To put it very simply, Greece's Bloody Sunday was November 17th, 1973.  An armed struggle followed, among many other things.  The November 17 Group disbanded in 2002, and Dimitris Koufontinas has been in prison ever since.  He has now been on hunger strike for 24 days, in protest against the new governing administration in Greece, which has been singling him out for torture in prison.

I'm at a loss for words.  There will be a demo in Portland tonight (Peninsula Park at 8 pm), and more across the country, I assume.  This track is a track called "Say Their Names" from my upcoming album, Rebel Songs.  It's the song I wrote just after Jacob Blake was shot.  This version is a rough mix with drums and bass.

Today a judge in London decided against extraditing the Wikileaks founder to the US, where he would face a potential 175-year prison sentence.  Julian Assange is a journalist who has done more in the service of humanity than perhaps anyone you'll ever meet.  This song, "Behind These Prison Walls," is a rough mix version from the first few recording sessions of what will ultimately be my next album, to be titled Rebel Songs.

The US is a nation with amnesia, with a population generally ill-equipped to do any independent thinking as a result.  And if you think this problem only exists among the Proud Boys, then you are also a victim of misinformation -- just from a different source.

In the past 2 days, 2 trains in the state of Washington have had accidents.  One of them involved train cars full of crude oil, that then burned.  Is another Lac Megantic, 2013 here in the Pacific Northwest virtually inevitable, as things are going?  Yes.

Christmas in Bethlehem this year is extremely difficult for yet new reasons, on top of the usual brutal military occupation.

I have, over the years, written nearly an album's worth of Christmas songs, but the one about Pirate Santa is my favorite. Very 2020, I'd say.

When I learned in the course of an interview with Abigail Disney that actors and other Disney employees are paid so badly that some of them are living in their cars, I had some musical commentary to contribute to this stark vision.

A budget is, as is often said, a moral document.  This may be more true than ever, with regards to whatever new stimulus package the Congress may or may not pass this month.

British troops slaughtered gold miners in Australia who were refusing to pay taxes they couldn't afford to pay anyway.  29 people died in the massacre.  The miners continued their resistance afterwards, and thus terrified the authorities into giving in to all of their demands.