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CZM Book Club: "The Three Trials of the Wind," by Shiv Ramdas, Part 1 of 2
Margaret reads you a reimagining of Hindu mythology by a masterful speculative fiction author.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part Two: Dungeons & Dragons: The History of Some Great and Terrible Nerdery
Margaret finishes talking with Ed Zitron about the origins of one of her all-time favorite games.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part One: Dungeons & Dragons: The History of Some Great and Terrible Nerdery
Margaret talks with Ed Zitron about the origins of one of her all-time favorite games.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

CZM Book Club: "Party Discipline" by Cory Doctorow, Part Four
Margaret finishes reading Robert Evans a novella about the near future of tech, surveillance, and teenage rebellion.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part Two: George Orwell and the War for Common Decency
Margaret finishes talking with Kaveh Hoda about her problematic fave.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part One: George Orwell and the War for Common Decency
Margaret talks with Kaveh Hoda about her problematic fave.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

CZM Book Club: "Party Discipline" by Cory Doctorow, Part Three
Margaret continues to read Robert Evans a novella about the near future of tech, surveillance, and teenage rebellion.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part Two: ACT UP: How Angry, Dying Queers Invented Modern Activism
Margaret finishes talking with Francesca Fiorentini about the AIDS activists who changed the world.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part One: ACT UP: How Angry, Dying Queers Invented Modern Activism
Margaret talks with Francesca Fiorentini about the AIDS activists who changed the world.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

CZM Book Club: "Party Discipline" by Cory Doctorow, Part Two
Margaret continues to read Robert Evans a novella about the near future of tech, surveillance, and teenage rebellion.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part Two: Mutual Aid and Burial Societies: The Origins of Black Cooperativism in the US
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.

Part One: Mutual Aid and Burial Societies: The Origins of Black Cooperativism in the US
Margaret talks with Joelle Monique about the deep roots of economic cooperation in Black America.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

CZM Book Club: "Party Discipline" by Cory Doctorow, Part One
Margaret reads Robert Evans a novella about the near future of tech, surveillance, and teenage rebellion.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part Two: Fábricas Ocupadas: When Workers In Argentina Took Over Their Factories
In part two, Margaret finishes her talk 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.

Part One: Fábricas Ocupadas: When Workers In Argentina Took Over Their Factories
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.

CZM Book Club: "The Happy Prince" by Oscar Wilde
Margaret reads you a children's story written by one of the greatest queer icons of history.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part Two: Community Gardens: How People Take Land From the Rich to Feed Themselves
In part two, Margaret finishes talking with Kat Abu about the history of community gardening in New York City and elsewhere.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part One: Community Gardens: How People Take Land From the Rich to Feed Themselves
Margaret talks with Kat Abu about the history of community gardening in New York City and elsewhere.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

CZM Book Club: "The Stolen Bacillus" by HG Wells
Margaret reads a classic anti-anarchist story by HG Wells written before Wells learned what was up.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part Four: Death to the Rich: Maria Nikiforova and the anarchist battallions in Civil War Ukraine
In part four, Margaret finishes her talk with Robert Evans about the time that millions of Ukrainians rose a black flag and went to war against landlords, nationalists, and Bolsheviks.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part Three: Death to the Rich: Maria Nikiforova and the anarchist battallions in Civil War Ukraine
In part three, Margaret continues to talk with Robert Evans about the time that millions of Ukrainians rose a black flag and went to war against landlords, nationalists, and Bolsheviks.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

CZM Book Club: "Yermak, the Conqueror of Siberia" by Leo Tolstoy
Margaret reads a piece of folklore about the colonization of Siberia.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part Two: Death to the Rich: Maria Nikiforova and the anarchist battallions in Civil War Ukraine
In part two, Margaret continues to talk with Robert Evans about the time that millions of Ukrainians rose a black flag and went to war against landlords, nationalists, and Bolsheviks.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part One: Death to the Rich: Maria Nikiforova and the anarchist battallions in Civil War Ukraine
Margaret talks with Robert Evans about the time that millions of Ukrainians rose a black flag and went to war against landlords, nationalists, and Bolsheviks.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

CZM Book Club: Three Ruthenian Folk Tales
Margaret reads three Slavic folk tales about magic women and mean children.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part Two: The Great Revolt: Palestinian Resistance to Early Zionism
In part two, Margaret concludes a talk with Matt Lieb about multi-faith Palestinian resistance to early Zionist colonization.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part One: The Great Revolt: Palestinian Resistance to Early Zionism
Margaret talks with Matt Lieb about multi-faith Palestinian resistance to early Zionist colonization.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

CZM Book Club: "The Fortunate Death of Jonathan Sandelson" by Margaret Killjoy, Part Two
In part two, Margaret reads Danl a story about hackers using drones to disrupt for-profit incarceration.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part Three: Kronstadt and the People Who Tried to Save the Russian Revolution
In part three, 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.

CZM Book Club: "The Nine Billion Names of God" by Arthur C. Clarke
Margaret reads Gare a classic sci-fi tale about the divine possibility of computers.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part Two: Kronstadt and the People Who Tried to Save the Russian Revolution
In part two, 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.

Part One: Kronstadt and the People Who Tried to Save the Russian Revolution
Margaret talks 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.

CZM Book Club: "Transmutation" by Katherine Sparrow
Margaret reads Sophie a story of love gone wrong between a magician and an alchemist.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part Two: Ada Lovelace and Lord Byron: The First Computer Programmer, Child of the First Vampire
Margaret finishes a conversation with Bridget Todd about the woman who invented software and her rather strange family.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part One: Ada Lovelace and Lord Byron: The First Computer Programmer, Child of the First Vampire
Margaret talks with Bridget Todd about the woman who invented software and her rather strange family.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

CZM Book Club: "The Last Beat of My Heart" by Edward Morris
Margaret reads Gare a story about everyday magic, teen angst, and mixtapes.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part Two: The Expropriators: Fifteen Years of Political Bank Robbers in Argentina and Uruguay
Margaret concludes with Snow about the folks who tried to fund a revolution the old-fashioned way.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part One: The Expropriators: Fifteen Years of Political Bank Robbers in Argentina and Uruguay
Margaret talks with Snow about the folks who tried to fund a revolution the old-fashioned way.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

CZM Book Club: Part Two of "The Vampyre" by John Polidori
Margaret finishes the first modern vampire, a parable about the dangers of the libertine royalty,See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part Two: All Hail King Ludd: How the Luddites Almost Saved Us
In part two, Margaret talks with Robert Evans one more time about the English rebels who threw on dresses, declared a fake person their leader, and set about fighting the Industrial Revolution.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part One: All Hail King Ludd: How the Luddites Almost Saved Us
Margaret talks with Robert Evans about the English rebels who threw on dresses, declared a fake person their leader, and set about fighting the Industrial Revolution.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

CZM Book Club: Part One of "The Vampyre" by John Polidori
Margaret reads you the first modern vampire, a parable about the dangers of the libertine royalty,See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part Two: Oscar Wilde: A Story That Was Way More Important Than I Realized
In part two, Margaret continues to talk with Chelsey Weber-Smith about the gay anarchist Irish dandy who proved to be not shallow at all.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part One: Oscar Wilde: A Story That Was Way More Important Than I Realized
Margaret talks with Chelsey Weber-Smith about the gay anarchist Irish dandy who proved to be not shallow at all.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.