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@DemSocialists NPC🌹Chavista 🇻🇪 Chilena 🇨🇱 Join @DSA_Intl_Comm 🌹 Ratchet DSA caucus🌹Just another dumb chonga from south FL

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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
3 years
Sculpture of Salvador Allende's broken glasses inside the Ministry of Foriegn Affairs in Caracas, Venezuela. There are no images of Allende in the US, but many in VZLA. Partly a homage to what the movement was able to achieve, part warning. And deeply meaningful to this Chilean
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
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Update on Venezuela for DSA/internationalist folks: President Nicolás Maduro filed un recurso de amparo (writ of protection) before the Venezuelan Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) this Wednesday morning on July 31. (1
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
1 year
As someone who didn't have a caucus machine behind me, I'm thrilled to sit on the NPC as an independent candidate. Thank you SO much to everyone who voted for me. I meant every word I said: I ran to give people who grew up in poverty a voice in what our movement can look like🌹
Congrats to the Democratic Socialists of America 2023-2025 National Political Committee
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
3 years
Today we visited a commune in Caracas. A Chavista named Ruth gave us a tour of a model home in development as well as her own home. The land belonged to private industry and now they occupy it. "It is a real possibility to have a house. We create that possibility. We don't wait-"
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
3 years
Me: ::works on 3 different DSA IC-Chile 🇨🇱 events:: ::gets a Chilean economist to speak at my chapter GM:: ::tweets about Boric🧔🏻from 3 accounts:: Also me: ::shocked anyone cares about Chile 🇨🇱:: Growing up Chilean in the US felt pretty insignificant up until now 😭😭 😭
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
3 years
Got told I was dressed "urban" by an attorney at a meeting this week. Why is everyone so fucking weird here? PNW people wear breakaway khakis to weddings anyone really gonna make comments about the way I dress? Cha
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
29 days
Here is the man we protested yesterday, international failure & criminal Juan Guaidó. Kudos to @pslnational for disrupting a platform he should have never had to begin with.
@BTnewsroom
BreakThrough News
29 days
Juan Guaidó, failed coup leader of Venezuela, got disrupted yesterday at the University of Portland. In 2019, Guaidó declared himself president of Venezuela after a phone call with the White House. He then was handed control of Venezuelan state assets in the US and UK, including
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Luisa Knuckles Martinez
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Today's Venezuela update I discuss electoral numbers, fake and real. 2012 Hugo Chavez ran for president in the best moments of the revolution. Pre-sanctions, the economy relied on high oil prices & a massive political mobilization around legal and social changes. The result: (1
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
3 years
Didn't think our trip to Venezuela could get any better. Rot in hell, Rummy! You're dead and socialism lives!
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Tom Wojcik
3 years
Rumsfeld died, we’re all celebrating in Venezuela with Chavista militants, lol eat shit Rummy.
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Luisa Knuckles Martinez
1 month
Venezuela is sovereign. You can’t ask other countries, even ones who claim to be "friendly", to verify elections. That is not sovereignty. DSA IC congratulates President Maduro on winning re-election & stands with Venezuelans who voted to reject fascist violence &US interference
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
1 year
This is getting a little ridiculous, lol. Folks seem to be confusing the fact I'm caucus-free with like, an independent in Congress. I've said many times I'm a Chavista communist who grew up poor & undocumented. Where do you think that falls within the NPC political scope? 🤔
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
1 month
To socialists who had VE "concerns": Edmundo literally helped kill leftists in El Salvador. MCM has been crying electoral fraud for 20 yrs. The US recognized Edmundo.All 8 opposition candidates attended the audit EXCEPT him. Please self-reflect. Don't get got by fascists again.
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
1 month
Today's Venezuela update: anti-immigrant & anti-Palestine ghoul Wasserman Schultz and "Cuban"-Who-Has-Never-Been-to-Cuba-Despite-Being-90-Miles-From-It Diaz-Balart have sponsored a bill to recognize Edmundo González as the president of Venezuela. A short history of Edmundo (1
@ProgIntl
Progressive International
1 month
BREAKING 🇺🇸🇻🇪 Leaked draft of U.S. Reps Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) & Mario Díaz-Balart (R) House resolution to recognize Edmundo González "as the president-elect of Venezuela" and to call for the "imposition of new sanctions" on the Venezuelan gov't and its foreign allies.
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Luisa Knuckles Martinez
3 years
In the span of a couple weeks the DSA Int'l Committee had or will have events against a cold war with China, sanctions on Cuba, sanctions on Venezuela, and a symposium on Thomas Sankara. I couldn't be more proud of how much we've brought true ideological diversity to the IC.
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
1 year
This will be my first time going back to Chile since I left as a child. I've wanted to go back but being undocumented/poor it was impossible for 30 yrs. Now I'll speak on a @PCdeChile panel repping @DemSocialists about Allende & the Monroe Doctrine, reasons why I am a communist.
@dsa_intl_comm
DSA International Committee
1 year
Join us and @ProgIntl September 9 for an event in Santiago/ online commemorating the 50th anniversary of the US-backed coup against Salvador Allende. Featuring @DemSocialists NPC @LuisaKnuckles , @ClaraLopezObre , @OfeFernandez_ , @G_Pisarello , & more. RSVP:
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
9 months
“I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.” Eat shit, Henry Kissinger.
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Luisa Knuckles Martinez
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When he yells out "Maria Corina Machado dónde carajo están tus hijos? Los míos fueron asediados ayer por más de 5 horas" he asks because her children are of course in the US. Just like most of the wealthy fascist diaspora angling at every opportunity to re-take Venezuela (9
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
1 year
Today was full of tears from emotions, then just tears from the tear gas. But I'm lucky to have run into some excellent people. Gracias a Chile por todo 🇨🇱 ¡ALLENDE VIVE!
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
1 year
This 27 yr old is moved to tears because finally a government exists that cares about young people and she (a graphic designer who made that sign) will not have to migrate to another country to find work, she can stay in Guatemala. I am so, so happy for Guatemalans.
@PopulismUpdates
Populism Updates
1 year
Young voter for Arevalo (who she calls Tio Bernie) shows off her custom campaign poster which features the president-elect and other members of the Semilla Movement as Funko Pops
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
3 years
(1/3)I'm too tired to be posting all the time but lemme just summarize the last 5 days for folks like me who aren't online 24/7: DSA IC wrote a 1st statement the liberals didn't like, IC ghostwrote a 2nd statement that got watered down by the NPC the liberals *definitely* didn't
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
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The writ is a petition for the electoral chamber of the highest court to summon ALL participating electoral parties to present 100% of the electoral records, compare them & through a technical evaluation clarify all accusations made against the National Electoral Council (CNE) (2
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
1 year
Whether it's a Congressperson or a newly minted organizer, everyone should be exposed to groups like MST. If we are serious about moving beyond the dismal view of humanity presented by liberal democracy we must learn how other groups understand dignity, work, & community.
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
3 years
At a Robert's Rules training and just heard a story about how a union member used Point of Personal Privilege to ask his partner to marry him at a state assembly 🥰
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
1 month
Sadly, some of the left does not understand how coups work & immediately bought into this RW narrative. Nevertheless, MCM has called for transparency & this is the opportunity for them to confront the rest of the opposition political forces in VE w/the highest court as mediator(7
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Luisa Knuckles Martinez
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By appealing to the TSJ, Maduro is responding to fraud accusations by the opposition by leaning on Venezuela's own institutions instead of forfeiting sovereignty to foreign govts. Specifically, candidate Edmundo Gonzalez/MCM who have refused to recognize the results since Sun (4
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Luisa Knuckles Martinez
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Today's update on Venezuela: I discuss Maria Corina Machado's criminality & years-long desire to build a parallel CNE. CNE presented 96.87% of the electoral results despite a massive cyber attack. This is a heroic feat considering the circumstances. Of course, Maduro won (1
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Luisa Knuckles Martinez
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If this sector (Edmundo/MCM) does not comply with this legal call it will bring to light the real reason why they cried “fraud": their plan was never to audit the process but to generate fascist violence that would result in a coup d'état. (6
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Luisa Knuckles Martinez
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This legal move is especially important because before the elections all opposition parties and the coalition (El Gran Polo) had signed a pre-electoral agreement which said everyone would respect the results of the election - except ofc extreme right candidate Edmundo/MCM (5
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Luisa Knuckles Martinez
1 year
Comrades, your favorite Chavista is excited to announce I'm running for DSA NPC. With 13yrs of organizing experience I hope ya'll find me qualified. Nominated by both DSA IC & my chapter (Portland,OR). Statement linked here:
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
3 years
(3/3)So for anyone getting reductive about these political positions I want to make clear they are informed by a socialist class perspective which includes race & ethnicity b/c both coverage & discourse around this war has been some of the most racist shit I’ve seen in my life.
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Luisa Knuckles Martinez
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Maduro testified the PSUV and all parties of the alliance of El Gran Polo Patriotico have in their possession the actas (printed electoral reports) automatically generated by each voting machine in each mesa (precinct) and are willing to submit them for review. (3
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
3 years
Years ago I helped found a group in solidarity with the VZLA socialist project. Tonight I am extremely honored to have met President @NicolasMaduro as part of the @DSA_Intl_Comm . I am proudly Chilean but will always identify with the Bolivarian revolutionary spirit of Venezuelans
@NicolasMaduro
Nicolás Maduro
3 years
#EnVivo 📹 | Encuentro con Socialistas Democráticos de los Estados Unidos.
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Luisa Knuckles Martinez
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Met a really nice comrade from Zambia. I explained how DSA comrades still mentally struggle with Venezuelan & Palestinian solidarity. He told me, we do not choose our battles where we are (US, Zambia, etc). We fight them & we do our best. Very African thing to say but it's true.
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Luisa Knuckles Martinez
2 years
All these redbaiting hit pieces about our DSA trip to VZLA *always* conveniently exclude me bc: a) I am Chilean & was undocumented until I was 21. b) I grew up poor, below the poverty line & that is why I am a Chavista and a socialist. Very inconvenient for lib media narrative.
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Luisa Knuckles Martinez
3 years
Contradictions in socialist countries bothered me but now I understand them as part of the transition. All people, the opposition & yes even the trolls are human beings. "We can attempt to graft elm trees so that they bear pears but at the same time we must plant pear trees"-Che
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Luisa Knuckles Martinez
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(VE mega post) Listen y'all I'm just a lady who works full time & doesn't have a team drafting analysis every day. But it's my day off & today we're gonna talk about this largely mythical great left-wing opposition to GPP/PSUV/Maduro US leftists seem to believe exists (1
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
2 years
For Latin America
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
3 years
FYI I bargain for public K-12 workers. At our MOU mtg it took *over an hour* to get admin to agree to no student assemblies & that was only for the month of September. ER beds are gonna fill the moment kids go back & unions are literally the only thing slowing down this nightmare
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
1 year
<Reflections on strikes> In my labor council, we currently have almost 2000 teachers on strike (Evergreen & Camas, WA). This will be our 8th & 9th strikes in the last six (6) years. Like most leftists, I romantized strikes. Now having organized so many I can share some lessons 1️⃣
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
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That is to say Edmundo/MCM were not the only opposition candidates. In fact moderate RW candidate Jose Brito *RAILED* against MCM in the National Assembly yesterday saying his children were threatened by her fascist supporters & that Maduro won election(8
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
1 year
I grew up in south Florida, Rubio made his career off the anger & resentment of anti-communist Cuban expats. He is a McCarthyite bastard at heart & we can't let him target anyone on the left without speaking out. B/c if TPF is a target you better believe DSA is on that list too.
@dsa_intl_comm
DSA International Committee
1 year
DSA IC signed on to this letter to denounce McCarthyite attacks against our partners at orgs like @PeoplesForumNYC , which have been doing important internationalist and anti-imperialist organizing to oppose the new Cold War. These reemerging Red Scare narratives must be rejected.
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Luisa Knuckles Martinez
3 years
Of all the colorful Bolivarian revolution propaganda I've purchased, Comandante Chavez as a Transformer definitely tops the list.
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Luisa Knuckles Martinez
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Shark
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
3 years
- for anyone [the government] we do it ourselves. This is the county where a Black Chavista was burned to death in the guarimbas. We remember that and it is why we don't stop." US sanctions have impacted their ability to develop more rapidly but decisions are collectively made.
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
3 years
(2/3) like because we've been criticized by a White House official, The Independent, at least one congressperson, & various Brookings Governance(??) thinktanky-type assholes. Probably more. & I want to add the primary author is an Eastern European comrade who was born in Romania.
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Luisa Knuckles Martinez
6 months
The violent suppression of the left in Ecuador has reached a new low as Ecuador’s youngest mayor Brigitte Garcia was assassinated. She was only 27 years old.
@MashiRafael
Rafael Correa
6 months
¡Dios mío! ¡Brigitte! Era la alcaldesa más joven de la Patria! Me dicen que la asesinaron con su asesor, Jairo. ¡Ya basta! ¡Ya baaaasta!!! Si para uno es tan duro, imagino cómo deben estar sus familias. No tengo palabras… La madre, la abuela de Brigitte… ¡Qué nos hicieron!!!
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Luisa Knuckles Martinez
1 year
The brilliant part of this delegation is that it won't just be NPC members but a big group any DSA member can apply to be a part of. It's very important for rank n file who are interested in int'l work to see both the impacts of the bloackade but also how Cubans have resisted 🇨🇺
@TomWojcik
Tom Wojcik
1 year
Shocking number of applicants for our national delegation to Havana! Only one week left until the application deadline! The delegation is open to all DSA members in good standing, apply now!
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Luisa Knuckles Martinez
2 years
I wanna start the Ratchet DSA caucus. You can join if you regularly had: the lights cut off growing up, at least one family member in jail, know how to pronounce Red Lobster, were sick of 10¢ ramen by the time you were an adult, washed your clothes in the sink as a kid...
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
1 year
One thing about growing up poor&undoc that is hard to describe is how small your world is. As a kid I thought traveling was for the middle class, even to Chile. And never in a million years would I have thought my welcome back would be this warm. Thank you @ProgIntl @PCdeChile ❤️
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
3 years
*curb your enthusiasm theme starts playing*
@venanalysis
Venezuelanalysis
3 years
Ladies and gentlemen, Venezuela's self-proclaimed "Interim President" @jguaido . That's what you get for building a fake presidential set in your backyard 😂😂😂
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Luisa Knuckles Martinez
1 year
I never got to do a big Foro São Paulo report back for DSA so I'm making a thread instead. If y'all want me to speak at your chapter GM please DM me! I want members to understand thanks to 2021's Reso14 DSA is finally on the global stage and we should be proud as an org 🧵 1️⃣
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Luisa Knuckles Martinez
3 years
Aside from violence inherent in any settler-colonier state, it does not surprise me someone came out of their homes to antagonize protesters last night. I work in public ed & every day I see the far right getting bolder with the anti-vaxx, anti-mask actions. The Proud Boys came -
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
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to set up overseas voting. But it goes to show fascists in the global south don't need reality - or accurate vote records - when the US government is supporting them. (10
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Luisa Knuckles Martinez
3 years
Middle class entitled DSA drama pushes out one of the few Brown people who actually grew up poor in our org. I'll genuinely miss Fern, his insight & his general good nature but I can't blame him for stepping down. Your experience & perspective was valuable while we had it comrade
@FernKurago
Fern 🌹🌎
3 years
Hello comrades, After some thought, I decided to resign my bid as NPC candidate and step down as a delegate. I need to prioritize my mental health and well being at this moment. I drafted a letter with some details about my resignation. Solidariedade!
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Luisa Knuckles Martinez
6 months
A couple of folks have asked me to answer some basic questions about RIFs from my perspective as a union member and organizer for over 13 years. I have bargained dozens of union contracts & am committed to following CBAs whether they be the ones I negotiated or DSA staff's. 1/6
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
3 years
I just want to express my disappointment at today's DSA IC leadership call where my proposal for an "All IC Slack - Just Fights" was roundly rejected. I regret to have become yet another victim of DSA International Committee authoritarianism.
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Luisa Knuckles Martinez
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Fake numbers presented by María Corina Machado where Edmundo surpassed 7 million votes & Maduro received only 3.4M have nothing to do with Venezuelan electoral history or Venezuelan reality. Their absence yesterday in the supreme court is proof. (8
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
1 year
Muchísimas gracias a mi hermano @KurtHackbarth speaking in Portland last night on Mexico’s 4th transformation (4T) & what the US left can learn. It was especially meaningful hearing from Mexicans who showed up what AMLO means to them & their own political development thru 4T 🇲🇽
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Luisa Knuckles Martinez
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Participation rose because despite all of the US's bipartisan illegal & murderous sanctions, the Bolivarian govt has made tremendous gains in the last years with respect to the economy. Conditions have been getting better, albeit slowly, despite constant imperialist attacks (7
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Luisa Knuckles Martinez
1 year
Just like @marcorubio is targeting @PeoplesForumNYC by calling for a congressional investigation, conservatives in Brasil have been doing the same thing & attacking MST. The Bolsominions are scared because MST represents a vision of society grounded in dignity and true equality🇧🇷
@MST_Oficial
MST Oficial
1 year
🚩 As famíliasdo MST impulsionam uma série de transformações nos territórios. Elas não apenas contribuem para a produção de alimentos saudáveis, mas também desempenham um papel importante na construção de Escolas do Campo, na promoção de práticas populares de saúde. 1-2
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I just wanna say Guatemalans are some of the kindest, most generous people you will ever meet. I grew up going to school with them, hearing Mam at the store, my mom worked next to them cleaning houses. My heart is bursting for people who deserve hope after generations of struggle
@BArevalodeLeon
Bernardo Arévalo
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¡Viva Guatemala! 🇬🇹
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Luisa Knuckles Martinez
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Proud to have signed onto this letter as @dsa_intl_comm Steering & then bring it to DSA as a new NPC member. It's worth repeating: if McCarthyites are going after @PeoplesForumNYC and @codepink you can believe they'll make up some bullshit excuse to come after us next.
DSA has signed on this letter to denounce McCarthyist attacks against our comrades at orgs like @PeoplesForumNYC . We must all stand united in solidarity and oppose these re-emerging Red Scare narratives being weaponized against the socialist movement again amidst a new Cold War.
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Luisa Knuckles Martinez
3 years
In Portland, it is clear the BCTGM strike is about two things: 1) a living wage and 2) Tanya
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Luisa Knuckles Martinez
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Gonna sleep like a baby tonight.
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In the best times of the revolution before 2-3 million people migrated out, Chavez got 8M votes. You're telling me a 74-yr old priest-killer got over 7M despite half his supporters being in Miami?? And gusanos can't vote because their first fake president never had power (9
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
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Want to know what I experienced in Venezuela? Or what the other DSA members who went with me saw? Hear from comrades who were actually there! This Sunday at 6pmPT/9pmET. Register:
@dsa_intl_comm
DSA International Committee
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Want to hear what's going in Venezuela? This Sunday hear back from the DSA IC delegation that went as election observers. August 4th at 6pm/9pm Register:
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Luisa Knuckles Martinez
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New campaign photo dropped
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Luisa Knuckles Martinez
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I don't talk about poverty brain too often, my term for the long term psychological effects of growing up poor. But one thing that always bothers me the most is just living in broken shit. Everything is broken or unfinished & you just live in it even if you can pay to fix it (1)
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Luisa Knuckles Martinez
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Results: Maduro won 7.5 million votes, Capriles 7.3 million with 79% voter participation. This is the closest the opposition has ever gotten to winning. The RW organized massive violence events ofc, even worse than what I saw in Venezuela this month (3
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
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Results: Maduro got 6.2 million votes against Henry Falcon who got 1.9 million. Why did the opposition do so poorly? They focused their energy into preparing their illegal move around Juan Guaido with the US. January 2019 Guaido self-proclaimed himself "interim president". (5
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Luisa Knuckles Martinez
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Again, no such thing exists in the Venezuelan constitution. Finally we get to the 2024 results: Maduro won 6.4 million votes and Edmundo González got 5.3 million. This time with a significant increase in participation around 59%. Why did participation increase? (6
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Luisa Knuckles Martinez
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2018 voter participation dropped dramatically to 46%. The primary reason being Obama's 2015 executive order of sanctions 3yrs before the elections. This created food scarcity, inflation, fuel production & distribution problems, a huge migration wave etc. (4
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
3 years
Day three: got to meet Tio Evo!! Que suerte!! #CongresoBicentenarioDeLosPueblos #DSAconVenezuela
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Luisa Knuckles Martinez
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Maduro has won!! Besitos desde Miraflores 🇻🇪
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
3 years
I would like it publicly known I came up with this title. Yet another gift I have humbly bestowed on the world. I understand my modesty is very intimidating to some.
@dsa_intl_comm
DSA International Committee
3 years
Join @DSA_Intl_Comm , @SBWorkersUnited , and @AndresGiordanoS for an international webinar featuring unionized Starbucks workers in Chile + the US! Learn about their organizing strategies on Wed, Feb 23rd @ 7pmET/4pmPT. RSVP here:
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Luisa Knuckles Martinez
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I will repeat till I'm dead: illegal sanctions violate human rights and disproportionately impact women and children!! 🇳🇮
@dsa_intl_comm
DSA International Committee
3 years
DSA IC strongly condemns the newly imposed illegal economic sanctions against Nicaragua by the US government in the RENACER Act and denounces all sanctions and ongoing US interference in Latin America.
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
3 years
✏✏Cannot say enough how much I look forward to learning from Peru Libre!✏✏
@KawsachunNews
Kawsachun News
3 years
BREAKING: Leftist candidate Pedro Castillo has been formally declared as the winner of Peru's presidential elections.
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
3 years
Now that Chile has your attention please stop confusing these...
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
3 years
Updates: 🇻🇪I'm going back to Venezuela & I'm ECSTATIC 🇨🇱Giving a welcome at the closing rally of Boric/AD campaign for Chileans abroad tomorrow 🇳🇮Look out for a statement on illegal sanctions against Nicaragua Solidarity w/all countries against racial capitalism & imperialism!
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
1 year
Want one? Come see me at convention!
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
1 year
As NPC members & their caucus whips pour over convention ranking data, my advice is to remember ego can be a killer & grudges are a middle class impulse. It's rugged individualist thinking & we gotta get The Man out our head. At the end of the day we're all tryna build a movement
@Theholisticpsyc
Dr. Nicole LePera
1 year
Most people controlled by their own ego. Understanding our ego allows us to take control of our lives. How to Start:
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
3 years
Kids from the commune did little skits about historical figures for us. This little girl taught everyone about Josefina Machado Madriz. She was so cute and very generous to let me take a photo of us together. #DSAconVenezuela #CongresoBicentenario
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
3 years
Casually walking in El Cafetal parish and saw el Centro de Salud Integral Doctor Salvador Allende ✊🏽 his visage is everywhere in Venezuela
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
2 years
Have avoided twitter for weeks but I'm back on just to promote this huge ptoject we are working on w/CODEPINK. We will host 3 Venezuelan women activists to tour 7 cities & talk about the impact of sanctions from a SOCIALIST FEMINIST perspective. So proud to stand in solidarity 🇻🇪
@dsa_intl_comm
DSA International Committee
2 years
NEWS+THREAD: @dsa_intl_comm and @codepink will host 3 Venezuelan feminists on a NATIONAL tour May 28-June 11! Topics: how US sanctions have disproportionately impacted women & children, how to practice solidarity against US imperialism. Can you contribute?
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
3 years
[The actor who played] Che endorses Boric
@GaelGarciaB
Gael García Bernal
3 years
¡¡¡Qué pues!!! Acá les mando una pequeña reflexión que “está enmarcada en el actual contexto social…” Abrazos y cariño para todos y todas las Chilenas.
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
3 years
I sent money to someone in Venezuela & my bank suspended my Zelle account. I've had speakers from VZLA drop calls in the middle of presentations to a US audience because of right-wing attacks on their electrical grid. Sanctions, violence, all of this shit is real to them.
@ProgIntl
Progressive International
3 years
BREAKING: Dutch multinational bank @ingnl has blocked all donations to the @ProgIntl delegation to support vaccine internationalism in Cuba, bowing to the illegal US embargo:
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
3 years
As one formerly undocumented worker to another, I absolutely support you comrade @FernKurago . I've never felt more alienated from DSA than I did during convention, when middle class people attacked 3 of the few org members who have actually had the experience of growing up poor.
@FernKurago
Fern 🌹🌎
3 years
It was brought to my understanding that some members of the B&R caucus were spreading around that I was a “manager” and a “boss”, so I will be extremely open about myself and share things I have never share openly:
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
1 year
Couldn't be more proud to represent DSA at the Foro de Sao Paulo 🇧🇷 It is one thing to escape the political & cultural hegemony of the US (a gift in and of itself), it's a totally different experience to be greeted by an international network of socialists & revolutionaries 🌎
@dsa_intl_comm
DSA International Committee
1 year
From Boston to Brasilia the fight to stop the far right & build democratic socialism knows no borders! @ptbrasil and @demsocialists strengthening ties today at the Foro de Sao Paulo Annual Meeting
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
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Chavez got 8.1 million votes against 6.5 million of Henrique Capriles with 80% of participation. 2013 after Chavez passed away elections were immediately called for according to the VE constitution. This is why there's no "interim" president. (2
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
3 years
Congratulations to multiple-time community college drop out @Gaius_Gracchus_ ! Your identification with the marginalized is borne of experience and that's why the NPC is lucky to have you.
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
3 years
My point is I work in the public sector & I can see with my cold grey commie eyes the alt-right is feeling more & more empowered to push back against not just protesters but every element of civil society. And it's not going to stop until we organize a much broader left movement.
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
3 years
😭 Cuba is not Cuba, Cuba is the world
@manolo_realengo
Manolo De Los Santos
3 years
Mijaín Lopez, Afro-Cuban Wrestler wins his 4th gold medal in 4 consecutive Olympic Games.. he dedicates it to Fidel, the undefeated comandante! #LetCubaLive
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
3 years
R14 PASSES
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
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Venezuela is beautiful! Let it be stated @Gaius_Gracchus_ @Sulliedsubjects keep it together on the cable cars like the silky smooth diplomats they are.
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
3 years
For the record I take all this as a point of pride and if I had to do it again I'd uphold the will of the majority of our chapter's members in a heartbeat✌🏽
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
3 years
Do you want to speak to an elected Communist who also fights for Palestinian liberation? Who is part of the coalition supporting the Bernie Sanders of Chile for president (Gabriel Boric)? Yes you do so sign up.
@dsa_intl_comm
DSA International Committee
3 years
Chileans are experiencing a tense political moment: Elect José Antonio Kast, a far-right Pinochetista or Gabriel Boric, a young progressive candidate & student protest movement leader. Join us in discussion w/Chilean-Palestinian Daniel Jadue, current Communist mayor of Recoleta.
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
1 year
In Sao Paulo at the "Memorial da América Latina" there is a statue by Oscar Niemeyer called "Mão" (mano or hand). It is a clear reference to Eduardo Galleano "Las venas abiertas de América Latina".
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
3 years
An HR Director for a school district asked me and my union president what would most support educators during this awful period and then immediately suggested donuts. I sent him this.
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@LuisaKnuckles
Luisa Knuckles Martinez
3 years
DSA IC struggles to attract women to the organization and it's painful considering how illegal sanctions and many of the manifestations of US aggression disproportionately hurt women globally. My chapter teamed up w/Die Linke to discuss ways to attract & retain women activists ♀️
@dsa_intl_comm
DSA International Committee
3 years
DSA is a feminist org, yet social pressures are such that women do a disproportionate amount of admin work & men hold too many decisionmaking roles w/high visibility Join Die Linke on Sat 10am PT/ 1pm ET to discuss strategies for gender parity in our orgs
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