I first learned about Sam Oser when she covered the Valero release of Hydrogen Cyanide in Houston Neighborhoods. While local papers are too busy licking the boots of the Oil and Gas industry or rank every new gastropub within Houston city limits as a 10/10. She is diligently covering the eviction crisis, the HISD privatization and contract talks, police brutality, falsified flood maps, and all the topics where class, gender, and race intersect within the city. She also hosts a show at All Real Radio called “Unconventional Journalist”, Saturdays 1:30 pm - 2:30 CST.

She was recently in a panel for local organizers and storytellers for the city of Houston, and she will be doing an AMA with us the afternoon (3-4pm CDT) of May 27th.

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  • Awoo [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Neat! It might be worth throwing together some premade suggestions for this to make sure it goes off well. With site members not being very accustomed to this kind of thing there's a good chance the tight time window could result in many missing it so a backup to make sure it goes off well could be worthwhile.

    Is 3-4pm based on Moscow time or something else?

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        Can't forget to include those timezones heh!

    • marxisthayaca [he/him,they/them]
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      3 years ago

      I'd be willing to post the OP very early and folks are welcome to throw out questions the entire week if they'd like.

    • Nakoichi [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      This is also a great way to incentivise people to make an account :think-about-it:

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        Mmmm especially if the site can built up a tradition of doing this, enough examples of it done successfully can be collated together into a portfolio that can then be presented as a pitch to major influencers - the podcasters, union organisers, streamers, youtubers, even leftist politicians. They bring their audience, get an ama format out of it, some two way promotion in a format they can't do on other platforms with an audience that will be positive, other sites write articles about questions answered in amas and that has knock on media effects for both the site and the influencer. It's been an idea on the table since the creation of c/ama but couldn't get bites in the earlier days. I could retry reaching out to others if we've now been around long enough for people to consider the site an established thing that isn't going anywhere.

        Quite exciting to be honest. Very optimistic and positive about the kind of benefits this can have for all parties.

        • Nakoichi [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          Just gotta get one of us on the Deprogram.

          Was thinking of hitting them up for the topic "I was fired for labor organizing"

          Seems like a good opportunity to talk about the does and don'ts and how to stay under the radar.

          • Awoo [she/her]
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            3 years ago

            Do it. Do everything, cross pollinate, push all audiences around all other audiences, it raises everything up.

          • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            Was thinking of hitting them up for the topic “I was fired for labor organizing”

            :meow-shining: HELL YEAH :sicko-charging: