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>

CZM Book Club: Cool Zone 2055: After the Battle

Margaret from the future tells you about Mx. Bunny Face Murder's childhood.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

02-16
35:48

Part Four: The Haitain Revolution: The Most Successful Revolt in the Americas

Margaret finishes talking with Prop about how the people of Haiti destroyed a slave empire.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

02-12
01:01:39

Part Three: The Haitain Revolution: The Most Successful Revolt in the Americas

Margaret talks further with Prop about how the people of Haiti destroyed a slave empire.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

02-10
58:46

CZM Book Club: Cool Zone 2055: Massacred by Demon Ents

Margaret from the future relays a fateful battle in the forests of Catalonia.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

02-09
33:01

Part Two: The Haitain Revolution: The Most Successful Revolt in the Americas

Margaret continues talking with Prop about how the people of Haiti destroyed a slave empire.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

02-05
01:11:00

Part One: The Haitain Revolution: The Most Successful Revolt in the Americas

Margaret talks with Prop about how the people of Haiti destroyed a slave empire.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

02-03
01:20:33

CZM Book Club: Cool Zone 2055: The Dreadnaught Funeral

Margaret from the future continues her reporting from the front in Catalonia.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

02-02
34:37

Part Two: Push the Button: The Brief Life and Quick Death of Giuseppe Zangara

Margaret continues talking with Miriam about an Italian man with chronic pain who decided to kill someone important.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

01-29
01:15:29

Part One: Push the Button: The Brief Life and Quick Death of Giuseppe Zangara

Margaret talks with Miriam about an Italian man with chronic pain who decided to kill someone important.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

01-27
01:11:48

CZM Book Club: Cool Zone 2055: The Battle of Ogre Hill

Margaret from the future describes the terrifying battle of ogre hill.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

01-26
37:16

Part Two: Bethel House: How Schizophrenic Folks in Japan Created a New Model of Psychiatric Care

Margaret continues talking with Samantha McVey about the decades-long project in Northern Japan full of worker-cooperatives and new ways of living. https://www.dinf.ne.jp/doc/english/resource/bethel/bethel_0805.htmlKaren Nakamura, A Disability of the Soulhttps://aeon.co/essays/japans-radical-alternative-to-psychiatric-diagnosisSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

01-22
01:03:46

Part One: Bethel House: How Schizophrenic Folks in Japan Created a New Model of Psychiatric Care

Margaret talks with Samantha McVey about the decades-long project in Northern Japan full of worker-cooperatives and new ways of living. https://www.dinf.ne.jp/doc/english/resource/bethel/bethel_0805.htmlKaren Nakamura, A Disability of the Soulhttps://aeon.co/essays/japans-radical-alternative-to-psychiatric-diagnosisSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

01-20
01:15:51

CZM Book Club: Cool Zone 2055: In Bed With the Dreadnaughts

Margaret from the future reads a report from behind the Iron Curtain in fascist-occupied Spain.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

01-19
33:58

Part Two: The Great Dismal Swamp and 200 Years of Revolt in the US South

Margaret continues talking to Sophie about the largest and longest-lasting maroon community in what became the United States. https://daily.jstor.org/constructing-the-white-race/https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-04-02-0080https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/events-african-american-history/san-miguel-de-gualdape-slave-rebellion-1526/https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/05/peter-h-wood-strange-new-land-excerpt.htmlJ Brent Morris, Dismal FreedomModibo Kadalie, Intimate Direct DemocracySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

01-15
01:02:48

Part One: The Great Dismal Swamp and 200 Years of Revolt in the US South

Margaret talks to Sophie about the largest and longest-lasting maroon community in what became the United States. https://daily.jstor.org/constructing-the-white-race/https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-04-02-0080https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/events-african-american-history/san-miguel-de-gualdape-slave-rebellion-1526/https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/05/peter-h-wood-strange-new-land-excerpt.htmlJ Brent Morris, Dismal FreedomModibo Kadalie, Intimate Direct DemocracySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

01-13
56:59

CZM Book Club: Cool Zone 2055: A Bestiary of Beasts

Margaret from the future talks about all of the terrible creatures that fascists have invented to attack internationalist forces.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

01-12
39:42

Part Two: Q&A Episode: Margaret and Sophie Answer Your Questions

It's time for the second part of our yearly Q&A, in which we answer questions from you, the audience. Whom we often appreciate.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

01-08
41:33

Part One: Q&A Episode: Margaret and Sophie Answer Your Questions

It's time for our yearly Q&A, in which we answer questions from you, the audience. Whom we often appreciate.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

01-06
36:19

CZM Book Club: Cool Zone 2055: How to Survive (the Dino Wars)

Margaret and Mia discuss the headlines here at the start of the year 2055 during world war 3.5.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

01-05
29:19

Part Two: Bella Ciao and the Migrant Laboring Women Who Gave Us an Anthem

In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation with author Gigi Griffis about the most famous partisan song of them all and its strange and mysterious origins.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

01-01
01:03:49

Jackson Hart

This episode is unhinged. I love it.

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maggie g

this story 😭 really good

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Sean Scully

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

06-07 Reply

Sean Scully

I like the show conceptually, but execution is poor, and Margets voice lulls me to sleep...

06-07 Reply

Michael Parkanski

Bolshevik sounds like Bullshitevik to me.

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