Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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As long as there’s been oppression, there’ve been people fighting it. This weekly podcast dives into history to drag up the wildest rebels, the most beautiful revolts, and all the people who long to be—and fight to be—free. It explores complex stories of resistance that offer lessons and inspiration for us today, focusing on the ensemble casts that make up each act of history. That is to say, this podcast focuses on Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff.

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Episodes (1091)

Part Two: The Korean People's Association of Manchuria: When Two Million People...

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CZM Book Club: "The Sapling Cage" by Margaret Killjoy

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Part Two: Mother Jones: Honestly Kind of a Fraud TBH

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CZM Book Club: "2 B R 0 2 B" by Kurt Vonnegut

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Part Two: The German Abolitionists: How the 48ers Joined the American Abolitioni...

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CZM Book Club: "Virgin Ground" by Rosel George Brown

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Part Two: Frances Perkins and the Quest to Rescue Jewish Children From Germany

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Part One: Frances Perkins and the Quest to Rescue Jewish Children From Germany

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CZM Book Club: "Intentionalities" by Aimee Ogden

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Part Two: The Orange Alternative: The Polish Hippie Surrealists Who Tore Down a...

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CZM Book Club: Three Stories From Japanese Folklore

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Part Two: Ben Fletcher, Local 8, and the Fighting, Antiracist Union of Philadelp...

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CZM Book Club: "John Simnel's First Goshawk" by Tegan Moore

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Part Two: Joan of Arc Was Even Cooler Than I Thought

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CZM Book Club: "Spring Woods Spring" by B. Pladek

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Part Two: The Reichstag Fire Was Not An Inside Job

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CZM Book Club: Stories About Nightingale the Robber

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Part Four: Operation Nemesis and Armenian Resistance to Genocide

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Part Three: Operation Nemesis and Armenian Resistance to Genocide

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CZM Book Club: "The Orchard of Tomorrow" by Kelsea Yu

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Part Two: Operation Nemesis and Armenian Resistance to Genocide

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CZM Book Club: "The Three Trials of the Wind," by Shiv Ramdas, Part 2 of 2

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Cool Rerun: Part Two: Aqua Tofana: How to Kill Your Husband

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Cool Rerun: Part One: Aqua Tofana: How to Kill Your Husband

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CZM Book Club: "The Three Trials of the Wind," by Shiv Ramdas, Part 1 of 2

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Part Two: Dungeons & Dragons: The History of Some Great and Terrible Nerdery

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CZM Book Club: "Party Discipline" by Cory Doctorow, Part Four

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Part Two: George Orwell and the War for Common Decency

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CZM Book Club: "Party Discipline" by Cory Doctorow, Part Three

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Part Two: ACT UP: How Angry, Dying Queers Invented Modern Activism

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Part One: ACT UP: How Angry, Dying Queers Invented Modern Activism

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CZM Book Club: "Party Discipline" by Cory Doctorow, Part Two

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Part Two: Mutual Aid and Burial Societies: The Origins of Black Cooperativism in...

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CZM Book Club: "Party Discipline" by Cory Doctorow, Part One

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Part Two: Fábricas Ocupadas: When Workers In Argentina Took Over Their Factories

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Part One: Fábricas Ocupadas: When Workers In Argentina Took Over Their Factories

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CZM Book Club: "The Happy Prince" by Oscar Wilde

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Part Two: Community Gardens: How People Take Land From the Rich to Feed Themselv...

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