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Apr 9, 2025 • 1h 11min

Part Two: A Madhouse Against the Nazis: the Story of François Tosquelles and Saint-Albans

Margaret continues talking with Allison Raskin about the antifascist asylum in France that armed partisans and reinvented psychiatry.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Apr 7, 2025 • 1h 10min

Part One: A Madhouse Against the Nazis: the Story of François Tosquelles and Saint-Albans

Margaret talks with Allison Raskin about the antifascist asylum in France that armed partisans and reinvented psychiatry.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Apr 6, 2025 • 55min

CZM Book Club: Escape, part two

Margaret reads the second half of an anonymously authored speculative fiction story about what people could do if large scale roundups began, and discusses it with an anarchist technology enthusiast.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Apr 2, 2025 • 1h 2min

Part Two: Samizdat: How to Self-Publish During a Dictatorship

Margaret continues talking to Katy Stoll about how the Soviet people evaded censors and kept poetry, literature, and political critique alive. The Material Existence of Soviet Samizdat, Ann Komaromihttps://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/books/04solzhenitsyn.html HG Skilling, Samizdat and an Indepedent Society in Central and Eastern Europe https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/nikolai-gumilev https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/anna-akhmatova https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/osip-mandelstam https://libcom.org/article/1962-novocherkassk-tragedy https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-349-09284-0_1See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Mar 31, 2025 • 47min

Part One: Samizdat: How to Self-Publish During a Dictatorship

Margaret talks to Katy Stoll about how the Soviet people evaded censors and kept poetry, literature, and political critique alive. The Material Existence of Soviet Samizdat, Ann Komaromihttps://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/books/04solzhenitsyn.html HG Skilling, Samizdat and an Indepedent Society in Central and Eastern Europe https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/nikolai-gumilev https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/anna-akhmatova https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/osip-mandelstam https://libcom.org/article/1962-novocherkassk-tragedy https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-349-09284-0_1See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Mar 30, 2025 • 1h 1min

CZM Book Club: Escape, part one

Margaret reads an anonymously authored speculative fiction story about what people could do if large scale roundups began, and discusses it with an anarchist technology enthusiast.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Mar 26, 2025 • 58min

CZM Rewind: Part Two: Gay Resistance to the Nazis

In this second rewind episode, Margaret continues to tell the story of gay artists and street gangs that fought the Nazis.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Mar 24, 2025 • 1h 18min

CZM Rewind: Gay Resistance to the Nazis

In this rewind episode, Margaret tells the story of gay artists and street gangs that fought the Nazis.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Mar 23, 2025 • 30min

CZM Book Club: The Barrow Will Send What it May, Chapter Three

Margaret reads Robert Evans the second book in her Danielle Cain series.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Mar 19, 2025 • 38min

Part Two: The Fight Against the Mountain Valley Pipeline

Margaret continues an epic tale of treesits, blockades, and resistance to fossil fuel infrastructure and environmental destruction.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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