Community Organizing: Advice & Ideas w/ The Nebraska Left Coalition

Revolutionary Left Radio

Breht O'Shea

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🗓️ 5 March 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Brett sits down with his fellow-organizer, friend, and comrade to discuss their experience organizing as the Nebraska Left Coalition. The point of this episode is to talk about our programs, our experiences, and some ideas about how to get started organizing in your community. We also take questions from listeners on Twitter.

Follow and support The Nebraska Left Coalition on FB here: https://www.facebook.com/TheNebraskaLeftCoalition/

Donate to The Nebraska Left Coalition here: https://www.paypal.me/neleftcoalition

You can find No Thanks new album The Trial here:

https://no-thanks.bandcamp.com

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Intro Music by The String-Bo String Duo.
You can listen and support their music here: https://tsbsd.bandcamp.com/track/red-black

This podcast is officially affiliated with The Nebraska Left Coalition, the Nebraska IWW, and the Omaha GDC.

Check out Nebraska IWW's new website here: https://www.nebraskaiww.org

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, before we start the show, I just wanted to say that the guest on this episode is a friend and
0:04.9	comrade of mine and he is part of not only the organization the Nebraska-Elefic Coalition,
0:10.0	but the music that we're going to be playing throughout this episode is a band that he is in with other
0:16.2	members of NLC and Omaha musicians and that band is called No Thanks. They just released their album,
0:22.4	our sound engineer Dave had a hand in helping them record that album and so all the music you're
0:28.7	going to hear in this episode comes out of the Omaha DIY scene and the Omaha organizing scene.
0:34.5	So with that said, let's get to the episode.
1:28.7	Welcome to Revolutionary Left Radio. I'm your host and comrade, Red O'Shea and with me today is Mike
1:52.4	Henney from Nebraska-Elefic Coalition. Me and Mike are part of an organization here in Omaha called
1:57.2	the Nebraska-Elefic Coalition. We do a lot of organizing, we have a lot of programs, we've just
2:01.6	recently expanded to two chapters, one in Omaha, one in Lincoln and we're even thinking about
2:05.9	expanding into Council Bluffs for a third chapter. So we thought that it might be worthwhile for us to
2:11.0	just talk about our experiences here in Omaha, which is a medium-sized city and we had no real
2:17.7	revolutionary left-wing infrastructure in place when we started organizing. So we basically had
2:23.0	absolutely nothing and I know a lot of people are in similar situations where they live in small
2:28.1	to medium-sized cities and they're just kind of lost as to how to get started because there's no
2:32.8	ready-made organizations to join. So we really want to speak to those people, we want to talk about
2:37.8	what we do here, what we've learned over the past year to in organizing and hopefully folks can
2:43.5	draw from our experience and apply it to their own situations. Now if you're a veteran organizer
2:48.2	and you live in LA or New York or Chicago, this might not be as interesting to you. You might
2:53.2	be curious and if you do listen, we'd love to hear feedback, we'd love other organizers who've
2:57.9	had been in the game longer than us to give us feedback so we can learn more. But we're not
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