
Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
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Part Two: The Modern School & Francisco Ferrer: School Shouldn't Be Terrible
In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation with James Stout about the turn of the century educators who fought--and sometimes died--for a reasonable education for the working class.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part One: The Modern School & Francisco Ferrer: School Shouldn't Be Terrible
Margaret talks with James Stout about the turn of the century educators who fought--and sometimes died--for a reasonable education for the working class.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part Two: Aqua Tofana: How to Kill Your Husband
In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation 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.

Part One: Aqua Tofana: How to Kill Your Husband
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.

Part Two: The IWW and the Hobos Who Saved Free Speech
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.

Part One: The IWW and the Hobos Who Saved Free Speech
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.

Part Two: Dutch Squatters Accidentally Save The Country From Ruin
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.

Part One: Dutch Squatters Accidentally Save The Country From Ruin
Margaret talks 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.

Part Two: Chumbawamba: How to Sell Out, But in a Good Way
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.

Part One: Chumbawamba: How to Sell Out, But in a Good Way
Margaret talks 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.

Part Two: Roger Casement: The Gay Irish Anti-Colonial Knight
In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation with author Wren Awry about Roger Casement, whose reporting helped end the brutal reign of Leopold II of Belgium. Preorder Wren's book Nourishing Resistance: Stories of Food, Protest & Mutual Aid, out Spring 2023: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1321See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part One: Roger Casement: The Gay Irish Anti-Colonial Knight
Margaret talks with author Wren Awry about Roger Casement, whose reporting helped end the brutal reign of Leopold II of Belgium. Preorder Wren's book Nourishing Resistance: Stories of Food, Protest & Mutual Aid, out Spring 2023: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1321See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part Two: The Diggers, the Levelers, the Ranters, and John Darnielle
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.

Part One: The Diggers, the Levelers, the Ranters, and John Darnielle
Margaret talks with Mountain Goats singer John Darnielle about the wild-eyed radicals of the English Civil War.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part Two: Food Not Bombs, The Criminal Mutual Aid Conspiracy
In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation with podcast host Andrew Ti about the long fight for our right to feed one another in public places.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part One: Food Not Bombs, The Criminal Mutual Aid Conspiracy
Margaret talks with podcast host Andrew Ti about the long fight for our right to feed one another in public places.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part Two: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising & Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust
In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation with Miriam about the desperate last stand of the Jews of Poland and the fight to preserve Jewish culture from extermination.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part One: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising & Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust
Margaret talks with Miriam about the desperate last stand of the Jews of Poland and the fight to preserve Jewish culture from extermination.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part Two: The Japanese Anarchist Women Who Kept Trying to Kill Emperors
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.

Part One: The Japanese Anarchist Women Who Kept Trying to Kill Emperors
Margaret talks 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.

Part Two: Birth Control Pioneers & the Jerk Who Tried to Stop Them
Some people have to fight for the right to use birth control, some people have to fight for the right to bear children. In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation with Katy Stoll about Emma Goldman, Angela Heywood, Fannie Lou Hamer, and the complex fight for reproductive freedom in the US.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part One: Birth Control Pioneers & the Jerk Who Tried to Stop Them
Some people have to fight for the right to use birth control, some people have to fight for the right to bear children. Margaret talks with Katy Stoll about Emma Goldman, Angela Heywood, Fannie Lou Hamer, and the complex fight for reproductive freedom in the US.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part Two: How To Break Out of Prison: In Minecraft and Elsewhere
In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation with podcast host Mia Wong about jailbreaks, by helicopter, tank, and tunnel.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part One: How To Break Out of Prison: In Minecraft and Elsewhere
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.

Part Two: Blair Mountain: When Miners Went to Literal War Against Their Bosses
In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation 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.

Part One: Blair Mountain: When Miners Went to Literal War Against Their Bosses
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.

Part Two: When Women Were Computers: A Tale of Space and Math
In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation with Bridget Todd about the space race, Russian cosmists, gay scientists, and the women who got humanity to the moon.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part One: When Women Were Computers: A Tale of Space and Math
Margaret talks with Bridget Todd about the space race, Russian cosmists, gay scientists, and the women who got humanity to the moon.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part Two: The Public Universal Friend: A Non-binary Icon in Revolutionary-Era America
In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation with podcast host and journalist Garrison Davis about an 18th-century genderless preacher and their gender-bending followers.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part One: The Public Universal Friend: A Non-binary Icon in Revolutionary-Era America
Margaret talks with podcast host and journalist Garrison Davis about an 18th-century genderless preacher and their gender-bending followers.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part Two: The Anarchist Revolution in the Spanish Civil War
In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation with comedian, writer and podcast host Jamie Loftus about the time that millions of anarchists and their allies collectivized in Spain while fighting off a fascist invasion.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part One: The Anarchist Revolution in the Spanish Civil War
Margaret talks with comedian, writer and podcast host Jamie Loftus about the time that millions of anarchists and their allies collectivized in Spain while fighting off a fascist invasion.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part Two: Russian Nihilists: The Gender-bending Subculture that Blew Up the Tsar
In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation 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.

Part One: Russian Nihilists: The Gender-bending Subculture that Blew Up the Tsar
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.

Part Two: Gay Resistance to Nazis
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.

Part One: Gay Resistance to Nazis
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.

Part Two: The Paris Commune: How to Steal Back Your Own City
In 1871, the people of Paris, tired of starving, took up arms and declared their city an autonomous commune. For almost two months, they ran their utopian experiment, and though they were eventually crushed, they inspired revolutionaries across the world for generations to come.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part One: The Paris Commune: How to Steal Back Your Own City
In 1871, the people of Paris, tired of starving, took up arms and declared their city an autonomous commune. For almost two months, they ran their utopian experiment, and though they were eventually crushed, they inspired revolutionaries across the world for generations to come.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part Two: The Civil War Within the Civil War: How the South Won the War for the Union
In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation with Prop about how people escaping slavery turned the tide of the American Civil War and how the South was anything but united.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part One: The Civil War Within the Civil War: How the South Won the War for the Union
Margaret talks with Prop about how people escaping slavery turned the tide of the American Civil War and how the South was anything but united.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part Two: The Jane Collective: Direct Action Abortion Access Works
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 justicehttps://www.aafront.org/http://operationsaveabortion.com/https://digitaldefensefund.org/ddf-guides/abortion-privacySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part One: The Jane Collective: Direct Action Abortion Access Works
EMargaret talks 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 justicehttps://www.aafront.org/http://operationsaveabortion.com/https://digitaldefensefund.org/ddf-guides/abortion-privacySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part Two: The Haymarket Affair: The Bomb & the Eight-Hour Workday
EIn part two of this episode, Margaret continues her discussion 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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part One: The Haymarket Affair: The Bomb & the Eight-Hour Workday
EMargaret sits 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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Introducing: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
trailerELots 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.