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Part One: The Banner Wars: How Dutch Squatters Fought Far-Right Immigration Policy

Margaret talks to Samantha McVey about the motley and international assortment of activists who refused to let a fascist off the hook. Sources: The Banner Wars, Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness, 2005 https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/27/international/europe/11-die-in-fire-at-dutch-airport-detention-center.html https://web.archive.org/web/20051210182413/http://www.time.com/time/europe/hero2005/cohen.html https://noborder.org/archive_item.php%3Fid=353.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/blast-damages-muslim-school-in-southern-netherlands-532504.html https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/14/world/europe/arson-suspected-at-dutch-mosque.html https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-height-by-country https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2005/10/amst-o28.html https://www.onderzoeksraad.nl/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/report_fire_schiphol_oost.pdf https://www.politico.eu/article/netherlands-right-wing-government-dick-schoof-mark-rutte-party-for-freedom/ https://apnews.com/article/migration-netherlands-wilders-asylum-38a5149bf59fad91d2368350405ba9dd https://www.visaverge.com/news/dutch-parliament-enacts-strictest-asylum-policy-in-history/   See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

CZM Book Club: Because Change Was the Ocean and We Lived by Her Mercy, by Charlie Jane Anders, Part One

Margaret reads you a story about the far-post-apocalypse and the joy we find in one another. See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Part Two: Q&A 2026: Margaret and Sophie Answer Your Questions

Even more of what you wanted to know about our dogs and our show and our thoughts about the future. See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Part One: Q&A 2026: Margaret and Sophie Answer Your Questions

Everything you wanted to know about our dogs and our show and our thoughts about the future. See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

CZM Book Club: A Cup of Tea, by Katherine Mansfield

Margaret reads you a story about class and patriarchy but don't worry it's not as pedantic as that makes it sound. See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.