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Part Two: Bread And Puppet: The Dawn of Giant Protest Puppets Jul 02, 2025

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Margaret continues talking to Jamie Loftus about some radical hippies who built gigantic puppets and an entire culture.

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Part One: Bread And Puppet: The Dawn of Giant Protest Puppets Jun 30, 2025

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Margaret talks to Jamie Loftus about some radical hippies who built gigantic puppets and an entire culture.

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CZM Book Club: Assembly Line, by B. Traven Jun 29, 2025

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Margaret reads you a story about arts and crafts.

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Part Two: The Battle in Seattle: How Scrappy Protesters Shut Down the World Trade Organization Jun 25, 2025

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Margaret continues telling you about the Direct Action Network that organized the successful shutdown of the WTO in November, 1999.

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Part One: The Battle in Seattle: How Scrappy Protesters Shut Down the World Trade Organiation Jun 23, 2025

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Margaret tells you about the Direct Action Network that organized the successful shutdown of the WTO in November, 1999

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CZM Book Club: Two More Stories by Leo Tolstoy Jun 22, 2025

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Margaret reads you two more stories about anticapitalism and religion.

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Part Two: The Black Bloc: It’s a Tactic, Not an Organization Jun 18, 2025

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Margaret continues talking with Molly Conger about the history of protestors wearing black and masks while fighting neoliberalism and fascism.

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Part One: The Black Bloc: It’s a Tactic, Not an Organization Jun 16, 2025

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Margaret talks with Molly Conger about the history of protestors wearing black and masks while fighting neoliberalism and fascism.

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CZM Book Club: After the Dance by Leo Tolstoy Jun 15, 2025

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Margaret reads you a story about what it takes to break from society in disgust.

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Part Four: The Alter-Globalization Movement: From the Zapatistas to the Battle of Seattle Jun 11, 2025

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Margaret continues telling you about the rise of neoliberalism and the rise of its opposition and about better ideas about how to globalize society.

Sources:

Direct Action: an Ethnography, David Graeber
The Zapatista Experience, Jerome Baschet
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https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/zapatista-womens-revolutionary-law-as-it-is-lived-today/
https://www.proceso.com.mx/reportajes/2019/1/3/pedro-el-subcomandante-del-ezln-que-murio-el-dia-del-levantamiento-217985.html
https://www.ncesc.com/geographic-faq/how-much-of-britain-is-below-the-poverty-line/
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https://schoolsforchiapas.org/ezln-the-path-of-the-zapatista-movement-40-years-after-its-foundation/
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https://www.teenvogue.com/story/zapatistas-have-been-revolutionary-force
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/03/the-woman-who-wont-let-mexico-forget-a-massacre.html
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https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ejercito-zapatista-de-liberacion-nacional-a-zapatista-response-to-the-ezln-is-not-anarchist
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https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/jerome-baschet-the-reorganization-of-zapatista-autonomy
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https://wagingnonviolence.org/2014/05/assassination-world-stands-solidarity-zapatistas/

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