Hello everybody and welcome back to Rev Left Radio.

All right, on today's episode, I'm going to present to you a lecture I gave as part of our ongoing organizational and political education efforts here in Omaha and a program that we recently created called

Omaha Night, or Socialist Night School based in Omaha, Nebraska.

This is a six-week program that me and some local organizers have put together, and the

intention is at first to bring in members of organizations and activist groups in the Omaha area,

people that are already active, to go through a six-week, fairly intensive political education

course, theory, history, and praxis, trying to uplift the basic social consciousness and class

consciousness and theoretical consciousness of those already active

and wanting to be more active in the community as organizers.

And then the goal is we go through the six-week program and then we extend it to other audiences

going forward.

Maybe the next instantiation would go out to college students, right? We'd promote it on local

campuses and then have college students join the six-week program and then eventually get to the

public, right, to the open community and lift people's basic political education, especially

in this moment of crisis when people are looking for deeper

understandings of what's going on and many people are looking to get involved. I think this is

a crucial time to be doing something like this and organizing in our community. And obviously,

we live in a deep red state. We're not in a major city, but we've always been putting in work

here in Omaha, and we will continue to do so. And I'm very, very proud of what we've

accomplished so far with the socialist night school. We're three weeks done. We have three more

weeks to go. I taught the lectures for week two and three. We have about two, two and a half hours every Tuesday

for the members of this program to come to this church that we, that we have, that we have some

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