A History of the World According to David Rovics EPISODE 11

Start at the beginning with episode 1 of the podcast series at davidrovics.com/ahistoryoftheworld or just listen to episode 11 here.

2004-2008

• The Abu Ghraib prison torture scandal breaks in the New York Times (“After We Torture Our Prisoners”)
• Neocon architect of the Iraq occupation, Paul Wolfowitz, is appointed head of the World Bank (“Paul Wolfowitz”)
• Cindy Sheehan starts camping out in front of President Bush’s ranch (“Song for Cindy Sheehan”)
• Hurricane Katrina and government ineptitude kill thousands of people in New Orleans (“New Orleans”)
• Construction of Israel’s Apartheid Wall in Palestine begins (“They’re Building a Wall”)
• Israel invades Lebanon in 2006, killing thousands (“Lebanon, 2006”)
• My dear friend and longtime activist and musician Brad Will is killed by paramilitaries in Oaxaca, Mexico (“Brad”)
• Rod Coronado spends eight months in prison for giving a speech (“Burn It Down”)
• The premier squatted social center in Denmark, Ungdomshuset, is destroyed by the Danish government, setting in motion a new social movement (“Ungdomshuset’s Microphone”)
• The Global Financial Crisis leads to massive protests in Iceland (“Iceland, 2008”)
• The GFC leads to massive protests in Greece, too, in which a dog named Loukanikos plays a prominent role (“Riot Dog”)
• Founders of the Holy Land Foundation are charged with supporting terrorism, and five men are sentenced to between 15 and 65 years in prison (“Holy Land 5”)