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Jul 16, 2025 • 59min

Part Two: The National Lawyers Guild: The Legal Arm of Basically Every Social Movement in the US

Margaret continues talking to Joelle Monique about the almost 90 year history of the organization for progressive and radical lawyers. Sources: https://moatlaw.com/2019/07/25/stand-with-the-people-watch-and-oppose-the-police/ https://www.nlg.org/a-history-of-the-nlg-1937-1987/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_elections_by_popular_vote_margin#/media/File:1828-_Margin_of_victory_in_US_presidential_elections_-_popular_vote.svg https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/william-perkins-black-12522/ https://www.etymonline.com/word/barrister https://www.etymonline.com/word/bar https://www.americanbar.org/about_the_aba/timeline/ https://nationalbar.org/nba-history/ https://www.michbar.org/file/barjournal/article/documents/pdf4article2529.pdf https://www.nlg.org/national-lawyers-guild-convention-will-celebrate-75-years-reunite-activists/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Jul 14, 2025 • 51min

Part One: The National Lawyers Guild: The Legal Arm of Basically Every Social Movement in the US

Margaret talks to Joelle Monique about the almost 90 year history of the organization for progressive and radical lawyers. Sources: https://moatlaw.com/2019/07/25/stand-with-the-people-watch-and-oppose-the-police/ https://www.nlg.org/a-history-of-the-nlg-1937-1987/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_elections_by_popular_vote_margin#/media/File:1828-_Margin_of_victory_in_US_presidential_elections_-_popular_vote.svg https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/william-perkins-black-12522/ https://www.etymonline.com/word/barrister https://www.etymonline.com/word/bar https://www.americanbar.org/about_the_aba/timeline/ https://nationalbar.org/nba-history/ https://www.michbar.org/file/barjournal/article/documents/pdf4article2529.pdf https://www.nlg.org/national-lawyers-guild-convention-will-celebrate-75-years-reunite-activists/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Jul 13, 2025 • 39min

CZM Book Club: Diary of a Lunatic by Leo Tolstoy

Margaret reads you a story about mental health, panic disorders, and anticapitalism. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Jul 9, 2025 • 53min

CZM Rewind: Part Two: The Battle of Negro Fort: Florida's Maroon Community

Margaret continues talking with Jamie Loftus about the Black and Indigenous soldiers who lived free in a fort in Spanish Florida until Andrew Jackson broke a lot of laws to fight them. Orginial Air Date: 12.20.23See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Jul 7, 2025 • 1h 4min

CZM Rewind: Part One: The Battle of Negro Fort: Florida's Maroon Community

Margaret talks with Jamie Loftus about the Black and Indigenous soldiers who lived free in a fort in Spanish Florida until Andrew Jackson broke a lot of laws to fight them. Original Air Date: 12.18.23  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Jul 6, 2025 • 26min

CZM Book Club Presents: The Evolution of an Agitator, by Lizzie M. Holmes

Margaret reads you a story about the endless quest to find the roots of inequality. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Jul 2, 2025 • 55min

Part Two: Bread And Puppet: The Dawn of Giant Protest Puppets

Margaret continues talking to Jamie Loftus about some radical hippies who built gigantic puppets and an entire culture. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Jun 30, 2025 • 53min

Part One: Bread And Puppet: The Dawn of Giant Protest Puppets

Margaret talks to Jamie Loftus about some radical hippies who built gigantic puppets and an entire culture.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Jun 29, 2025 • 32min

CZM Book Club: Assembly Line, by B. Traven

Margaret reads you a story about arts and crafts.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Jun 25, 2025 • 36min

Part Two: The Battle in Seattle: How Scrappy Protesters Shut Down the World Trade Organization

Margaret continues telling you about the Direct Action Network that organized the successful shutdown of the WTO in November, 1999. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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