In Solidarity: People Helping People...
Revolutionary Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2023
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
This is so important: If even a fraction of our audience pitches in as little as $5, we can make a HUGE positive impact on a family... a family you and I do not know, a family we will never meet, a family whose fate will never make it into our headlines -- but a family nonetheless. Human beings who, for whatever complex chain of causal reasons, are in a position where the Rev Left audience is their last and only hope: their last and only hope of staying in their home, and their last and only hope of keeping Abdou (their son and brother and father figure... and our comrade) a free man so that he can continue to provide for his family and be in their lives.
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| 0:00.0 | This is PM with Revolutionary Left Radio. |
| 0:05.0 | I am the co-host of the series on WB Dubois with Brett. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm reaching out to the listeners of the show with an urgent call from mutual aid |
| 0:14.0 | for a comrade in Gambia, Abdoujouf. |
| 0:18.0 | In three and a half days, if he doesn't pay a year's worth of back rent, |
| 0:23.0 | Abdou will be sent to prison by the authorities in Gambia |
| 0:26.0 | and because he is the sole breadwinner of his family, |
| 0:30.0 | his mother and his little sister will be affected from their home. |
| 0:34.0 | The amount he needs to pay is only about $1,500 USD. |
| 0:41.0 | That is rent for him and his family for an entire year. |
| 0:46.0 | I have witnessed him plead on his social media for this money, for weeks. |
| 0:53.0 | He is managed to raise about $200 on his own, |
| 0:56.0 | and this involved selling as many of his personal possessions as he possibly could. |
| 1:01.0 | This is a substantial amount of money for him, but unfortunately it is not enough. |
| 1:07.0 | I have personally video called with him and I have seen all documentation of the crisis he is going through, |
| 1:13.0 | including the letter from the authorities with official stamps and signage from the government, |
| 1:18.0 | threatening to send him to prison. |
| 1:21.0 | I have listened to him on video call, express his utter devastation |
| 1:26.0 | when his family refused to help him because he is on the radical left. |
| 1:30.0 | When we were video calling yesterday, he told me he had no tears left to cry. |
| 1:36.0 | He will do anything he possibly can to stay out of prison, support his family, |
| 1:41.0 | even if that means video calling with each and every one of you |
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