Up the Rebels session 2: Songs of Resistance

In this episode I explore:

• The deportation of the Tolpuddle farmworkers in 1834 in Dorset, England, and the movement that rallied around them

• The famine and uprising in Minnesota led by Little Crow in 1862

• The Winnipeg General Strike of 1918

• Ram Mohamed Singh Azad's trip from India to England to assassinate one of the former colonial officials responsible for the Amritsar Massacre

• The mutiny on the Columbia Eagle ship transporting napalm from the US to Vietnam, led by Clyde McKay and Al Glatkowski

• The seizure of the US Embassy by students in Tehran in 1979

• The building of the world's biggest windmill by activists in Denmark in the 1970's

• The attacks carried out by Al Qaeda on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11th, 2001

• The martyrdom of Aaron Bushnell on February 25th, 2024, at the gates of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC

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