We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
Ursla Le Guin (1929-2018)
National Book Foundation speech, 2014
This Week in History:
June 1st - 5th
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What the BBC ignored:
June 1 - 1962: Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel
June 1 - 1990: George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production
June 1 d- 2015: Cruise Ship Eastern Star sinks in the Yangstze river killing over 400
June 2 - 1962: During the 1962 World Cup police intervene in the match between Chile and Italy: one of the most violent games in Football's history
June 2 - 1979: Pope John Paul II becomes the first Pope to visit a Communist country
June 3 - 1991: Mount Unzen erupts in Kyūshū, Japan, killing 43 people
June 3 - 2017: Islamic terrorists murder 8 people and wound dozens more in the London Bridge Attack
June 4 - 1970: Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom.
June 4 - 1989: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia, kills 575 as two trains passing each other
June 5 - 1989: An unidentified man halts a column of tanks during the Tiananmen Square protests
June 5 - 2004: Ronald Reagan dies aged 93
Would you have swapped any of the events above for any of the events chosen by the BBC?
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