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 continues her talk with Mangesh Hattikudur about the antifascist who invented table soccer and the socialist photographer who invented air mail.
Sources:
https://spainonthisday.com/alejandro-finisterre-the-inventor-of-table-football
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/feb/24/guardianobituaries.spain
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Finisterre
https://historia-hispanica.rah.es/biografias/50737-alejandro-campos-...
Margaret talks with Mangesh Hattikudur about the antifascist who invented table soccer and the socialist photographer who invented air mail.
Sources:
https://spainonthisday.com/alejandro-finisterre-the-inventor-of-table-football
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/feb/24/guardianobituaries.spain
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Finisterre
https://historia-hispanica.rah.es/biografias/50737-alejandro-campos-ramirez
https...
Margaret brings you further along into the tale of Hermetica, the generation ship.
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Margaret continues talking 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-capi...
Margaret brings you further along into the tale of Hermetica, the generation ship.
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In part two of this weeks 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.
Original Air Date: 5.11.2022
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Margaret talks with Samantha McVey about the more than a hundred women who provided safe, affordable abortion in pre- Roe v Wade Chicago.
Original Air Date: 5.9.2022
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Margaret brings you further along into the tale of Hermetica, the generation ship.
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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
https://...
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/
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