In this reverse episode, author Wren Awry teaches Margaret about the 60s & 70s radicals who changed the way we relate to food in the US.

Sources:

Appetite for Change by Warren Belasco

The Theater is in the Street byBradford D. Martin

“Digger Meets Panther” from Shaping San Francisco

www.diggers.org

www.diggersdocs.org

"Remaking the Commons’: A History of Eating in Public" by Gaye Chan & Nandita Sharmain and “Notes on Utopian Failure in Commune Kitchens” by Madeline Lane-McKinley, both from the anthology Nourishing Resistance.

In this reverse episode, author Wren Awry teaches Margaret about the 60s &amp; 70s radicals who changed the way we relate to food in the US.
Sources:
Appetite for Change by Warren Belasco
The Theater is in the Street by Bradford D. Martin
“Digger Meets Panther” from Shaping San Francisco 
<a href="http://www.diggers.org">www.diggers.org</a>
<a href="http://www.diggersdocs.org">www.diggersdocs.org</a>
"Remaking the Commons’: A History of Eating in Public" by Gaye Chan &amp; Nandita Sharmain and “Notes on Utopian Failure in Commune Kitchens” by Madeline Lane-McKinley, both from the anthology <a href="https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&amp;p=1321">Nourishing Resistance</a>.

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: Countercuisine: The Counterculture of the Diggers & Food Co-ops

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/2ae407e4-b963-420f-8136-b0a7000de0ad/transcript

Margaret talks to you about the US's long history of intervention in Italian politics.

Sources:

https://chuffed.org/project/alexio-mutual-aid 

https://publish.fid-media.de/server/api/core/bitstreams/f8e99026-0049-4da6-bd2e-1b5a9d84b477/content 
https://www.inventati.org/campaign/press 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_State_list_of_Foreign_Terrorist_Organizations 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specially_designated_global_terrorist 

https://www.icnl.org/resources/research/ijnl/solving-the-necessity-conundrum-what-the-drug-war-can-teach-us-about-due-process-for-u-s-charities-in-the-fight-against-international-terrorist-financing 
https://web.archive.org/web/20160126020743/http://www.jta.org/2009/05/28/news-opinion/united-states/holy-land-founders-get-life-sentences 
https://scalawagmagazine.org/2025/08/palestinian-political-prisoner-shukri-abu-bakers-poetry-book-debuts-in-houston/ 
https://anarchistnews.org/content/go-forth-and-multiply-may-10-100-1000-servers-spark 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/12/newsid_3953000/3953999.stm 
https://libcom.org/article/1969-strategy-tension-italy 
https://libcom.org/article/giuseppe-pinelli-death-anarchist 
https://files.libcom.org/files/Secrets-and-Bombs.pdf 
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/16/world/evolution-in-europe-italy-discloses-its-web-of-cold-war-guerrillas.html 

Margaret talks to you about the US's long history of intervention in Italian politics.
Sources:
<a href="https://chuffed.org/project/alexio-mutual-aid">https://chuffed.org/project/alexio-mutual-aid</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://publish.fid-media.de/server/api/core/bitstreams/f8e99026-0049-4da6-bd2e-1b5a9d84b477/content">https://publish.fid-media.de/server/api/core/bitstreams/f8e99026-0049-4da6-bd2e-1b5a9d84b477/content</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://www.inventati.org/campaign/press">https://www.inventati.org/campaign/press</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_State_list_of_Foreign_Terrorist_Organizations">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_State_list_of_Foreign_Terrorist_Organizations</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specially_designated_global_terrorist">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specially_designated_global_terrorist</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.icnl.org/resources/research/ijnl/solving-the-necessity-conundrum-what-the-drug-war-can-teach-us-about-due-process-for-u-s-charities-in-the-fight-against-international-terrorist-financing">https://www.icnl.org/resources/research/ijnl/solving-the-necessity-conundrum-what-the-drug-war-can-teach-us-about-due-process-for-u-s-charities-in-the-fight-against-international-terrorist-financing</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160126020743/http://www.jta.org/2009/05/28/news-opinion/united-states/holy-land-founders-get-life-sentences">https://web.archive.org/web/20160126020743/http://www.jta.org/2009/05/28/news-opinion/united-states/holy-land-founders-get-life-sentences</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://scalawagmagazine.org/2025/08/palestinian-political-prisoner-shukri-abu-bakers-poetry-book-debuts-in-houston/">https://scalawagmagazine.org/2025/08/palestinian-political-prisoner-shukri-abu-bakers-poetry-book-debuts-in-houston/</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://anarchistnews.org/content/go-forth-and-multiply-may-10-100-1000-servers-spark">https://anarchistnews.org/content/go-forth-and-multiply-may-10-100-1000-servers-spark</a>&nbsp; <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/12/newsid_3953000/3953999.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/12/newsid_3953000/3953999.stm</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://libcom.org/article/1969-strategy-tension-italy">https://libcom.org/article/1969-strategy-tension-italy</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://libcom.org/article/giuseppe-pinelli-death-anarchist">https://libcom.org/article/giuseppe-pinelli-death-anarchist</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://files.libcom.org/files/Secrets-and-Bombs.pdf">https://files.libcom.org/files/Secrets-and-Bombs.pdf</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/16/world/evolution-in-europe-italy-discloses-its-web-of-cold-war-guerrillas.html">https://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/16/world/evolution-in-europe-italy-discloses-its-web-of-cold-war-guerrillas.html</a>&nbsp;

Part Two: Autistici/Inventati and the Fight for the Autonomous Internet

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/df57d228-4009-4c3d-b2a0-b4d40173398c/transcript

In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation with writer and podcast host Andrew Ti about how an informal union of children shut down the nation’s biggest newspapers and won their rights.

Original Air Date: 6.21.2023

In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation with writer and podcast host Andrew Ti about how an informal union of children shut down the nation&rsquo;s biggest newspapers and won their rights.
Original Air Date: 6.21.2023

CZM Rewind: Part Two: The Newsies on Strike: Soaking Scabs and Taking Names

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/effe0482-53cb-47d3-9477-b4ce0027b93a/transcript

Margaret talks with writer and podcast host Andrew Ti about how an informal union of children shut down the nation’s biggest newspapers and won their rights.

Original Air Date: 6.19.2023

 

Margaret talks with writer and podcast host Andrew Ti about how an informal union of children shut down the nation&rsquo;s biggest newspapers and won their rights.
Original Air Date: 6.19.2023
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CZM Rewind: Part One: The Newsies on Strike: Soaking Scabs and Taking Names

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/6b81e8c6-b2c6-46d4-b890-b4ce0027a4d1/transcript

Part One: Countercuisine: The Counterculture of the Diggers & Food Co-ops

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