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CZM Book Club: Cool Zone 2055: The Battle of Ogre Hill

Margaret from the future describes the terrifying battle of ogre hill.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jan 26, 202529 min

Part Two: Bethel House: How Schizophrenic Folks in Japan Created a New Model of Psychiatric Care

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.htmlKaren Nakamura, A Disability of the Soulhttps://aeon.co/essays/japans-radical-alternative-to-psychiatric-diagnosisSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jan 22, 202554 min

Part One: Bethel House: How Schizophrenic Folks in Japan Created a New Model of Psychiatric Care

Margaret talks 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.htmlKaren Nakamura, A Disability of the Soulhttps://aeon.co/essays/japans-radical-alternative-to-psychiatric-diagnosisSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jan 20, 20251h 7m

CZM Book Club: Cool Zone 2055: In Bed With the Dreadnaughts

Margaret from the future reads a report from behind the Iron Curtain in fascist-occupied Spain.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jan 19, 202527 min

Part Two: The Great Dismal Swamp and 200 Years of Revolt in the US South

Margaret continues talking 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/01-04-02-0080https://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.htmlJ Brent Morris, Dismal FreedomModibo Kadalie, Intimate Direct DemocracySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jan 15, 202554 min

Part One: The Great Dismal Swamp and 200 Years of Revolt in the US South

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/01-04-02-0080https://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.htmlJ Brent Morris, Dismal FreedomModibo Kadalie, Intimate Direct DemocracySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jan 13, 202548 min

CZM Book Club: Cool Zone 2055: A Bestiary of Beasts

Margaret from the future talks about all of the terrible creatures that fascists have invented to attack internationalist forces.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jan 12, 202531 min

Part Two: Q&A Episode: Margaret and Sophie Answer Your Questions

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.

Jan 8, 202533 min

Part One: Q&A Episode: Margaret and Sophie Answer Your Questions

It's time for our yearly Q&A, in which we answer questions from you, the audience. Whom we often appreciate.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jan 6, 202530 min

CZM Book Club: Cool Zone 2055: How to Survive (the Dino Wars)

Margaret and Mia discuss the headlines here at the start of the year 2055 during world war 3.5.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jan 5, 202522 min

Part Two: Bella Ciao and the Migrant Laboring Women Who Gave Us an Anthem

In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation with author Gigi Griffis about the most famous partisan song of them all and its strange and mysterious origins.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jan 1, 20251h 0m

Part One: Bella Ciao and the Migrant Laboring Women Who Gave Us an Anthem

Margaret talks to author Gigi Griffis about the most famous partisan song of them all and its strange and mysterious origins.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dec 30, 202455 min

CZM Rewind: 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.

Dec 25, 202448 min

CZM Rewind: 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. Original Air Date: 9.5.22See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dec 23, 202455 min

CZM Book Club: Cool Zone 2054: General Lichterman

Margaret interviews the one and only General Lichterman about her decades as a revolutionary icon.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dec 22, 202426 min

Part Two: Fountain House Is A Cool Place For People Dealing With Mental Health

In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation with Allison Raskin about the Clubhouse Model that has been helping people find agency, purpose and community since the 1940s.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dec 18, 20241h 3m

Part One: Fountain House Is A Cool Place For People Dealing With Mental Health

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.

Dec 16, 202456 min

CZM Book Club: Cool Zone 2054: Live From DinoCon 4 in Helsinki

Margaret and Jamie report back from DinoCon in the year 2054.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dec 15, 202430 min

Part Two: All the People Who Tried to Kill Mussolini

In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation with Robert Evans about the awful large amount of people who tried to take Mussolini out.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dec 11, 202458 min

Part One: All the People Who Tried to Kill Mussolini

Margaret tells Robert Evans about the awful large amount of people who tried to take Mussolini out.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dec 9, 202459 min

CZM Book Club: Cool Zone 2054: Reports From the Dino War: The War in Review

Margaret comes back from the future with a podcast episode from the year 2054.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dec 8, 202423 min

CZM Rewind: Part Two: The Armed Nonviolent Civil Rights Movement

It's the last Rewind of the recent holiday and Margaret finishes talking 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.

Dec 4, 20241h 0m

CZM Rewind: Part One: The Armed Nonviolent Civil Rights Movement

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.

Dec 2, 202458 min

CZM Rewind: Part Two: The Vampires Are On Our Side: Antifascism in Film

In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation with Caitlin Durante about the antifascist filmmaking in Germany and Hollywood that laid much of the foundations for modern cinema. Original Air Date: 10.19.22See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nov 27, 20241h 4m

CZM Rewind: Part One: The Vampires Are On Our Side: Antifascism in Film

Margaret talks with Caitlin Durante about the antifascist filmmaking in Germany and Hollywood that laid much of the foundations for modern cinema. Original Air Date: 10.17.22See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nov 25, 20241h 9m

Part Two: A People's History of Potatoes

In the second part of this reverse episode, author Wren Awry finishes teaching Margaret the complex and wonderful history of one of the best vegetables in the world.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nov 20, 202450 min

Part One: A People's History of Potatoes

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.

Nov 18, 202457 min

CZM Book Club: The Free Orcs of Cascadia by Margaret Killjoy

It's a Book Club Rerun! Margaret Killjoy reads her short story, The Free Orcs of Cascadia.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nov 17, 202442 min

Cool Rerun Part Two: The Jane Collective: Direct Action Abortion Access Works

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.

Nov 13, 20241h 0m

Cool Rerun Part One: The Jane Collective: Direct Action Abortion Access Works

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.

Nov 11, 20241h 16m

CZM Book Club: Nazis Don't Go To Valhalla

Book Club Rerun from the ol' ICHH archive - now with Book Club wrapping! Margaret Killjoy joins us to read a special spooky week ghost story about the 2nd American Civil War.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nov 10, 202425 min

Part Two: Witches: Witches Were Pretty Cool Even Though They Didn't Really Exist

Margaret finishes telling 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.

Nov 6, 202434 min

Part One: Witches: Witches Were Pretty Cool Even Though They Didn't Really Exist

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.

Nov 4, 202422 min

CZM Book Club: A Bunch of Stories About Russian Witches

Margaret reads you folklore about witches in Russia, because she likes witches and it's still sort of Halloween.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nov 3, 202425 min

Part Two: Halloween Special: Spooky Stories

Margaret reads Prop the other horror story she wrote.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oct 30, 202441 min

Part One: Halloween Special: Spooky Stories

Margaret reads Prop two horror stories she wrote.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oct 28, 202438 min

CZM Book Club: "The Vampire Maid" by Hume Nisbet

Margaret reads you a story in which vampires serve as a metaphor for yet another thing, because vampires are cool.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oct 27, 202422 min

Part Two: Pura Belpré: The Puerto Rican Librarian Who Brought Bilingual Storytelling to New York

Margaret finishes telling Samantha McVey some of the history of public libraries and how the first Puerto Rican librarian in the US changed everything.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oct 23, 202446 min

Part One: Pura Belpré: The Puerto Rican Librarian Who Brought Bilingual Storytelling to New York

Margaret tells Samantha McVey some of the history of public libraries and how the first Puerto Rican librarian in the US changed everything.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oct 21, 202446 min

CZM Book Club: "The Damned Thing" by Ambrose Bierce

Margaret reads you the story she figures probably inspired Predator.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oct 20, 202425 min

Part Two: Pirates, Libertalia, and the Betsimisaraka Confederation

Margaret finishes telling Molly Crabapple a story about the legends and reality of pirate utopia in Madagascar.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oct 16, 202455 min

Part One: Pirates, Libertalia, and the Betsimisaraka Confederation

Margaret tells Molly Crabapple a story about the legends and reality of pirate utopia in MadagascarSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oct 14, 202454 min

CZM Book Club: "Luella Miller" by Mary Wilkins Freeman

Margaret reads you a spooky vampire story that's quite a bit different.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oct 13, 202436 min

Part Two: Mutual Aid in North Carolina: How Asheville Has Come Together in the Wake of the Storm

Margaret reports on her trip down to Asheville North Carolina and all of the work she saw people doing down there to keep people safe during crisis. Part 2/2See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oct 9, 202432 min

Part One: Mutual Aid in North Carolina: How Asheville Has Come Together in the Wake of the Storm

Margaret reports on her trip down to Asheville North Carolina and all of the work she saw people doing down there to keep people safe during crisis. Part 1/2See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oct 7, 202435 min

CZM Book Club: "Svend and His Brethren" by William Morris, Part Two

Margaret reads you even more William Morris, but this story has swords in it.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oct 6, 202427 min

Part Two: Catastrophe Compassion: How People Come Together in Crisis

Margaret continues talking with Katy Stoll about some amazing acts of mutual aid, both DIY and institutional. Mutual Aid Disaster Relief: https://mutualaiddisasterrelief.org/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oct 2, 202446 min

Part One: Catastrophe Compassion: How People Come Together in Crisis

Margaret talks with Katy Stoll about some amazing acts of mutual aid, both DIY and institutionalSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sep 30, 202447 min

CZM Book Club: "Svend and His Brethren" by William Morris, Part One

Margaret reads you even more William Morris, but this story has swords in itSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sep 29, 202432 min

Part Four: The Korean People's Association of Manchuria: When Two Million People Lived In a Horizontal Society

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.

Sep 25, 202446 min