Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Margaret finishes talking to you about the history behind Trump's latest boogieman, the Italian hacktavists who helped free the internet.
Sources:
https://chuffed.org/project/alexio-mutual-aid
https://publish.fid-media.de/server/api/core/bitstreams/f8e99026-0049-4da6-bd2e-1b5a9d84b477/content
https://www.inventati.org/campaign/press
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_State_list_of_Foreign_Terrorist_Organizations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specially_designated_global_terrorist
https://www.icnl.org/resources/research/ijnl/solving-the-necessity-conundrum-what-the-drug-war-can-teach-us-about-due-process-for-u-s-charities-in-the-fight-against-international-terrorist-financing
https://web.archive.org/web/20160126020743/http://www.jta.org/2009/05/28/news-opinion/united-states/holy-land-founders-get-life-sentences
https://scalawagmagazine.org/2025/08/palestinian-political-prisoner-shukri-abu-bakers-poetry-book-debuts-in-houston/
https://anarchistnews.org/content/go-forth-and-multiply-may-10-100-1000-servers-spark
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/12/newsid_3953000/3953999.stm
https://libcom.org/article/1969-strategy-tension-italy
https://libcom.org/article/giuseppe-pinelli-death-anarchist
https://files.libcom.org/files/Secrets-and-Bombs.pdf
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/16/world/evolution-in-europe-italy-discloses-its-web-of-cold-war-guerrillas.html
https://theconversation.com/looking-back-at-1992-italys-horrible-year-66739
https://theconversation.com/looking-back-at-1992-italys-horrible-year-66739
https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2001/07/22/carlo-una-vita-contro.html
https://blog.pmpress.org/2026/07/20/a-letter-to-carlo-giuliani/
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This week, Margaret continues talking to you about the history behind Trump's latest boogieman, the Italian hacktavists who helped free the internet.
Sources:
https://chuffed.org/project/alexio-mutual-aid
https://publish.fid-media.de/server/api/core/bitstreams/f8e99026-0049-4da6-bd2e-1b5a9d84b477/content
https://www.inventati.org/campaign/press
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_State_list_of_Foreign_Terrorist_Organizations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specially_designated_global_terrorist
https://www.icnl.org/resources/research/ijnl/solving-the-necessity-conundrum-what-the-drug-war-can-teach-us-about-due-process-for-u-s-charities-in-the-fight-against-international-terrorist-financing
https://web.archive.org/web/20160126020743/http://www.jta.org/2009/05/28/news-opinion/united-states/holy-land-founders-get-life-sentences
https://scalawagmagazine.org/2025/08/palestinian-political-prisoner-shukri-abu-bakers-poetry-book-debuts-in-houston/
https://anarchistnews.org/content/go-forth-and-multiply-may-10-100-1000-servers-spark
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/12/newsid_3953000/3953999.stm
https://libcom.org/article/1969-strategy-tension-italy
https://libcom.org/article/giuseppe-pinelli-death-anarchist
https://files.libcom.org/files/Secrets-and-Bombs.pdf
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/16/world/evolution-in-europe-italy-discloses-its-web-of-cold-war-guerrillas.html
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Margaret kicks off spooky month by sharing a spooky story of her own about a haunted cave and the 90s teens who get lost in it
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Margaret talks to you about the US's long history of intervention in Italian politics.
Sources:
https://chuffed.org/project/alexio-mutual-aid
https://publish.fid-media.de/server/api/core/bitstreams/f8e99026-0049-4da6-bd2e-1b5a9d84b477/content
https://www.inventati.org/campaign/press
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_State_list_of_Foreign_Terrorist_Organizations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specially_designated_global_terrorist
https://www.icnl.org/resources/research/ijnl/solving-the-necessity-conundrum-what-the-drug-war-can-teach-us-about-due-process-for-u-s-charities-in-the-fight-against-international-terrorist-financing
https://web.archive.org/web/20160126020743/http://www.jta.org/2009/05/28/news-opinion/united-states/holy-land-founders-get-life-sentences
https://scalawagmagazine.org/2025/08/palestinian-political-prisoner-shukri-abu-bakers-poetry-book-debuts-in-houston/
https://anarchistnews.org/content/go-forth-and-multiply-may-10-100-1000-servers-spark
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/12/newsid_3953000/3953999.stm
https://libcom.org/article/1969-strategy-tension-italy
https://libcom.org/article/giuseppe-pinelli-death-anarchist
https://files.libcom.org/files/Secrets-and-Bombs.pdf
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/16/world/evolution-in-europe-italy-discloses-its-web-of-cold-war-guerrillas.html
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In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation with writer and podcast host Andrew Ti about how an informal union of children shut down the nation’s biggest newspapers and won their rights.
Original Air Date: 6.21.2023
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