A History of the World According to David Rovics EPISODE 8

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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