#ruralorganizing — Public Fediverse posts
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📍 We don’t just need towns.
We need names.
🎙️ Sabot Media is booking interviews for the road trip, and we’re asking people to help us find the folks we should be talking to before we roll in half-prepared and deeply caffeinated.
🌾 Who should we interview?
Rural organizers.
City organizers.
Workers.
Union folks.
Mutual aid crews.
Anti-fascists.
Artists.
Zinesters.
Independent media people.
Old punks with receipts.
People holding down community spaces.
People who know the history because they lived it.
People everyone says, “you have to talk to them.”
🏚️ We’re looking for stories about abandonment, organizing, survival, labor, community defense, media, housing, food, land, fascist creep, small-town resistance, city burnout, and the ways people keep each other alive anyway.
🧱 Rural and urban struggle are not separate worlds.
The divide is manufactured.
The road is not.
📼 If someone comes to mind, tag them.
If they should not be tagged publicly, DM us.
If you can introduce us directly, even better. Human networks remain inconveniently useful.
🛠️ We also still need hosts, floors, driveways, venue leads, food, gas money, and repair support to keep the 1979 Econoline moving.
💸 This is a fundraiser and a call for connections.
Donate / share / send help:
bit.ly/sabotfund
🔥 Send us your people.
🛣️ We’ll bring the mic.
#SabotMedia #SabotMediaRoadTrip #RuralUrbanSolidarity #RuralOrganizing #UrbanOrganizing #MutualAid #RadicalMedia #IndependentMedia #AnarchistMedia #Antifascist #LaborHistory #CommunityDefense #ZineCulture #SolidarityNotCharity #FundTheRoad #RoadTripFundraiser
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📷 🎙️ We’re looking for people to interview on the Sabot Media Road Trip.
🛣️ Our exact itinerary is still coming together, but the dates and locations are set. We’re hitting the road to document rural / urban solidarity, radical history, labor struggle, mutual aid, anti-fascist organizing, independent media, community defense, and the people keeping each other alive without permission.
📍 We’re looking for interviewees in and around:
Olympia
Seattle
Walla Walla
Tri-Cities
Portland
Eugene
Corvallis
🌾 We want to hear from rural organizers, city organizers, workers, artists, old punks, union folks, mutual aid crews, anti-fascists, zinesters, media makers, community weirdos, people who stayed, people who left, and people trying to come home.
🧱 The divide between rural and urban struggle is manufactured. We’re interested in the people building roads across it.
📼 If you have a story, a project, a warning, a grudge, a history, a lesson, or someone we absolutely need to talk to, message us.
🛠️ We also still need venue leads, food, gas money, repair help, and local contacts. Because apparently vans do not run on revolutionary conviction alone. Rude.
💸 This is a fundraiser. Every share, donation, couch, driveway, meal, and connection helps make the trip possible.
Donate / share / send help:
bit.ly/sabotfund
🔥 The divide is manufactured.
🛣️ The road is not.
DM for more info.
#SabotMedia #SabotMediaRoadTrip #RuralUrbanSolidarity #RuralOrganizing #UrbanOrganizing #MutualAid #RadicalMedia #IndependentMedia #AnarchistMedia #Antifascist #LaborHistory #CommunityDefense #ZineCulture #SolidarityNotCharity #FundTheRoad #RoadTripFundraiser
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I gave the Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness crew the significant challenge of trying to make me sound coherent in this interview with Inmn Neruin. I was managing some pretty significant sleep deprivation and a mild cold, but I think it turned out pretty good (despite my best efforts).
But I did talk a lot about my trauma related to some of my experience living in #rural areas, and in doing that I was definitely not as careful as I could have been to talk about that as a trauma experience rather than as reality. Some people get trapped in rural areas, but other folks live there because they find beautiful things.
Not only is #RuralOrganizing critical (Trumpism grew out of areas neglected by "the left"), but rural living can be beautiful and rewarding. I briefly mentioned growing up throwing knives. A friend of mine lived way out in the woods, and there's something special about having a playground that spans several square miles. Intertwined with the old settler colonialism, antisemitism, *phobias, and isolation, that is at the heart of a lot of my personal rural misery, there's also a joyous and feral thing that taught me a lot and, I think, helped me organize more fearlessly. That thing is both individualist and collectivist, in different ways, and I don't think it's well understood without experiencing it. There's far more nuance than I was able to offer (and I definitely could have been more careful not to play into anti-rural stereotypes).
I think I said, "no one wants to live there." People do. You do. So let me try to fix that by giving you a chance to talk about that. I also talked about how slow things move, how nothing changes, but there are also sometimes opportunities to change things in huge ways specifically because structures don't exist to stop those changes. So while I'm bumping this zine and interview, also I want to use this as an opportunity to welcome my rural comrades to help fill in the gaps:
What draws you to where you are?
Do you choose to live in a rural area vs urban, and why?
Is there any other thing I've said that you would like to correct?
What other things should folks know? -
From Alex Zucker on Bluesky:
Wed, March 18
6:00pm EST#RuralOrganizing is holding a training on how to prepare your rural community for an #ICE surge.
Original post:
https://bsky.app/profile/alexzucker.bsky.social/post/3mhedsos7sc2s#MovementOrganizing #organizing #fascism #authoritarianism #DHS #FuckICE #WeKeepUsSafe
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A message from Rural Organizing, an Invitation to Bravery:
Over the next few months and years, we will be given every reason to isolate ourselves, to retreat to our corners. This letter is an invitation to those who might be interested in doing the opposite. For national leaders looking for rural allies but aren’t sure where to start, drop us a line. For rural freedom fighters who are feeling alone, you aren’t.
https://convergencemag.com/articles/from-rural-america-with-love-an-invitation-to-bravery/
