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The Anti-Austerity Discussion Group is a series of discussions about how people locally and around the world are resisting austerity and building strong coalitions to protect access to public services, education, and a basic social safety net. Our goals are to educate ourselves, strengthen our relationships, and develop a shared analysis of austerity and a shared orientation to strategies that work.<section end=intro /> Upcoming Study Group Event: TBAFacebook Event Page: TBA Join us for the sixth in a series of discussions about how people locally and around the world are fighting elite-imposed austerity and building political and economic democracy from the grassroots. Our goals are to educate ourselves, strengthen our relationships, and develop a shared analysis of austerity and strategies to fight back against economic tyranny. We'll post links to reading material as our study group assignments become available. Have a suggestion? Please post it to our Facebook event page or under the Suggested Reading, Video, Audio. We will start out with a potluck brunch and spend time getting to know each other. We'll have some discussion in the large group and then break into small groups for more in-depth conversations using the discussion questions provided as a starting point. AgendaAssignmentsDiscussion QuestionsSuggested Reading, Video, AudioExtra CreditUpcoming Topic ProposalsPrevious TopicsNotes of previous discussions located on our Discussion Group Archive page.
Austerity Basics
Global Austerity Crisis
More About The Global Austerity Crisis
Language Barriers: How does the 1% think and how should we interpret it?
Owellian business and economic language--terms, "competitive," "restructuring," "labor flexibility," "public-private partnerships," "creativity", etc.--tends to obscure what's actually going on. Let's decipher a few of the phrases used in the article quoted above from sterile economic and business "code" and put it into ordinary language.
TT: Even though we elites were the cause of the economic collapse, we can easily blame the victims--those who lost their jobs, were tossed out of their homes, etc.--for their lack of competitiveness.
TT: This is a terrific opportunity to shift not only the blame, but the costs too, by removing all burdensome private sector regulations and job-killing labor protections. (BwwaaahhhaaaahaaaahaaaHah!)
TT: More austerity measures will gut public assets to the degree that we can snap them up at a bargain basement price and at the same time crush the will of the now surplus labor force, who will "happily" work for shit wages.
TT: Once we own everything that the middle class used to own collectively, and once all labor protections are rolled back, we’ll be even freer than we are now to outsource labor and hire locals on contract, with no benefits. Yay, we win again!" Links & Info
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