Anarchist Cheerleader Elected
Lake Worth City Commissioner Cara Jennings refocuses her radicalism after surprise win
By Andrew Stelzer
As a Lake Worth city commissioner, Cara Jennings says, "I'm wearing much more boring clothes than I did as a radical cheerleader."
In 1996, Cara Jennings, then 19, and her sister Aimee started the Radical Cheerleaders in their hometown of Lake Worth, Fla., a town of 35,000 north of Ft. Lauderdale. Their fishnet-stocking, punked-out leather outfits and shredded garbage bag pom-poms caught on, as did their obscenity-laced chants against the neo-liberal agenda, the WTO (World Trade Organization) and various other political causes. As the worldwide protest movement rose in the late ’90s, the radical cheerleaders became fixtures at anti-globalization rallies, and cheerleading troupes have sprung up around the world. . .
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8 comments:
I remember those gals!!! And I remember the firestorm they stirred up. Even tho the misguided souls blasted us liberals, I always gave them points for thought and originality.:)
As a Floridian, I am concerned that this under-funded, grass-roots thing might catch on. I mean, if you can't count on well-heeled PAC donations, what can you count on?
TUA - I liked her more for what she stood for now, and the outfits - always hated cheerleaders, these sounded like ones I would enjoy!
Rex - you'd be surprised how far a pair of fishnets and a foul mouth can get you...
a cheerleader after me own 'eart!
Normally, I would say that as any kind of cheerleader, I must smack her about the head with a large blunt object, but she is a pretty cool chica. Absolvo!
fishnets, foul mouths, garbage bags....
chicas muy buenas!
Cool! I have a couple of Radical Cheerleader friends here in Nelson and one in Ottawa. This young woman has a confident look about her.
yeah, that's what I liked about her too, and that she can make a difference and has the drive and now the position to do so.
here is a beautiful young woman.
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