Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

<p>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.</p>

Part Two: Pirate Radio: From International Waters to Squatted Apartment Buildings

Margaret continues her talk with Bursts about the surprising history of pirate radio and the three way fight for control of the airwaves. Sources: https://files.libcom.org/files/radio-is-my-bomb-part-1.pdf https://files.libcom.org/files/radio-is-my-bomb-part-2.pdf https://files.libcom.org/files/Radio%20Alice.pdf https://autonomies.org/2023/02/italy-autonomia-5/ https://autonomies.org/2023/02/italy-autonomia-5/ https://www.thejournal.ie/ronan-orahilly-radio-caroline-death-5079760-Apr2020/ https://web.archive.org/web/20100524063428/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article7053070.ece https://web.archive.org/web/20071018203739/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/09/27/bvradio127.xml&page=1 https://web.archive.org/web/20110719070410/http://www.offshoreradio.de/fleet/shivering.htm https://www.bobleroi.co.uk/ScrapBook/SutchCityPics1/SutchCityPics1.htmlSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

09-10
01:03:17

Part One: Pirate Radio: From International Waters to Squatted Apartment Buildings

Margaret talks with Bursts about the surprising history of pirate radio and the three way fight for control of the airwaves.  Sources: https://files.libcom.org/files/radio-is-my-bomb-part-1.pdf https://files.libcom.org/files/radio-is-my-bomb-part-2.pdf https://files.libcom.org/files/Radio%20Alice.pdf https://autonomies.org/2023/02/italy-autonomia-5/ https://autonomies.org/2023/02/italy-autonomia-5/ https://www.thejournal.ie/ronan-orahilly-radio-caroline-death-5079760-Apr2020/ https://web.archive.org/web/20100524063428/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article7053070.ece https://web.archive.org/web/20071018203739/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/09/27/bvradio127.xml&page=1 https://web.archive.org/web/20110719070410/http://www.offshoreradio.de/fleet/shivering.htm https://www.bobleroi.co.uk/ScrapBook/SutchCityPics1/SutchCityPics1.htmlSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

09-08
56:46

CZM Book Club: Hermetica, by Alan Lea, Part Six

Margaret continues with tale of Hermetica, the generation ship.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

09-07
46:14

Part Two: The Surprising Stories Behind Foosball and Air Mail

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.

09-03
51:43

Part One: The Surprising Stories Behind Foosball and Air Mail

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.

09-01
56:15

CZM Book Club: Hermetica, by Alan Lea, Part Five

Margaret brings you further along into the tale of Hermetica, the generation ship.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

08-31
40:25

Part Two: Alter-globalization Continues: How the Movement of Movements Used Carnivals and Riots to Fight Neoliberalism

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.

08-25
45:57

CZM Book Club : Hermetica, by Alan Lea, Part Four

Margaret brings you further along into the tale of Hermetica, the generation ship.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

08-24
47:58

CZM Rewind: Part Two: The Jane Collective: Direct Action Abortion Access Works

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.

08-20
01:08:36

CZM Rewind: Part One: The Jane Collective: Direct Action Abortion Access Works

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.

08-18
01:26:28

CZM Book Club: Hermetica, by Alan Lea, Part Three

Margaret brings you further along into the tale of Hermetica, the generation ship. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

08-17
41:46

Part One: Alter-globalization Continues: How the Movement of Movements Used Carnivals and Riots to Fight Neoliberalism

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.

08-11
39:35

CZM Book Club: Hermetica, by Alan Lea, Part Two

Margaret continues with Hermetica and our protagonist discovers... a clue!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

08-10
36:53

Part Two: Indymedia: How Lefty Techies and Journalists Reinvented the Internet

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.

08-06
01:12:13

Part One: Indymedia: How Lefty Techies and Journalists Reinvented the Internet

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.

08-04
01:04:20

CZM Book Club: Hermetica, by Alan Lea, Part One

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.

08-03
42:44

CZM Rewind: The Japanese Anarchists Part Two

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.

07-30
55:11

CZM Rewind: The Japanese Anarchists Part 1

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.

07-28
01:01:45

CZM Book Club: How to Live Like the World is Ending by Margaret Killoy

Margaret reads you an essay about how to think about living during what feels like apocalyptic times. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

07-27
42:26

Part Two: Street Medics: The People Who Wash Pepperspray Out of Your Eyes

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.

07-23
01:09:23

Camille Perkins

I got an ad for bras - if I throw that at a Nazi they're gonna get the wrong idea

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Jackson Hart

Margaret's PSA sent me. ty for the reminder: don't talk to cops!

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Jackson Hart

This episode is unhinged. I love it.

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maggie g

this story 😭 really good

08-26 Reply

Sean Scully

again, conceptually great... Margaret just isn't a great main character...

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