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Part One: Bethel House: How Schizophrenic Folks in Japan Created a New Model of Psychiatric Care Jan 20, 2025

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Margaret talks with Samantha McVey about the decades-long project in Northern Japan full of worker-cooperatives and new ways of living.

https://www.dinf.ne.jp/doc/english/resource/bethel/bethel_0805.html
Karen Nakamura, A Disability of the Soul
https://aeon.co/essays/japans-radical-alternative-to-psychiatric-diagnosis

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CZM Book Club: Cool Zone 2055: In Bed With the Dreadnaughts Jan 19, 2025

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Margaret from the future reads a report from behind the Iron Curtain in fascist-occupied Spain.

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Part Two: The Great Dismal Swamp and 200 Years of Revolt in the US South Jan 15, 2025

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Margaret continues talking to Sophie about the largest and longest-lasting maroon community in what became the United States.

https://daily.jstor.org/constructing-the-white-race/
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-04-02-0080
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/events-african-american-history/san-miguel-de-gualdape-slave-rebellion-1526/
https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/05/peter-h-wood-strange-new-land-excerpt.html
J Brent Morris, Dismal Freedom
Modibo Kadalie, Intimate Direct Democracy

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Part One: The Great Dismal Swamp and 200 Years of Revolt in the US South Jan 13, 2025

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Margaret talks to Sophie about the largest and longest-lasting maroon community in what became the United States.

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CZM Book Club: Cool Zone 2055: A Bestiary of Beasts Jan 12, 2025

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Margaret from the future talks about all of the terrible creatures that fascists have invented to attack internationalist forces.

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Part Two: Q&A Episode: Margaret and Sophie Answer Your Questions Jan 08, 2025

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It's time for the second part of our yearly Q&A, in which we answer questions from you, the audience. Whom we often appreciate.

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Part One: Q&A Episode: Margaret and Sophie Answer Your Questions Jan 06, 2025

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It's time for our yearly Q&A, in which we answer questions from you, the audience. Whom we often appreciate.

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CZM Book Club: Cool Zone 2055: How to Survive (the Dino Wars) Jan 05, 2025

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Margaret and Mia discuss the headlines here at the start of the year 2055 during world war 3.5.

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Part Two: Bella Ciao and the Migrant Laboring Women Who Gave Us an Anthem Jan 01, 2025

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In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation with author Gigi Griffis about the most famous partisan song of them all and its strange and mysterious origins.

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Part One: Bella Ciao and the Migrant Laboring Women Who Gave Us an Anthem Dec 30, 2024

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Margaret talks to author Gigi Griffis about the most famous partisan song of them all and its strange and mysterious origins.

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