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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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Margaret continues with tale of Hermetica, the generation ship. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Margaret continues her talk with Mangesh Hattikudur about the antifascist who invented table soccer and the socialist photographer who invented air mail. Sources: https://spainonthisday.com/alejandro-finisterre-the-inventor-of-table-football https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/feb/24/guardianobituaries.spain https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Finisterre https://historia-hispanica.rah.es/biografias/50737-alejandro-campos-ramirez https://raicesalaire.com/alejandro-finisterre/ https://www.revistadefrente.cl/el-poeta-anarquista-que-invento-el-taca-taca-para-la-ninez-victima-de-la-guerra-civil-espanola/ https://www.adiantegalicia.es/reportaxes/2019/09/08/alejandro-finisterre-la-historia-jamas-contada-del-genio-del-futbolin-en-el-ano-del-centenario-de-su-natalicio.html https://www.lambiek.net/artists/n/nadar.htm https://time.com/5289117/aerial-photography-drones-history/ https://www.thoughtco.com/the-first-impressionist-exhibition-183013See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Margaret talks with Mangesh Hattikudur about the antifascist who invented table soccer and the socialist photographer who invented air mail. Sources: https://spainonthisday.com/alejandro-finisterre-the-inventor-of-table-football https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/feb/24/guardianobituaries.spain https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Finisterre https://historia-hispanica.rah.es/biografias/50737-alejandro-campos-ramirez https://raicesalaire.com/alejandro-finisterre/ https://www.revistadefrente.cl/el-poeta-anarquista-que-invento-el-taca-taca-para-la-ninez-victima-de-la-guerra-civil-espanola/ https://www.adiantegalicia.es/reportaxes/2019/09/08/alejandro-finisterre-la-historia-jamas-contada-del-genio-del-futbolin-en-el-ano-del-centenario-de-su-natalicio.html https://www.lambiek.net/artists/n/nadar.htmSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
1Margaret brings you further along into the tale of Hermetica, the generation ship.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Margaret continues talking about how people confronted trade summit after trade summit, fighting tooth, nail, and pom-pom against unelected world governance. Sources: https://crimethinc.com/2021/11/30/epilogue-on-the-movement-against-capitalist-globalization-22-years-after-n30-what-it-can-teach-us-today http://www.ainfos.ca/99/jun/ainfos00181.html https://crimethinc.com/2017/06/18/flashback-to-june-18-1999-the-carnival-against-capital-a-retrospective-video-and-comic https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/j18.htmSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Margaret brings you further along into the tale of Hermetica, the generation ship. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In part two of this weeks episode, Margaret continues her conversation with Samantha McVey about the more than a hundred women who provided safe, affordable abortion in pre- Roe v Wade Chicago. Original Air Date: 5.11.2022See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Margaret talks with Samantha McVey about the more than a hundred women who provided safe, affordable abortion in pre- Roe v Wade Chicago. Original Air Date: 5.9.2022See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Margaret brings you further along into the tale of Hermetica, the generation ship. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Margaret talks about how people confronted trade summit after trade summit, fighting tooth, nail, and pom-pom against unelected world governance. Sources: https://crimethinc.com/2021/11/30/epilogue-on-the-movement-against-capitalist-globalization-22-years-after-n30-what-it-can-teach-us-today http://www.ainfos.ca/99/jun/ainfos00181.html https://crimethinc.com/2017/06/18/flashback-to-june-18-1999-the-carnival-against-capital-a-retrospective-video-and-comic https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/j18.htmSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Margaret continues with Hermetica and our protagonist discovers... a clue!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Margaret continues talking to Sarah Marshall about the Independent Media Centers that helped protesters build movements and changed how online communication happens. Sources: https://daily.jstor.org/the-invention-of-journalistic-objectivity/ https://daily.jstor.org/to-fix-fake-news-look-to-yellow-journalism/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200304071058/http://www.infoshop.org/about-us/ https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3485447.3512282#fig3See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Margaret talks to Sarah Marshall about the Independent Media Centers that helped protesters build movements and changed how online communication happens. Sources: https://daily.jstor.org/the-invention-of-journalistic-objectivity/ https://daily.jstor.org/to-fix-fake-news-look-to-yellow-journalism/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200304071058/http://www.infoshop.org/about-us/ https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3485447.3512282#fig3 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0163443720926039 https://www.academia.edu/21814073/Indymedia_Journalism_A_Radical_Way_of_Making_Selecting_and_Sharing_News https://www.academia.edu/45052617/Indymedia_and_Media_Activism_at_the_Turn_of_the_Millennium https://crimethinc.com/2017/08/25/german-government-shuts-down-indymedia-what-it-means-and-what-to-do https://crimethinc.com/2022/10/28/the-billionaire-and-the-anarchists-tracing-twitter-from-its-roots-as-a-protest-tool-to-elon-musks-acquisition https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeldelcastillo/2022/09/11/jack-dorseys-former-boss-is-building-a-decentralized-twitter/ https://libcom.org/article/sources-and-police-raid-bristol-indymedia https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/local-news-indymedia-network-25-anniversary.phpSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Margaret reads you a modern speculative fiction novella written in the classic style that she thinks you'll like.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We're once again joined by Margaret Killjoy, host of the new podcast Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff, to talk about the history of anarchism in Japan. Original Air Date: 4.29.22 on It Could Happen HereSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We're joined by Margaret Killjoy, host of the new podcast Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff, to talk about the history of anarchism in Japan. Original Air Date: 4.28.22 on It Could Happen HereSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Margaret reads you an essay about how to think about living during what feels like apocalyptic times. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Margaret talks to Kaveh Hoda about the decentralized medical infrastructure that keeps protesters safe. Sources: non-public training documents provided by a street medic friendhttps://www.bu.edu/bostonia/fall10/street-medic/street-medic.pdfhttp://web.archive.org/web/20250220125506/https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5024403/http://web.archive.org/web/20241028174039/https://massleague.org/CHC/History.phphttps://web.archive.org/web/20250212163349/https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/medical-committee-human-rights/2014-09 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/28/health/h-jack-geiger-dead.html https://medium.com/@Hesperian/care-for-where-there-is-no-justice-the-modern-history-of-street-medics-and-how-they-support-social-a02e940523d4https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/416-spring-2025/the-praxis-of-street-medics/ https://mutualaiddisasterrelief.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/kupdf.net_street-medic-handbook.pdfhttps://tabpres.org/the-flying-black-medics/https://web.archive.org/web/20071220215141/http://bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/other_stories/multipage/documents/02704493.htmSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Margaret talks to Kaveh Hoda about the decentralized medical infrastructure that keeps protesters safe. Sources: https://www.bu.edu/bostonia/fall10/street-medic/street-medic.pdf http://web.archive.org/web/20250220125506/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5024403/ http://web.archive.org/web/20241028174039/ https://massleague.org/CHC/History.php https://web.archive.org/web/20250212163349/ https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/medical-committee-human-rights/2014-09 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/28/health/h-jack-geiger-dead.html https://medium.com/@Hesperian/care-for-where-there-is-no-justice-the-modern-history-of-street-medics-and-how-they-support-social-a02e940523d4 https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/416-spring-2025/the-praxis-of-street-medics/ https://mutualaiddisasterrelief.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/kupdf.net_street-medic-handbook.pdf https://tabpres.org/the-flying-black-medics/ https://web.archive.org/web/20071220215141/ http://bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/other_stories/multipage/documents/02704493.htm https://archive.org/stream/street-medic-guide-paper-revolution-collective-See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Margaret got talked into doing something fun for book club this week. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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I got an ad for bras - if I throw that at a Nazi they're gonna get the wrong idea
Margaret's PSA sent me. ty for the reminder: don't talk to cops!
This episode is unhinged. I love it.
this story 😭 really good
again, conceptually great... Margaret just isn't a great main character...
I like the show conceptually, but execution is poor, and Margets voice lulls me to sleep...
Bolshevik sounds like Bullshitevik to me.
something the man needs shooting <3
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the most sad song ever was a really smart bit!