This Week with David Rovics

A History of the World According to David Rovics EPISODE 7

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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
    • ...more
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