Who Speaks for Brazil's Streets?  By Ana Claudia Teixeira &
Gianpaolo Baiocchi ‹‹Previous Page |1 | 2 |  Participants in
popular assemblies do not only want an end to corruption. They
also distrust politicians who act legally on behalf of the
powerful. Traditional movements have a distant and cautious
relationship with the recent protests. Some organized movement
leaders, from the protests' early days, have expressed suspicion
at both the middle-class component and the distrust of political
parties that pervades the June Movement, a supposed "fascist
tendency." Some traditional organizers claim they see evidence
of right-wing manipulation in the protests and that the
demonstrators are privileged people who do not understand the
importance of a leftist government.  But other organizers have
attempted to more centrally and visibly insert their movements
into the broader wave of protests. Several of the large unions,
in concert with some nationally organized movements, called for
a "National Day of Struggle" on