Partridge
07-22-2006, 10:04 PM
David Rovics (http://www.davidrovics.com/) (singer songwriter extrodinaire) and Joshua Casteel (http://www.indymedia.ie/article/77313) (ex Abu Ghraib interogator, now in Iraq Vets Against War (http://www.ivaw.net/)).
I was at a fundraiser for the Catholic Woker Five (http://warontrial.com/) - basically bunch of songsmiths and speeches in aid of an excellent cause (these five heros smashed up a US plane in Shannon Airport and are now charged all sorts of henious crimes).
First off, David is a legend as far as I'm concerned. A Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger or Phil Ochs of the present age - or as he was introduced at the gig tonight, "the troubador of the international anti-war movement". A really nice guy and no mistake. It's nice to meet someone who you like musically, and they're actually clued up about politics - cos I've met a few 'celebritries' and you couldn't hold a converstaion with them, well I couldn't. He even played two songs for me - Song for Chavez (http://www.soundclick.com/util/DownloadSong.cfm?ID=2281293&ref=2) and St. Patrick Battalion (http://www.soundclick.com/util/DownloadSong.cfm?ID=758927&ref=2). I hope I'll get a proper meeting with him in the future - if he ever comes back to Ireland and I'm not basically running for a bus home, which I was tonight after the gig.
Before that Joshua spoke for about 10 mins about his opposition to the war and his terrible time in Iraq as grunt and an interrogator (95% of the people he was forced to interrogate were farmers swept up in randon sweeps). I had the chance to chat with him when we were smoking some fags outside. He's another legend. A quite religious person, and he's now part of the Catholic Worker Movement. I hope he'll be to the AWM what DRG is to the 911TM. Also I have to say that Josh was posted to Abu Ghraib AFTER the whole torture thing was exposed. I don't know if it continued, but hopefully I'm meeting him on Thursday again, so I'll ask him then.
Two heroes. (Not to mention the five heroes (http://www.indymedia.ie/openwire?search_text=catholic+worker&x=0&y=0) the gig was in aid of)
I was at a fundraiser for the Catholic Woker Five (http://warontrial.com/) - basically bunch of songsmiths and speeches in aid of an excellent cause (these five heros smashed up a US plane in Shannon Airport and are now charged all sorts of henious crimes).
First off, David is a legend as far as I'm concerned. A Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger or Phil Ochs of the present age - or as he was introduced at the gig tonight, "the troubador of the international anti-war movement". A really nice guy and no mistake. It's nice to meet someone who you like musically, and they're actually clued up about politics - cos I've met a few 'celebritries' and you couldn't hold a converstaion with them, well I couldn't. He even played two songs for me - Song for Chavez (http://www.soundclick.com/util/DownloadSong.cfm?ID=2281293&ref=2) and St. Patrick Battalion (http://www.soundclick.com/util/DownloadSong.cfm?ID=758927&ref=2). I hope I'll get a proper meeting with him in the future - if he ever comes back to Ireland and I'm not basically running for a bus home, which I was tonight after the gig.
Before that Joshua spoke for about 10 mins about his opposition to the war and his terrible time in Iraq as grunt and an interrogator (95% of the people he was forced to interrogate were farmers swept up in randon sweeps). I had the chance to chat with him when we were smoking some fags outside. He's another legend. A quite religious person, and he's now part of the Catholic Worker Movement. I hope he'll be to the AWM what DRG is to the 911TM. Also I have to say that Josh was posted to Abu Ghraib AFTER the whole torture thing was exposed. I don't know if it continued, but hopefully I'm meeting him on Thursday again, so I'll ask him then.
Two heroes. (Not to mention the five heroes (http://www.indymedia.ie/openwire?search_text=catholic+worker&x=0&y=0) the gig was in aid of)