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”)
Gigs for 2025 are very few to mention at this point, but on February 22nd I'm looking forward to a rare (first?) visit to Hood River, Oregon.
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