Cassandra Galentine is a doctoral candidate in the University of Oregon English Department. She is an active member in the Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation (AFT Local 3544) as well as a member of the Industrial Workers of the World.
The first round of the local elections took place against a backdrop of widespread creeping fascism in France and comes after a brutal offensive by the far right, during which the traditional ‘Republican’ right has decisively broken from much of its historical framework and values.