The amusingly-named Platypus Society is hosting a panel talk at Oregon State, and I’m going to be on it.
FROM POLITICS to PROTEST?
Since 2020, the Left has undergone a transformation in organizing and self- conception. With the end of the Bernie Sanders movement, the lifting of COVID restrictions, and political disorientation under the Biden administration, horizons for the contemporary Left have shifted to street politics, taking up popular discontents with racism, climate change, and American foreign policy. This recalls images of the past–not only of the Late 60s and 70s, but the early moments of the Millennial Left, born out of Occupy, the Anti-War Movement, and the shadow of Anarchism in the 80s and 90s.
How have the politics of protest been impacted by the Biden administration and the looming specter of Trump? Are the horizons of possibility for the Left today greater than they were ten years ago?
THU APR 25
@6pm Strand Hall 163
Oregon State University, Corvallis
Doug Lain //Sublation Media
Rajeev Ravisankar//GTFF-AFT Local 3544
Randy Taylor//Industrial Workers of the World
Kristian Williams //author of Whither Anarchism? and Gang Politics
panel discussion
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Hosted by The Platypus Affiliated Society @ OSU