Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
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.
Episodes
Margaret talks about how people confronted trade summit after trade summit, fighting tooth, nail, and pom-pom against unelected world governance.
Sources:
https://crimethinc.com/2021/11/30/epilogue-on-the-movement-against-capitalist-globalization-22-years-after-n30-what-it-can-teach-us-today
http://www.ainfos.ca/99/jun/ainfos00181.html
https://crimethinc.com/2017/06/18/flashback-to-june-18-1999-the-carnival-against-capital-a...
Margaret continues with Hermetica and our protagonist discovers... a clue!
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Margaret continues talking to Sarah Marshall about the Independent Media Centers that helped protesters build movements and changed how online communication happens.
Sources:
https://daily.jstor.org/the-invention-of-journalistic-objectivity/
https://daily.jstor.org/to-fix-fake-news-look-to-yellow-journalism/
https://web.archive.org/web/20200304071058/http://www.infoshop.org/about-us/
https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3...
Margaret talks to Sarah Marshall about the Independent Media Centers that helped protesters build movements and changed how online communication happens.
Sources:
https://daily.jstor.org/the-invention-of-journalistic-objectivity/
https://daily.jstor.org/to-fix-fake-news-look-to-yellow-journalism/
https://web.archive.org/web/20200304071058/http://www.infoshop.org/about-us/
https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3485447.3512282#fig3
...Margaret reads you a modern speculative fiction novella written in the classic style that she thinks you'll like.
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We're once again joined by Margaret Killjoy, host of the new podcast Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff, to talk about the history of anarchism in Japan.
Original Air Date: 4.29.22 on It Could Happen Here
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We're joined by Margaret Killjoy, host of the new podcast Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff, to talk about the history of anarchism in Japan.
Original Air Date: 4.28.22 on It Could Happen Here
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Margaret reads you an essay about how to think about living during what feels like apocalyptic times.
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Margaret talks to Kaveh Hoda about the decentralized medical infrastructure that keeps protesters safe.
Sources:
non-public training documents provided by a street medic friend
https://www.bu.edu/bostonia/fall10/street-medic/street-medic.pdf
http://web.archive.org/web/20250220125506/https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5024403/
http://web.archive.org/web/20241028174039/https://massleague.org/CHC/History.php
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Margaret talks to Kaveh Hoda about the decentralized medical infrastructure that keeps protesters safe.
Sources:
https://www.bu.edu/bostonia/fall10/street-medic/street-medic.pdf
http://web.archive.org/web/20250220125506/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5024403/
http://web.archive.org/web/20241028174039/
https://massleague.org/CHC/History.php
Margaret got talked into doing something fun for book club this week.
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Margaret continues talking to Joelle Monique about the almost 90 year history of the organization for progressive and radical lawyers.
Sources:
https://moatlaw.com/2019/07/25/stand-with-the-people-watch-and-oppose-the-police/
Margaret talks to Joelle Monique about the almost 90 year history of the organization for progressive and radical lawyers.
Sources:
https://moatlaw.com/2019/07/25/stand-with-the-people-watch-and-oppose-the-police/
Margaret reads you a story about mental health, panic disorders, and anticapitalism.
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Margaret continues talking with Jamie Loftus about the Black and Indigenous soldiers who lived free in a fort in Spanish Florida until Andrew Jackson broke a lot of laws to fight them.
Orginial Air Date: 12.20.23
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Margaret talks with Jamie Loftus about the Black and Indigenous soldiers who lived free in a fort in Spanish Florida until Andrew Jackson broke a lot of laws to fight them.
Original Air Date: 12.18.23
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Margaret reads you a story about the endless quest to find the roots of inequality.
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Margaret continues talking to Jamie Loftus about some radical hippies who built gigantic puppets and an entire culture.
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Margaret talks to Jamie Loftus about some radical hippies who built gigantic puppets and an entire culture.
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Margaret reads you a story about arts and crafts.
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Margaret Killjoy