Hamell On Trail : Tough Love Language Of Violence | The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy : Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury Homophobia | Chumbawamba : Showbusiness! Ballad of Cece McDonald | David Rovics : The Other Side Different Drum | Dick Gaughan : Lucky for Some Think Again | Dick Gaughan : A Different Kind Of Love Song The World Turned Upside Down | Dick Gaughan : A Different Kind Of Love Song By The People | Dick Gaughan : A Different Kind Of Love Song I'll Be There | Phil Ochs : A Toast To Those Who Are Gone The Oath | Street Sweeper Social Club : Street Sweeper Social Club

Last to Die | Bruce Springsteen : Magic Kiss Mother Nature Goodbye | Hank Williams Jr. : If A Tree Falls Drone Bomb Me | ANOHNI : HOPELESSNESS Bombs Over Baghdad | John Trudell : AKA Grafitti Man No Bomb Is Smart | SONiA : No Bomb Is Smart Smart Bomb | Chumbawamba : Wysiwyg Spirit, Mother And Nature | Consolidated : Tool And Die Unity of Oppression | Consolidated : Friendly Fa$cism Typical Male | Consolidated : Friendly Fa$cism We Gotta Have Peace | Consolidated : Friendly Fa$cism Union Maid | New Harmony Sisterhood Band : Classic Labor Songs from Smithsonian Folkways Red Ant (Nature) | Olu Dara : Gascd

Watch The Right | Anti-Flag : The Underground Network Mouthful Of Shit | Chumbawamba : Showbusiness! If It Were Up to Me | Holly Near : Edge Too Many Guns | They Eat Their Own : They Eat Their Own Bang Bang Bang | Tracy Chapman : Matters Of The Heart Tool And Die Album Mix | Consolidated : Tool And Die 'Tis of Thee | Ani DiFranco : Up Up Up Up Up Up Trickle Down | Ani Difranco : Up Up Up Up Up Up Self Evident | Ani DiFranco : Peace Not War Amendment | Ani DiFranco : Which Side Are You On? We Will Not Be Divided | Dan Bern : Anthems Take The Power Back | Rage Against The Machine : Rage Against The Machine

Stand Up | Flobots : Fight With Tools Generals and Majors | XTC : Black Sea There Is Power in a Union | Billy Bragg : Live at the Union Chapel London Roll the Union On | John Handcox : Classic Labor Songs from Smithsonian Folkways Workers' Song | Dick Gaughan : Handful Of Earth Talking Union | The Almanac Singers : Classic Labor Songs from Smithsonian Folkways Ghetto Manifesto | The Coup : Party Music Captain Sterling's Little Problem | The Coup : Pick a Bigger Weapon Strange Arithmetic | The Coup : Sorry to Bother You Not Yet Free | The Coup : Kill My Landlord See It Through | Ryan Harvey : Folk The Banks Well May The World Go | Tao Rodriguez-Seeger : Folk The Banks

Men in a War | Suzanne Vega : Days of Open Hand Trump | Dan Bern : Monster Protest Jamz Vol.1 No Right To Kill | They Eat Their Own : They Eat Their Own I Kill Therefore I Am | Phil Ochs : Rehearsals for Retirement Killing Ground | Utah Phillips : I've Got To Know Don't Kill | Hamell On Trail : Tough Love Amerika V.6.0 (The Best That We Can Do) | Steve Earle : Just An American Boy Rich Man's War | Steve Earle : The Revolution Starts Now F The CC | Steve Earle : The Revolution Starts Now The Revolution Starts… | Steve Earle : The Revolution Starts Now Helps Me Helps You | Midnight Oil : Red Sails In The Sunset Revolution | Dick Gaughan : A Different Kind Of Love Song