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Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

As long as there’s been oppression, there’ve been people fighting it. This weekly podcast dives into history to drag up the wildest rebels, the most beautiful revolts, and all the people who long to be—and fight to be—free. It explores complex stories of resistance that offer lessons and inspiration for us today, focusing on the ensemble casts that make up each act of history. That is to say, this podcast focuses on Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff.

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Part Three: The Alter-Globalization Movement: From the Zapatistas to the Battle of Seattle Jun 09, 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
https://www.piie.com/commentary/speeches-papers/did-washington-consensus-fail
https://www.spiegel.de/international/interview-with-ex-neocon-francis-fukuyama-a-model-democracy-is-not-emerging-in-iraq-a-407315.html
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/
https://www.tni.org/en/article/a-short-history-of-neoliberalism
https://bigthink.com/thinking/classical-liberalism-explained/
https://schoolsforchiapas.org/ezln-the-path-of-the-zapatista-movement-40-years-after-its-foundation/
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0306422018819354
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-25550654
https://web.archive.org/web/20090813155006/http://greenanarchy.info/etc/ezln_response.htm
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/26/world/americas/mexico-zapatista-subcommander-marcos.html
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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Abejas
https://schoolsforchiapas.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Interview-with-Subcomandante-Marcos.pdf
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ejercito-zapatista-de-liberacion-nacional-a-zapatista-response-to-the-ezln-is-not-anarchist
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/mexicos-zapatista-indigenous-rebel-movement-says-it-is-dissolving-its-autonomous-municipalities
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/jerome-baschet-the-reorganization-of-zapatista-autonomy
https://schoolsforchiapas.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Ra%C3%BAl-Zibechi-Zapatista-Autonomy-PDF.pdf
https://illwill.com/zapatista-autonomy
https://chiapas-support.org/2014/10/04/anatomy-of-a-paramilitary-attack-on-the-zapatistas/
https://wagingnonviolence.org/2014/05/assassination-world-stands-solidarity-zapatistas/

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CZM Book Club : The Revolutionary Fables of Ricardo Flores Magón, Part Two Jun 08, 2025

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Margaret reads you more short stories written by the one of the ideological leaders of the Mexican Revolution.

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CZM Rewind: Part Two: Before the Mexican Revolution: Ricardo Flores Magón and the peasants who ended a dictatorship Jun 04, 2025

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Margaret continues talking with Kat Abu about the Mexican liberals who became anarchists and sparked a revolution.

Original Air Date: 7.26.23

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CZM Rewind: Part One: Before the Mexican Revolution: Ricardo Flores Magón and the peasants who ended a dictatorship Jun 02, 2025

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Margaret talks with Kat Abu about the Mexican liberals who became anarchists and sparked a revolution.

Original Air Date: 7.24.23

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CZM Book Club: The Revolutionary Fables of Ricardo Flores Magón Jun 01, 2025

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Margaret reads you several short stories written by the one of the ideological leaders of the Mexican Revolution.

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Part Two: The Alter-Globalization Movement: From the Zapatistas to the Battle of Seattle May 28, 2025

Show notes

Margaret tells 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
https://www.piie.com/commentary/speeches-papers/did-washington-consensus-fail
https://www.spiegel.de/international/interview-with-ex-neocon-francis-fukuyama-a-model-democracy-is-not-emerging-in-iraq-a-407315.html
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/
https://www.tni.org/en/article/a-short-history-of-neoliberalism
https://bigthink.com/thinking/classical-liberalism-explained/
https://schoolsforchiapas.org/ezln-the-path-of-the-zapatista-movement-40-years-after-its-foundation/
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0306422018819354
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-25550654
https://web.archive.org/web/20090813155006/http://greenanarchy.info/etc/ezln_response.htm
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/26/world/americas/mexico-zapatista-subcommander-marcos.html
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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Abejas
https://schoolsforchiapas.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Interview-with-Subcomandante-Marcos.pdf
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ejercito-zapatista-de-liberacion-nacional-a-zapatista-response-to-the-ezln-is-not-anarchist
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/mexicos-zapatista-indigenous-rebel-movement-says-it-is-dissolving-its-autonomous-municipalities
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/jerome-baschet-the-reorganization-of-zapatista-autonomy
https://schoolsforchiapas.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Ra%C3%BAl-Zibechi-Zapatista-Autonomy-PDF.pdf
https://illwill.com/zapatista-autonomy
https://chiapas-support.org/2014/10/04/anatomy-of-a-paramilitary-attack-on-the-zapatistas/
https://wagingnonviolence.org/2014/05/assassination-world-stands-solidarity-zapatistas/

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Part One: The Alter-Globalization Movement: From the Zapatistas to the Battle of Seattle May 26, 2025

Show notes

Margaret tells 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
https://www.piie.com/commentary/speeches-papers/did-washington-consensus-fail
https://www.spiegel.de/international/interview-with-ex-neocon-francis-fukuyama-a-model-democracy-is-not-emerging-in-iraq-a-407315.html
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/
https://www.tni.org/en/article/a-short-history-of-neoliberalism
https://bigthink.com/thinking/classical-liberalism-explained/
https://schoolsforchiapas.org/ezln-the-path-of-the-zapatista-movement-40-years-after-its-foundation/
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0306422018819354
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-25550654
https://web.archive.org/web/20090813155006/http://greenanarchy.info/etc/ezln_response.htm
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/26/world/americas/mexico-zapatista-subcommander-marcos.html
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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Abejas
https://schoolsforchiapas.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Interview-with-Subcomandante-Marcos.pdf
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ejercito-zapatista-de-liberacion-nacional-a-zapatista-response-to-the-ezln-is-not-anarchist
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/mexicos-zapatista-indigenous-rebel-movement-says-it-is-dissolving-its-autonomous-municipalities
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/jerome-baschet-the-reorganization-of-zapatista-autonomy
https://schoolsforchiapas.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Ra%C3%BAl-Zibechi-Zapatista-Autonomy-PDF.pdf
https://illwill.com/zapatista-autonomy
https://chiapas-support.org/2014/10/04/anatomy-of-a-paramilitary-attack-on-the-zapatistas/
https://wagingnonviolence.org/2014/05/assassination-world-stands-solidarity-zapatistas/

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CZM Book Club: The Abbot of Druimenach May 25, 2025

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Margaret reads you an Irish fairy tale about gender transformation that she really likes.

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Part Two: Habeas Corpus and the Peasant Origins of Western Democracy May 21, 2025

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Margaret continues talking with Kat Abughazaleh about the folk councils that came to define English Common Law.

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Part One: Habeus Corpus and the Peasant Origins of Western Democracy May 19, 2025

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Margaret talks with Kat Abughazaleh about the folk councils that came to define English Common Law.

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