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Jun 15, 2025 • 28min

CZM Book Club: After the Dance by Leo Tolstoy

Margaret reads you a story about what it takes to break from society in disgust. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Jun 11, 2025 • 31min

Part Four: The Alter-Globalization Movement: From the Zapatistas to the Battle of Seattle

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 GraeberThe Zapatista Experience, Jerome Baschethttps://www.piie.com/commentary/speeches-papers/did-washington-consensus-failhttps://www.spiegel.de/international/interview-with-ex-neocon-francis-fukuyama-a-model-democracy-is-not-emerging-in-iraq-a-407315.htmlhttps://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.htmlhttps://www.ncesc.com/geographic-faq/how-much-of-britain-is-below-the-poverty-line/https://www.tni.org/en/article/a-short-history-of-neoliberalismhttps://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/10.1177/0306422018819354https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-25550654https://web.archive.org/web/20090813155006/http://greenanarchy.info/etc/ezln_response.htmhttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/26/world/americas/mexico-zapatista-subcommander-marcos.htmlhttps://www.teenvogue.com/story/zapatistas-have-been-revolutionary-forcehttps://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/03/the-woman-who-wont-let-mexico-forget-a-massacre.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Abejashttps://schoolsforchiapas.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Interview-with-Subcomandante-Marcos.pdfhttps://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ejercito-zapatista-de-liberacion-nacional-a-zapatista-response-to-the-ezln-is-not-anarchisthttps://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/mexicos-zapatista-indigenous-rebel-movement-says-it-is-dissolving-its-autonomous-municipalitieshttps://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/jerome-baschet-the-reorganization-of-zapatista-autonomyhttps://schoolsforchiapas.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Ra%C3%BAl-Zibechi-Zapatista-Autonomy-PDF.pdfhttps://illwill.com/zapatista-autonomyhttps://chiapas-support.org/2014/10/04/anatomy-of-a-paramilitary-attack-on-the-zapatistas/https://wagingnonviolence.org/2014/05/assassination-world-stands-solidarity-zapatistas/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Jun 9, 2025 • 28min

Part Three: The Alter-Globalization Movement: From the Zapatistas to the Battle of Seattle

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 GraeberThe Zapatista Experience, Jerome Baschethttps://www.piie.com/commentary/speeches-papers/did-washington-consensus-failhttps://www.spiegel.de/international/interview-with-ex-neocon-francis-fukuyama-a-model-democracy-is-not-emerging-in-iraq-a-407315.htmlhttps://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.htmlhttps://www.ncesc.com/geographic-faq/how-much-of-britain-is-below-the-poverty-line/https://www.tni.org/en/article/a-short-history-of-neoliberalismhttps://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/10.1177/0306422018819354https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-25550654https://web.archive.org/web/20090813155006/http://greenanarchy.info/etc/ezln_response.htmhttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/26/world/americas/mexico-zapatista-subcommander-marcos.htmlhttps://www.teenvogue.com/story/zapatistas-have-been-revolutionary-forcehttps://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/03/the-woman-who-wont-let-mexico-forget-a-massacre.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Abejashttps://schoolsforchiapas.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Interview-with-Subcomandante-Marcos.pdfhttps://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ejercito-zapatista-de-liberacion-nacional-a-zapatista-response-to-the-ezln-is-not-anarchisthttps://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/mexicos-zapatista-indigenous-rebel-movement-says-it-is-dissolving-its-autonomous-municipalitieshttps://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/jerome-baschet-the-reorganization-of-zapatista-autonomyhttps://schoolsforchiapas.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Ra%C3%BAl-Zibechi-Zapatista-Autonomy-PDF.pdfhttps://illwill.com/zapatista-autonomyhttps://chiapas-support.org/2014/10/04/anatomy-of-a-paramilitary-attack-on-the-zapatistas/https://wagingnonviolence.org/2014/05/assassination-world-stands-solidarity-zapatistas/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Jun 8, 2025 • 34min

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

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.
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Jun 4, 2025 • 1h 1min

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

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.
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Jun 2, 2025 • 1h 16min

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

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.
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Jun 1, 2025 • 27min

CZM Book Club: The Revolutionary Fables of Ricardo Flores Magón

Margaret reads you several short stories written by the one of the ideological leaders of the Mexican Revolution.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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May 28, 2025 • 34min

Part Two: The Alter-Globalization Movement: From the Zapatistas to the Battle of Seattle

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 GraeberThe Zapatista Experience, Jerome Baschethttps://www.piie.com/commentary/speeches-papers/did-washington-consensus-failhttps://www.spiegel.de/international/interview-with-ex-neocon-francis-fukuyama-a-model-democracy-is-not-emerging-in-iraq-a-407315.htmlhttps://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.htmlhttps://www.ncesc.com/geographic-faq/how-much-of-britain-is-below-the-poverty-line/https://www.tni.org/en/article/a-short-history-of-neoliberalismhttps://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/10.1177/0306422018819354https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-25550654https://web.archive.org/web/20090813155006/http://greenanarchy.info/etc/ezln_response.htmhttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/26/world/americas/mexico-zapatista-subcommander-marcos.htmlhttps://www.teenvogue.com/story/zapatistas-have-been-revolutionary-forcehttps://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/03/the-woman-who-wont-let-mexico-forget-a-massacre.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Abejashttps://schoolsforchiapas.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Interview-with-Subcomandante-Marcos.pdfhttps://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ejercito-zapatista-de-liberacion-nacional-a-zapatista-response-to-the-ezln-is-not-anarchisthttps://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/mexicos-zapatista-indigenous-rebel-movement-says-it-is-dissolving-its-autonomous-municipalitieshttps://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/jerome-baschet-the-reorganization-of-zapatista-autonomyhttps://schoolsforchiapas.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Ra%C3%BAl-Zibechi-Zapatista-Autonomy-PDF.pdfhttps://illwill.com/zapatista-autonomyhttps://chiapas-support.org/2014/10/04/anatomy-of-a-paramilitary-attack-on-the-zapatistas/https://wagingnonviolence.org/2014/05/assassination-world-stands-solidarity-zapatistas/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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May 26, 2025 • 40min

Part One: The Alter-Globalization Movement: From the Zapatistas to the Battle of Seattle

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 GraeberThe Zapatista Experience, Jerome Baschethttps://www.piie.com/commentary/speeches-papers/did-washington-consensus-failhttps://www.spiegel.de/international/interview-with-ex-neocon-francis-fukuyama-a-model-democracy-is-not-emerging-in-iraq-a-407315.htmlhttps://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.htmlhttps://www.ncesc.com/geographic-faq/how-much-of-britain-is-below-the-poverty-line/https://www.tni.org/en/article/a-short-history-of-neoliberalismhttps://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/10.1177/0306422018819354https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-25550654https://web.archive.org/web/20090813155006/http://greenanarchy.info/etc/ezln_response.htmhttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/26/world/americas/mexico-zapatista-subcommander-marcos.htmlhttps://www.teenvogue.com/story/zapatistas-have-been-revolutionary-forcehttps://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/03/the-woman-who-wont-let-mexico-forget-a-massacre.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Abejashttps://schoolsforchiapas.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Interview-with-Subcomandante-Marcos.pdfhttps://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ejercito-zapatista-de-liberacion-nacional-a-zapatista-response-to-the-ezln-is-not-anarchisthttps://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/mexicos-zapatista-indigenous-rebel-movement-says-it-is-dissolving-its-autonomous-municipalitieshttps://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/jerome-baschet-the-reorganization-of-zapatista-autonomyhttps://schoolsforchiapas.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Ra%C3%BAl-Zibechi-Zapatista-Autonomy-PDF.pdfhttps://illwill.com/zapatista-autonomyhttps://chiapas-support.org/2014/10/04/anatomy-of-a-paramilitary-attack-on-the-zapatistas/https://wagingnonviolence.org/2014/05/assassination-world-stands-solidarity-zapatistas/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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May 25, 2025 • 21min

CZM Book Club: The Abbot of Druimenach

Margaret reads you an Irish fairy tale about gender transformation that she really likes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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