As long as there’s been oppression, there’ve been people fighting it. This weekly podcast dives into history to drag up the wildest rebels, the most beautiful revolts, and all the people who long to be—and fight to be—free. It explores complex stories of resistance that offer lessons and inspiration for us today, focusing on the ensemble casts that make up each act of history. That is to say, this podcast focuses on Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff.
Margaret continues talking to Jamie Loftus about some radical hippies who built gigantic puppets and an entire culture. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Margaret talks to Jamie Loftus about some radical hippies who built gigantic puppets and an entire culture. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Margaret reads you a story about arts and crafts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This episode delves into part two of the 1999 Battle of Seattle, detailing how the Direct Action Network organized the successful shutdown of the World Trade Organization meeting. It explores the decentralized organizing model, the nine days of pre-protest actions, the strategies employed on the day of the shutdown, the police response, and the protester's resistance. The episode also covers the aftermath, including legal outcomes, jail solidarity tactics, global support, and the protest's lasting impact on the anti-neoliberal movement.
This episode delves into the historic shutdown of the World Trade Organization summit in Seattle in 1999. It examines the various coalitions, including labor unions, mainstream NGOs, People's Global Action, the Direct Action Network, and the Black Bloc, that came together despite diverse tactics and ideologies. The discussion highlights the planning, organizing methods like action camps, internal debates, and the significance of this event as the opening salvo of the alter-globalization movement.
Margaret reads you two more stories about anticapitalism and religion. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Margaret continues talking with Molly Conger about the history of protestors wearing black and masks while fighting neoliberalism and fascism. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Margaret talks with Molly Conger about the history of protestors wearing black and masks while fighting neoliberalism and fascism. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Margaret reads you a story about what it takes to break from society in disgust. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Margaret continues telling you about the rise of neoliberalism and the rise of its opposition and about better ideas about how to globalize society. Sources: Direct Action: an Ethnography, David Graeber The Zapatista Experience, Jerome Baschet https://www.piie.com/commentary/speeches-papers/did-washington-consensus-fail https://www.spiegel.de/international/interview-with-ex-neocon-francis-fukuyama-a-model-democracy-is-not-emerging-in-iraq-a-407315.html https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/zapatista-...
Margaret continues telling you about the rise of neoliberalism and the rise of its opposition and about better ideas about how to globalize society. Sources: Direct Action: an Ethnography, David Graeber The Zapatista Experience, Jerome Baschet https://www.piie.com/commentary/speeches-papers/did-washington-consensus-fail https://www.spiegel.de/international/interview-with-ex-neocon-francis-fukuyama-a-model-democracy-is-not-emerging-in-iraq-a-407315.html https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/zapatista-...
Margaret reads you more short stories written by the one of the ideological leaders of the Mexican Revolution. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Margaret continues talking with Kat Abu about the Mexican liberals who became anarchists and sparked a revolution. Original Air Date: 7.26.23 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Margaret talks with Kat Abu about the Mexican liberals who became anarchists and sparked a revolution. Original Air Date: 7.24.23 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Margaret reads you several short stories written by the one of the ideological leaders of the Mexican Revolution. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Margaret tells you about the rise of neoliberalism and the rise of its opposition and about better ideas about how to globalize society. Sources: Direct Action: an Ethnography, David Graeber The Zapatista Experience, Jerome Baschet https://www.piie.com/commentary/speeches-papers/did-washington-consensus-fail https://www.spiegel.de/international/interview-with-ex-neocon-francis-fukuyama-a-model-democracy-is-not-emerging-in-iraq-a-407315.html https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/zapatista-womens-revol...
Margaret tells you about the rise of neoliberalism and the rise of its opposition and about better ideas about how to globalize society. Sources: Direct Action: an Ethnography, David Graeber The Zapatista Experience, Jerome Baschet https://www.piie.com/commentary/speeches-papers/did-washington-consensus-fail https://www.spiegel.de/international/interview-with-ex-neocon-francis-fukuyama-a-model-democracy-is-not-emerging-in-iraq-a-407315.html https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/zapatista-womens-revol...
Margaret reads you an Irish fairy tale about gender transformation that she really likes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Margaret continues talking with Kat Abughazaleh about the folk councils that came to define English Common Law. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Margaret talks with Kat Abughazaleh about the folk councils that came to define English Common Law. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Margaret reads you a classic norse fairy tale and then makes a thin and likely incorrect argument for why it's a queer parable. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Margaret talks with Anney Reese about how a group of people made polio vaccines and ended polio but how one guy took all the credit and ruined our understanding of history. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Margaret talks with Anney Reese about how a group of people made polio vaccines and ended polio but how one guy took all the credit and ruined our understanding of history. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Margaret reads the final two chapters of her book The Barrow Will Send What it May. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Margaret continues talking with Ron Placone about three antifascists who died protecting a humanitarian corridor--and one would-be antifascist who died on the other side of the war. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Margaret talks with Ron Placone about three antifascists who died protecting a humanitarian corridor--and one would-be antifascist who died on the other side of the war. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Margaret reads chapter seven of her book The Barrow Will Send What it May See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Margaret continues talking with Mia Wong about the communists and socialists who fought for workers’ power against the USSR. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Margaret talks with Mia Wong about the communists and socialists who fought for workers’ power against the USSR. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Margaret reads chapter six of her book, The Barrow Will Send What it May. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
