Yeah, they only got to around 130k signatures and needed about 170k to make the ballot.

This was after years of legal fights where the major parties backed everything, including poster campaigns against the signature gathering effort itself, to halt the citizens referendum. Eventually the courts had to rule the referendum constitutional.

It’s insane how hard the mainline parties fight making cities better for people. It’s all for the rich to be richer.

Ecuador is pretty pale. I thought it was off the map too and I didn’t know why we should have a beef with Ecuador of all places. I just had to zoom in a bit to catch a coastline.

It was either that, or be booted from the Euro. Governments will usually start acting right when their money spigot is threatened.

France showing the US up (again).