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  1. Part One: Big Annie Clemenc and the Copper Strike of 1913

    Margaret tells you the story of the tragic and powerful strike that shook Michigan and copper production, through the lens of the Joan of Arc of Calumet Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Finland https://www.loc.gov/clas

  2. CZM Book Club: The Storming of the Bastille, by Alexandre Dumas

    Margaret reads you a story about the French Revolution and the destruction of a prison See https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  3. Part Two: Cory Doctorow on Speculative Fiction for Social Change

    Margaret continues her interview with author and activist Cory Doctorow about the role of fiction in making a better world See https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  4. Part One: Cory Doctorow on Speculative Fiction for Social Change

    Margaret interviews the author and activist Cory Doctorow about the role of fiction in making a better world See https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  5. CZM Book Club: What We Want, What We Believe, by Alex Smith, Part Two

    Prince Shakur returns to finish reading Margaret a story about revolution, repression, and survival for Black August See https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  6. CZM Rewind: Part Two: Crisis Hotlines: Of Course Queers Invented Them

    Margaret continues talking to you about the history of suicide prevention hotlines and the complications of state intervention in emergency mental health care Original Air Date: 10.22.2025 Sources: https://translifeline.org/about/history/ h

  7. CZM Rewind: Part One: Crisis Hotlines: Of Course Queers Invented Them

    Margaret talks to you about the history of suicide prevention hotlines and the complications of state intervention in emergency mental health care Original Air Date: 10.20.2025 See https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  8. CZM Book Club: What We Want, What We Believe by Alex Smith, Part One

    Prince Shakur reads Margaret a story about revolution, repression, and survival for Black August See https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  9. Part Two: Charlotta Bass: The Black Journalist Who Refused the Red Scare

    Margaret finishes her talk with Cristen Conger about an organizer who was the first Black American woman to own a newspaper and once scared off the Klan Sources: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-20-op-anderson20-story.html h

  10. Part One: Charlotta Bass: The Black Journalist Who Refused the Red Scare

    Margaret talks to Cristen Conger about an organizer who was the first Black American woman to own a newspaper and once scared off the Klan. Source: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-20-op-anderson20-story.html https://www.npr

  11. CZM Book Club: Locust House, by Adam Gnade (Part Four of Four)

    Margaret finishes up reading you a story about punks, growing up, and refusing to lose your edge See https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  12. Part Two: Robin Hood and the Legacy of Outlaws in Medieval England

    Margaret continuing talking to Joe Kassabian about how Robin Hood might not have been real, but bandits who supported the peasantry was. Sources: https://mercian-as.co.uk/chester.html https://entertablementabroad.com/2026/06/sheriffs-and-sh

  13. Part One: Robin Hood and the Legacy of Outlaws in Medieval England

    Margaret talks to Joe Kassabian about how Robin Hood might not have been real, but bandits who supported the peasantry was Sources: https://mercian-as.co.uk/chester.html https://entertablementabroad.com/2026/06/sheriffs-and-shires-the-geogr

  14. CZM Book Club: Locust House, by Adam Gnade (Part Three of Four)

    Margaret continues the story of the last punk show played at Locust House See https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  15. Part Two: The First Labor Strike: How the Tomb Builders of Deir El-Medina Started It All

    Margaret finished telling you about labor and class struggle in Ancient Egypt Sources: https://historyrise.com/article/slavery-and-forced-labor-and-comparative-history-across-egypt/ https://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/slaves.htm https:

  16. Part One: The First Labor Strike: How the Tomb Builders of Deir El-Medina Started It All

    Margaret talks to you about labor and class struggle in Ancient Egypt. Sources: https://historyrise.com/article/slavery-and-forced-labor-and-comparative-history-across-egypt/ https://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/slaves.htm https://www.t

  17. CZM Book Club: Locust House, by Adam Gnade (Part Two of Four)

    Margaret continues reading to you from a novella about a punk house in 2002 San Diego See https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  18. Part Two: Alan Lomax: How to Record Everything and Mostly Make the World Better in the Process

    Margaret continues her talk with Bridget Todd about the origins of folk music and the man who dedicated his life to preserving traditional art. Sources: https://acousticguitar.com/alan-lomaxs-steel-string-discoveries/ https://pinemountainse

  19. Part One: Alan Lomax: How to Record Everything and Mostly Make the World Better in the Process

    Margaret talks with Bridget Todd about the origins of folk music and the man who dedicated his life to preserving traditional art Sources: https://acousticguitar.com/alan-lomaxs-steel-string-discoveries/ https://pinemountainsettlement.net/b

  20. CZM Book Club: Locust House, by Adam Gnade (Part One of Four)

    For our longer summer read, Margaret reads you a novella about punk houses and identity and growing up written by a master of the medium See https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  21. Part Two: Lead Belly: How a Man Named Huddie Ledbetter Beat Everyone Who Tried to Keep Him Down

    Margaret continues her talk with Prop about the Texan musician who sung his way out of prison Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly’s Truths from Jim Crow’s Lies, Sheila Curran Bernard: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/bring-judgmen

  22. Part One: Lead Belly: How a Man Named Huddie Ledbetter Beat Everyone Who Tried to Keep Him Down

    Margaret talks with Prop about the Texan musician who sung his way out of prison. Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly’s Truths from Jim Crow’s Lies, Sheila Curran Bernard: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/bring-judgment-day/63271E

  23. CZM Book Club: Two Stories from Gaza Writes Back, edited by Refaat Alareer

    Margaret reads you two stories and a poem from an anthology of young, Palestinian authors See https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  24. Part Two: The Gay Ottomans: Homosexuality in the Medieval Ottoman Empire

    Margaret continues talking with Kaveh Hoda about the complicated history of homosexuality and homoeroticism in one of the most important empires of the medieval era. Sources: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41299403 https://www.thecollector.co

  25. Part One: The Gay Ottomans: Homosexuality in the Medieval Ottoman Empire

    Margaret talks with Kaveh Hoda about the complicated history of homosexuality and homoeroticism in one of the most important empires of the medieval era. Sources: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41299403 https://www.thecollector.com/osman-i-ot

  26. CZM Rewind: CZM Book Club: CZM Book Club Presents: 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 Original Air Date: 6.1.2025 See https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  27. Part Two: The Movement Against the Corporal Punishment of Children

    Margaret continues talking with Andrew Ti about the worldwide movement, backed by science, that is changing how we treat children. Sources: https://africapublicity.com/of-ancestors-and-amendments-rethinking-child-discipline-across-african-r

  28. Part One: The Movement Against the Corporal Punishment of Children

    Margaret talks with Andrew Ti about the worldwide movement, backed by science, that is changing how we treat children. Sources: https://africapublicity.com/of-ancestors-and-amendments-rethinking-child-discipline-across-african-realms/ https

  29. CZM Book Club: Poems by Incarcerated Authors -- with In The Belly Magazine

    This week, In The Belly is doing a take over to feature the poems of incarcerated writers in their own voices See https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  30. Part Six: Harm Reduction: The Direct Action Movement that Changed How We Understand Addiction

    Margaret concludes the story of the punks, hippies, and poets in Vancouver, Canada who pioneered the modern harm reduction movement Sources: Fighting for Space, Travis Lupick (https://firestorm.coop/products/11537-fighting-for-space.html?re

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