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Revolutionary Left Radio

Organizing in a Pandemic: Omaha Tenants United & Nebraska Left Coalition

Revolutionary Left Radio

Breht O'Shea

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

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In this two-part episode, Breht interviews Talia and Seth from Omaha Tenants United and Brendan from Nebraska Left Coalition. In the first interview, we discuss tenant organizing during the Covid Crisis, the role landlords play in our society, and how to start your own tenant organization. And in the second interview, we discuss NLC's food program and mutual aid projects, where this crisis ranks in modern history, and much more.

Here is OTU's website: https://omahatenantsunited.org/

Here is NLC's website: https://www.neleftcoalition.com/

Donate to NLC's spring fundraiser here: https://chuffed.org/project/spring-fundraiser

Intermission music: 'Merlin' by Hail Mary Malon

Outro music: Ancient Ways' by Interpol

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio.

0:09.2

So for today's episode we wanted to update people on the organizing going on here in Omaha

0:15.2

during this pandemic.

0:17.0

We also wanted to offer ideas for people who are trying to organize during this pandemic

0:21.6

in your own localities and hopefully offer some inspiration for people who might be feeling

0:27.0

down at this time.

0:28.0

Now there are people all over this country on the left who are stepping up in their communities,

0:33.4

serving the people, helping people fight slum lords and greedy landlords and helping

0:39.2

people get food and basic needs.

0:42.0

So it's really important that we highlight those struggles and the struggles that I know

0:45.2

best are here in my home city of Omaha where my comrades and I have been doing everything

0:51.2

we can in a bunch of different orgs to serve people's basic needs during this time.

0:56.7

So we have two interviews today and I sort of stitched them together with a little transition

1:01.3

music so there will be two separate interviews, one with Omaha tenants united and the other

1:06.3

with Brendan from Nebraska left coalition.

1:09.8

So the first half will really be focused on tenant organizing during the pandemic.

1:14.0

The second half will be focused on organizing around food production and distribution during

1:19.0

the pandemic.

1:20.0

So a little different than we've done in the past but not totally new.

1:24.0

We have episodes and the past full episodes on both of these organizations I believe and

1:29.6

I'll try to post those in the show notes so if you're interested at all in either O.T.U or

1:34.5

NLC you can go into the show notes and find past episodes.

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