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Part One: Public Radio: From the Open Source Origins to the Pacifist Poets Sep 15, 2025

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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-2h97

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CZM Book Club: Hermetica, by Alan Lea, Part Seven Sep 14, 2025

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Margaret brings you the conclusion of the tale of Hermetica.

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Part Two: Pirate Radio: From International Waters to Squatted Apartment Buildings Sep 10, 2025

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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://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.html

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Part One: Pirate Radio: From International Waters to Squatted Apartment Buildings Sep 08, 2025

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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://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.html

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CZM Book Club: Hermetica, by Alan Lea, Part Six Sep 07, 2025

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Margaret continues with tale of Hermetica, the generation ship.

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Part Two: The Surprising Stories Behind Foosball and Air Mail Sep 03, 2025

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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-183013

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Part One: The Surprising Stories Behind Foosball and Air Mail Sep 01, 2025

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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.htm

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CZM Book Club: Hermetica, by Alan Lea, Part Five Aug 31, 2025

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Margaret brings you further along into the tale of Hermetica, the generation ship.

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Part Two: Alter-globalization Continues: How the Movement of Movements Used Carnivals and Riots to Fight Neoliberalism Aug 25, 2025

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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-capital-a-retrospective-video-and-comic

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/j18.htm

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CZM Book Club : Hermetica, by Alan Lea, Part Four Aug 24, 2025

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Margaret brings you further along into the tale of Hermetica, the generation ship.

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