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Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

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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41:29

Part One: The Battle in Seattle: How Scrappy...

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/06/23

Margaret tells you about the Direct Action Network that organized the successful shutdown of the WTO in November, 1999 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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28:24

CZM Book Club: Two More Stories by Leo Tolstoy

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2025/06/22

Margaret reads you two more stories about anticapitalism and religion.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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56:22

Part Two: The Black Bloc: It’s a Tactic, Not an...

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/06/18

Margaret continues talking with Molly Conger about the history of protestors wearing black and masks while fighting neoliberalism and fascism.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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58:30

Part One: The Black Bloc: It’s a Tactic, Not an...

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/06/16

Margaret talks with Molly Conger about the history of protestors wearing black and masks while fighting neoliberalism and fascism.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

en-US

30:30

Part Four: The Alter-Globalization Movement: From the...

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2025/06/11

Margaret continues telling you about the rise of neoliberalism and the rise of its opposition and about better ideas about how to globalize society.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

en-US

27:54

Part Three: The Alter-Globalization Movement: From...

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/06/09

Margaret continues telling you about the rise of neoliberalism and the rise of its opposition and about better ideas about how to globalize society.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

en-US

33:43

CZM Book Club : The Revolutionary Fables of Ricardo...

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/06/08

Margaret reads you more short stories written by the one of the ideological leaders of the Mexican Revolution.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

en-US

61:20

CZM Rewind: Part Two: Before the Mexican Revolution:...

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/06/04

Margaret continues talking with Kat Abu about the Mexican liberals who became anarchists and sparked a revolution. Original Air Date: 7.26.23 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

en-US

75:33

CZM Rewind: Part One: Before the Mexican Revolution:...

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/06/02

Margaret talks with Kat Abu about the Mexican liberals who became anarchists and sparked a revolution. Original Air Date: 7.24.23See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

en-US

33:51

Part Two: The Alter-Globalization Movement: From the...

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/05/28

Margaret tells you about the rise of neoliberalism and the rise of its opposition and about better ideas about how to globalize society.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

en-US

40:25

Part One: The Alter-Globalization Movement: From the...

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/05/26

Margaret tells you about the rise of neoliberalism and the rise of its opposition and about better ideas about how to globalize society.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

en-US

2:51

Introducing: Away Days Podcast

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/05/22

Hi, Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff Fans! We want to share a new show, Away Days: Reporting from the Underbelly. About the show: Away Days Podcast is an episodic documentary series focused on unreported stories from the fringes of society.We’re compassionately documenting the underground without watering it down or editorially obscuring it. This is independent journalism with no filter.Real, raw, and ugly. Journalist Jake Hanrahan, the host and creator of Away Days has spent the last 10 years

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49:19

Part Two: Habeas Corpus and the Peasant Origins of...

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/05/21

Margaret continues talking with Kat Abughazaleh about the folk councils that came to define English Common Law.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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44:04

Part One: Habeus Corpus and the Peasant Origins of...

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/05/19

Margaret talks with Kat Abughazaleh about the folk councils that came to define English Common Law.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

en-US

57:58

Part Two: How We Beat Polio But Not the Mythmaking...

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/05/14

Margaret talks with Anney Reese about how a group of people made polio vaccines and ended polio but how one guy took all the credit and ruined our understanding of history.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

en-US

55:56

Part One: How We Beat Polio But Not the Mythmaking...

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/05/12

Margaret talks with Anney Reese about how a group of people made polio vaccines and ended polio but how one guy took all the credit and ruined our understanding of history.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

en-US

47:26

Part Two: International Antifascists in Ukraine: the...

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/05/07

Margaret continues talking with Ron Placone about three antifascists who died protecting a humanitarian corridor--and one would-be antifascist who died on the other side of the war.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

en-US

54:32

Part One: International Antifascists in Ukraine: the...

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/05/05

Margaret talks with Ron Placone about three antifascists who died protecting a humanitarian corridor--and one would-be antifascist who died on the other side of the war.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

en-US

64:48

Part Two: A War Against Tankies and Tanks: the...

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/04/30

Margaret continues talking with Mia Wong about the communists and socialists who fought for workers’ power against the USSR.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

en-US

64:40

Part One: A War Against Tankies and Tanks: the...

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/04/28

Margaret talks with Mia Wong about the communists and socialists who fought for workers’ power against the USSR.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

en-US

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