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It Could Happen Here

Rural Organizing Part 1 Ft. Andrew and Black Flower Collective

It Could Happen Here

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

Politics, Daily News, News, Society & Culture

4.06.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Andrew and Mia talk with two members of the Black Flower Collective about organizing in rural communities and the conditions that make it different from urban organizing.

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0:00.0

Just a few miles off the Thailand coast, the island of Kothau looks like a postcard.

0:07.0

I'd underneath the surface lies something sinister.

0:11.0

In the last 20 years dozens of tourists have died mysteriously on the island.

0:16.0

A dark cloud who's come over the island, death, mystery and danger.

0:23.0

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0:35.0

Hello and welcome to It Crap in Here.

0:37.0

Once again, who's sit by myself and true as we talk about whatever.

0:42.0

So today we have two special guests, Sprout and Shariaan from the Black Flour Collective.

0:48.0

They had to talk to us about the dichotomy between Ubern and rural political organisation.

0:53.0

As we can all recognise in this day and age, the implicitly active is incredibly important.

1:00.0

There are a lot of vulnerabilities that we are all facing under this intersection of systems.

1:06.0

We are looking for ways to get out, but it could be difficult to navigate, especially when you don't know exactly where to begin.

1:15.0

That's part of the focus of my channel and it's also something that these folks are here to talk to us about.

1:21.0

But before we delve too deeply into the meet-to-date discussion, let's begin with a quick introduction.

1:27.0

Who is Black Flour Collective? How did you all begin and what are some of your goals as a group?

1:33.0

Hey, this is Sprout and we got started organising with the Black Flour Collective through previous organising projects here in Aberdeen.

1:45.0

In Washington, such as the Chahalis River Mutual Aid Network.

1:49.0

That collective got started after the Black Lives Matter rebellion in so-called Seattle and was started by feeding the movement out there in Capitol Hill and Chaz.

2:00.0

And then brought that organising effort to back to the community to start a food and up bombs here in town.

2:07.0

Through those meetings and relationships that we formed, we got to know the local homeless in town

2:14.0

and started getting to know their needs as we tried to fill them with our mutual aid efforts.

2:20.0

And out of those conversations over meals, we learned that one of the biggest needs was some sort of home base where people like us trying to support the community could come together and cook meals together and serve them in a collective area.

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