This Week with David Rovics

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January 13, 2025A 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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50min
January 12, 2025A History of the World According to David Rovics EPISODE 11
Start at the beginning with episode 1 of the podcast series at davidrovics.com/ahistoryoftheworld or just listen to episode 11 here.
2004-2008
The Abu Ghraib prison torture scandal breaks in the New York Times (“After We Torture Our Prisoners”)
Neocon architect of the Iraq occupation, Paul Wolfowitz, is appointed head of the World Bank (“Paul Wolfowitz”)
Cindy Sheehan starts camping out in front of President Bush’s ranch (“Song for Cindy Sheehan”)
Hurricane Katrina and government ineptitude kill thousands of people in New Orleans (“New Orleans”)
Construction of Israel’s Apartheid Wall in Palestine begins (“They’re Building a Wall”)
Israel invades Lebanon in 2006, killing thousands (“Lebanon, 2006”)
My dear friend and longtime activist and musician Brad Will is killed by paramilitaries in Oaxaca, Mexico (“Brad”)
Rod Coronado spends eight months in prison for giving a speech (“Burn It Down”)
The premier squatted social center in Denmark, Ungdomshuset, is destroyed by the Danish government, setting in motion a new social movement (“Ungdomshuset’s Microphone”)
The Global Financial Crisis leads to massive protests in Iceland (“Iceland, 2008”)
The GFC leads to massive protests in Greece, too, in which a dog named Loukanikos plays a prominent role (“Riot Dog”)
Founders of the Holy Land Foundation are charged with supporting terrorism, and five men are sentenced to between 15 and 65 years in prison (“Holy Land 5”)
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51min
January 11, 2025A History of the World According to David Rovics EPISODE 10
Start with episode 1 at davidrovics.com/ahistoryoftheworld or start here with episode 10.
2002-2004
Israeli invasion of Jenin (“Jenin”)
Heightened border security resulting from global justice movement continues (“Outside Agitator”)
Woomera Breakout in Australian refugee detention center (“Woomera”)
Coca-Cola union-busting efforts in Colombia turn deadly (“Drink of the Death Squads”)
Attempted coup in Venezuela against Hugo Chavez is defeated by the Venezuelan people (“Song for Hugo Chavez”)
International Solidarity Movement volunteer, Rachel Corrie, killed by Israeli occupation forces (“The Death of Rachel Corrie”)
The US invades Iraq again (“Operation Iraqi Liberation”)
The global justice movement is drowned in tear gas in Miami outside of the Free Trade Area of the Americas talks (“Miami”)
Spanish journalists go on strike (“Spanish Journalist Strike”)
A year after the US invasion of Iraq, the insurgency against the occupation begins (“Fallujah”)
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45min
January 10, 2025 The Coming Fires
Los Angeles is burning. What comes next?
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11min
January 09, 2025 Lao Tzu, the Syrian Revolution, and Anti-Social Media
Talking about critical analysis of history and current events (or not), and some ancient Chinese philosophy.
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19min
January 09, 2025 Demonetizing, Deleting, and Disappearing David
YouTube has just informed me that my channel has been permanently demonetized — not just a 90-day suspension as I had previously been told. There is no possibility for redress, they say. It’s a lifetime ban on making any more income through this major streaming platform.
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10min
January 07, 2025A History of the World According to David Rovics EPISODE 9
Listen to everything from the beginning at davidrovics.com/ahistoryoftheworld or just start with this one!
2000-2002
The rise of the global justice movement in its many forms, such as the guerrilla gardening movement represented by groups like More Gardens in New York City (“The More Gardens Song”)
The Biotic Baking Brigade (“Song for the Biotic Baking Brigade”)
The beginning of the Second Intifada in Palestine (“Children of Jerusalem”)
The attacks of September 11th, 2001 and the new antiwar movement (“The Dying Firefighter”)
Al-Qaeda and “War on Terror” (“Promised Land”)
Barbara Lee, the sole dissenter in the US Congress after 9/11 (“Barbara Lee”)
The arrest of Ana Belen Montes and the ongoing US campaign to subjugate Cuba (“Song for Ana Belen Montes”)
9/11 and suspicious events in Hollywood, Florida (“Hollywood Bread”)
The invasion of Afghanistan and the bombing of Kama Ado by the US Air Force (“The Village Where Nothing Happened”)
The opening of an internment camp at the US’s naval base on the island of Cuba, Guantanamo Bay (“Guantanamo Bay”)
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46min
January 05, 2025 "The Siege of Kamal Adwan Hospital" REMIX
The hospital staff are still entirely unaccounted for, after the New Year's Eve demolition and torching of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip. Those who weren't killed were all kidnapped by Israeli soldiers. This remix from Chet Gardiner is, in my humble opinion, haunting and powerful.
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3min
January 04, 2025A History of the World According to David Rovics EPISODE 8
Listen to everything from the beginning at davidrovics.com/ahistoryoftheworld or just start with this one!
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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52min
January 03, 2025 Four Things That Happened on January 1st
2025 began with several massacres, the demonetization of my YouTube channel, and other notable developments.
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12min

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