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Revolutionary Left Radio

Tenant Organizing with Omaha Tenants Union

Revolutionary Left Radio

Breht O'Shea

Communism, Politics, Liberalism, Society & Culture, Philosophy, News, History, Leftwing, Socialism, Marxism

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2024

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

Seth and Jade from OTU join Breht to discuss their tenant organizing, their recent victories, implementing the Mass Line, the importance of political education, how to take the fight to landlords, concrete advice for those who might want to start their own tenant organization, and much more!

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0:00.0

Hello everybody and welcome back to Rev Left radio. On today's episode we have

0:10.7

Seth and Jade from the Omaha Tenants United to talk about their struggles

0:16.2

building tenant unions their struggles against landlords the role that tenant

0:21.1

organizing plays in the revolutionary movement more broadly,

0:25.6

its connections to anti-Imperialist movements, local organizations like the Jewish

0:30.1

Voice for Peace and Nebraska's for Palestine working with

0:33.8

o-tU the trials and tribulations challenges and obstacles

0:38.9

that these comrades have faced in their tenant organizing over the years, their biggest accomplishments,

0:45.2

advice for people who want to begin their own tenant organizing campaigns and their own communities,

0:50.0

and much, much more. It's a really great conversation. Long time listeners of Rev Left will have heard

0:55.1

episodes we've done with O TU over the years. But there's a lot of new developments that have

0:59.4

happened since then in the broader environment, like housing costs costs as well as the organization itself

1:04.8

which has been diligently continuing its amazing work and growing and learning

1:10.0

this entire time so it's a really great experience, a really great conversation with really

1:15.4

principled and hardworking comrades. And as always if you like what we do here at Rev Left

1:20.2

radio you can join us on our Patreon at Patreon.com forward slash Rev Left Radio

1:24.6

where you get access to bonus monthly episodes, mostly me, you know, ranting

1:30.9

and doing my own analysis reading articles

1:35.2

replying to YouTube videos

1:37.6

constructing arguments and having fun it just it's a cool outlet for me to be

1:42.2

able to do things I'm not able to do on the public feed and at this point

1:45.8

Over seven years in we have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of

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