Episodes
Thursday Jan 02, 2025
A History of the World According to David Rovics EPISODE 7
Thursday Jan 02, 2025
Thursday Jan 02, 2025
Listen to everything from the beginning at davidrovics.com/ahistoryoftheworld or just start with this one!
1970’s and 1980’s
- The blowing up of a dam and the birth of the Icelandic environmental movement
- The discovery of the FBI’s Cointelpro by the Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI
- The imprisonment and escape from prison of Assata Shakur
- The CIA-backed coup in Chile, and solidarity from East Kilbride, Scotland
- The struggle for land and freedom at Big Mountain and the Navajo/Hopi dispute
- The collective construction of the world’s biggest windmill in Denmark
- The CIA-backed coup in Australia that overthrew Gough Whitlam’s government
- The Iranian Revolution and the seizure of the US Embassy by students
- Armed Republican resistance in Ireland, and the 1981 prison hunger strikes
- Civil war in El Salvador
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