In part two of this week's series, Margaret continues her conversation with Kaveh Hoda about the down-and-out Black men who created the world's first modern paramedic service, way more recently than you'd imagine. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part Two: Freedom House: The World’s First Paramedics Were Black Men from Pittsburgh

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Margaret talks with Kat Abu about the history of community gardening in New York City and elsewhere. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part One: Community Gardens: How People Take Land From the Rich to Feed Themselves

Margaret reads a classic anti-anarchist story by HG Wells written before Wells learned what was up. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

CZM Book Club: "The Stolen Bacillus" by HG Wells

In part four, Margaret finishes her talk with Robert Evans about the time that millions of Ukrainians rose a black flag and went to war against landlords, nationalists, and Bolsheviks. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part Four: Death to the Rich: Maria Nikiforova and the anarchist battallions in Civil War Ukraine

In part three, Margaret continues to talk with Robert Evans about the time that millions of Ukrainians rose a black flag and went to war against landlords, nationalists, and Bolsheviks. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part Three: Death to the Rich: Maria Nikiforova and the anarchist battallions in Civil War Ukraine

Margaret reads a piece of folklore about the colonization of Siberia. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part Two: Freedom House: The World’s First Paramedics Were Black Men from Pittsburgh

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