Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
SamfunnHistorieAs 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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- Part Two: Mutual Aid and Evolution: Peter Kropotkin and the Battle for Science (01:06:14)
Margaret continues talking to Katie Goldin about the anarchist prince who laid the foundations for understanding cooperation in the wild. Sources: https://thebiologist.rsb.org.uk/biologist-features/who-was-peter-kropothkin https://trise.org/2018/01/04/kropotkin-and-climate-change/ https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/allan-antliff-memorializing-kropotkin https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1883/don/ch07c.htm https://evolution.berkeley.edu/the-history-of-evolutionary-thought/1800s/uniformitarianism-charles-lyell/ https://summitborn.com/discovery-of-the-ice-age/ https://logarithmichistory.wordpress.com/2024/11/18/gradualism-10/ https://strangescience.net/lyell.htm https://medium.com/science-spectrum/how-darwin-discovered-invented-evolution-4d99aadf5656 https://psyche.co/ideas/kropotkin-the-radical-aristocrat-who-put-kindness-on-a-scientific-footing https://www.marxists.org/subject/science/essays/kropotkin.htmSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- Part One: Mutual Aid and Evolution: Peter Kropotkin and the Battle for Science (01:00:10)
Margaret talks to Katie Goldin about the anarchist prince who laid the foundations for understanding cooperation in the wild. https://thebiologist.rsb.org.uk/biologist-features/who-was-peter-kropothkin https://trise.org/2018/01/04/kropotkin-and-climate-change/ https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/allan-antliff-memorializing-kropotkin https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1883/don/ch07c.htm https://evolution.berkeley.edu/the-history-of-evolutionary-thought/1800s/uniformitarianism-charles-lyell/ https://summitborn.com/discovery-of-the-ice-age/ https://logarithmichistory.wordpress.com/2024/11/18/gradualism-10/ https://strangescience.net/lyell.htm https://medium.com/science-spectrum/how-darwin-discovered-invented-evolution-4d99aadf5656 https://psyche.co/ideas/kropotkin-the-radical-aristocrat-who-put-kindness-on-a-scientific-footing https://www.marxists.org/subject/science/essays/kropotkin.htmSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- CZM Book Club: Selkie Stories Are For Losers, by Sofia Samatar (00:26:22)
Margaret reads you a story about yearning and magic and folklore and teenage gays.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- Make Ready: Safeguarding Our Movements against Repression (00:28:25)
Margaret reads a piece from CrimethInc with practical steps for resisting state repression. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- Part One: I Can't Tell You What's Coming (00:31:48)
Margaret talks about the current political landscape and how to prepare ourselves.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- CZM Book Club: Hermetica, Interview with Alan Lea (00:35:13)
Margaret sits down with author Alan Lea to discuss his novella, Hermetica. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- Part Two: Public Radio: From the Open Source Origins to the Pacifist Poets (00:49:07)
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/telegraph https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/rescue-development-radio/ https://gizmodo.com/a-magician-used-the-first-pirate-radio-station-to-troll-1681527405 https://www.wshu.org/vintage-radio/2015-12-14/so-what-did-marconi-hear https://www.orarc.org/?p=2297 https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v06/n01/george-woodcock/elegy-for-an-anarchist https://discovernikkei.org/en/journal/2022/8/28/kenneth-rexroth/ https://crimethinc.com/2020/12/22/a-poem-by-kenneth-rexroth-painted-across-the-rooftops-of-the-world-on-the-occasion-of-his-birthday https://www.thing.net/~grist/ld/young/revkyoung.htm https://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/sf/1961.htm https://www.literatureandarts.com/kenneth-rexroth/project-four-2h97g https://www.pgurus.com/multi-faceted-single-minded-nationalist/ https://www.theheritagelab.in/jagadish-bose-home-interior-design-architecture/ https://interestingengineering.com/culture/jagadish-chandra-bose-father-modern-wi-fi https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/the-thinking-plants-man/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- Part One: Public Radio: From the Open Source Origins to the Pacifist Poets (00:40:52)
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/telegraph https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/rescue-development-radio/ https://gizmodo.com/a-magician-used-the-first-pirate-radio-station-to-troll-1681527405 https://www.wshu.org/vintage-radio/2015-12-14/so-what-did-marconi-hear https://www.orarc.org/?p=2297 https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v06/n01/george-woodcock/elegy-for-an-anarchist https://discovernikkei.org/en/journal/2022/8/28/kenneth-rexroth/ https://crimethinc.com/2020/12/22/a-poem-by-kenneth-rexroth-painted-across-the-rooftops-of-the-world-on-the-occasion-of-his-birthday https://www.thing.net/~grist/ld/young/revkyoung.htm https://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/sf/1961.htm https://www.literatureandarts.com/kenneth-rexroth/project-four-2h97See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- CZM Book Club: Hermetica, by Alan Lea, Part Seven (00:29:50)
Margaret brings you the conclusion of the tale of Hermetica.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- Part Two: Pirate Radio: From International Waters to Squatted Apartment Buildings (00:54:33)
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-autonomia-5/ https://www.thejournal.ie/ronan-orahilly-radio-caroline-death-5079760-Apr2020/ https://web.archive.org/web/20100524063428/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article7053070.ece https://web.archive.org/web/20071018203739/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/09/27/bvradio127.xml&page=1 https://web.archive.org/web/20110719070410/http://www.offshoreradio.de/fleet/shivering.htm https://www.bobleroi.co.uk/ScrapBook/SutchCityPics1/SutchCityPics1.htmlSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- Part One: Pirate Radio: From International Waters to Squatted Apartment Buildings (00:46:46)
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-autonomia-5/ https://www.thejournal.ie/ronan-orahilly-radio-caroline-death-5079760-Apr2020/ https://web.archive.org/web/20100524063428/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article7053070.ece https://web.archive.org/web/20071018203739/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/09/27/bvradio127.xml&page=1 https://web.archive.org/web/20110719070410/http://www.offshoreradio.de/fleet/shivering.htm https://www.bobleroi.co.uk/ScrapBook/SutchCityPics1/SutchCityPics1.htmlSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- CZM Book Club: Hermetica, by Alan Lea, Part Six (00:35:48)
Margaret continues with tale of Hermetica, the generation ship. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- Part Two: The Surprising Stories Behind Foosball and Air Mail (00:42:45)
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-ramirez https://raicesalaire.com/alejandro-finisterre/ https://www.revistadefrente.cl/el-poeta-anarquista-que-invento-el-taca-taca-para-la-ninez-victima-de-la-guerra-civil-espanola/ https://www.adiantegalicia.es/reportaxes/2019/09/08/alejandro-finisterre-la-historia-jamas-contada-del-genio-del-futbolin-en-el-ano-del-centenario-de-su-natalicio.html https://www.lambiek.net/artists/n/nadar.htm https://time.com/5289117/aerial-photography-drones-history/ https://www.thoughtco.com/the-first-impressionist-exhibition-183013See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- Part One: The Surprising Stories Behind Foosball and Air Mail (00:45:48)
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://raicesalaire.com/alejandro-finisterre/ https://www.revistadefrente.cl/el-poeta-anarquista-que-invento-el-taca-taca-para-la-ninez-victima-de-la-guerra-civil-espanola/ https://www.adiantegalicia.es/reportaxes/2019/09/08/alejandro-finisterre-la-historia-jamas-contada-del-genio-del-futbolin-en-el-ano-del-centenario-de-su-natalicio.html https://www.lambiek.net/artists/n/nadar.htmSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- CZM Book Club: Hermetica, by Alan Lea, Part Five (00:29:26)
Margaret brings you further along into the tale of Hermetica, the generation ship.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- Part Two: Alter-globalization Continues: How the Movement of Movements Used Carnivals and Riots to Fight Neoliberalism (00:36:49)
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-capital-a-retrospective-video-and-comic https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/j18.htmSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- CZM Book Club : Hermetica, by Alan Lea, Part Four (00:37:41)
Margaret brings you further along into the tale of Hermetica, the generation ship. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- CZM Rewind: Part Two: The Jane Collective: Direct Action Abortion Access Works (01:00:55)
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: 5.11.2022See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- CZM Rewind: Part One: The Jane Collective: Direct Action Abortion Access Works (01:18:52)
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: 5.9.2022See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- CZM Book Club: Hermetica, by Alan Lea, Part Three (00:32:15)
Margaret brings you further along into the tale of Hermetica, the generation ship. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- Part One: Alter-globalization Continues: How the Movement of Movements Used Carnivals and Riots to Fight Neoliberalism (00:29:55)
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-retrospective-video-and-comic https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/j18.htmSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- CZM Book Club: Hermetica, by Alan Lea, Part Two (00:27:04)
Margaret continues with Hermetica and our protagonist discovers... a clue!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- Part Two: Indymedia: How Lefty Techies and Journalists Reinvented the Internet (01:02:41)
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/10.1145/3485447.3512282#fig3See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- Part One: Indymedia: How Lefty Techies and Journalists Reinvented the Internet (00:54:18)
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 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0163443720926039 https://www.academia.edu/21814073/Indymedia_Journalism_A_Radical_Way_of_Making_Selecting_and_Sharing_News https://www.academia.edu/45052617/Indymedia_and_Media_Activism_at_the_Turn_of_the_Millennium https://crimethinc.com/2017/08/25/german-government-shuts-down-indymedia-what-it-means-and-what-to-do https://crimethinc.com/2022/10/28/the-billionaire-and-the-anarchists-tracing-twitter-from-its-roots-as-a-protest-tool-to-elon-musks-acquisition https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeldelcastillo/2022/09/11/jack-dorseys-former-boss-is-building-a-decentralized-twitter/ https://libcom.org/article/sources-and-police-raid-bristol-indymedia https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/local-news-indymedia-network-25-anniversary.phpSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- CZM Book Club: Hermetica, by Alan Lea, Part One (00:32:32)
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.