Jon Nelson hosts this episode, which focuses on becoming an organizer, and features these segments:
Tim Norgren on The Thin Green Line (Part 2)
Desiree Hellegers brings audio from a 2017 interview with climate justice activist and labor organizer Tim Norgren. In Part 1, heard on the July 28 Old Mole, Norgren talks about walking off an LNG job site to join protesters outside, and how he came to climate justice organizing through Occupy Wall Street. In Part 2, he talks about the importance of the Pacific Northwest, the inspiration of past activists and anarchists, and the importance of community and mutual aid. The interview is part of The Thin Green Line is People’s History Project, an archive that houses thousands of documents, including public testimony, environmental impact statements, news reports, policy analysis, and oral histories.
Anyone Can be an Organizer
Audio from Rural Roots Rising, by the Rural Organizing Project. In this 2019 episode from the Rural Roots Organizing Podcast, we hear from Brenda Flores with Raíces in Stanfield, Umatilla County, Juan Navarro with Here to Stay in the mid-Willamette Valley, and Monica Pearson with Indivisible North Coast Oregon in Astoria, Clatsop County. Rural Roots Rising talked with each of them about their work for migrant justice, how they first started organizing, and what motivates them to keep going. This episode is grounded in the belief that no matter who you are or where you live, you can be an organizer. If you are interested in making change in your community, head to www.rop.org to learn more about Rural Organizing Project (ROP).
WRR: Organizing Through Exhaustion, Grief, and Uncertainty
Frann Michel recommends the work of Kelly Hayes, and shares excerpts from her post "From Aspiration to Action: Organizing Through Exhaustion, Grief, and Uncertainty" at her newsletter Organizing My Thoughts. You can also find her work on the Movement Memos podcast at Truthout and in her co-authored book with Mariame Kaba, Let This Radicalize You. She has also edited the forthcoming collection Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis.