1. David Rovics encourages the free distribution of his work by all non-profit means to promote his work and spread political messages, and speaks out against websites or programs like iTunes that charge money for downloading his songs.
13 Facts About David Rovics
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David Rovics has advocated the performing of his songs at protests and demonstrations and has made his sheet music and lyrics available for download.
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David Rovics's family moved to Wilton, Connecticut when he was young.
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David Rovics was politically inspired during his adolescence by his experiences with the conservative-oriented, Christian milieu of his home town.
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David Rovics has described himself as an "anti-Zionist Jew from New York".
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In 1985, David Rovics enrolled at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, but dropped out and moved to Berkeley, California.
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David Rovics worked in occupations such as a cook, barista, secretary and typist, while pursuing his musical interests as a street and subway performer and in small clubs and bars.
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David Rovics immersed himself in leftist counterculture and made contact with other songwriters and performers on the underground circuit.
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David Rovics's essays are published regularly on CounterPunch and Truthout and the 200+ songs he makes available on the web have been downloaded more than a million times.
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David Rovics currently lives in Portland, Oregon with his family and has a daughter, Leila, who was born in 2006.
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David Rovics has written a song on Francis Hughes, a Provisional IRA combatant who died in the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike, in his song "Up The Provos".
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In 2021, David Rovics interviewed white nationalist activist Matthew Heimbach and posted it on his YouTube account, hosted a conversation with musician Gilad Atzmon on the same account, and appeared on the podcast of conspiracy theorist Kevin Barrett.
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David Rovics temporarily removed the interview with Heimbach from his site, but responded that Atzmon is not an antisemite and Heimbach not a fascist, and that it is important to understand why people are drawn to the far-right.