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Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
What can the Left learn from rural organizers about strategy, innovation, and courage? What will it take for progressives to truly invest in working class rural organizing and see rural people as a critical part of winning the world we need? Join co-founders and members of the Rural Defenders Union, a network of isolated, under-resourced, anti-authoritarian rural efforts who are fighting a wide range of live authoritarian threats, for a conversation about the political landscape of rural America, the powerful antiauthoritarian organizing happening, and the opportunity we have to invest in growing it.
Speakers
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Rae Garringer

Rae Garringer is a writer, oral historian, audio producer, and goat farmer based in southeastern West Virginia where they were raised. They are the author and editor of Country Queers: A Love Letter (Haymarket 2024) and the editor of To Belong Here: A New Generation of Queer... Read More →
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Beth Howard

Beth Howard, Appalachian Peoples Union Director at Showing Up for Racial Justice and Rural Defenders Union (RDU) co-founder
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Shawn Sebastian

Shawn Sebastian, Organizing Director at RuralOrganizing.org and RDU co-founder
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Stephen Smith

Stephen Smith, Organizer at West Virginia Can’t Wait and RDU co-founder.
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Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
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