David Rovics at Civic Media Center (11-19-13) : Oil Train

David Rovics grew up in a family of classical musicians in Wilton, Connecticut, and became a fan of populist regimes early on. By the early 90's he was a full-time busker in the Boston subways and by the mid-90's he was traveling the world as a professional flat-picking rabble-rouser. These days David lives in Portland, Oregon and tours regularly on four continents, playing for audiences large and small at cafes, pubs, universities, churches, union halls and protest rallies. He has shared the stage with a veritable who's who of the left in two dozen countries, and has had his music featured on Democracy Now!, BBC, Al-Jazeera and other networks. His essays are published regularly on CounterPunch and elsewhere, and the 200+ songs he makes available for free on the web have been downloaded more than a million times. Most importantly, he's really good. He will make you laugh, he will make you cry, he will make the revolution irresistible.

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#Video of David Rovics performing #OilTrain at Civic Media Center in #Gainesville #Florida (11-19-13) - his haunting eulogy to the 47 souls who died when a #Montreal, #Maine & Atlantic Railway #train carrying 72 tankers of #crude #oil derailed & exploded in the formerly quaint & picturesque Lac-Mégantic, #Quebec, leveling the town in explosions that lasted for hours & leaving a fire lasting 36 hours spewing #toxic fumes near the border of Maine (there were some who suggested industrial espionage but the incident was more likely one caused by human error); a story which this veteran #troubadour singer-#songwriter #musician has put to #music in an eerily #acoustic #Americana #alternative #folk #song which brings to life the #terror & sorrow felt by those directly impacted, & helps shed light on the use of outdated rail cars transporting hazardous materials as exposed by #Greenpeace & other #environmental groups (concerns that transnational #corporations continue to disregard as they reign in the profits from the hydraulic fracturing oil boom, that frack #fracking frackyou #shale gas #economic revolution to which we the people are expected to harbor the consequences while the #WallStreet #elite reap the rewards) : David Rovics at Civic Media Center (11-19-13) : Oil Train