Margaret talks with Matt Lieb about the anti-zionist Jews and others who have thrown in their lot with the Palestinian people in their struggle against an apartheid state and genocide.

Margaret talks with Matt Lieb about the anti-zionist Jews and others who have thrown in their lot with the Palestinian people in their struggle against an apartheid state and genocide.

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: Israeli & International Solidarity with Palestinian Struggle

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/ce8cc59f-9186-421b-ba5d-b0cf0175ed29/transcript

Margaret continues her talk with Courtney Kocak about the potentially million-strong alliance of Black farmers who built up a cooperative economics in the post-war American South

Sources:

https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/02/07/the-helots-a-labour-force/
https://www.lucyparsonsproject.com/writings/negro.html
https://www.rd.usda.gov/files/RR194.pdf
https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry?entry=TE009
https://worldblackhistory.blogspot.com/2022/11/blog-post_11.html
https://lawyersgunsmon.wpengine.com/2012/12/this-day-in-labor-history-december-11-1886
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2017/09/day-labor-history-september-25-1891
https://temple.manifoldapp.org/read/the-black-worker-during-the-era-of-the-knights-of-labor-volume-iii/section/cf118f82-0d04-4251-9934-c474e4daef2e
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40030730?read-now=1&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
https://wp.nyu.edu/compliance_enforcement/2025/08/07/doj-secures-first-criminal-conviction-in-wage-fixing-case/
https://ncbaclusa.coop/content/uploads/2023/02/Fall-2022_Winter-2023-Cooperative-Business-Journal_FINAL-v2.pdf
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40030730
https://www.givinggrove.org/blog-reference/black-farmers-in-america
https://snccdigital.org/events/fannie-lou-hamer-founds-freedom-farm-cooperative/
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https://www.grunge.com/601373/what-you-should-know-about-the-granger-movement-of-the-1860s/
https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/shermans-field-order-no-15/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40030586?read-now=1&seq=7#page_scan_tab_contents

Margaret continues her talk with Courtney Kocak about the potentially million-strong alliance of Black farmers who built up a cooperative economics in the post-war American South
Sources:
https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/02/07/the-helots-a-labour-force/ https://www.lucyparsonsproject.com/writings/negro.html https://www.rd.usda.gov/files/RR194.pdf https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry?entry=TE009 https://worldblackhistory.blogspot.com/2022/11/blog-post_11.html https://lawyersgunsmon.wpengine.com/2012/12/this-day-in-labor-history-december-11-1886 https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2017/09/day-labor-history-september-25-1891 https://temple.manifoldapp.org/read/the-black-worker-during-the-era-of-the-knights-of-labor-volume-iii/section/cf118f82-0d04-4251-9934-c474e4daef2e https://www.jstor.org/stable/40030730?read-now=1&amp;seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents https://wp.nyu.edu/compliance_enforcement/2025/08/07/doj-secures-first-criminal-conviction-in-wage-fixing-case/ https://ncbaclusa.coop/content/uploads/2023/02/Fall-2022_Winter-2023-Cooperative-Business-Journal_FINAL-v2.pdf https://www.jstor.org/stable/40030730 https://www.givinggrove.org/blog-reference/black-farmers-in-america https://snccdigital.org/events/fannie-lou-hamer-founds-freedom-farm-cooperative/ https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/November-15/the-march-to-the-sea-begins https://explorethearchive.com/shermans-march-to-the-sea https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/teachers/lessonplans/Document6(SpecialOrder).pdf https://www.grunge.com/601373/what-you-should-know-about-the-granger-movement-of-the-1860s/ https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/shermans-field-order-no-15/ https://www.jstor.org/stable/40030586?read-now=1&amp;seq=7#page_scan_tab_contents

Part Two: The Colored Farmers Alliance and Early Black Cooperativism in the US

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/1ed7462d-df59-4eb1-9f30-b3fc003b8639/transcript

Margaret talks to Courtney Kocak about the potentially million-strong alliance of Black farmers who built up a cooperative economics in the post-war American South

Sources

https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/02/07/the-helots-a-labour-force/
https://www.lucyparsonsproject.com/writings/negro.html
https://www.rd.usda.gov/files/RR194.pdf
https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry?entry=TE009
https://worldblackhistory.blogspot.com/2022/11/blog-post_11.html
https://lawyersgunsmon.wpengine.com/2012/12/this-day-in-labor-history-december-11-1886
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2017/09/day-labor-history-september-25-1891
https://temple.manifoldapp.org/read/the-black-worker-during-the-era-of-the-knights-of-labor-volume-iii/section/cf118f82-0d04-4251-9934-c474e4daef2e
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40030730?read-now=1&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
https://wp.nyu.edu/compliance_enforcement/2025/08/07/doj-secures-first-criminal-conviction-in-wage-fixing-case/
https://ncbaclusa.coop/content/uploads/2023/02/Fall-2022_Winter-2023-Cooperative-Business-Journal_FINAL-v2.pdf
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40030730
https://www.givinggrove.org/blog-reference/black-farmers-in-america
https://snccdigital.org/events/fannie-lou-hamer-founds-freedom-farm-cooperative/
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/November-15/the-march-to-the-sea-begins
https://explorethearchive.com/shermans-march-to-the-sea
https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/teachers/lessonplans/Document6(SpecialOrder).pdf
https://www.grunge.com/601373/what-you-should-know-about-the-granger-movement-of-the-1860s/
https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/shermans-field-order-no-15/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40030586?read-now=1&seq=7#page_scan_tab_contents

Margaret talks to Courtney Kocak about the potentially million-strong alliance of Black farmers who built up a cooperative economics in the post-war American South
Sources
https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/02/07/the-helots-a-labour-force/ https://www.lucyparsonsproject.com/writings/negro.html https://www.rd.usda.gov/files/RR194.pdf https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry?entry=TE009 https://worldblackhistory.blogspot.com/2022/11/blog-post_11.html https://lawyersgunsmon.wpengine.com/2012/12/this-day-in-labor-history-december-11-1886 https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2017/09/day-labor-history-september-25-1891 https://temple.manifoldapp.org/read/the-black-worker-during-the-era-of-the-knights-of-labor-volume-iii/section/cf118f82-0d04-4251-9934-c474e4daef2e https://www.jstor.org/stable/40030730?read-now=1&amp;seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents https://wp.nyu.edu/compliance_enforcement/2025/08/07/doj-secures-first-criminal-conviction-in-wage-fixing-case/ https://ncbaclusa.coop/content/uploads/2023/02/Fall-2022_Winter-2023-Cooperative-Business-Journal_FINAL-v2.pdf https://www.jstor.org/stable/40030730 https://www.givinggrove.org/blog-reference/black-farmers-in-america https://snccdigital.org/events/fannie-lou-hamer-founds-freedom-farm-cooperative/ https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/November-15/the-march-to-the-sea-begins https://explorethearchive.com/shermans-march-to-the-sea https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/teachers/lessonplans/Document6(SpecialOrder).pdf https://www.grunge.com/601373/what-you-should-know-about-the-granger-movement-of-the-1860s/ https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/shermans-field-order-no-15/ https://www.jstor.org/stable/40030586?read-now=1&amp;seq=7#page_scan_tab_contents

Part One: The Colored Farmers Alliance and Early Black Cooperativism in the US

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/424256bc-e74e-4907-8f2a-b3fa0039a83e/transcript

Margaret reads you an essay about how to live a beautiful life

Margaret reads you an essay about how to live a beautiful life

The Punk Rock Good Life: A Guide to an Aesthetic Life

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/4ef624c9-3d78-486c-8b02-b3f5001abcb3/transcript

Part One: Israeli & International Solidarity with Palestinian Struggle

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