A History of the World According to David Rovics EPISODE 7

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1970’s and 1980’s

• The blowing up of a dam and the birth of the Icelandic environmental movement
• The discovery of the FBI’s Cointelpro by the Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI
• The imprisonment and escape from prison of Assata Shakur
• The CIA-backed coup in Chile, and solidarity from East Kilbride, Scotland
• The struggle for land and freedom at Big Mountain and the Navajo/Hopi dispute
• The collective construction of the world’s biggest windmill in Denmark
• The CIA-backed coup in Australia that overthrew Gough Whitlam’s government
• The Iranian Revolution and the seizure of the US Embassy by students
• Armed Republican resistance in Ireland, and the 1981 prison hunger strikes
• Civil war in El Salvador