Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Episodes

• CZM Book Club: "Ark of Bones," by Henry Dumas with Dr. Treasure Shields Redmond (Part 1)Dr. Treasure Shields Redmond reads Margaret and Hazel a ghost story about transcendance, legacy and an unearthly river boat, by exalted ancestor Henry Dumas who was murdered by a white cop in 1968. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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• Part Four: Autistici/Inventati and the Fight for the Autonomous InternetMargaret finishes talking to you about the history behind Trump's latest boogieman, the Italian hacktavists who helped free the internet. Sources: https://chuffed.org/project/alexio-mutual-aid https://publish.fid-media.de/server/api/core/bitstreams/f8e99026-0049-4da6-bd2e-1b5a9d84b477/content https://www.inventati.org/campaign/press https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_State_list_of_Foreign_Terrorist_Organizations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specially_designated_global_terrorist https://www.icnl.org/resources/research/ijnl/solving-the-necessity-conundrum-what-the-drug-war-can-teach-us-about-due-process-for-u-s-charities-in-the-fight-against-international-terrorist-financing https://web.archive.org/web/20160126020743/http://www.jta.org/2009/05/28/news-opinion/united-states/holy-land-founders-get-life-sentences https://scalawagmagazine.org/2025/08/palestinian-political-prisoner-shukri-abu-bakers-poetry-book-debuts-in-houston/ https://anarchistnews.org/content/go-forth-and-multiply-may-10-100-1000-servers-spark http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/12/newsid_3953000/3953999.stm https://libcom.org/article/1969-strategy-tension-italy https://libcom.org/article/giuseppe-pinelli-death-anarchist https://files.libcom.org/files/Secrets-and-Bombs.pdf https://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/16/world/evolution-in-europe-italy-discloses-its-web-of-cold-war-guerrillas.html https://theconversation.com/looking-back-at-1992-italys-horrible-year-66739 https://theconversation.com/looking-back-at-1992-italys-horrible-year-66739 https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2001/07/22/carlo-una-vita-contro.html https://blog.pmpress.org/2026/07/20/a-letter-to-carlo-giuliani/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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• Part Three: Autistici/Inventati and the Fight for the Autonomous InternetThis week, Margaret continues talking to you about the history behind Trump's latest boogieman, the Italian hacktavists who helped free the internet. Sources: https://chuffed.org/project/alexio-mutual-aid https://publish.fid-media.de/server/api/core/bitstreams/f8e99026-0049-4da6-bd2e-1b5a9d84b477/content https://www.inventati.org/campaign/press https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_State_list_of_Foreign_Terrorist_Organizations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specially_designated_global_terrorist https://www.icnl.org/resources/research/ijnl/solving-the-necessity-conundrum-what-the-drug-war-can-teach-us-about-due-process-for-u-s-charities-in-the-fight-against-international-terrorist-financing https://web.archive.org/web/20160126020743/http://www.jta.org/2009/05/28/news-opinion/united-states/holy-land-founders-get-life-sentences https://scalawagmagazine.org/2025/08/palestinian-political-prisoner-shukri-abu-bakers-poetry-book-debuts-in-houston/ https://anarchistnews.org/content/go-forth-and-multiply-may-10-100-1000-servers-spark http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/12/newsid_3953000/3953999.stm https://libcom.org/article/1969-strategy-tension-italy https://libcom.org/article/giuseppe-pinelli-death-anarchist https://files.libcom.org/files/Secrets-and-Bombs.pdf https://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/16/world/evolution-in-europe-italy-discloses-its-web-of-cold-war-guerrillas.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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• CZM Book Club: "The Devil Lives Here," by Margaret KilljoyMargaret kicks off spooky month by sharing a spooky story of her own about a haunted cave and the 90s teens who get lost in it See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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• Part Two: Autistici/Inventati and the Fight for the Autonomous InternetMargaret talks to you about the US's long history of intervention in Italian politics. Sources: https://chuffed.org/project/alexio-mutual-aid https://publish.fid-media.de/server/api/core/bitstreams/f8e99026-0049-4da6-bd2e-1b5a9d84b477/content https://www.inventati.org/campaign/press https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_State_list_of_Foreign_Terrorist_Organizations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specially_designated_global_terrorist https://www.icnl.org/resources/research/ijnl/solving-the-necessity-conundrum-what-the-drug-war-can-teach-us-about-due-process-for-u-s-charities-in-the-fight-against-international-terrorist-financing https://web.archive.org/web/20160126020743/http://www.jta.org/2009/05/28/news-opinion/united-states/holy-land-founders-get-life-sentences https://scalawagmagazine.org/2025/08/palestinian-political-prisoner-shukri-abu-bakers-poetry-book-debuts-in-houston/ https://anarchistnews.org/content/go-forth-and-multiply-may-10-100-1000-servers-spark http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/12/newsid_3953000/3953999.stm https://libcom.org/article/1969-strategy-tension-italy https://libcom.org/article/giuseppe-pinelli-death-anarchist https://files.libcom.org/files/Secrets-and-Bombs.pdf https://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/16/world/evolution-in-europe-italy-discloses-its-web-of-cold-war-guerrillas.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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• CZM Rewind: Part Two: The Newsies on Strike: Soaking Scabs and Taking NamesIn part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation with writer and podcast host Andrew Ti about how an informal union of children shut down the nation’s biggest newspapers and won their rights. Original Air Date: 6.21.2023 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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• CZM Book Club Presents: Stories from "Black Box," by Mata Kastrisiou and translated by Kostas KaltsasMargaret reads you 4 very short, dream like stories from a collection by a Greek author See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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• CZM Rewind: Part One: The Newsies on Strike: Soaking Scabs and Taking NamesMargaret talks with writer and podcast host Andrew Ti about how an informal union of children shut down the nation’s biggest newspapers and won their rights. Original Air Date: 6.19.2023 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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• Part One: Autistici/Inventati and the Fight for the Autonomous InternetMargaret talks to you about Trump's latest boogieman, the Italian hacktavists who helped free the internet Sources: https://publish.fid-media.de/server/api/core/bitstreams/f8e99026-0049-4da6-bd2e-1b5a9d84b477/content https://www.inventati.org/campaign/press https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_State_list_of_Foreign_Terrorist_Organizations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specially_designated_global_terrorist https://www.icnl.org/resources/research/ijnl/solving-the-necessity-conundrum-what-the-drug-war-can-teach-us-about-due-process-for-u-s-charities-in-the-fight-against-international-terrorist-financing https://web.archive.org/web/20160126020743/http://www.jta.org/2009/05/28/news-opinion/united-states/holy-land-founders-get-life-sentences https://scalawagmagazine.org/2025/08/palestinian-political-prisoner-shukri-abu-bakers-poetry-book-debuts-in-houston/ https://anarchistnews.org/content/go-forth-and-multiply-may-10-100-1000-servers-spark See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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• CZM Book Club: Ocotillo, by Madeline ffitchMargaret reads you a surreal story about the surreal Southwest, written by one of her favorite authors See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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