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DESCRIPTION:Against the Empire: A Night of Radical Folk Legends   AK Press in Oakland, 
 Thursday, March 3rd – 7 PM  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.  AT 
 THE AK PRESS WAREHOUSE!  AK Press 674-A 23rd. St Oakland, CA  b/t 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  All events at AK 
 Press are wheelchair accessible.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/02/28/59123.php
SUMMARY:Against the Empire: A Night of Radical Folk Legends
LOCATION:AT THE AK PRESS WAREHOUSE!  AK Press 674-A 23rd. St Oakland, CA  b/t 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  
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/02/28/59123.php
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