This Week with David Rovics

A History of the World EPISODE 13


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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”)

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