Grassroots Organizing: Lessons From Florida’s Shrimp Gate

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0:00 Well, so I I was coincidentally at the legislative building on the day that a bunch of the shrimp gate people came in and they were just wandering around and kind of disorganized a little bit. They were all very passionate about the issue. Of course, they'd been following the legislation, but it was a little bit of a of an urgent situation and um just kind of off the cuff. I had an opportunity to talk to a number of them, probably 15 or 20 of them. And uh what I learned during that period of time was that everybody needs some basic

0:30 organizing tactics and skills. And so I was fortunate enough to help them connect them with some people to get organized. And within days they had things all over social media. And you see what happened there. It's a brilliant story about community organizing, the power of the American citizen.