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OTU Under Attack by Landlord Lobby
🕑 Added 2025-05-03 15:12:56 +0000 UTCIn this episode, Breht welcomes on Seth from Omaha Tenants United for an in-studio discussion about OTU's slate of recent successes organizing several tenant unions, and a subsequent new legal assault on the organization by the local landlord lobby. The legal implications of this attack are truly monumental for virtually all forms of organizing. They also discuss how landlordism is a feudal hangover with modern capitalist dynamics, the differences between tenant organizing and labor organizing, tenant organizing as a particularly potent site of struggle, and the material underpinnings of recent superstructural shifts in many people's views of landlords.
Local media interviews Seth on the issue: https://www.3newsnow.com/central-omaha/omaha-tenants-united-faces-allegations-of-unauthorized-practice-of-law
OTU's Drake Court Tenant Union (Local 252) covered in local media: https://www.3newsnow.com/central-omaha/drake-court-tenants-unite-to-demand-better-living-conditions-from-property-management
Increasing number of renters turning to tenant unions in the Omaha metro: https://www.wowt.com/2025/01/25/increasing-number-renters-turning-tenant-unions-omaha-metro/
Fed up tenants: Renters form unions to hold leasing companies accountable: https://www.ketv.com/article/omaha-renters-form-unions-to-hold-leasing-companies-accountable/62684760
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Revolutionary Left Radio
I have seen some of his stuff and am sub'd to him on YT. Everything Ive seen from him I like but am not familiar with the specific proposal in this video!
Revolutionary Left Radio
Hey Matt, I believe we did use that one for the Best Of series, if its the same one we are thinking about. The one with Alyson and the techno-religion stuff??
HailZeus
Breht have you seen the YouTube channel Socialism4All ? What are your thoughts on it? Also what do you think of this proposal he makes in the clip about keyholder or Donglism, lol. https://youtu.be/hsFlgWGhNeE
Matt Pierce
Hey Breht, re: the best of series - I was looking through the spotify feed this morning at some old episodes I hadn't cleared as finished when I moved over to Spotify as the platform I usually listen on. I saw in there your episode from 2020 about the political economy of silicon Valley. Just wanted to put it on your radar as potentially a really useful and relevant episode to highlight rn given that section of capital's tremendous influence over the current conjuncture in our politics.
