Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio.

Today we have three representatives from Omaha, Tenets United, Seth Nolan and Talia to talk

about some of the tenant organizing struggles going on in Omaha right now.

But the point of this discussion is to talk about an organization doing great work in Omaha,

probably the best organizing work in Omaha at the moment, and then also to lay down some tips

and advice and some structure for how people in other cities might replicate some of the strategies

and successes that the O.T.U. has had, which have been really impressive, especially as of late.

So we have Seth Nolan and Talia in studio, maybe everybody can start off just by saying hi,

maybe saying what your political orientation is as a nice introduction. Seth, you want to start?

I am Seth and I am a Maoist. I'm Nolan, just generally a Marxist.

Talia and I'm an anarchist. Nice, nice little mix of people today. Nolan was actually on our

first episode ever, and Seth's been here numerous times as well. This is the first for Talia,

nice to have you here. But let's go ahead and just jump into the questions here.

First question, can you just talk about Omaha tenants united, why it was founded, what the vision was, etc.

Yeah, so it was, so we do our food distribution thing, feed the people through Omaha,

and part of what we do is ask people questions about what was going on in their lives,

what other issues they're struggling with, because you know, it's not meant to just be a charity,

it's meant to be a way to tap into other struggles. And we had a few people that are coming up,

talking about how they have issues with their landlords. And so I mean, pretty much a few people

that were interested in, we thought it would be a good opportunity to get something off the ground

in that regard. And just got a few people together that were interested in that type of work, both

from inside and outside of FTP. And we just basically got it going. Yeah, so our first couple

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