Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Margaret reads Robert Evans a novella about the near future of tech, surveillance, and teenage rebellion.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Explore how workers in Argentina resisted neoliberalism by taking over their factories, legal battles, economic struggles, and the rise of worker cooperatives as an alternative economic model. Dive into the challenges faced by workers, their resilience, and the support shown towards them amid political turmoil and police hostility. Learn about successful cooperatives like Zanaon and Xenon, and the significance of solidarity in the face of adversity.

Margaret talks with Prop about how people all over Argentina resisted neoliberalism and took over their factories to run them without bosses.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Margaret reads you a children's story written by one of the greatest queer icons of history.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In part two, Margaret finishes talking with Kat Abu about the history of community gardening in New York City and elsewhere.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kat Abu, an expert on community gardening, discusses the history of communal food production, reclaiming urban spaces, media manipulation, indigenous food culture, and the importance of community gardens during economic hardships and crises. The conversation also covers the resurgence of community gardening, job layoffs, and social media support.

Margaret reads a classic anti-anarchist story by HG Wells written before Wells learned what was up.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In part four, Margaret finishes her talk with Robert Evans about the time that millions of Ukrainians rose a black flag and went to war against landlords, nationalists, and Bolsheviks.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In part three, Margaret continues to talk with Robert Evans about the time that millions of Ukrainians rose a black flag and went to war against landlords, nationalists, and Bolsheviks.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Margaret reads a piece of folklore about the colonization of Siberia.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.