Question for my American and Canadian leftist friends!
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸wrote last edited by [email protected]
Question for my American and Canadian leftist friends! #PleaseBoost #Organize #Rightwing #Leftwing #centrism
In Spain, the Valencian regional government, a coalition of the right-wing People’s Party and "ultras” Vox took power in the regional and many municipal governments last year.
Soon after, like the #Project2025 proposal to defund/privatize the NOAA and FEMA, the Valencian government eliminated the UVAE - an emergency response unit to deal with fire and flooding disasters in the region. (https://www.mundiario.com/articulo/politica/que-gobierno-mazon-elimino-unidad-emergencias-valenciana/20241030190331322332.html)
This weekend, after the catastrophic flooding killed over 200 and counting with billions in damage to infrastructure and business and people's lives, there are massive protests in #Valencia demanding the resignation of the government.
What will you do to prevent Trump and MAGA Republicans from endangering you? And Canadians? You can bet this is in Poillievre, Smith, Rustad, Moe, and Ford’s playbook as well.
Will you orgainize and respond before, or after, disaster strikes?
These rightwing neo-liberal and fascist forces, and the centrists who coddle them, don't care about you. They only care about redirecting the public purse from public service to their own personal and commercial interests.
What will you do to prevent that from happening?
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Protest #SPain #USPoli #MAGA #Trump
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> Will you orgainize and respond before, or after, disaster strikes?
IMO part the 2020s political problems come from the fact that people don't to think about the future... we know about climate change and no-one is changing Alberta's economy. The 2020s human does not think it will happen to them. So i'd like to say we should act before, and learn from what happened in other places...
So maybe the best possible thing to do is to act fast after a mini-disaster, before it's forgotten. -
Valerie Roneyreplied to Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 last edited by
@chris thank you very much for saying all this. It has definitely been on my mind as well. I am already struggling with the harm existing policies/neglect of duty are doing folks like me, so have zero chuff for this fray or even discussion. But crikey I am glad others are turning towards it.
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸replied to Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 last edited by [email protected]
Here is an article and video in English with video of the protests today/tonight in Valencia.
Flash flooding has also hit parts of northeast Spain (North of Barcelona) yesterday.
Tens of thousands protest over Spanish authorities' flooding response
Protesters are calling for the resignation of Valencia's regional leader Carlos Mazón.
euronews (www.euronews.com)
#PleaseBoost #Organize #Rightwing #Leftwing #centrism #Project2025 #Valencia #CanPoli #CdnPoli #Protest #SPain #USPoli #MAGA #Trump
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸replied to Valerie Roney last edited by
@vlrny thanks.
As I said to someone else today who was feeling overwhelmed, we can't all expect all of us to be 100% all the time! Everyone needs rest! But as the banner says in the video, “Sols el poble salva al poble”
"Only the people can save the people!”
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@chris This is what a functioning democratic society looks like. Putting the US to shame.
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@tasket Canada as well!!
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Extinction Studiesreplied to Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 last edited by
Will we act? Probably. Will we succeed at fixing all or even anything that needs fixed, before or after? Probably not. Our government is intransigent and barely responsive to even mass media identified problems, let alone problems that are unmentionable in the corporate environment, such as ecological survival.
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John Abbe (aka Slow)replied to Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 last edited by
@chris @tasket Both USA & Canada have seen truly massive protests, against the invasion of Iraq, for climate action, against the overturning of Roe v Wade, this year's protests for freedom for Palestine were a bit smaller but still.
Yes, we will need responses perhaps even larger in the coming years, but we know it is possible.
Will it only happen after/at a triggering event? (Such as January 6, or the inauguration, or deportation camps opening up?) Probably.
Prepare, look for opportunities.
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why not abandon electoralism completely and instead build systems of resiliency so that disaster doesn't cost so much or doesn't happen in the first place?
capitalists depend on disaster happening, so they can sell the snake oil "solution" to the problems they've caused. Dawn dish soap is a great example of that. if we prevent or neutralise disaster, it takes away their power.
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A Scape Of Goats 🍉replied to Extinction Studies last edited by
the state only does anything for us when it might keep its power for just a little bit longer, or because of massive pressure from below. we can never rely on it to liberate anyone nor fix the problems it causes.
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸replied to A Scape Of Goats 🍉 last edited by
@diedofheartbreak is their power in the electorialism (do you mean democracy?) or is it the the media the perpetuated the message that we need to be solving the increasingly emergency or short term problem?
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸replied to A Scape Of Goats 🍉 last edited by
@diedofheartbreak and that that is the only way we have to effect change in a reasonable way
