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DAVID ROVICS IN PITTSBURGH
by JONAS
Wednesday, Mar. 03, 2004 at 8:57 PM
palestineexist@yahoo.com
Political singer/songwriter David Rovics will be in Pittsburgh March 15th-- as a lead up to the March 20th Anti-War Reconvergence: Pittsburgh Still Says No to War
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A great musician/songwriter, lyricist, political activist and supporter of the Palestinian movement -
WHERE/WHEN, etc:
Monday, March 15th, 7:30 pm, BGC Community Center, 113 N. Pacific Ave. (corner Dearborn & N. Pacific, one block from Penn Ave. in Garfield), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Benefit for the local campaign to have Democracy Now! on the Pittsburgh airwaves.
Some of Rovics' lyrics
"return
david rovics
i can't help it.
i don't care how far you think the analogy extends itself.
when i see you making that bus driver climb up and down
on and off the roof of his bus
for your amusement
for hours in the hot sun
i think of how we once had to dance and sing for them
while they shot our parents.
when i see you keep that woman
and her husband
at the checkpoint
while she's in labor
and you stand there
listening to her scream
watching as she gives birth
on the back seat of a taxi
i think of the walls around our own ghetto
and how we had to crawl through the sewers
looking for rats to eat
while we could hear their children playing
on the other side.
when i see you crush that house
and kill that woman
and her baby
with your armored bulldozer
because they didn't have a permit
i think of the way we were once forced to leave our homes
at the point of a gun.
and when i hear your general say
that in order to deal with the intifada
you must learn from the tactics of another general
one mr. stroop
in warsaw
i think of how they bombed our buildings
shot us as we fell from the roofs.
and i remember
how we wished we could kill their babies, too.
and i feel sick.
sick of your displaced anger
sick of your self-deception
sick of your attempts to deceive the rest of the world
sick of your accusations of anti-semitism
sick of your occupation
sick of your apartheid state
sick of zionism.
because standing here
in auschwitz, birkenau and warsaw
i see jenin, jaffa and rafah.
and i think of our ancestors
the jewish palestinians
who spoke so eloquently
in their arabic language.
but the dead cannot speak.
and now i find myself
again behind the wall of a ghetto
standing with millions of other palestinians.
and i find myself shouting
thawra! thawra! hatta al-naser!
tomorrow in jerusalem!
al-awda
return."
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"Who Would Jesus Bomb?
David Rovics
[Who Would Jesus Bomb? in FRENCH]
I've seen you in the markets
I've seen you in the streets
And at your political convention
Talking of your crusade
Talking of your nation
And other things too terrible to mention
And you proclaim your Christianity
You proclaim your love of God
You talk of apple pie and mom
Well I've just got one question
And I want an answer
Tell me, who would Jesus bomb?
Maybe Jesus would bomb the Syrians
'Cause they're not Jews like him
Maybe Jesus would bomb the Afghans
On some kind of vengeful whim
Maybe Jesus would drive an M1 tank
And he would shoot Saddam
Tell me, who would Jesus bomb?
I've seen you on the TV
And on the battleships
I've seen you in the house upon the hill
And I've heard you talking
About making the world safer
And about all the men you have to kill
And you speak so glibly
About your civilization
And how you have the moral higher ground
While halfway around the world
Your explosives smash the buildings
Ah, if you could only hear the sound
But maybe Jesus would sell land mines
And turn on his electric chair
Maybe Jesus would show no compassion
For his enemies in the lands way over there
Maybe Jesus would have flown the planes
That killed the kids in Viet Nam
Tell me, who would Jesus bomb
Yes I hear you shout with confidence
As you praise the lord
And you talk about this God you know so well
And you talk of Armageddon
And your final victory
When all the evil forces go to hell
Well you'd best hope you've chosen wisely
On the right side of the lord
And when you die your conscience it is clear
You'd best hope that your atom bombs
Are better than the sword
At the time when your reckoning is here
'Cause I don't think Jesus would send gunships into Bethlehem
Or jets to raze the towns of Timorese
I don't think Jesus would lend money to dictators
Or drive those SUV's
And I don't think Jesus would ever have dropped
A single ounce of napalm
So tell me, who would Jesus bomb?"
One of the reasons to come to the concert and show support for the Palestinian struggle
by JONAS
Wednesday, Mar. 03, 2004 at 8:57 PM
palestineexist@yahoo.com
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Whoops!
by jonas
Wednesday, Mar. 03, 2004 at 9:00 PM
Sorry for the huge picture everyone!
Salaam
TICKETS?
by Info
Thursday, Mar. 04, 2004 at 4:14 AM
Advance tickets or are the just gonna be available at the door? Thanks.
Tickets response
by Jonas
Thursday, Mar. 04, 2004 at 6:43 AM
palestineexist@yahoo.com
Tickets will be available at the door. I will post again if I get a stash to sell before, however. Check again in a few days or email me.
Jonas
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