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25 Aug 2024 | CZM Book Club: "Intentionalities" by Aimee Ogden | 00:32:20 | |
Margaret reads you a science fiction story about space unions and family ties. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
26 May 2024 | CZM Book Club: "The Stolen Bacillus" by HG Wells | 00:24:06 | |
Margaret reads a classic anti-anarchist story by HG Wells written before Wells learned what was up. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
11 Feb 2024 | CZM Book Club: "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Part One | 00:26:35 | |
Margaret reads you a classic feminist horror story about the madness caused by patriarchy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
12 Feb 2024 | Part Three: The Easter Rising: How a Bunch of Irish Poets and Union Organizers Took On the British Empire, Died, and Then Won | 00:48:27 | |
Margaret, for the third time out of four, talks with Katy Stoll about the motley collection of rebels who sparked Irish independence. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
13 Nov 2024 | Cool Rerun Part Two: The Jane Collective: Direct Action Abortion Access Works | 01:00:14 | |
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
06 Apr 2025 | CZM Book Club: Escape, part two | 00:54:54 | |
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
04 Jul 2022 | Part One: Blair Mountain: When Miners Went to Literal War Against Their Bosses | 00:59:53 | |
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
28 Jun 2023 | Part Two: STAR & the Gay Liberation Front: An Army of Lovers Cannot Lose | 00:44:55 | |
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. You can now listen to all Cool Zone Media shows, 100% ad-free through the Cooler Zone Media subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. So, open your Apple Podcasts app, search for “Cooler Zone Media” and subscribe today! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
19 Feb 2025 | Part Two: Crass: How Some Hippies Reinvented Punk and Changed the World | 00:54:00 | |
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://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 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
16 Dec 2024 | Part One: Fountain House Is A Cool Place For People Dealing With Mental Health | 00:56:48 | |
Margaret talks to Allison Raskin about the Clubhouse Model that has been helping people find agency and purpose and community since the 1940s. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
18 Dec 2023 | Part One: The Battle of Negro Fort: Florida's Maroon Community | 01:02:14 | |
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
29 Jul 2024 | Part One: The Reichstag Fire Was Not An Inside Job | 00:53:28 | |
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
18 Aug 2024 | CZM Book Club: Three Stories From Japanese Folklore | 00:27:16 | |
Margaret reads you stories about demons and moon maidens. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
12 May 2024 | CZM Book Club: Three Ruthenian Folk Tales | 00:30:25 | |
Margaret reads three Slavic folk tales about magic women and mean children. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
30 Aug 2023 | Part Two: A Tale of Two Snipers: Simo Häyhä, Lyudmila Pavlichenko & the Eastern Front | 01:07:20 | |
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
05 Mar 2025 | Part Two: Lesbian Mutual AID During the AIDS Crisis | 00:53:44 | |
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 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
18 Nov 2024 | Part One: A People's History of Potatoes | 00:57:45 | |
In this reverse episode, author Wren Awry teaches Margaret the complex and wonderful history of one of the best vegetables in the world. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
17 Dec 2023 | CZM Book Club: The Flair by Nick Mamatas | 00:36:48 | |
Margaret reads Mia a sci-fi story about what people will do for free power and war. And about hacker clowns. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
22 Mar 2023 | Part Four: Stonewall: The Criminal Queers Who Birthed a Movement | 00:51:42 | |
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
07 Feb 2024 | Part Two: The Easter Rising: How a Bunch of Irish Poets and Union Organizers Took On the British Empire, Died, and Then Won | 00:51:15 | |
In part two, Margaret continues to talk with Katy Stoll about the motley collection of rebels who sparked Irish independence. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
19 Sep 2022 | Part One: The IWW and the Hobos Who Saved Free Speech | 01:14:11 | |
Margaret talks with Robert Evans about the Spokane Free Speech Fight and the itinerant workers who invented new forms of civil disobedience. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
30 Mar 2025 | CZM Book Club: Escape, part one | 01:01:04 | |
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
01 Apr 2024 | Part One: Ada Lovelace and Lord Byron: The First Computer Programmer, Child of the First Vampire | 00:58:47 | |
Margaret talks with Bridget Todd about the woman who invented software and her rather strange family. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
04 Aug 2024 | CZM Book Club: "Spring Woods Spring" by B. Pladek | 00:34:57 | |
Margaret reads you a story about where personal grief meets climate grief. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
10 Jun 2024 | Part One: Mutual Aid and Burial Societies: The Origins of Black Cooperativism in the US | 01:15:05 | |
Margaret talks with Joelle Monique about the deep roots of economic cooperation in Black America. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
15 Dec 2024 | CZM Book Club: Cool Zone 2054: Live From DinoCon 4 in Helsinki | 00:30:33 | |
Margaret and Jamie report back from DinoCon in the year 2054. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
12 Apr 2023 | Part Two: The Young Lords: How Some Puerto Rican Socialists Changed Everything | 00:55:34 | |
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
03 Apr 2023 | Part One: Burglars vs the FBI: How the Catholic Left & Their Friends Exposed COINTELPRO | 01:06:04 | |
Margaret talks with journalist, activist and comedian Francesca Fiorentini about one of the greatest acts of nonviolent civil disobedience in US history. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
28 Feb 2024 | Part Two: The Earth Liberation Front: The Burning Rage of a Dying Planet | 01:13:28 | |
In part two, Margaret finishes talking with Sarah Marshall about the eco-radicals and arsonists of the late 90s. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
06 Mar 2023 | Part One: Judi Bari Didn't Bomb Herself: Earth First! & the Timber Wars | 00:54:00 | |
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
26 Sep 2022 | Part One: Aqua Tofana: How to Kill Your Husband | 01:00:09 | |
Margaret talks with Shereen about how, in the era before divorce, a group of women sold poison to aspiring widows. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
28 Oct 2024 | Part One: Halloween Special: Spooky Stories | 00:38:34 | |
Margaret reads Prop two horror stories she wrote. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
14 Oct 2024 | Part One: Pirates, Libertalia, and the Betsimisaraka Confederation | 00:54:10 | |
Margaret tells Molly Crabapple a story about the legends and reality of pirate utopia in Madagascar See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
27 Mar 2024 | Part Two: The Expropriators: Fifteen Years of Political Bank Robbers in Argentina and Uruguay | 00:56:40 | |
Margaret concludes with Snow about the folks who tried to fund a revolution the old-fashioned way. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
05 Nov 2023 | CZM Book Club: Babang Luksa | 00:39:05 | |
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
14 Apr 2025 | Part One: Black Antifascists In the Spanish Civil War | 01:01:45 | |
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 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
05 Dec 2022 | Part One: The Armed Nonviolent Civil Rights Movement | 00:58:05 | |
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
30 May 2022 | Part One: Gay Resistance to Nazis | 01:17:46 | |
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
05 Aug 2024 | Part One: Joan of Arc Was Even Cooler Than I Thought | 01:02:49 | |
Margaret talks with Molly Conger about two women who changed the course of history. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
04 Sep 2023 | Part Three: A Tale of Two Snipers: Simo Häyhä, Lyudmila Pavlichenko & the Eastern Front | 01:07:50 | |
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
29 Sep 2024 | CZM Book Club: "Svend and His Brethren" by William Morris, Part One | 00:32:05 | |
Margaret reads you even more William Morris, but this story has swords in it See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
10 Jul 2023 | Part One: Gama: An Anti-colonial Icon Who Happened to Be History's Greatest Wrestler | 01:10:15 | |
In this reverse episode, author Shiv Ramdas tells Margaret about Gama, the Indian wrestler who never lost. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
12 Jun 2024 | Part Two: Mutual Aid and Burial Societies: The Origins of Black Cooperativism in the US | 01:08:57 | |
In part two, Margaret talks with Joelle Monique about the deep roots of economic cooperation in Black America. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
09 Nov 2022 | Part Two: Baba Yaga: Everyone's Favorite Witch From Folklore | 01:05:04 | |
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
11 May 2022 | Part Two: The Jane Collective: Direct Action Abortion Access Works | 00:59:11 | |
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/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
16 Apr 2025 | Part Two: Black Antifascists In the Spanish Civil War | 00:53:02 | |
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 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
26 Jun 2024 | Part Two: George Orwell and the War for Common Decency | 01:07:34 | |
Margaret finishes talking with Kaveh Hoda about her problematic fave. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
06 May 2024 | Part One: The Great Revolt: Palestinian Resistance to Early Zionism | 01:13:52 | |
Margaret talks with Matt Lieb about multi-faith Palestinian resistance to early Zionist colonization. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
22 Apr 2022 | Introducing: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff | 00:01:51 | |
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
21 Dec 2022 | Part Two: Keep the Yuletide Gay: Saturnalia & the Puritan War on Christmas | 00:45:39 | |
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
11 Nov 2024 | Cool Rerun Part One: The Jane Collective: Direct Action Abortion Access Works | 01:16:50 | |
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
31 Jul 2023 | Part One: Hunger Strikes: From Ireland to Palestine | 00:58:55 | |
Margaret talks with Shereen about the long history of hunger strikes by prisoners and refugees. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
19 Jul 2023 | Part Two: The Molly Maguires: Untamable Irish Rebels Who Had a Really Direct Way of Dealing with Bosses & Landlords | 01:18:22 | |
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
05 Feb 2025 | Part Two: The Haitian Revolution: The Most Successful Revolt in the Americas | 01:01:42 | |
Margaret continues talking with Prop about how the people of Haiti destroyed a slave empire. Sources: https://www.newsweek.com/poland-nationalism-new-york-haiti-slave-rebellion-revolution-1382388 A Secret among the Blacks: Slave Resistance before the Haitian Revolution, John D. Garrigus https://catholiceducation.org/en/faith-and-character/king-afonso-i-of-kongo12-06-17.html https://ecda.northeastern.edu/makandal-knowledge/ http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/ideology/pdf/F6.2.pdf https://ecda.northeastern.edu/makandal-knowledge/ https://www.afrikaiswoke.com/makandal-the-black-messiah/ https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2011/01/slavery-in-the-french-colonies/ https://haitidoi.com/2013/03/18/1804-census-gros-morne-haiti/ https://haitidoi.com/2016/01/26/dessalines-reader-1-april-1804-2/ https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41603-019-00071-5 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
07 Nov 2022 | Part One: Baba Yaga: Everyone's Favorite Witch From Folklore | 01:09:12 | |
Margaret talks with comedian and podcaster Jamie Loftus about Baba Yaga, the Slavic legend who eats children and occasionally helps people. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
08 Jan 2025 | Part Two: Q&A Episode: Margaret and Sophie Answer Your Questions | 00:33:04 | |
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
21 Apr 2025 | Part One: Women of War: Partisan Struggle Against Italian Fascism with Suzanne Cope | 00:47:45 | |
Author Suzanne Cope teaches Margaret about the history of women partisans in the Italian resistance, from her upcoming book Women of War. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
07 Sep 2022 | Part Two: Chumbawamba: How to Sell Out, But in a Good Way | 00:47:35 | |
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
11 Jul 2022 | Part One: How To Break Out of Prison: In Minecraft and Elsewhere | 00:51:57 | |
To celebrate Bastille Day, Margaret talks to podcast host Mia Wong about jailbreaks, by helicopter, tank, and tunnel. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
03 Jun 2024 | Part One: Fábricas Ocupadas: When Workers In Argentina Took Over Their Factories | 01:06:10 | |
Margaret talks with Prop about how people all over Argentina resisted neoliberalism and took over their factories to run them without bosses. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
24 Aug 2022 | Part Two: The Diggers, the Levelers, the Ranters, and John Darnielle | 01:12:03 | |
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
01 Jun 2022 | Part Two: Gay Resistance to Nazis | 00:57:25 | |
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
06 Nov 2023 | Part One: Countercuisine: The Counterculture of the Diggers & Food Co-ops | 00:58:26 | |
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 "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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
11 Oct 2023 | Part Two: Hobohemia & the Dil Pickle Club: Chicago is Weird & Cool | 00:54:37 | |
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
27 Jul 2022 | Part Two: The Japanese Anarchist Women Who Kept Trying to Kill Emperors | 01:01:18 | |
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
06 Jun 2022 | Part One: Russian Nihilists: The Gender-bending Subculture that Blew Up the Tsar | 01:20:46 | |
Margaret talks with Io about the science hippies of the 1860s who wore sunglasses at night and invented modern terrorism. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
21 Sep 2022 | Part Two: The IWW and the Hobos Who Saved Free Speech | 00:53:18 | |
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
30 Nov 2022 | Part Two: Everyone Hates the Klan | 01:05:38 | |
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
07 Dec 2022 | Part Two: The Armed Nonviolent Civil Rights Movement | 01:00:00 | |
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
29 Oct 2023 | CZM Book Club: The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion: Part Four | 00:41:08 | |
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 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
02 Aug 2023 | Part Two: Hunger Strikes: From Ireland to Palestine | 01:19:25 | |
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
03 Mar 2024 | CZM Book Club: An excerpt from "An RVer's Guide to the American West" by Carrot Quinn | 00:44:02 | |
Margaret reads Robert a post-apocalyptic story of a woman and her dog surviving in the mountains. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
08 Dec 2024 | CZM Book Club: Cool Zone 2054: Reports From the Dino War: The War in Review | 00:23:22 | |
Margaret comes back from the future with a podcast episode from the year 2054. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
22 Jan 2025 | Part Two: Bethel House: How Schizophrenic Folks in Japan Created a New Model of Psychiatric Care | 00:54:50 | |
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 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
24 Jul 2023 | Part One: Before the Mexican Revolution: Ricardo Flores Magón & the Peasants Who Ended a Dictatorship | 01:14:12 | |
Margaret talks with Kat Abu about the Mexican liberals who became anarchists and sparked a revolution. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
19 Aug 2024 | Part One: The Orange Alternative: The Polish Hippie Surrealists Who Tore Down a Communist Government | 00:50:47 | |
Margaret talks with Courtney Kocak about how a bunch of self-styled anarchist gnomes helped collapse a government. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
12 Jun 2023 | Part One: The Battle of Cable Street: How Jews & Irish Catholics Destroyed Fascism in Britain | 00:50:15 | |
Margaret talks with James Stout about how Britain's Union of Fascists was destroyed in a storm of fists and rotten vegetables in 1936. You can now listen to all Cool Zone Media shows, 100% ad-free through the Cooler Zone Media subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. So, open your Apple Podcasts app, search for “Cooler Zone Media” and subscribe today! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
04 Dec 2023 | Part Three: Lakota Resistance to the American Empire | 00:56:22 | |
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
19 Jun 2023 | Part One: The Newsies on Strike: Soaking Scabs & Taking Names | 01:07:40 | |
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. You can now listen to all Cool Zone Media shows, 100% ad-free through the Cooler Zone Media subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. So, open your Apple Podcasts app, search for “Cooler Zone Media” and subscribe today! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
22 Nov 2023 | CZM Rewind: Part Two - Food Not Bombs, The Criminal Mutual Aid Conspiracy | 01:09:21 | |
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
25 Sep 2024 | Part Four: The Korean People's Association of Manchuria: When Two Million People Lived In a Horizontal Society | 00:46:15 | |
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." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
05 Jun 2023 | Part One: Resistance to Franco: The Anarchist Air Force, the Antifascist Space Program & More | 00:57:04 | |
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. You can now listen to all Cool Zone Media shows, 100% ad-free through the Cooler Zone Media subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. So, open your Apple Podcasts app, search for “Cooler Zone Media” and subscribe today! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
19 Jan 2025 | CZM Book Club: Cool Zone 2055: In Bed With the Dreadnaughts | 00:27:08 | |
Margaret from the future reads a report from behind the Iron Curtain in fascist-occupied Spain. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
17 Apr 2024 | Part Four: Kronstadt and the People Who Tried to Save the Russian Revolution | 01:04:46 | |
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
18 Oct 2023 | Part Two: Rebellion in Patagonia: When the Rural Argentinian Labor Movement Took Over Half the Country | 00:59:44 | |
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
02 Oct 2023 | Part Three: The Surrealists Were Even Cooler Than You Thought | 01:00:30 | |
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
03 Jan 2024 | Here's To You, Dear Listeners: 2024 Q&A | 00:38:30 | |
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 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
31 May 2023 | Part Two: Francisco Sabaté: Franco’s Public Enemy #1 | 00:54:57 | |
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
28 Aug 2023 | Part One: A Tale of Two Snipers: Simo Häyhä, Lyudmila Pavlichenko & the Eastern Front | 00:57:33 | |
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
16 Feb 2025 | CZM Book Club: Cool Zone 2055: After the Battle | 00:26:01 | |
Margaret from the future tells you about Mx. Bunny Face Murder's childhood. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
05 Feb 2024 | Part One: The Easter Rising: How a Bunch of Irish Poets and Union Organizers Took On the British Empire, Died, and Then Won | 00:57:43 | |
Margaret talks with Katy Stoll about the motley collection of rebels who sparked Irish independence. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
13 Jan 2025 | Part One: The Great Dismal Swamp and 200 Years of Revolt in the US South | 00:48:49 | |
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/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
04 Oct 2023 | Part Four: The Surrealists Were Even Cooler Than You Thought | 01:02:21 | |
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
14 Sep 2022 | Part Two: Dutch Squatters Accidentally Save The Country From Ruin | 01:03:33 | |
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
04 Nov 2024 | Part One: Witches: Witches Were Pretty Cool Even Though They Didn't Really Exist | 00:22:38 | |
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
02 Dec 2024 | CZM Rewind: Part One: The Armed Nonviolent Civil Rights Movement | 00:58:54 | |
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
12 Feb 2025 | Part Four: The Haitian Revolution: The Most Successful Revolt in the Americas | 00:54:38 | |
Margaret finishes talking with Prop about how the people of Haiti destroyed a slave empire. Sources: https://www.newsweek.com/poland-nationalism-new-york-haiti-slave-rebellion-revolution-1382388 A Secret among the Blacks: Slave Resistance before the Haitian Revolution, John D. Garrigus https://catholiceducation.org/en/faith-and-character/king-afonso-i-of-kongo12-06-17.html https://ecda.northeastern.edu/makandal-knowledge/ http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/ideology/pdf/F6.2.pdf https://ecda.northeastern.edu/makandal-knowledge/ https://www.afrikaiswoke.com/makandal-the-black-messiah/ https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2011/01/slavery-in-the-french-colonies/ https://haitidoi.com/2013/03/18/1804-census-gros-morne-haiti/ https://haitidoi.com/2016/01/26/dessalines-reader-1-april-1804-2/ https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41603-019-00071-5 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
26 Jun 2023 | Part One: STAR & the Gay Liberation Front: An Army of Lovers Cannot Lose | 00:52:35 | |
Margaret talks with Danl Goodman about the gay liberation movement of the early 1970s that blew open the gates for LGBT rights. You can now listen to all Cool Zone Media shows, 100% ad-free through the Cooler Zone Media subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. So, open your Apple Podcasts app, search for “Cooler Zone Media” and subscribe today! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
16 Nov 2022 | Part Two: Anti-Racist Action: Because Nazi Punks Need To Be Dealt With | 00:56:18 | |
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 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
16 Jan 2023 | Part One: Up Against the Wall: New York City's Armed Love Movement | 00:54:58 | |
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. |