All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people.
Ursla Le Guin (1929-2018)
The Wave in the Mind, 2004
This Week in History:
May 18th - 23rd
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Notes:
"A bloody birth" is the phrase used by the BBC to describe the independence of East Timor from Indonesia. This is putting it mildly. John Pilger chronicles that a third of the almost one million population were killed. He filmed secretly in East Timor and his documentary Death of a Nation (later updated as The Timor Conspiracy) contributed to the International outcry that led ultimately to Indonesia's withdrawal and East Timor's independence. You can watch the entire film for free on Vimeo. Incidently, the current Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn was in East Timor at the time as part of a UN delegation to verify the vote for Independence.
What the BBC ignored:
May 18 - 1974: Operation Smiling Buddha. India detonates its first nuclear bomb becoming the sixth nation to do so.
May 19 - 1962: Marilyn Monroe sings Happy Birthday for President kennedy.
May 20 - 1971: Thousands masscared in Chunagar by the Pakistan army during the Bangladesh Liberation War
May 21 - 2003: The 6.8 magnitude Boumerdès earthquake in Algeria kills approximately 2,226 people and injures over 10,000.
May 22 - 1968: USS Scorpion (SSN-589), a US nuclear submarine, sinks killing 99. One of four mysterious submarine disappearances in teh same year.
May 23 - 1934: American robbers and killers Bonnie and Clyde ambushed and shot dead
Would you have swapped any of the events above for any of the events chosen by the BBC?
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