#the time to send a message that you won't support the democrats if they continue their polices is now. Send a message to the white house

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Reblog this if a second Trump presidency would endanger you or impact your life in some way.

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2nd February 2024. Photos from Vilaweb.

Demonstration in front of the High Court of Justice of Catalonia (the highest court of the Spanish judiciary system in Catalonia) in Barcelona in support of Dani Gallardo, a young Spanish anarchist who is sentenced to prison because the took part in a peaceful demonstration held in Madrid (Spain's capital city) in favour of Catalan people's right to self-determination and against the Spanish police's violence against Catalan people.

We have explained Dani's case before, you can read it in this post:

Dani has been sentenced guilty to send a message. Until his case, more than 4,200 Catalan people had been sentenced guilty for their involvement in the 2017 Catalan independence referendum or the protests that followed it. The Spanish judiciary system has proven that they won't stop at punishing Catalan people, they also sent the police to beat up the protestors who demonstrated for Catalonia in Madrid (Spain) and they're also jailing a Spanish man for his solidarity.

Dani was sentenced guilty of public disorder and attempt against authority with made-up claims that had been fabricated hours before he even got arrested. The Spanish police already planned to arrest people and blame them for this even before the event happened. Dani spent 13 months in pre-trial jail, then he was released for some time, and now has received the order to go to prison for 2 years and 11 months more.

Cases like this is why there is a demand for an amnesty. After the last elections to the Spanish government, the PSOE party needed the support of other parties to get enough votes to form government. One of the must-have demands of the Catalan political parties was an amnesty law (amnesty laws are not uncommon in Spain) that would cancel the punishments of people who have been found guilty of political crimes related to the independence movement since 2017, because none of these thousands of people committed real harmful crimes. This law is currently being negotiated, but the Spanish parties are trying to write it in a way that will leave as many people out of the amnesty as possible. At the same time, the Spanish judiciary system continues accusing new people of terrorism for attending peaceful political demonstrations.

For example, two democratically-elected pro-independence politicians (Puigdemont and Wagensberg) are being accused of terrorism for supposedly calling for people to protest in the Barcelona airport, a protest that was completely peaceful and which was called by a civil society organization and not by these politicians. But they're influential, so Spain looks for any way to punish them. How are the Spanish judiciaries claiming that Puigdemont and Wagensberg should be sentenced guilty of terrorism for an action where there was no terrorism? The Spanish judges' imagination has no limits when it comes to sentencing Catalans and Basques. They are saying that it's terrorism because some of the protestors had weapons. What weapons? Fire extinguishers, bottles, and the metal carts that people use to carry their luggage:

Because there were fire extinguishers and luggage carts in the airport and people brought their own water, a completely peaceful protest that happened there is terrorism. The worst part is that it doesn't outrage or surprise us anymore, because we're so used to this nonsense.

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SUPPORTING PALESTINE / VOTING A 3RD PARTY CANDIDATE:

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Since Biden and Trump are both trash, I feel like voters who care about Palestine will inevitably be stuck between not voting at all or voting for a 3rd party candidate. Let me help you sort some of that out some possible MISCONCEPTIONS:

'Voting for a third party will get a republican in power. Rather than break up the democratic vote and get Trump in power again, I'd rather take the safe route and vote for genocide joe' I hope reading the statement out loud yourself will bring you to your senses. Voting Biden this time around means continuing genocide with your OWN hands. Re-electing someone means you approve of their actions in their previous term and would like them to continue.

But isn't voting for a 3rd party candidate the same as voting for Trump, since you're just making the democratic candidate lose votes? No. Let's say I am a democrat and I vote a 3rd party candidate, and because of that, the democratic candidate loses by a small margin. That makes a statement: "If we had taken our voters who are anti-genocide seriously, we wouldn't have had this loss. Hey maybe next time, if we want this group's votes, we should take their claims more seriously, maybe then we can get their votes." Those running for congress will take notice of this too since they're also trying to get elected. This is not the same as voting for trump, which sends the message of 'I support Trump and his policies' Will this mean we might suffer another Trump presidency though? Possibly, but It's a long game we're fighting: 75 years of ethnic cleansing + American support of genocide is going to take time and strategy to dismantle. If we are disturbed about Trump being president, we must then focus our energy into the local congressional races. Having a democratic majority congress can subdue the effects of a Trump presidency.

'I don't support either Biden or Trump so I won't vote at all. That'll show them!' In America, if you don't vote, you don't count. The side with the majority of votes WILL win, whether its 100 ppl voting or the whole country voting. Not voting doesn't show anything! The ONLY way to show resistance/displeasure with candidates is if you show that: "YES I'm a voter (that could have voted for you if you supported Palestine), BUT since you support genocide, you just lost that potential vote." On the other hand, If you do not vote at all, the message elected officials are hearing is: "People who oppose the genocide are not part of elections. They don't affect whether I get elected or not, so why should I listen to their concerns?" Remember, the goal of every politician is re-election. Without being elected, they can't achieve any of their goals. And so they will listen to those who are helping them get elected, whether that's through money, or votes.

LASTLY. LISTEN UP. You might thing the presidential election is the most important but the REAL IMPORTANT ELECTIONS ARE THE LOCAL CONGRESSIONAL ONES. Congress members ( NOT the president) are the ones whose job it is to listen to the people. If you truly care about Palestine, make sure to support the VERY FEW congress-ppl who have showed their support for a ceasefire. Get them re-elected and show the people with power that- the other side might have money but we have VOTING POWER. So if they want to get elected by us, they MUST address our concerns.

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