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CZM Rewind: Part Two: The Jane Collective: Direct Action Abortion Access Works Aug 20, 2025

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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

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CZM Rewind: Part One: The Jane Collective: Direct Action Abortion Access Works Aug 18, 2025

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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

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CZM Book Club: Hermetica, by Alan Lea, Part Three Aug 17, 2025

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

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Part One: Alter-globalization Continues: How the Movement of Movements Used Carnivals and Riots to Fight Neoliberalism Aug 11, 2025

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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.htm

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CZM Book Club: Hermetica, by Alan Lea, Part Two Aug 10, 2025

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Margaret continues with Hermetica and our protagonist discovers... a clue!

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Part Two: Indymedia: How Lefty Techies and Journalists Reinvented the Internet Aug 06, 2025

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Margaret continues talking to Sarah Marshall about the Independent Media Centers that helped protesters build movements and changed how online communication happens.

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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

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Part One: Indymedia: How Lefty Techies and Journalists Reinvented the Internet Aug 04, 2025

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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.php

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CZM Book Club: Hermetica, by Alan Lea, Part One Aug 03, 2025

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Margaret reads you a modern speculative fiction novella written in the classic style that she thinks you'll like.

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CZM Rewind: The Japanese Anarchists Part Two Jul 30, 2025

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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

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CZM Rewind: The Japanese Anarchists Part 1 Jul 28, 2025

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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

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