Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
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.
- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 53 minutes
- Episodes
- 428
- Years Active
- 2022 - 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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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: 7.24.23
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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.
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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.
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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.
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CZM Book Club: The Abbot of Druimenach
Margaret reads you an Irish fairy tale about gender transformation that she really likes.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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 May
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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.
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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.
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