Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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
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Margaret reads you a lush post-apocalyptic slice of life story by an amazing poet
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Margaret reads you an essay about how to live a beautiful life
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Happy Valentine's Day! Margaret reads you a story about codependent lesbian mushroom parasites.
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Margaret continues her conversation with Molly Conger about a complicated man who spent his early life promoting antisemitic conspiracies before sheltering thousands of Jews and dying in Auschwitz.
Sources:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1982/12/05/mass-is-set-for-the-saint-of-auschwitz/18a930db-756e-4f7c-a484-399305713a29/
The Life of St. Maximilian Kolbe, William LaMay
https://pisma-niepokalanow-pl.translate.goog/967-czy-prawda-sie-zmienia?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
https://www.nytimes.com/1982/11/19/world/saint-charged-with-bigotry-clerics-say-no.html
https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/was-st-maximilian-kolbe-an-antisemite-1068
https://web.archive.org/web/20140102091901/http://www.consecration.com/default.aspx?id=41
https://www.reddit.com/r/freemasonry/comments/rva0iu/the_giordano_brunisti/
https://studiaelblaskie.pl/assets/Numery/SE-tom212020.pdf#page=199
https://www.scross.co.za/2023/08/st-maximilian-kolbe-the-remarkable-martyr-to-nazis/
https://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/saint-maximillian-kolbe
Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism, Slavoj Zizek
https://eastwestreport.org/?view=article&id=343:persecution-of-christians-in-tsarist-russia-and-the-soviet-and-post-soviet-union&catid=43:e-20-2
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