A History of the World EPISODE 13

Listen to episode 13 first, or start at the beginning at davidrovics.com/ahistoryoftheworld.

2011-2013

• Navy Seals kill Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan (“Osama Bin Laden is Dead”)

• A white supremacist kills 78 people in Norway (“Breivik”)

• Food Not Bombs founder, Keith McHenry, and others are arrested for serving food in Orlando, Florida (“Ballad of Eola Park”)

• Riots in every major city in England (“London is Burning”)

• Occupy Wall Street begins with a protest in Zuccotti Park in Manhattan (“Occupy Wall Street/Stay Right Here”)

• Teenager Trayvon Martin is killed while walking down the sidewalk and his killer is found to be innocent, on the basis of having been “standing his ground” (“Trayvon”)

• CeCe McDonald is attacked at a bar in Minneapolis and is jailed for “standing her ground” and killing her attacker (“Ballad of CeCe McDonald”)

• NATO has a summit in Chicago where the FBI infiltrates protest groups and entraps people (“Meanwhile in Afghanistan”)

• Spotify launches their Free Tier and destroys the lives of millions of musicians (“A Penny A Play”)

• A train with 72 cars full of Bakken crude exploded in Quebec, killing 47 (“Oil Train”)