Before the Fall: possible futures for anti-austerity movements

Syndicated from Libcom on Sat, 2012-08-04

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<p> Amanda Armstrong looks at the potential for future struggle during the current lull in anti-austerity organizing. </p>

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<p> We’re passing through a low phase in Northern California – a lull that partially parallels those facing organizers from Madison to New York. The rebellious energies so evident recently seem scattered these days, dormant. The universities are quiet. And the forces that had gathered in city parks and squares, most massively at Oakland’s Oscar Grant Plaza, are largely absent. </p>
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