hexFeb 7, 2025

Hey anarchists and general leftists organizing in #RuralAmerica and deep red territory! I know you exist, but a lot of folks don't. This might be a good time to share your experience so others doing similar things can learn from them.

What strategies have you used?
What lessons have you learned?
What successes can you talk about?
How do you talk about your ideas and frame your conversations?
What organizations exist to make that type of organizing easier?

Edit: I forgot about this episode
https://live-like-the-world-is-dying.pinecast.co/episode/92cbcf70/sabot-media-on-rural-organizing

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S1E71 - Sabot Media on Rural Organizing

# Episode Summary Margaret talks with Sprout and Charyan from Sabot Media and The Blackflower Collective about organizing in rural areas and how that can be different from organizing in more urban areas. Sprout and Charyan talk about the different projects that Sabot Media and The Blackflower Collec

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@Hex IDK how it is elsewhere, but around here, there are a lot of HELLA left wing people in rural areas, they just feel like they have to be pretty lowkey about it

Distrust of "city folks" is annoying, parochial, and 100% justified

There are not that many rural folks? People have this idea that the USA is like 50:50 urban vs. rural but it's really more like 80:20. Rural America is TAPPED OUT. It feels like everyone who could get to the city has been doing so for generations at this point.

Feb 7, 2025 at 3:43pmWeb