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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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- 3 days ago38 min
Part Two: Autistici/Inventati and the Fight for the Autonomous Internet
Margaret talks to you about the US's long history of intervention in Italian politics. Sources: https://chuffed.org/project/alexio-mutual-aid https://publish.fid-media.de/server/api/core/bitstreams/f8e99026-0049-4da6-bd2e-1b5a9d84b477/content https://www.inventati.org/campaign/press https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_State_list_of_Foreign_Terrorist_Organizations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specially_designated_global_terrorist https://www.icnl.org/resources/research/ijnl/solving-the-necessity-conundrum-what-the-drug-war-can-teach-us-about-due-process-for-u-s-charities-in-the-fight-against-international-terrorist-financing https://web.archive.org/web/20160126020743/http://www.jta.org/2009/05/28/news-opinion/united-states/holy-land-founders-get-life-sentences https://scalawagmagazine.org/2025/08/palestinian-political-prisoner-shukri-abu-bakers-poetry-book-debuts-in-houston/ https://anarchistnews.org/content/go-forth-and-multiply-may-10-100-1000-servers-spark http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/12/newsid_3953000/3953999.stm https://libcom.org/article/1969-strategy-tension-italy https://libcom.org/article/giuseppe-pinelli-death-anarchist https://files.libcom.org/files/Secrets-and-Bombs.pdf https://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/16/world/evolution-in-europe-italy-discloses-its-web-of-cold-war-guerrillas.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- 5 days ago1h 9m
CZM Rewind: Part Two: The Newsies on Strike: Soaking Scabs and Taking Names
In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation 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. Original Air Date: 6.21.2023See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- 6 days ago40 min
CZM Book Club Presents: Stories from "Black Box," by Mata Kastrisiou and translated by Kostas Kaltsas
Margaret reads you 4 very short, dream like stories from a collection by a Greek authorSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- 1 weeks ago1h 8m
CZM Rewind: Part One: The Newsies on Strike: Soaking Scabs and Taking Names
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. Original Air Date: 6.19.2023 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- 1 weeks ago38 min
Part One: Autistici/Inventati and the Fight for the Autonomous Internet
Margaret talks to you about Trump's latest boogieman, the Italian hacktavists who helped free the internet Sources: https://publish.fid-media.de/server/api/core/bitstreams/f8e99026-0049-4da6-bd2e-1b5a9d84b477/content https://www.inventati.org/campaign/press https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_State_list_of_Foreign_Terrorist_Organizations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specially_designated_global_terrorist https://www.icnl.org/resources/research/ijnl/solving-the-necessity-conundrum-what-the-drug-war-can-teach-us-about-due-process-for-u-s-charities-in-the-fight-against-international-terrorist-financing https://web.archive.org/web/20160126020743/http://www.jta.org/2009/05/28/news-opinion/united-states/holy-land-founders-get-life-sentences https://scalawagmagazine.org/2025/08/palestinian-political-prisoner-shukri-abu-bakers-poetry-book-debuts-in-houston/ https://anarchistnews.org/content/go-forth-and-multiply-may-10-100-1000-servers-spark See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- 1 weeks ago42 min
CZM Book Club: Ocotillo, by Madeline ffitch
Margaret reads you a surreal story about the surreal Southwest, written by one of her favorite authorsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- 2 weeks ago25 min
AI Doesn't Work and We All Know It Doesn't Work
Margaret reads you an essay about the lying machines that will soon be ruling the worldSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- 2 weeks ago32 min
Beyond Climate Optimism, Beyond Climate Pessimism
Margaret reads you an essay about how we have to soberly confront the realities of climate change and look for ways we can collectively take action Source: https://margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/beyond-climate-optimism-beyond-climate https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/climate/coral-reef-recovery-time.html https://ourworldindata.org/electricity-mix https://interestingengineering.com/culture/carbon-footprint-coined-by-big-oil-to-blame-you-for-climate-change https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/why-have-i-heard-eating-meat-bad-climate https://solarunitedneighbors.org/resources/what-to-know-about-plug-in-solar/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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