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CZM Book Club: How to Live Like the World is Ending by Margaret Killoy Jul 27, 2025

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Margaret reads you an essay about how to think about living during what feels like apocalyptic times.

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Part Two: Street Medics: The People Who Wash Pepperspray Out of Your Eyes Jul 23, 2025

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Margaret talks to Kaveh Hoda about the decentralized medical infrastructure that keeps protesters safe.

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non-public training documents provided by a street medic friend
https://www.bu.edu/bostonia/fall10/street-medic/street-medic.pdf
http://web.archive.org/web/20250220125506/https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5024403/
http://web.archive.org/web/20241028174039/https://massleague.org/CHC/History.php
https://web.archive.org/web/20250212163349/https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/medical-committee-human-rights/2014-09

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/28/health/h-jack-geiger-dead.html

https://medium.com/@Hesperian/care-for-where-there-is-no-justice-the-modern-history-of-street-medics-and-how-they-support-social-a02e940523d4
https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/416-spring-2025/the-praxis-of-street-medics/

https://mutualaiddisasterrelief.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/kupdf.net_street-medic-handbook.pdf
https://tabpres.org/the-flying-black-medics/
https://web.archive.org/web/20071220215141/http://bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/other_stories/multipage/documents/02704493.htm

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Part One: Street Medics: The People Who Wash Pepperspray Out of Your Eyes Jul 21, 2025

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Margaret talks to Kaveh Hoda about the decentralized medical infrastructure that keeps protesters safe.

Sources:

https://www.bu.edu/bostonia/fall10/street-medic/street-medic.pdf

http://web.archive.org/web/20250220125506/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5024403/

http://web.archive.org/web/20241028174039/

https://massleague.org/CHC/History.php

https://web.archive.org/web/20250212163349/

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/medical-committee-human-rights/2014-09

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/28/health/h-jack-geiger-dead.html

https://medium.com/@Hesperian/care-for-where-there-is-no-justice-the-modern-history-of-street-medics-and-how-they-support-social-a02e940523d4

https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/416-spring-2025/the-praxis-of-street-medics/

https://mutualaiddisasterrelief.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/kupdf.net_street-medic-handbook.pdf

https://tabpres.org/the-flying-black-medics/

https://web.archive.org/web/20071220215141/

http://bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/other_stories/multipage/documents/02704493.htm

https://archive.org/stream/street-medic-guide-paper-revolution-collective-

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CZM Book Club: Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne Jul 20, 2025

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Margaret got talked into doing something fun for book club this week.

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Part Two: The National Lawyers Guild: The Legal Arm of Basically Every Social Movement in the US Jul 16, 2025

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Margaret continues talking 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_in_US_presidential_elections_-_popular_vote.svg

https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/william-perkins-black-12522/

https://www.etymonline.com/word/barrister

https://www.etymonline.com/word/bar

https://www.americanbar.org/about_the_aba/timeline/

https://nationalbar.org/nba-history/

https://www.michbar.org/file/barjournal/article/documents/pdf4article2529.pdf

https://www.nlg.org/national-lawyers-guild-convention-will-celebrate-75-years-reunite-activists/

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Part One: The National Lawyers Guild: The Legal Arm of Basically Every Social Movement in the US Jul 14, 2025

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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_in_US_presidential_elections_-_popular_vote.svg

https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/william-perkins-black-12522/

https://www.etymonline.com/word/barrister

https://www.etymonline.com/word/bar

https://www.americanbar.org/about_the_aba/timeline/

https://nationalbar.org/nba-history/

https://www.michbar.org/file/barjournal/article/documents/pdf4article2529.pdf

https://www.nlg.org/national-lawyers-guild-convention-will-celebrate-75-years-reunite-activists/

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CZM Book Club: Diary of a Lunatic by Leo Tolstoy Jul 13, 2025

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Margaret reads you a story about mental health, panic disorders, and anticapitalism.

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CZM Rewind: Part Two: The Battle of Negro Fort: Florida's Maroon Community Jul 09, 2025

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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

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CZM Rewind: Part One: The Battle of Negro Fort: Florida's Maroon Community Jul 07, 2025

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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

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CZM Book Club Presents: The Evolution of an Agitator, by Lizzie M. Holmes Jul 06, 2025

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Margaret reads you a story about the endless quest to find the roots of inequality.

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