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Margaret reads you a story about werewolves, polyamory, and cycles of trauma.

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CZM Book Club: Hollywood Werewolf Conspiracy, by Hailey Piper

Hello, Cool People Listeners! We want to share a new show you might enjoy, SAD OLIGARCH Season 2!
 
About the show: Since January 2022, dozens of Russia's wealthiest oligarchs and power brokers have died suddenly. One was poisoned with frog venom. Two killed their whole families. Several fell out of high windows. Most of the deaths are suspicious. Russia says they're coincidental suicides—that the deceased were simply depressed. We don't think so...
 
Sad Oligarch is an investigative podcast series that looks into the strange deaths of the Russian elite, unravelling a dark tale of Kremlin corruption and Putin's political dictatorship across the world. This is season two—Russian oligarchs are still dying and things have gotten even weirder...
 
Listen here and subscribe to SAD OLIGARCH Season 2 on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts!

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Introducing: SAD OLIGARCH Season 2

In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her talk with Jamie Loftus about Baba Yaga, the Slavic legend who eats children and occasionally helps people.
 
Original Air Date: 11.9.2022

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CZM Rewind: Baba Yaga: Everyone's Favorite Witch From Folklore, Part Two

Margaret talks with Jamie Loftus about Baba Yaga, the Slavic legend who eats children and occasionally helps people.
 
Original Air Date: 11.7.2022

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

Kicking off spooky month with a story about demons that I don't want to spoil by telling you more about but it's so good I promise.

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CZM Book Club: Kushtaka, by Mathilda Zeller

Margaret continues talking to Katie Goldin about the anarchist prince who laid the foundations for understanding cooperation in the wild.
 
Sources:
 
https://thebiologist.rsb.org.uk/biologist-features/who-was-peter-kropothkin
 
https://trise.org/2018/01/04/kropotkin-and-climate-change/
 
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/allan-antliff-memorializing-kropotkin
 
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1883/don/ch07c.htm
 
https://evolution.berkeley.edu/the-history-of-evolutionary-thought/1800s/uniformitarianism-charles-lyell/
 
https://summitborn.com/discovery-of-the-ice-age/
 
https://logarithmichistory.wordpress.com/2024/11/18/gradualism-10/
 
https://strangescience.net/lyell.htm
 
https://medium.com/science-spectrum/how-darwin-discovered-invented-evolution-4d99aadf5656
 
https://psyche.co/ideas/kropotkin-the-radical-aristocrat-who-put-kindness-on-a-scientific-footing
 
https://www.marxists.org/subject/science/essays/kropotkin.htm

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Part Two: Mutual Aid and Evolution: Peter Kropotkin and the Battle for Science

Margaret talks to Katie Goldin about the anarchist prince who laid the foundations for understanding cooperation in the wild.
 
https://thebiologist.rsb.org.uk/biologist-features/who-was-peter-kropothkin
 
https://trise.org/2018/01/04/kropotkin-and-climate-change/
 
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/allan-antliff-memorializing-kropotkin
 
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1883/don/ch07c.htm
 
https://evolution.berkeley.edu/the-history-of-evolutionary-thought/1800s/uniformitarianism-charles-lyell/
 
https://summitborn.com/discovery-of-the-ice-age/
 
https://logarithmichistory.wordpress.com/2024/11/18/gradualism-10/
 
https://strangescience.net/lyell.htm
 
https://medium.com/science-spectrum/how-darwin-discovered-invented-evolution-4d99aadf5656
 
https://psyche.co/ideas/kropotkin-the-radical-aristocrat-who-put-kindness-on-a-scientific-footing
 
https://www.marxists.org/subject/science/essays/kropotkin.htm

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Part One: Mutual Aid and Evolution: Peter Kropotkin and the Battle for Science

Margaret reads you a story about yearning and magic and folklore and teenage gays.

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CZM Book Club: Selkie Stories Are For Losers, by Sofia Samatar

Margaret reads a piece from CrimethInc with practical steps for resisting state repression.
 
 

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Make Ready: Safeguarding Our Movements against Repression

Margaret talks about the current political landscape and how to prepare ourselves.

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Part One: I Can't Tell You What's Coming

In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation with Jamie Loftus about the wild history of Irish secret societies, the fight against the enclosure of the commons, and class war in the coal fields of the US.

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Part Two: The Molly Maguires: Untamable Irish Rebels Who Had a Really Direct Way of Dealing with Bosses & Landlords

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