[lbo-talk] 1992

dredmond at efn.org dredmond at efn.org
Sun Feb 8 12:05:21 PST 2004


Quoting Chuck0 <chuck at mutualaid.org>:


> The 1992 election of Bill Clinton poured a
> cooler of Gatorade on the activism that had heated up after Gulf War 1.
> Activism happened throughout the 90s, but it really didn't heat up again
> until the end of Clinton's term.

That's not the way I remember it. Gulf War I activism was pretty darn thin on the ground -- a classic single-issue movement, which didn't spill over into other struggles. The late 1990s saw an upsurge across the board -- unions, micropolitics, culture, international solidarity, etc.

-- DRR



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