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Part Two: Jim Henson: A Complicated Guy Who Made Stories I Really Like Oct 21, 2026

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Margaret continues talking to Andrew Ti about the strange hippie who found mainstream success with a message of peace and puppets

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https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/bread-and-puppet-theater-in-gotham
https://nypost.com/2021/04/23/the-civil-rights-rebels-that-created-sesame-street/
https://www.henson.com/jimsredbook/page/36/
https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Jim_Henson%27s_Memorial
https://www.newsbreak.com/herbie-j-pilato-1590342/4941153104564-the-shocking-racist-history-of-early-sesame-street-lore-a-tragic-look-back-6-decades-later
https://worldmetrics.org/relationship-cheating-statistics/
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/bert-ernie-are-gay-couple-sesame-street-writer-claims-n910701
Jim Henson, Idea Man
Jim Henson, Brian Jay Jones

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Part One: Jim Henson: A Complicated Guy Who Made Stories I Really Like Oct 19, 2026

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Margaret talks to Andrew Ti about the strange hippie who found mainstream success with a message of peace and puppets

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CZM Book Club: "Ark of Bones," by Henry Dumas with Dr. Treasure Shields Redmond (Part 2) Oct 18, 2026

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We continue our conversation with Dr. Treasure about Herny Dumas and touch on all sorts of topics from Hoodoo to Fannie Lou Hamer to being mentored by one's father.

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Introducing: Knowledge Fight Country Oct 15, 2026

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Knowledge Fight Country is a platform where Dan Friesen and his guests can chew over the biggest and best ideas being disseminated in right wing media. Through a focus on Alex Jones and figures similar to him, this show will provide a humorous and fun layer on top of discussing the context on why liars lie and how they do it.

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Part Two: The Warner Creek Free State: The Camp That Lasted a Year and Won Oct 14, 2026

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Margaret continues talking with Hazel Robin about the 30th anniversary of the successful fight to save Warner Creek in Oregon

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Part One: The Warner Creek Free State: The Camp That Lasted a Year and Won Oct 12, 2026

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Margaret talks with Hazel Robin about the 30th anniversary of the successful fight to save Warner Creek in Oregon

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CZM Book Club: "Ark of Bones," by Henry Dumas with Dr. Treasure Shields Redmond (Part 1) Oct 11, 2026

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Dr. Treasure Shields Redmond reads Margaret and Hazel a ghost story about transcendance, legacy and an unearthly river boat, by exalted ancestor Henry Dumas who was murdered by a white cop in 1968.

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Part Four: Autistici/Inventati and the Fight for the Autonomous Internet Oct 07, 2026

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Margaret finishes talking to you about the history behind Trump's latest boogieman, the Italian hacktavists who helped free the internet.

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https://chuffed.org/project/alexio-mutual-aid

https://publish.fid-media.de/server/api/core/bitstreams/f8e99026-0049-4da6-bd2e-1b5a9d84b477/content
https://www.inventati.org/campaign/press

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_State_list_of_Foreign_Terrorist_Organizations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specially_designated_global_terrorist

https://www.icnl.org/resources/research/ijnl/solving-the-necessity-conundrum-what-the-drug-war-can-teach-us-about-due-process-for-u-s-charities-in-the-fight-against-international-terrorist-financing
https://web.archive.org/web/20160126020743/http://www.jta.org/2009/05/28/news-opinion/united-states/holy-land-founders-get-life-sentences
https://scalawagmagazine.org/2025/08/palestinian-political-prisoner-shukri-abu-bakers-poetry-book-debuts-in-houston/
https://anarchistnews.org/content/go-forth-and-multiply-may-10-100-1000-servers-spark
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/12/newsid_3953000/3953999.stm
https://libcom.org/article/1969-strategy-tension-italy
https://libcom.org/article/giuseppe-pinelli-death-anarchist
https://files.libcom.org/files/Secrets-and-Bombs.pdf
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/16/world/evolution-in-europe-italy-discloses-its-web-of-cold-war-guerrillas.html
https://theconversation.com/looking-back-at-1992-italys-horrible-year-66739
https://theconversation.com/looking-back-at-1992-italys-horrible-year-66739
https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2001/07/22/carlo-una-vita-contro.html
https://blog.pmpress.org/2026/07/20/a-letter-to-carlo-giuliani/