[Ads-l] "Junta Grande"

[James Landau]

>From an email from Blue Future:
<quote>after millions of people took to the streets to protect the regime of Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and the MAGA agenda, we knew we had to find a way to mobilize this collective power:
We call it the Junta Grande — the culminating event for our latest organizing sprint. In just three weeks, 60 of our young organizers mobilized nearly 1,000 new volunteers through personal outreach and relationship-building.

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"Junta" i(Spanish for "joint" or "junction") s an odd word to use here.  In Latin America "junta" is used to refer to a committee that has taken power after a coup d'etat.  An Ecuadorian once (1963) told me in English that his country was ruled by a "joint".
James Landau

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