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DESCRIPTION:Thursday, March 3rd – 7 PM   Against the Empire: A Night of Radical Folk 
 Legends   Featuring Robb Johnson, David Rovics, and Folk This! performing 
 their greatest hits.  $7  ROBB JOHNSON is now widely recognized as one of 
 the finest songwriters working in the UK today. He enjoys a diverse 
 spectrum of critical acclaim – "a modern-day Dostoyevsky" said the US’s 
 Dirty Linen, Mojo made the double CD "Gentle Men" Folk Album Of The Month, 
 while The Daily Telegraph made it their Folk Album Of 1998, & Tony Benn, 
 the UK’s leading radical politician, says Johnson’s "Winter Turns To 
 Spring" is his favorite song.  He has played pubs, clubs, pavements, 
 pickets & benefits, arts centers & festivals, local radio, BBC Radio 3 & 4, 
 Belgian Radio 1, Nicaraguan TV & Channel 4, the Albert Hole in Bristol &, 
 as part of Roy Bailey’s 1998 concert, the Albert Hall in London.  Check 
 him out at: http://www.robbjohnson.co.uk/  DAVID ROVICS is a legendary 
 political songwriter who believes "music can be more than an escape. It can 
 be that, yes, fine, but it can also be a hammer, to paraphrase Bertolt 
 Brecht, it can be a tool for selling products on the one hand, or part of 
 the stockpile of ammunition necessary to build and maintain a social 
 movement."  Since the mid-90's Rovics has basically spent his entire life 
 on tour, playing concerts around the US, Canada and various countries in 
 Europe.  The vast majority of his gigs are protests, rallies, picket lines, 
 and direct actions.  In recent years he has shared the stage with many fine 
 activists including Amy Goodman, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Ralph Nader, 
 Cynthia McKinney, Dennis Kucinich, Barbara Lee, Angela Davis, Danny Glover, 
 Desmond Tutu, Michael Moore, Susan Sarandon, Ward Churchill, Jello Biafra, 
 Dead Prez, Pete Seeger, Billy Bragg, Bruce Cockburn, the Indigo Girls, 
 Steve Earle and many others. Rovics’ greatest hits album, Behind the 
 Barricades, was recently released by AK Press.  Check him out at: 
 http://www.davidrovics.com/  Folk This! is a bridge, a connection. Through 
 music they attempt to link the generations who came of age in the 60's and 
 70's and the new activists making waves in the protest movement of today.  
 The songs they sing come form many sources, the civil rights movement, the 
 anti-war movement and further back to times of slavery and the Paris 
 commune, the hymns and anthems of the IWW and the songs of labor and 
 anti-fascism. This bridge is not only musical, it is real.  \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/02/25/58843.php
SUMMARY:Against the Empire: A Night of Radical Folk Legends
LOCATION:At the AK Press Warehouse 674-A 23rd. St Oakland, CA  between MLK and San 
 Pablo - near 19th St. BART and West Grand Exit of 80/980  For more info 
 contact AK Press at 510.208.1700, akpress@akpress.org  or visit 
 http://www.akpress.org  All events at AK Press are wheelchair accessible.  
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/02/25/58843.php
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