This Week with David Rovics

A History of the World According to David Rovics EPISODE 8

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1980’s and 1990’s
  • The exposure of Israel’s secret nuclear arsenal and the abduction of Mordechai Vanunu
  • The Anti-Highway Movement and victory in Massachusetts
  • Sanctions on Iraq and the deaths of 500,000 children there, according to UNICEF
  • Industrial disaster in Hamlet, North Carolina and the failure of OSHA
  • Gun violence in America and the death of my dear friend Eric Mark in San Francisco
  • Riots and police shootings in Copenhagen after passage of the Maastricht Treaty
  • The blockade of Prince William Sound in Alaska following the Exxon Valdez oil spill
  • The arrest and imprisonment of Alvaro Luna Hernandez for the crime of self-defense
  • The rise of School of the Americas Watch and annual protests in Columbus, Georgia
  • The Minnehaha Free State in Minneapolis, and resistance to highway expansion there
  • The Timber Wars on the west coast of North America and the death of David “Gypsy” Chain
  • The environmental crisis is found to be profoundly affecting the male anatomy
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