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Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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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.

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Episodes

Part One: The Alter-Globalization Movement: From the Zapatistas to the Battle of Seattle

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...

May 26, 202540 min

CZM Book Club: The Abbot of Druimenach

Margaret reads you an Irish fairy tale about gender transformation that she really likes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 25, 202521 min

CZM Book Club: Soria Moria Castle

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.

May 18, 202527 min

Part Two: Black Antifascists In the Spanish Civil War

Jordan from The Dugout continues teaching Margaret about the long history of Black antifascism that brought people to fight in the Spanish Civil War. James Yates, Mississippi to Madrid Salaria Kea, “Doing Christ’s Duty” Canute Frankson’s letter from Spain (1937) “The Good Fight” (Documentary) Peter N. Carroll, The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade ALBA-Valb.org archives Trussel.com, “The Peekskill Riots” National Archives & Harlem Oral History Project Kuykendall, Ronald A. "African Bloo...

Apr 16, 202553 min

Part One: Black Antifascists In the Spanish Civil War

Jordan from The Dugout teaches Margaret about the long history of Black antifascism that brought people to fight in the Spanish Civil War. James Yates, Mississippi to Madrid Salaria Kea, “Doing Christ’s Duty” Canute Frankson’s letter from Spain (1937) “The Good Fight” (Documentary) Peter N. Carroll, The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade ALBA-Valb.org archives Trussel.com, “The Peekskill Riots” National Archives & Harlem Oral History Project Kuykendall, Ronald A. "African Blood Brotherho...

Apr 14, 20251 hr 2 min

CZM Book Club: Escape, part two

Margaret reads the second half of an anonymously authored speculative fiction story about what people could do if large scale roundups began, and discusses it with an anarchist technology enthusiast. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Apr 06, 202555 min

Part Two: Samizdat: How to Self-Publish During a Dictatorship

Margaret continues talking to Katy Stoll about how the Soviet people evaded censors and kept poetry, literature, and political critique alive. The Material Existence of Soviet Samizdat, Ann Komaromi https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/books/04solzhenitsyn.html HG Skilling, Samizdat and an Indepedent Society in Central and Eastern Europe https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/nikolai-gumilev https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/anna-akhmatova https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/osip-mandelsta...

Apr 02, 20251 hr 2 min

Part One: Samizdat: How to Self-Publish During a Dictatorship

Margaret talks to Katy Stoll about how the Soviet people evaded censors and kept poetry, literature, and political critique alive. The Material Existence of Soviet Samizdat, Ann Komaromi https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/books/04solzhenitsyn.html HG Skilling, Samizdat and an Indepedent Society in Central and Eastern Europe https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/nikolai-gumilev https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/anna-akhmatova https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/osip-mandelstam https://li...

Mar 31, 202547 min

CZM Book Club: Escape, part one

Margaret reads an anonymously authored speculative fiction story about what people could do if large scale roundups began, and discusses it with an anarchist technology enthusiast. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mar 30, 20251 hr 1 min

CZM Rewind: Part Two: Gay Resistance to the Nazis

In this second rewind episode, Margaret continues to tell the story of gay artists and street gangs that fought the Nazis. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mar 26, 202558 min

CZM Rewind: Gay Resistance to the Nazis

In this rewind episode, Margaret tells the story of gay artists and street gangs that fought the Nazis. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mar 24, 20251 hr 18 min
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