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25 Aug 2024CZM Book Club: "Intentionalities" by Aimee Ogden00:32:20

Margaret reads you a science fiction story about space unions and family ties.

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26 May 2024CZM Book Club: "The Stolen Bacillus" by HG Wells00:24:06

Margaret reads a classic anti-anarchist story by HG Wells written before Wells learned what was up.

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11 Feb 2024CZM Book Club: "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Part One00:26:35

Margaret reads you a classic feminist horror story about the madness caused by patriarchy.

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12 Feb 2024Part Three: The Easter Rising: How a Bunch of Irish Poets and Union Organizers Took On the British Empire, Died, and Then Won00:48:27

Margaret, for the third time out of four, talks with Katy Stoll about the motley collection of rebels who sparked Irish independence.

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13 Nov 2024Cool Rerun Part Two: The Jane Collective: Direct Action Abortion Access Works01:00:14

It's another Cool People Cool Rerun!

Margaret finishes talking with Samantha McVey about the more than a hundred women who provided safe, affordable abortion in pre- Roe v Wade Chicago.

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06 Apr 2025CZM Book Club: Escape, part two00:54:54

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.

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04 Jul 2022Part One: Blair Mountain: When Miners Went to Literal War Against Their Bosses00:59:53

Margaret talks with the crew of the Old Gods of Appalachia podcast about the coal wars of West Virginia and the blood that bought miners their rights.

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28 Jun 2023Part Two: STAR & the Gay Liberation Front: An Army of Lovers Cannot Lose00:44:55

In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation with Danl Goodman about the gay liberation movement of the early 1970s that blew open the gates for LGBT rights.

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19 Feb 2025Part Two: Crass: How Some Hippies Reinvented Punk and Changed the World00:54:00

Margaret continues to talk with Jolie Holland about a multigenerational punk band from the 70s that introduced punk ethics to punk rock.

 

https://expmag.com/2019/01/when-your-real-life-friend-is-your-facebook-troll/

Rebel Clothes, Rebel Songs, Rebel Pose: Anarchists on Punk Rock 1977-2010, anonymous

https://www.ubu.com/papers/cage_montague_interview.html

John Cage, Anarchy

The Story of Crass, George Berger

https://crosseyedpianist.com/2017/07/15/silence-presence-and-challenging-conventions-thoughts-on-john-cages-433/

https://www.soundoflife.com/blogs/mixtape/history-punk-music

https://fastnbulbous.com/punk/

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/punk-politics-music-rebellion/

https://beltmag.com/mc5-detroits-godfathers-of-punk/

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/our_wedding_crasss_magnificent_romance_mag_prank


https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/301-february-26-1980/british-anarchists-found-not-guilty/

https://thehippiesnowwearblack.org.uk/2016/03/12/vi-subversa-and-poison-girls-an-appreciation/

https://www.ukrockfestivals.com/henge-history-80.html

https://jprobinson.medium.com/the-rotten-etymology-of-punk-86db2fcc16f8

https://www.cbc.ca/strombo/news/crass-thatchergate-prank

https://libcom.org/article/stop-city-demonstrations-1983-1984

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16 Dec 2024Part One: Fountain House Is A Cool Place For People Dealing With Mental Health00:56:48

Margaret talks to Allison Raskin about the Clubhouse Model that has been helping people find agency and purpose and community since the 1940s.

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18 Dec 2023Part One: The Battle of Negro Fort: Florida's Maroon Community01:02:14

Margaret talks with Jamie Loftus about the Black and Indigenous soldiers who lived free in a fort in Spanish Florida until Andrew Jackson broke a lot of laws to fight them.

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29 Jul 2024Part One: The Reichstag Fire Was Not An Inside Job00:53:28

Margaret tells Karl Kasarda the story of Marinus van der Lubbe, the council communist who tried to spark a civil war against the Nazis and failed spectacularly.

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18 Aug 2024CZM Book Club: Three Stories From Japanese Folklore00:27:16

Margaret reads you stories about demons and moon maidens.

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12 May 2024CZM Book Club: Three Ruthenian Folk Tales00:30:25

Margaret reads three Slavic folk tales about magic women and mean children.

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30 Aug 2023Part Two: A Tale of Two Snipers: Simo Häyhä, Lyudmila Pavlichenko & the Eastern Front01:07:20

In part two of this special 4-part episode, Margaret continues her conversation with firearms historian Karl Kasarda about two WWII snipers on the Eastern Front defending their homeland, a Finnish man and a Ukrainian woman who couldn't have been more different.

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05 Mar 2025Part Two: Lesbian Mutual AID During the AIDS Crisis00:53:44

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-spread

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18 Nov 2024Part One: A People's History of Potatoes00:57:45

In this reverse episode, author Wren Awry teaches Margaret the complex and wonderful history of one of the best vegetables in the world.

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17 Dec 2023CZM Book Club: The Flair by Nick Mamatas00:36:48

Margaret reads Mia a sci-fi story about what people will do for free power and war. And about hacker clowns.

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22 Mar 2023Part Four: Stonewall: The Criminal Queers Who Birthed a Movement00:51:42

In the finale of this special four-part episode, Margaret continues her conversation with Shereen Younes about the early fight for LGBT rights and how it was a literal fight, fought on every front.

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07 Feb 2024Part Two: The Easter Rising: How a Bunch of Irish Poets and Union Organizers Took On the British Empire, Died, and Then Won00:51:15

In part two, Margaret continues to talk with Katy Stoll about the motley collection of rebels who sparked Irish independence.

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19 Sep 2022Part One: The IWW and the Hobos Who Saved Free Speech01:14:11

Margaret talks with Robert Evans about the Spokane Free Speech Fight and the itinerant workers who invented new forms of civil disobedience.

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30 Mar 2025CZM Book Club: Escape, part one01:01:04

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.

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01 Apr 2024Part One: Ada Lovelace and Lord Byron: The First Computer Programmer, Child of the First Vampire00:58:47

Margaret talks with Bridget Todd about the woman who invented software and her rather strange family.

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04 Aug 2024CZM Book Club: "Spring Woods Spring" by B. Pladek00:34:57

Margaret reads you a story about where personal grief meets climate grief.

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10 Jun 2024Part One: Mutual Aid and Burial Societies: The Origins of Black Cooperativism in the US01:15:05

Margaret talks with Joelle Monique about the deep roots of economic cooperation in Black America.

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15 Dec 2024CZM Book Club: Cool Zone 2054: Live From DinoCon 4 in Helsinki00:30:33

Margaret and Jamie report back from DinoCon in the year 2054.

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12 Apr 2023Part Two: The Young Lords: How Some Puerto Rican Socialists Changed Everything00:55:34

In part two of this four part episode, Margaret continues her conversation with Alynda Segarra from Hurray for the Riff Raff about how radicals got the trash taken out in New York, literally.

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03 Apr 2023Part One: Burglars vs the FBI: How the Catholic Left & Their Friends Exposed COINTELPRO01:06:04

Margaret talks with journalist, activist and comedian Francesca Fiorentini about one of the greatest acts of nonviolent civil disobedience in US history.

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28 Feb 2024Part Two: The Earth Liberation Front: The Burning Rage of a Dying Planet01:13:28

In part two, Margaret finishes talking with Sarah Marshall about the eco-radicals and arsonists of the late 90s.

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06 Mar 2023Part One: Judi Bari Didn't Bomb Herself: Earth First! & the Timber Wars00:54:00

Margaret talks with Gare about the labor organizer who tried to bring loggers and environmentalists together to save the redwoods and had to survive a car bomb to do it.

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26 Sep 2022Part One: Aqua Tofana: How to Kill Your Husband01:00:09

Margaret talks with Shereen about how, in the era before divorce, a group of women sold poison to aspiring widows.

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28 Oct 2024Part One: Halloween Special: Spooky Stories00:38:34

Margaret reads Prop two horror stories she wrote.

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14 Oct 2024Part One: Pirates, Libertalia, and the Betsimisaraka Confederation00:54:10

Margaret tells Molly Crabapple a story about the legends and reality of pirate utopia in Madagascar

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27 Mar 2024Part Two: The Expropriators: Fifteen Years of Political Bank Robbers in Argentina and Uruguay00:56:40

Margaret concludes with Snow about the folks who tried to fund a revolution the old-fashioned way.

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05 Nov 2023CZM Book Club: Babang Luksa00:39:05

In this episode of the Cool Zone Media Book Club, Margaret Killjoy reads “Babang Luksa,” a short story by author Nicasio Andres Reed, to Mia.

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14 Apr 2025Part One: Black Antifascists In the Spanish Civil War01:01:45

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 Madrid
Salaria 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 Brigade
ALBA-Valb.org archives
Trussel.com, “The Peekskill Riots”
National Archives & Harlem Oral History Project
Kuykendall, 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)

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05 Dec 2022Part One: The Armed Nonviolent Civil Rights Movement00:58:05

Margaret talks with Joelle Monique about how the Deacons for Defense and Justice, the NAACP, and others organized for self-defense during the Civil Rights Era.

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30 May 2022Part One: Gay Resistance to Nazis01:17:46

Margaret talks with Shereen Lani Younes about everything from queer youth gangs fighting the Hitler Youth in the street to artists who turned their talents to forgery and sabotage. 

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05 Aug 2024Part One: Joan of Arc Was Even Cooler Than I Thought01:02:49

Margaret talks with Molly Conger about two women who changed the course of history.

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04 Sep 2023Part Three: A Tale of Two Snipers: Simo Häyhä, Lyudmila Pavlichenko & the Eastern Front01:07:50

In part three of this special 4-part episode, Margaret continues her conversation with firearms historian Karl Kasarda about two WWII snipers on the Eastern Front defending their homeland, a Finnish man and a Ukrainian woman who couldn't have been more different.

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29 Sep 2024CZM Book Club: "Svend and His Brethren" by William Morris, Part One00:32:05

Margaret reads you even more William Morris, but this story has swords in it

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10 Jul 2023Part One: Gama: An Anti-colonial Icon Who Happened to Be History's Greatest Wrestler01:10:15

In this reverse episode, author Shiv Ramdas tells Margaret about Gama, the Indian wrestler who never lost.

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12 Jun 2024Part Two: Mutual Aid and Burial Societies: The Origins of Black Cooperativism in the US01:08:57

In part two, Margaret talks with Joelle Monique about the deep roots of economic cooperation in Black America.

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09 Nov 2022Part Two: Baba Yaga: Everyone's Favorite Witch From Folklore01:05:04

In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation with Jamie Loftus about Baba Yaga, the Slavic legend who eats children and occasionally helps people.

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11 May 2022Part Two: The Jane Collective: Direct Action Abortion Access Works00:59:11

In part two of this week's 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.

https://reprolegaldefensefund.org/
The Repro Legal Defense Fund covers bail and funds strong defenses for people who are investigated, arrested, or prosecuted for self-managed abortion.

https://www.ifwhenhow.org/
If/When/How are lawyers fighting for reproductive justice

https://www.aafront.org/

http://operationsaveabortion.com/

https://digitaldefensefund.org/ddf-guides/abortion-privacy

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16 Apr 2025Part Two: Black Antifascists In the Spanish Civil War00:53:02

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 Madrid
Salaria 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 Brigade
ALBA-Valb.org archives
Trussel.com, “The Peekskill Riots”
National Archives & Harlem Oral History Project
Kuykendall, 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)

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26 Jun 2024Part Two: George Orwell and the War for Common Decency01:07:34

Margaret finishes talking with Kaveh Hoda about her problematic fave.

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06 May 2024Part One: The Great Revolt: Palestinian Resistance to Early Zionism01:13:52

Margaret talks with Matt Lieb about multi-faith Palestinian resistance to early Zionist colonization.

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22 Apr 2022Introducing: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff00:01:51

Lots of cool people in history have done really cool stuff. Let Margaret Killjoy tell you about them. In this trailer, learn about the cool anarchist bank robbers who performed a cool jailbreak in Uruguay in 1931.

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21 Dec 2022Part Two: Keep the Yuletide Gay: Saturnalia & the Puritan War on Christmas00:45:39

In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation with Garrison Davis about how the Church tried, and largely failed, to stop the wild revelry of the winter solstice.

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11 Nov 2024Cool Rerun Part One: The Jane Collective: Direct Action Abortion Access Works01:16:50

It's a Cool People Cool Rerun!

Margaret talks with Samantha McVey about the more than a hundred women who provided safe, affordable abortion in pre- Roe v Wade Chicago.

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31 Jul 2023Part One: Hunger Strikes: From Ireland to Palestine00:58:55

Margaret talks with Shereen about the long history of hunger strikes by prisoners and refugees.

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19 Jul 2023Part Two: The Molly Maguires: Untamable Irish Rebels Who Had a Really Direct Way of Dealing with Bosses & Landlords01:18:22

In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation with Jamie Loftus about the wild history of Irish secret societies, the fight against the enclosure of the commons, and class war in the coal fields of the US.

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05 Feb 2025Part Two: The Haitian Revolution: The Most Successful Revolt in the Americas01:01:42
07 Nov 2022Part One: Baba Yaga: Everyone's Favorite Witch From Folklore01:09:12

Margaret talks with comedian and podcaster Jamie Loftus about Baba Yaga, the Slavic legend who eats children and occasionally helps people.

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08 Jan 2025Part Two: Q&A Episode: Margaret and Sophie Answer Your Questions00:33:04

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.

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21 Apr 2025Part One: Women of War: Partisan Struggle Against Italian Fascism with Suzanne Cope00:47:45

Author Suzanne Cope teaches Margaret about the history of women partisans in the Italian resistance, from her upcoming book Women of War.

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07 Sep 2022Part Two: Chumbawamba: How to Sell Out, But in a Good Way00:47:35

In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation with Max Collins of Eve 6 about the squatting, organizing, and robin hood antics of Chumbawamba, the one hit wonders with a thirty year career.

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11 Jul 2022Part One: How To Break Out of Prison: In Minecraft and Elsewhere00:51:57

To celebrate Bastille Day, Margaret talks to podcast host Mia Wong about jailbreaks, by helicopter, tank, and tunnel.

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03 Jun 2024Part One: Fábricas Ocupadas: When Workers In Argentina Took Over Their Factories01:06:10

Margaret talks with Prop about how people all over Argentina resisted neoliberalism and took over their factories to run them without bosses.

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24 Aug 2022Part Two: The Diggers, the Levelers, the Ranters, and John Darnielle01:12:03

In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation with Mountain Goats singer John Darnielle about the wild-eyed radicals of the English Civil War.

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01 Jun 2022Part Two: Gay Resistance to Nazis00:57:25

In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation with Shereen Lani Younes about everything from queer youth gangs fighting the Hitler Youth in the street to artists who turned their talents to forgery and sabotage. 

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06 Nov 2023Part One: Countercuisine: The Counterculture of the Diggers & Food Co-ops00:58:26

In this reverse episode, author Wren Awry teaches Margaret about the 60s & 70s radicals who changed the way we relate to food in the US.

Sources:

Appetite for Change by Warren Belasco

The Theater is in the Street by Bradford D. Martin

“Digger Meets Panther” from Shaping San Francisco 

www.diggers.org

www.diggersdocs.org

"Remaking the Commons’: A History of Eating in Public" by Gaye Chan & Nandita Sharmain and “Notes on Utopian Failure in Commune Kitchens” by Madeline Lane-McKinley, both from the anthology Nourishing Resistance.

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11 Oct 2023Part Two: Hobohemia & the Dil Pickle Club: Chicago is Weird & Cool00:54:37

Margaret continues her conversation with Chelsey Weber-Smith about Chicago's queer-friendly, antiracist working class cultural cornerstone of the 1920s, the Dil Pickle Club.

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27 Jul 2022Part Two: The Japanese Anarchist Women Who Kept Trying to Kill Emperors01:01:18

In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation with comedian and podcast host Brodie Reed about Kaneko Fumiko and Kanno Suga, two Japanese anarchist women who did their best to end the lives of emperors and almost changed history.

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06 Jun 2022Part One: Russian Nihilists: The Gender-bending Subculture that Blew Up the Tsar01:20:46

Margaret talks with Io about the science hippies of the 1860s who wore sunglasses at night and invented modern terrorism.

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21 Sep 2022Part Two: The IWW and the Hobos Who Saved Free Speech00:53:18

In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation with Robert Evans about the Spokane Free Speech Fight and the itinerant workers who invented new forms of civil disobedience.

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30 Nov 2022Part Two: Everyone Hates the Klan01:05:38

In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation with Shereen about the long history of the Ku Klux Klan and the equally long history of people fighting it tooth and nail.

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07 Dec 2022Part Two: The Armed Nonviolent Civil Rights Movement01:00:00

In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation with Joelle Monique about how the Deacons for Defense and Justice, the NAACP, and others organized for self-defense during the Civil Rights Era.

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29 Oct 2023CZM Book Club: The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion: Part Four00:41:08

In this episode of the Cool Zone Media Book Club, Margaret Killjoy reads the final two chapters of her folk horror novella the Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion to Robert. 

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-lamb-will-slaughter-the-lion-margaret-killjoy/7104105

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02 Aug 2023Part Two: Hunger Strikes: From Ireland to Palestine01:19:25

In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation with Shereen about the long history of hunger strikes by prisoners and refugees.

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03 Mar 2024CZM Book Club: An excerpt from "An RVer's Guide to the American West" by Carrot Quinn00:44:02

Margaret reads Robert a post-apocalyptic story of a woman and her dog surviving in the mountains.

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08 Dec 2024CZM Book Club: Cool Zone 2054: Reports From the Dino War: The War in Review00:23:22

Margaret comes back from the future with a podcast episode from the year 2054.

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22 Jan 2025Part Two: Bethel House: How Schizophrenic Folks in Japan Created a New Model of Psychiatric Care00:54:50

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.html
Karen Nakamura, A Disability of the Soul
https://aeon.co/essays/japans-radical-alternative-to-psychiatric-diagnosis

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24 Jul 2023Part One: Before the Mexican Revolution: Ricardo Flores Magón & the Peasants Who Ended a Dictatorship01:14:12

Margaret talks with Kat Abu about the Mexican liberals who became anarchists and sparked a revolution.

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19 Aug 2024Part One: The Orange Alternative: The Polish Hippie Surrealists Who Tore Down a Communist Government00:50:47

Margaret talks with Courtney Kocak about how a bunch of self-styled anarchist gnomes helped collapse a government.

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12 Jun 2023Part One: The Battle of Cable Street: How Jews & Irish Catholics Destroyed Fascism in Britain00:50:15

Margaret talks with James Stout about how Britain's Union of Fascists was destroyed in a storm of fists and rotten vegetables in 1936.

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http://apple.co/coolerzone

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04 Dec 2023Part Three: Lakota Resistance to the American Empire00:56:22

In part three of this four-part episode, Margaret continues her conversation with Miriam about two centuries of resistance to American imperialism, from Crazy Horse to Leonard Peltier.

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19 Jun 2023Part One: The Newsies on Strike: Soaking Scabs & Taking Names01:07:40

Margaret talks with writer and podcast host Andrew Ti about how an informal union of children shut down the nation’s biggest newspapers and won their rights.

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22 Nov 2023CZM Rewind: Part Two - Food Not Bombs, The Criminal Mutual Aid Conspiracy01:09:21

Original Air Date: August 17th, 2022

In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation with Andrew Ti about the long fight for our right to feed one another in public places.

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25 Sep 2024Part Four: The Korean People's Association of Manchuria: When Two Million People Lived In a Horizontal Society00:46:15

Margaret concludes talking with Mia Wong about the deep history of Korean anarchism and how it led to one of the great experiments with antiauthoritarian social structure of the 20th century.

Part 4/4

Sources:

Shin Chae-ho, "Declaration of the Korean Revolution;"

Ha Ki-rak, "A History of the Korean Anarchist Movement;"

Dongyoun Hwang, Anarchism in Korea;

Peter Gelderloos, Anarchy Works;

dogej63, "Summary of the Sinmin Prefecture."

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05 Jun 2023Part One: Resistance to Franco: The Anarchist Air Force, the Antifascist Space Program & More00:57:04

Margaret talks with Gare about how the people of Spain fought back against Franco, crippling his economy, killing his soldiers, and almost blowing him up directly.

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19 Jan 2025CZM Book Club: Cool Zone 2055: In Bed With the Dreadnaughts00:27:08

Margaret from the future reads a report from behind the Iron Curtain in fascist-occupied Spain.

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17 Apr 2024Part Four: Kronstadt and the People Who Tried to Save the Russian Revolution01:04:46

In part four, Margaret continues to talk with Mia Wong about at least four Russian revolutions and general strikes, workers councils, and rebellions that tried to keep them on course.

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18 Oct 2023Part Two: Rebellion in Patagonia: When the Rural Argentinian Labor Movement Took Over Half the Country00:59:44

In part two of this four-part episode, Margaret continues her conversation with Mia about the 1920s Argentinian labor revolt that inspired Margaret to start this podcast in the first place.

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02 Oct 2023Part Three: The Surrealists Were Even Cooler Than You Thought01:00:30

In part three of this four-part episode, Margaret continues her conversation with Caitlin Durante about the queer, antifascist artists who set out to revolutionize a lot more than just the art world.

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03 Jan 2024Here's To You, Dear Listeners: 2024 Q&A00:38:30

On this special episode of Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff, Margaret and Sophie answer questions from you, the listeners!

CBP is detaining thousands of migrants, including children and the elderly, in the desert without food, water or shelter when overnight temperatures drop below freezing. Support the mutual aid groups helping them 

tinyurl.com/borderaidgfm or https://www.gofundme.com/jacumba-migrant-camps

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31 May 2023Part Two: Francisco Sabaté: Franco’s Public Enemy #100:54:57

In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation with James Stout about the anarchist spec ops guy who became a guerilla Robin Hood and spent decades terrifying fascists.

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28 Aug 2023Part One: A Tale of Two Snipers: Simo Häyhä, Lyudmila Pavlichenko & the Eastern Front00:57:33

Margaret talks with firearms historian Karl Kasarda about two WWII snipers on the Eastern Front defending their homeland, a Finnish man and a Ukrainian woman who couldn't have been more different.

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16 Feb 2025CZM Book Club: Cool Zone 2055: After the Battle00:26:01

Margaret from the future tells you about Mx. Bunny Face Murder's childhood.

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05 Feb 2024Part One: The Easter Rising: How a Bunch of Irish Poets and Union Organizers Took On the British Empire, Died, and Then Won00:57:43

Margaret talks with Katy Stoll about the motley collection of rebels who sparked Irish independence.

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13 Jan 2025Part One: The Great Dismal Swamp and 200 Years of Revolt in the US South00:48:49

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/01-04-02-0080
https://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.html
J Brent Morris, Dismal Freedom
Modibo Kadalie, Intimate Direct Democracy

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04 Oct 2023Part Four: The Surrealists Were Even Cooler Than You Thought01:02:21

In the finale of this four-part episode, Margaret concludes her conversation with Caitlin Durante about the queer, antifascist artists who set out to revolutionize a lot more than just the art world.

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14 Sep 2022Part Two: Dutch Squatters Accidentally Save The Country From Ruin01:03:33

In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation with Alex Beels, host of Onderstroom, about how a group of people who just wanted somewhere to sleep stopped real estate speculation from gutting the Netherlands.

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04 Nov 2024Part One: Witches: Witches Were Pretty Cool Even Though They Didn't Really Exist00:22:38

Margaret tells you about the history of European witchcraft and the witch trials and how it all came down to a contest between Catholics and Protestants to see who could murder the most people.

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02 Dec 2024CZM Rewind: Part One: The Armed Nonviolent Civil Rights Movement00:58:54

We JUST got back from Holiday and haven't recorded yet, so in THIS CZM Rewind Margaret talks with Joelle Monique about how the Deacons for Defense and Justice, the NAACP, and others organized for self-defense during the Civil Rights Era.

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12 Feb 2025Part Four: The Haitian Revolution: The Most Successful Revolt in the Americas00:54:38
26 Jun 2023Part One: STAR & the Gay Liberation Front: An Army of Lovers Cannot Lose00:52:35

Margaret talks with Danl Goodman about the gay liberation movement of the early 1970s that blew open the gates for LGBT rights.

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16 Nov 2022Part Two: Anti-Racist Action: Because Nazi Punks Need To Be Dealt With00:56:18

In part two of this week's episode, author Shannon Clay continues his conversation with Margaret about the history of Anti-Racist Action, the coalition that formed to counter racist and fascist organizing in subcultures in the midwest.

We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action: https://bookshop.org/p/books/we-go-where-they-go-the-story-of-anti-racist-action-kristin-schwartz/17909472?ean=9781629639727

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16 Jan 2023Part One: Up Against the Wall: New York City's Armed Love Movement00:54:58

Margaret talks with Mia Wong about Black Mask and Up Against the Wall, the artists who took on the system and looked good doing it.

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