Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Margaret talks with author Wren Awry about Roger Casement, whose reporting helped end the brutal reign of Leopold II of Belgium. Preorder Wren's book Nourishing Resistance: Stories of Food, Protest & Mutual Aid, out Spring 2023: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1321See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation with Mountain Goats singer John Darnielle about the wild-eyed radicals of the English Civil War.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Margaret talks with Mountain Goats singer John Darnielle about the wild-eyed radicals of the English Civil War.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation with podcast host Andrew Ti about the long fight for our right to feed one another in public places.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Margaret talks with podcast host Andrew Ti about the long fight for our right to feed one another in public places.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Exploring the conditions in the Warsaw ghetto during the Holocaust, the role of mutual aid and political organizations in maintaining solidarity among the Jewish population, resistance efforts including relief organizations, schools, trade unions, and underground organizations, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, coordinating resistance in the ghetto, debunking myths about Jewish rings and the uprising, the bravery and sacrifice of resistance fighters, the importance of secrecy and organizing, and the significance of mutual aid and community organization.

Margaret talks with Miriam about the desperate last stand of the Jews of Poland and the fight to preserve Jewish culture from extermination.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Comedian Brodie Reed discusses the Japanese anarchist women Kaneko Fumiko and Kanno Suga who tried to kill emperors and almost changed history. Topics include Fumiko's scandalous trial, Japanese colonization of Korea, anarchist life and changing organizations, and resisting injustice through activism.

Comedian and podcast host Brodie Reed discusses Kaneko Fumiko and Kanno Suga, two Japanese anarchist women who tried to end the lives of emperors and almost changed history. Topics include the Meiji Restoration, motivations for activism, police raids, conspiracy trial, and the life and death of an anarchist poet.

Some people have to fight for the right to use birth control, some people have to fight for the right to bear children. In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation with Katy Stoll about Emma Goldman, Angela Heywood, Fannie Lou Hamer, and the complex fight for reproductive freedom in the US.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.