Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
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.
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Jul 8, 2026
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Episodes
Part One: The National Lawyers Guild: The Legal Arm of Basically Every Social Movement in the US 14.07.2025 51:08
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/ 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_of_victory_...
CZM Book Club: Diary of a Lunatic by Leo Tolstoy 13.07.2025 39:05
Margaret reads you a story about mental health, panic disorders, and anticapitalism. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Rewind: Part Two: The Battle of Negro Fort: Florida's Maroon Community 09.07.2025 53:26
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 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Rewind: Part One: The Battle of Negro Fort: Florida's Maroon Community 07.07.2025 1:03:49
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 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club Presents: The Evolution of an Agitator, by Lizzie M. Holmes 06.07.2025 25:55
Margaret reads you a story about the endless quest to find the roots of inequality. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Part Two: Bread And Puppet: The Dawn of Giant Protest Puppets 02.07.2025 54:47
Margaret continues talking to Jamie Loftus about some radical hippies who built gigantic puppets and an entire culture. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Part One: Bread And Puppet: The Dawn of Giant Protest Puppets 30.06.2025 52:42
Margaret talks to Jamie Loftus about some radical hippies who built gigantic puppets and an entire culture. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Assembly Line, by B. Traven 29.06.2025 32:21
Margaret reads you a story about arts and crafts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Part Two: The Battle in Seattle: How Scrappy Protesters Shut Down the World Trade Organization 25.06.2025 36:15
Margaret continues telling you about the Direct Action Network that organized the successful shutdown of the WTO in November, 1999. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Part One: The Battle in Seattle: How Scrappy Protesters Shut Down the World Trade Organiation 23.06.2025 41:29
Margaret tells you about the Direct Action Network that organized the successful shutdown of the WTO in November, 1999 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Two More Stories by Leo Tolstoy 22.06.2025 28:24
Margaret reads you two more stories about anticapitalism and religion. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Part Two: The Black Bloc: It’s a Tactic, Not an Organization 18.06.2025 56:22
Margaret continues talking with Molly Conger about the history of protestors wearing black and masks while fighting neoliberalism and fascism. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Part One: The Black Bloc: It’s a Tactic, Not an Organization 16.06.2025 58:30
Margaret talks with Molly Conger about the history of protestors wearing black and masks while fighting neoliberalism and fascism. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: After the Dance by Leo Tolstoy 15.06.2025 27:44
Margaret reads you a story about what it takes to break from society in disgust. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Part Four: The Alter-Globalization Movement: From the Zapatistas to the Battle of Seattle 11.06.2025 30:30
Margaret continues telling you about the rise of neoliberalism and the rise of its opposition and about better ideas about how to globalize society. Sources: Direct Action: an Ethnography, David Graeber The Zapatista Experience, Jerome Baschet https://www.piie.com/commentary/speeches-papers/did-washington-consensus-fail https://www.spiegel.de/international/interview-with-ex-neocon-francis-fu...
Part Three: The Alter-Globalization Movement: From the Zapatistas to the Battle of Seattle 09.06.2025 27:54
Margaret continues telling you about the rise of neoliberalism and the rise of its opposition and about better ideas about how to globalize society. Sources: Direct Action: an Ethnography, David Graeber The Zapatista Experience, Jerome Baschet https://www.piie.com/commentary/speeches-papers/did-washington-consensus-fail https://www.spiegel.de/international/interview-with-ex-neocon-francis-fukuyama...
CZM Book Club : The Revolutionary Fables of Ricardo Flores Magón, Part Two 08.06.2025 33:43
Margaret reads you more short stories written by the one of the ideological leaders of the Mexican Revolution. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Rewind: Part Two: Before the Mexican Revolution: Ricardo Flores Magón and the peasants who ended a dictatorship 04.06.2025 1:01:20
Margaret continues talking with Kat Abu about the Mexican liberals who became anarchists and sparked a revolution. Original Air Date: 7.26.23 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Rewind: Part One: Before the Mexican Revolution: Ricardo Flores Magón and the peasants who ended a dictatorship 02.06.2025 1:15:33
Margaret talks with Kat Abu about the Mexican liberals who became anarchists and sparked a revolution. Original Air Date: 7.24.23 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: The Revolutionary Fables of Ricardo Flores Magón 01.06.2025 27:16
Margaret reads you several short stories written by the one of the ideological leaders of the Mexican Revolution. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Part Two: The Alter-Globalization Movement: From the Zapatistas to the Battle of Seattle 28.05.2025 33:51
Margaret tells you about the rise of neoliberalism and the rise of its opposition and about better ideas about how to globalize society. Sources: Direct Action: an Ethnography, David Graeber The Zapatista Experience, Jerome Baschet https://www.piie.com/commentary/speeches-papers/did-washington-consensus-fail https://www.spiegel.de/international/interview-with-ex-neocon-francis-fukuyama-a-mod...
Part One: The Alter-Globalization Movement: From the Zapatistas to the Battle of Seattle 26.05.2025 40:25
Margaret tells you about the rise of neoliberalism and the rise of its opposition and about better ideas about how to globalize society. Sources: Direct Action: an Ethnography, David Graeber The Zapatista Experience, Jerome Baschet https://www.piie.com/commentary/speeches-papers/did-washington-consensus-fail https://www.spiegel.de/international/interview-with-ex-neocon-francis-fukuyama-a-model-dem...
CZM Book Club: The Abbot of Druimenach 25.05.2025 21:22
Margaret reads you an Irish fairy tale about gender transformation that she really likes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Part Two: Habeas Corpus and the Peasant Origins of Western Democracy 21.05.2025 49:19
Margaret continues talking with Kat Abughazaleh about the folk councils that came to define English Common Law. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Part One: Habeus Corpus and the Peasant Origins of Western Democracy 19.05.2025 44:04
Margaret talks with Kat Abughazaleh about the folk councils that came to define English Common Law. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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