Margaret talks with comedian and podcaster Jamie Loftus about Baba Yaga, the Slavic legend who eats children and occasionally helps people.

Margaret talks with comedian and podcaster Jamie Loftus about Baba Yaga, the Slavic legend who eats children and occasionally helps people.

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.

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.

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

As long as there&rsquo;s been oppression, there&rsquo;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&mdash;and fight to be&mdash;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.

Part One: Baba Yaga: Everyone's Favorite Witch From Folklore

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/25b714d1-aa08-4336-979f-af43014f9d7c/transcript

This week, Margaret finished 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/classroom-materials/immigration/scandinavian/the-finns/

https://bestneighborhood.org/conservative-vs-liberal-map-michigan/ 

https://trailsendup.com/en/weather-in-the-upper-peninsula

https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2014/spring/women-citizenship-repatration

https://ss.sites.mtu.edu/cca/tamarack-co-operative-store/ 

Beyond Brothers & Bars: Disovering Women’s Roles in One Mining Community, Jean F. Ellis

Annie Clemenc and the Great Keweenaw Copper Strike, Lyndon Comstock

https://www.bls.gov/charts/census-of-fatal-occupational-injuries/rate-and-number-of-fatal-work-injuries-in-selected-occupations.htm

https://weneverforget.org/we-never-forget-strikers-alois-tijan-and-steve-putrich-shot-down-by-gunthugs-august-14-1913-at-seeberville-michigan/ 

https://libcom.org/article/sabotage-elizabeth-gurley-flynn 

https://www.facebook.com/KeweenawNHP/posts/the-tamarack-co-operative-association-store-on-oak-street-just-outside-of-red-ja/1762278843850820/ 

https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/western-federation-miners 

https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/miners-magazine/index.htm 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs#Sedition_conviction_and_appeal_to_U.S._Supreme_Court 

https://www.copperrange.org/strike.htm 

This week, Margaret finished 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:
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Finland">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Finland</a>
<a href="https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/immigration/scandinavian/the-finns/">https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/immigration/scandinavian/the-finns/</a>
<a href="https://bestneighborhood.org/conservative-vs-liberal-map-michigan/">https://bestneighborhood.org/conservative-vs-liberal-map-michigan/</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://trailsendup.com/en/weather-in-the-upper-peninsula">https://trailsendup.com/en/weather-in-the-upper-peninsula</a>
<a href="https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2014/spring/women-citizenship-repatration">https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2014/spring/women-citizenship-repatration</a>
<a href="https://ss.sites.mtu.edu/cca/tamarack-co-operative-store/">https://ss.sites.mtu.edu/cca/tamarack-co-operative-store/</a>&nbsp;
Beyond Brothers &amp; Bars: Disovering Women&rsquo;s Roles in One Mining Community, Jean F. Ellis
Annie Clemenc and the Great Keweenaw Copper Strike, Lyndon Comstock
<a href="https://www.bls.gov/charts/census-of-fatal-occupational-injuries/rate-and-number-of-fatal-work-injuries-in-selected-occupations.htm">https://www.bls.gov/charts/census-of-fatal-occupational-injuries/rate-and-number-of-fatal-work-injuries-in-selected-occupations.htm</a>
<a href="https://weneverforget.org/we-never-forget-strikers-alois-tijan-and-steve-putrich-shot-down-by-gunthugs-august-14-1913-at-seeberville-michigan/">https://weneverforget.org/we-never-forget-strikers-alois-tijan-and-steve-putrich-shot-down-by-gunthugs-august-14-1913-at-seeberville-michigan/</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://libcom.org/article/sabotage-elizabeth-gurley-flynn">https://libcom.org/article/sabotage-elizabeth-gurley-flynn</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/KeweenawNHP/posts/the-tamarack-co-operative-association-store-on-oak-street-just-outside-of-red-ja/1762278843850820/">https://www.facebook.com/KeweenawNHP/posts/the-tamarack-co-operative-association-store-on-oak-street-just-outside-of-red-ja/1762278843850820/</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/western-federation-miners">https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/western-federation-miners</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/miners-magazine/index.htm">https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/miners-magazine/index.htm</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs#Sedition_conviction_and_appeal_to_U.S._Supreme_Court">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs#Sedition_conviction_and_appeal_to_U.S._Supreme_Court</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.copperrange.org/strike.htm">https://www.copperrange.org/strike.htm</a>&nbsp;

Part Four: Big Annie Clemenc and the Copper Strike of 1913

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/1023106c-ae4d-4ee0-a56d-b4b20013caab/transcript

This week, Margaret continues 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/classroom-materials/immigration/scandinavian/the-finns/

https://bestneighborhood.org/conservative-vs-liberal-map-michigan/ 

https://trailsendup.com/en/weather-in-the-upper-peninsula

https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2014/spring/women-citizenship-repatration

https://ss.sites.mtu.edu/cca/tamarack-co-operative-store/ 

Beyond Brothers & Bars: Disovering Women’s Roles in One Mining Community, Jean F. Ellis

Annie Clemenc and the Great Keweenaw Copper Strike, Lyndon Comstock

https://www.bls.gov/charts/census-of-fatal-occupational-injuries/rate-and-number-of-fatal-work-injuries-in-selected-occupations.htm

https://weneverforget.org/we-never-forget-strikers-alois-tijan-and-steve-putrich-shot-down-by-gunthugs-august-14-1913-at-seeberville-michigan/ 

https://libcom.org/article/sabotage-elizabeth-gurley-flynn 

https://www.facebook.com/KeweenawNHP/posts/the-tamarack-co-operative-association-store-on-oak-street-just-outside-of-red-ja/1762278843850820/ 

https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/western-federation-miners 

https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/miners-magazine/index.htm 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs#Sedition_conviction_and_appeal_to_U.S._Supreme_Court 

https://www.copperrange.org/strike.htm 

This week, Margaret continues 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:
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Finland">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Finland</a>
<a href="https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/immigration/scandinavian/the-finns/">https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/immigration/scandinavian/the-finns/</a>
<a href="https://bestneighborhood.org/conservative-vs-liberal-map-michigan/">https://bestneighborhood.org/conservative-vs-liberal-map-michigan/</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://trailsendup.com/en/weather-in-the-upper-peninsula">https://trailsendup.com/en/weather-in-the-upper-peninsula</a>
<a href="https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2014/spring/women-citizenship-repatration">https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2014/spring/women-citizenship-repatration</a>
<a href="https://ss.sites.mtu.edu/cca/tamarack-co-operative-store/">https://ss.sites.mtu.edu/cca/tamarack-co-operative-store/</a>&nbsp;
Beyond Brothers &amp; Bars: Disovering Women&rsquo;s Roles in One Mining Community, Jean F. Ellis
Annie Clemenc and the Great Keweenaw Copper Strike, Lyndon Comstock
<a href="https://www.bls.gov/charts/census-of-fatal-occupational-injuries/rate-and-number-of-fatal-work-injuries-in-selected-occupations.htm">https://www.bls.gov/charts/census-of-fatal-occupational-injuries/rate-and-number-of-fatal-work-injuries-in-selected-occupations.htm</a>
<a href="https://weneverforget.org/we-never-forget-strikers-alois-tijan-and-steve-putrich-shot-down-by-gunthugs-august-14-1913-at-seeberville-michigan/">https://weneverforget.org/we-never-forget-strikers-alois-tijan-and-steve-putrich-shot-down-by-gunthugs-august-14-1913-at-seeberville-michigan/</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://libcom.org/article/sabotage-elizabeth-gurley-flynn">https://libcom.org/article/sabotage-elizabeth-gurley-flynn</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/KeweenawNHP/posts/the-tamarack-co-operative-association-store-on-oak-street-just-outside-of-red-ja/1762278843850820/">https://www.facebook.com/KeweenawNHP/posts/the-tamarack-co-operative-association-store-on-oak-street-just-outside-of-red-ja/1762278843850820/</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/western-federation-miners">https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/western-federation-miners</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/miners-magazine/index.htm">https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/miners-magazine/index.htm</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs#Sedition_conviction_and_appeal_to_U.S._Supreme_Court">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs#Sedition_conviction_and_appeal_to_U.S._Supreme_Court</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.copperrange.org/strike.htm">https://www.copperrange.org/strike.htm</a>&nbsp;

Part Three: Big Annie Clemenc and the Copper Strike of 1913

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/1024e9ad-9d44-473b-8624-b4af016054c5/transcript

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/classroom-materials/immigration/scandinavian/the-finns/

https://bestneighborhood.org/conservative-vs-liberal-map-michigan/ 

https://trailsendup.com/en/weather-in-the-upper-peninsula

https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2014/spring/women-citizenship-repatration

https://ss.sites.mtu.edu/cca/tamarack-co-operative-store/ 

Beyond Brothers & Bars: Disovering Women’s Roles in One Mining Community, Jean F. Ellis

Annie Clemenc and the Great Keweenaw Copper Strike, Lyndon Comstock

https://www.bls.gov/charts/census-of-fatal-occupational-injuries/rate-and-number-of-fatal-work-injuries-in-selected-occupations.htm

https://weneverforget.org/we-never-forget-strikers-alois-tijan-and-steve-putrich-shot-down-by-gunthugs-august-14-1913-at-seeberville-michigan/ 

https://libcom.org/article/sabotage-elizabeth-gurley-flynn 

https://www.facebook.com/KeweenawNHP/posts/the-tamarack-co-operative-association-store-on-oak-street-just-outside-of-red-ja/1762278843850820/ 

https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/western-federation-miners 

https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/miners-magazine/index.htm 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs#Sedition_conviction_and_appeal_to_U.S._Supreme_Court 

https://www.copperrange.org/strike.htm 

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:
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Finland">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Finland</a>
<a href="https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/immigration/scandinavian/the-finns/">https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/immigration/scandinavian/the-finns/</a>
<a href="https://bestneighborhood.org/conservative-vs-liberal-map-michigan/">https://bestneighborhood.org/conservative-vs-liberal-map-michigan/</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://trailsendup.com/en/weather-in-the-upper-peninsula">https://trailsendup.com/en/weather-in-the-upper-peninsula</a>
<a href="https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2014/spring/women-citizenship-repatration">https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2014/spring/women-citizenship-repatration</a>
<a href="https://ss.sites.mtu.edu/cca/tamarack-co-operative-store/">https://ss.sites.mtu.edu/cca/tamarack-co-operative-store/</a>&nbsp;
Beyond Brothers &amp; Bars: Disovering Women&rsquo;s Roles in One Mining Community, Jean F. Ellis
Annie Clemenc and the Great Keweenaw Copper Strike, Lyndon Comstock
<a href="https://www.bls.gov/charts/census-of-fatal-occupational-injuries/rate-and-number-of-fatal-work-injuries-in-selected-occupations.htm">https://www.bls.gov/charts/census-of-fatal-occupational-injuries/rate-and-number-of-fatal-work-injuries-in-selected-occupations.htm</a>
<a href="https://weneverforget.org/we-never-forget-strikers-alois-tijan-and-steve-putrich-shot-down-by-gunthugs-august-14-1913-at-seeberville-michigan/">https://weneverforget.org/we-never-forget-strikers-alois-tijan-and-steve-putrich-shot-down-by-gunthugs-august-14-1913-at-seeberville-michigan/</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://libcom.org/article/sabotage-elizabeth-gurley-flynn">https://libcom.org/article/sabotage-elizabeth-gurley-flynn</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/KeweenawNHP/posts/the-tamarack-co-operative-association-store-on-oak-street-just-outside-of-red-ja/1762278843850820/">https://www.facebook.com/KeweenawNHP/posts/the-tamarack-co-operative-association-store-on-oak-street-just-outside-of-red-ja/1762278843850820/</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/western-federation-miners">https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/western-federation-miners</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/miners-magazine/index.htm">https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/miners-magazine/index.htm</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs#Sedition_conviction_and_appeal_to_U.S._Supreme_Court">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs#Sedition_conviction_and_appeal_to_U.S._Supreme_Court</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.copperrange.org/strike.htm">https://www.copperrange.org/strike.htm</a>&nbsp;

Part Two: Big Annie Clemenc and the Copper Strike of 1913

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/9c7f7f2e-d118-4aee-a8f4-b4ab002fc8ec/transcript

Part One: Baba Yaga: Everyone's Favorite Witch From Folklore

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