Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Margaret talks with Bridget Todd about Jagadish Chandra Bose, the inventor of radio, and Kenneth Rexroth, the poet involved in the creation of public radio. Sources: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kenneth-rexroth https://libcom.org/article/rexroth-kenneth-1905-1982 https://www.montecitojournal.net/2023/05/16/kenneth-rexroth-a-poet-of-montecito/ https://www.britannica.com/technology/telegra...

Margaret brings you the conclusion of the tale of Hermetica. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Margaret continues her talk with Bursts about the surprising history of pirate radio and the three way fight for control of the airwaves. Sources: https://files.libcom.org/files/radio-is-my-bomb-part-1.pdf https://files.libcom.org/files/radio-is-my-bomb-part-2.pdf https://files.libcom.org/files/Radio%20Alice.pdf https://autonomies.org/2023/02/italy-autonomia-5/ https://autonomies.org/2023/02/italy...

Margaret talks with Bursts about the surprising history of pirate radio and the three way fight for control of the airwaves.  Sources: https://files.libcom.org/files/radio-is-my-bomb-part-1.pdf https://files.libcom.org/files/radio-is-my-bomb-part-2.pdf https://files.libcom.org/files/Radio%20Alice.pdf https://autonomies.org/2023/02/italy-autonomia-5/ https://autonomies.org/2023/02/italy-autono...

Margaret continues with tale of Hermetica, the generation ship.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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/bio...

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...

Margaret brings you further along into the tale of Hermetica, the generation ship. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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-jun...

Margaret brings you further along into the tale of Hermetica, the generation ship.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Margaret brings you further along into the tale of Hermetica, the generation ship.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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-...

Margaret continues with Hermetica and our protagonist discovers... a clue! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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:...

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/fu...

Margaret reads you a modern speculative fiction novella written in the classic style that she thinks you'll like. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Margaret reads you an essay about how to think about living during what feels like apocalyptic times.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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/C...

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 https://web.archive.org/web/20250212163349/ htt...

Margaret got talked into doing something fun for book club this week.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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/ https://www.nlg.org/a-history-of-the-nlg-1937-1987/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_elections_by_popular_vote_margin#/media/File:1828-_Margin...