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Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff Cool Zone Media
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As long as there’s been oppression, there’ve been people fighting it. This weekly podcast dives into history to drag up the wildest rebels, the most beautiful revolts, and all the people who long to be—and fight to be—free. It explores complex stories of resistance that offer lessons and inspiration for us today, focusing on the ensemble casts that make up each act of history. That is to say, this podcast focuses on Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff.
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May Day Rerun Part Two: The Haymarket Affair: The Bomb & the Eight-Hour Workday
Margaret's taking a week off post mouth surgery and wants to celebrate May Day! Here's a throwback to the first episode where Margaret sat down with journalist and podcast host Robert Evans to talk about the anarchists who were hanged in Chicago in the 1860s for fighting for the rights of the working class.
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May Day Rerun Part One: The Haymarket Affair: The Bomb & the Eight-Hour Workday
Margaret's taking a week off post mouth surgery and wants to celebrate May Day! Here's a throwback to the first episode where Margaret sat down with journalist and podcast host Robert Evans to talk about the anarchists who were hanged in Chicago in the 1860s for fighting for the rights of the working class.
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CZM Book Club: "The Fortunate Death of Jonathan Sandelson" by Margaret Killjoy, Part One
Margaret reads Danl a story about hackers using drones to disrupt for-profit incarceration.
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Part Six: Kronstadt and the People Who Tried to Save the Russian Revolution
In the SIXTH part of this longest-series-ever, Margaret finally gets to Kronstadt with Mia Wong and talks about at least four Russian revolutions and general strikes, workers councils, and rebellions that tried to keep them on course.
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Part Five: Kronstadt and the People Who Tried to Save the Russian Revolution
In part five (can you believe it?), 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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Part Four: Kronstadt and the People Who Tried to Save the Russian Revolution
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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Customer Reviews
I could listen to Margaret read a shopping list!
But it really helps that she shines a light on cool things done by cool people. There are many things I had no idea about prior to listening to this podcast. Margaret is the best to calm the spirit when humanity lets you down.
margaret’s voice
is a melodious calming sound, that is not singing, but her voice doesn’t even need to sing to be so beautiful.
Not everything is terrible, thanks for brightening my day!
Listening to the last four episodes of Cool People Who Did Cool Things and their examination of Irish Nationalism, Internationalism, Socialism, and Labor-Unionizing has led me to reflect on my Irish heritage. I feel disconnected from being Irish, because the identity pushed on me as “White” in America requires a flattening of all cultural and ethnic identities in order to be subsumed by “whiteness”. White supremacy even when granting privilege to some groups still requires in trade for power and privilege, a destruction of traditional identity. Irish people (like all groups of people) did some cool things. Obviously there is no comparison of the harm done to white people by white supremacy, contrasted to the oppression and genocide that radicalized and minorities people have been subjected too, but everyone suffers under white supremacy (except maybe a few billionaires stirring up fights amongst the rest of us). Thanks Margaret! PS, love the vocal fry, keep up the good work!
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