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A History of the World episode 12

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2009-2011
  • The killing of Oscar Grant by BART police sets off a movement against police brutality in the San Francisco bay area (“Song for Oscar Grant”)
  • Barack Obama is elected president on a platform of Hope and Change (“If Only It Were True”)
  • Private Chelsea Manning is arrested and imprisoned for revealing US war crimes in Iraq (“Song for Chelsea Manning”)
  • The Global Financial Crisis results in a skyrocketing in the cost of housing in the US (“Just a Renter”)
  • The biggest ship to try to break the siege of Gaza, the Mavi Marmara, is attacked by Israeli soldiers, with 9 dead (“Song for the Mavi Marmara”)
  • The Citizens United Supreme Court decision gives corporations an unlimited ability to influence elections (“Corporations Are People, Too”)
  • The people of Tunisia rise up (“Tunisia, 2011”)
  • Tens of thousands of people occupy the Wisconsin state capitol (“Wisconsin”)
  • A tsunami kills tens of thousands of people in Japan (“Minami Sanriku”)
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