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offsite link What Happened When Extinction Rebellion Had a Taste of its Own Medicine Fri Nov 21, 2025 17:00 | Anonymous
Read what happened when an Extinction Rebellion meeting was disrupted by a protester. Seems they can give it out but have no intention of putting up with it themselves.
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Was Bolivar a democrat?

category international | politics / elections | opinion/analysis author Monday December 05, 2005 13:33author by % Report this post to the editors

We have come a long way with Chavez.
But no-one ever suggested we were going to go all the way with him.

Years ago, he went from military officer, to charismatic left wing popularist, to television master, to dauphin of Castro, to the "most left wing and popular champion of the poor" in the Americas. A man who could taunt with impunity the Americans under Bush, the Mexicans under Fox. A man who could send fuel and food aid to the poor of Boston, a man who chose not to side with the striking miners of Ecuador.

The model of "authoritarian" leader for the XXI century is pretty much the same no matter which "wing" they come from.

The same flaws which allow us to criticise Berlusconi, nominally a media empire mogul with "demo-christian coalition leadership skills" and blatenty far right popularist slogans, must allow us to see Chavez as the opposite.

Yesterday only 25% of the Venezuelan people voted in their elections.

President Hugo Chavez's political party, MVR, said on Sunday it had won 114 National Assembly seats out of 167 in congressional elections to give it more than two-thirds of the legislature.

call to Anarchist alternative social summit :-
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=73059

No matter what way you look at it, if only 25% vote for the regime, the regime is not democratic.

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Democratic democracy     Oisín    Mon Dec 05, 2005 14:59 
   Not so fast there     Richey    Mon Dec 05, 2005 16:09 
   I dont think they want rid off him     Barry    Mon Dec 05, 2005 20:14 
   I've seen a lot of election counts reported.     % (iosaf)    Tue Dec 06, 2005 12:31 
   What the monitor said     Reader    Tue Dec 06, 2005 12:56 
   what other monitors said     % iosaf    Tue Dec 06, 2005 19:13 
   Your argument bears out the success of this strategy     eeekkkk    Wed Dec 07, 2005 16:08 
   Nothing's settled yet     Richey    Wed Dec 07, 2005 18:15 
   clarification     iosaf    Thu Dec 08, 2005 13:14 
 10   did you know?     latin caesar    Fri Jan 06, 2006 02:11 


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