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Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
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    Part One: Big Annie Clemenc and the Copper Strike of 1913

    2026/08/17 | 28 mins.
    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
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    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/
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    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
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    CZM Book Club: The Storming of the Bastille, by Alexandre Dumas

    2026/08/16 | 44 mins.
    Margaret reads you a story about the French Revolution and the destruction of a prison
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    Part Two: Cory Doctorow on Speculative Fiction for Social Change

    2026/08/12 | 37 mins.
    Margaret continues her interview with author and activist Cory Doctorow about the role of fiction in making a better world
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    Part One: Cory Doctorow on Speculative Fiction for Social Change

    2026/08/10 | 33 mins.
    Margaret interviews the author and activist Cory Doctorow about the role of fiction in making a better world
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    CZM Book Club: What We Want, What We Believe, by Alex Smith, Part Two

    2026/08/09 | 44 mins.
    Prince Shakur returns to finish reading Margaret a story about revolution, repression, and survival for Black August
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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.
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