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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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25/06/2025

Part Two: The Battle in Seattle: How Scrappy Protesters Shut Down the World Trade Organization

Margaret continues telling you about the Direct Action Network that organized the successful shutdown of the WTO in November, 1999. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
36m
23/06/2025

Part One: The Battle in Seattle: How Scrappy Protesters Shut Down the World Trade Organiation

Margaret tells you about the Direct Action Network that organized the successful shutdown of the WTO in November, 1999   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
41m
22/06/2025

CZM Book Club: Two More Stories by Leo Tolstoy

Margaret reads you two more stories about anticapitalism and religion. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
28m
18/06/2025

Part Two: The Black Bloc: It’s a Tactic, Not an Organization

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.
56m
16/06/2025

Part One: The Black Bloc: It’s a Tactic, Not an Organization

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.
58m
15/06/2025

CZM Book Club: After the Dance by Leo Tolstoy

Margaret reads you a story about what it takes to break from society in disgust. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
27m
11/06/2025

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

Margaret continues telling you about the rise of neoliberalism and the rise of its opposition and about better ideas about how to globalize society. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
30m
09/06/2025

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

Margaret continues telling you about the rise of neoliberalism and the rise of its opposition and about better ideas about how to globalize society.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
27m
08/06/2025

CZM Book Club : The Revolutionary Fables of Ricardo Flores Magón, Part Two

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.
33m
04/06/2025

CZM Rewind: Part Two: Before the Mexican Revolution: Ricardo Flores Magón and the peasants who ended a dictatorship

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.
1h 1m
02/06/2025

CZM Rewind: Part One: Before the Mexican Revolution: Ricardo Flores Magón and the peasants who ended a dictatorship

Margaret talks with Kat Abu about the Mexican liberals who became anarchists and sparked a revolution. Original Air Date: 7.24.23See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
1h 15m
01/06/2025

CZM Book Club: The Revolutionary Fables of Ricardo Flores Magón

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.
27m
28/05/2025

Part Two: 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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
33m
26/05/2025

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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
40m
25/05/2025

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.
21m
22/05/2025

Introducing: Away Days Podcast

Hi, Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff Fans! We want to share a new show, Away Days: Reporting from the Underbelly.  About the show: Away Days Podcast is an episodic documentary series focused on unreported stories from the fringes of society.  We’re compassionately documenting the underground without watering it down or editorially obscuring it. This is independent journalism with no filter. Real, raw, and ugly. Journalist Jake Hanrahan, the host and creator of Away Days has spent the last 10 years embedded in places he’s not meant to be. With unique access and a straightforward style of on-the-ground reporting, the listener will be taken deep into the places they didn’t know existed. Listen here and subscribe to Away Days on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2m
21/05/2025

Part Two: Habeas Corpus and the Peasant Origins of Western Democracy

Margaret continues talking with Kat Abughazaleh about the folk councils that came to define English Common Law. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
49m
19/05/2025

Part One: Habeus Corpus and the Peasant Origins of Western Democracy

Margaret talks with Kat Abughazaleh about the folk councils that came to define English Common Law. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
44m
18/05/2025

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.
27m
14/05/2025

Part Two: How We Beat Polio But Not the Mythmaking Around Jonas Salk

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.
57m
12/05/2025

Part One: How We Beat Polio But Not the Mythmaking Around Jonas Salk

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.
55m
11/05/2025

CZM Book Club: The Barrow Will Send What it May, Chapters Eight and Nine

Margaret reads the final two chapters of her book The Barrow Will Send What it May. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
33m
07/05/2025

Part Two: International Antifascists in Ukraine: the Story of Anarchists at War Against Putin

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.
47m
05/05/2025

Part One: International Antifascists in Ukraine: the Story of Anarchists at War Against Putin

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.
54m
04/05/2025

CZM Book Club: The Barrow May Send What it May, Chapter Seven

Margaret reads chapter seven of her book The Barrow Will Send What it MaySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
23m
30/04/2025

Part Two: A War Against Tankies and Tanks: the Hungarian Revolution of 1956

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.
1h 4m
28/04/2025

Part One: A War Against Tankies and Tanks: the Hungarian Revolution of 1956

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.
1h 4m
27/04/2025

CZM Book Club: The Barrow Will Send What it May, Chapter Six

Margaret reads chapter six of her book, The Barrow Will Send What it May.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
20m
23/04/2025

Part Two: Women of War: Partisan Struggle Against Italian Fascism with Suzanne Cope

Author Suzanne Cope continues teaching Margaret about the history of women partisans in the Italian resistance, from her upcoming book Women of War.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
54m
21/04/2025

Part One: Women of War: Partisan Struggle Against Italian Fascism with Suzanne Cope

Author Suzanne Cope teaches Margaret about the history of women partisans in the Italian resistance, from her upcoming book Women of War.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
47m
20/04/2025

CZM Book Club: The Barrow Will Send What it May, Chapter Five

Margaret reads chapter five of her book The Barrow Will Send What it May.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
19m
16/04/2025

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 MadridSalaria 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 BrigadeALBA-Valb.org archivesTrussel.com, “The Peekskill Riots”National Archives & Harlem Oral History ProjectKuykendall, Ronald A. "African Blood Brotherhood: Independent Marxism During the Harlem Renaissance." Western Journal of Black Studies 26 (Spring 2002): African Blood Brotherhood. The Principles of the African Blood Brotherhood. New York: African Blood Brotherhood, David Motadel, Islam and the European Empires (2014)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
53m
14/04/2025

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 MadridSalaria 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 BrigadeALBA-Valb.org archivesTrussel.com, “The Peekskill Riots”National Archives & Harlem Oral History ProjectKuykendall, Ronald A. "African Blood Brotherhood: Independent Marxism During the Harlem Renaissance." Western Journal of Black Studies 26 (Spring 2002): African Blood Brotherhood. The Principles of the African Blood Brotherhood. New York: African Blood Brotherhood, David Motadel, Islam and the European Empires (2014)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
1h 1m
13/04/2025

CZM Book Club: The Barrow Will Send What it May, Chapter Four

Margaret reads another chapter from the second book in her Danielle Cain series.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
25m
09/04/2025

Part Two: A Madhouse Against the Nazis: the Story of François Tosquelles and Saint-Albans

Margaret continues talking with Allison Raskin about the antifascist asylum in France that armed partisans and reinvented psychiatry.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
1h 11m
07/04/2025

Part One: A Madhouse Against the Nazis: the Story of François Tosquelles and Saint-Albans

Margaret talks with Allison Raskin about the antifascist asylum in France that armed partisans and reinvented psychiatry.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
1h 10m
06/04/2025

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.
54m
02/04/2025

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 Komaromihttps://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://libcom.org/article/1962-novocherkassk-tragedy https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-349-09284-0_1See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
1h 2m
31/03/2025

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 Komaromihttps://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://libcom.org/article/1962-novocherkassk-tragedy https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-349-09284-0_1See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
46m
30/03/2025

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.
1h 1m
26/03/2025

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.
58m
24/03/2025

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.
1h 18m
23/03/2025

CZM Book Club: The Barrow Will Send What it May, Chapter Three

Margaret reads Robert Evans the second book in her Danielle Cain series.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
29m
19/03/2025

Part Two: The Fight Against the Mountain Valley Pipeline

Margaret continues an epic tale of treesits, blockades, and resistance to fossil fuel infrastructure and environmental destruction.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
37m
17/03/2025

Part One: The Fight Against the Mountain Valley Pipeline

Margaret tells you an epic tale of treesits, blockades, and resistance to fossil fuel infrastructure and environmental destruction.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
33m
16/03/2025

CZM Book Club: The Barrow Will Send What it May, Chapter Two

Margaret reads Robert Evans the second book in her Danielle Cain seriesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
35m
12/03/2025

Part Two: The Raid on Harpers Ferry Succeeded, Actually

Margaret continues talking with Bridget Todd about the five Black men who joined John Brown to spark the civil war.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
53m
10/03/2025

Part One: The Raid on Harpers Ferry Succeeded, Actually

Margaret talks with Bridget Todd about the five Black men who joined John Brown to spark the civil war.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
59m
09/03/2025

CZM Book Club: The Barrow Will Send What it May: Chapter One

Margaret reads Robert the second novella of the Danielle Cain series, Preorder the third book in the series, including all three audiobooks, on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tangled-wilderness/the-immortal-choir-holds-every-voice  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
28m
05/03/2025

Part Two: Lesbian Mutual AID During the AIDS Crisis

Margaret continues talking with Andrew Ti about the mutual aid and solidarity offered by lesbians in the 1980s. https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/ward-5b-documentary/ https://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/14/us/ward-5b-a-model-of-care-for-aids.html https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/06/26/736060834/1st-aids-ward-5b-fought-to-give-patients-compassionate-care-dignified-deaths https://www.reddit.com/r/Actuallylesbian/comments/16uyn8i/are_there_more_nuanced_accounts_of_lesbians/ https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/gay-bisexual-men-can-donate-blood-new-fda-rules-rcna83937 https://gcn.ie/lesbian-blood-sisters-crucial-1980s-aids/ https://womensmuseum.wordpress.com/2019/04/10/the-blood-sisters-of-san-diego/#:~:text=Wendy%20Sue%20Biegeleisen%2C%20Nicolette%20Ibarra,in%20at%20least%20130%20donations. https://www.thebody.com/article/candy-marcum-therapist-since-aids-early-days https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Wellness/nurse-cared-aids-patients-1980s-epidemic-explains-fight/story?id=63970606 https://onlineexhibits.library.yale.edu/s/we-are-everywhere/page/why-are-women-invisible-in-the-aids-pandemic https://onlineexhibits.library.yale.edu/s/we-are-everywhere/page/lesbian-aids-activism https://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/07/us/aids-definition-excludes-women-congress-is-told.html https://www.acon.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Ann-Maree-Sweeney-today.pdf https://inews.co.uk/opinion/comment/the-lesbian-blood-sisters-who-helped-save-gay-mens-lives-235100?srsltid=AfmBOorQfWpzL-6iOSpigFOpkO8TeyPRA03Z7I1qPQELuO1cW9hVbTPy http://www.thedallasway.org/stories/written/2017/11/24/howie-daire https://www.texasobituaryproject.org/081983daire.html https://time.com/archive/6703557/guerrilla-drug-trials-the-underground-test-of-compound-q/ https://www.quietheroes.net/about https://www.cscsisters.org/holy-cross-quiet-heroes/ https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/blog/aids-epidemic-lasting-impact-gay-men/ https://www.workingnurse.com/articles/the-nurses-of-ward-5b/ https://www.npr.org/2019/12/01/783932572/how-the-catholic-church-aided-both-the-sick-and-the-sickness-as-hiv-spreadSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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