[Ads-l] "Junta Grande"

[Andy Bach]

<quote>after millions of people took to the streets to protect the regime
of Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and the MAGA agenda, ...

"protest", not "protect", maybe?

On Tue, Apr 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM James Landau <
00000c13e57d49b8-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:

> 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.
>
> <end quote>
> "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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