A History of the World According to David Rovics EPISODE 8

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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