A History of the World According to David Rovics EPISODE 10

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2002-2004

• Israeli invasion of Jenin (“Jenin”)
• Heightened border security resulting from global justice movement continues (“Outside Agitator”)
• Woomera Breakout in Australian refugee detention center (“Woomera”)
• Coca-Cola union-busting efforts in Colombia turn deadly (“Drink of the Death Squads”)
• Attempted coup in Venezuela against Hugo Chavez is defeated by the Venezuelan people (“Song for Hugo Chavez”)
• International Solidarity Movement volunteer, Rachel Corrie, killed by Israeli occupation forces (“The Death of Rachel Corrie”)
• The US invades Iraq again (“Operation Iraqi Liberation”)
• The global justice movement is drowned in tear gas in Miami outside of the Free Trade Area of the Americas talks (“Miami”)
• Spanish journalists go on strike (“Spanish Journalist Strike”)
• A year after the US invasion of Iraq, the insurgency against the occupation begins (“Fallujah”)