Salvador Espinoza
@salvadorespinoza.bsky.social
Organizing Resilience. Previously: @solveme.bsky.social, @SierraClub.org, @Democrats.org, @BernieSanders, @BetoORourke. Teacher. 2nd Gen. Austin, TX
Austin: if you’re driving around town during heavy rain, bookmark atxfloods.com for a live map of high-water alerts, flooded roads, and safe drop-off points.
Stay informed and stay safe.
Stay informed and stay safe.
July 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Austin: if you’re driving around town during heavy rain, bookmark atxfloods.com for a live map of high-water alerts, flooded roads, and safe drop-off points.
Stay informed and stay safe.
Stay informed and stay safe.
Austin BlueSky
You can drop-off donations today through noon for folks to drive out to the areas most afflicted by this weekend's floods
You can drop-off donations today through noon for folks to drive out to the areas most afflicted by this weekend's floods
July 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Austin BlueSky
You can drop-off donations today through noon for folks to drive out to the areas most afflicted by this weekend's floods
You can drop-off donations today through noon for folks to drive out to the areas most afflicted by this weekend's floods
Here’s 2 minutes of me sharing why I’m going to tonight’s #NoKings 5pm protest at the TX Capitol with @handsoffcentraltx.bsky.social
If you can, please share.
If you’re thinking of not going, please watch.
& if you’re going, please share in the comments!
For our country, for our Democracy
❌ 👑
If you can, please share.
If you’re thinking of not going, please watch.
& if you’re going, please share in the comments!
For our country, for our Democracy
❌ 👑
June 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Here’s 2 minutes of me sharing why I’m going to tonight’s #NoKings 5pm protest at the TX Capitol with @handsoffcentraltx.bsky.social
If you can, please share.
If you’re thinking of not going, please watch.
& if you’re going, please share in the comments!
For our country, for our Democracy
❌ 👑
If you can, please share.
If you’re thinking of not going, please watch.
& if you’re going, please share in the comments!
For our country, for our Democracy
❌ 👑
June 10, 2025 at 3:45 AM
June 10, 2025 at 2:07 AM
There is no greater Mediterranean in Austin but Abo Youssef
The man is a treasure
The man is a treasure
May 31, 2025 at 12:29 AM
There is no greater Mediterranean in Austin but Abo Youssef
The man is a treasure
The man is a treasure
Out to the dumpster over at Zed’s
May 30, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Out to the dumpster over at Zed’s
A gorgeous day catching up with a good friend at Bouldin Creek and getting to glimpse and cheer folks running in the Austin marathon
February 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
A gorgeous day catching up with a good friend at Bouldin Creek and getting to glimpse and cheer folks running in the Austin marathon
Proud to share that I (and *everyone* on @mikesiegeld7.bsky.social‘s D7 team) are signed up with the @afscme1624.bsky.social UNION!
Unions made the middle class and will protect it and all of America in the next four years
#adelante
Unions made the middle class and will protect it and all of America in the next four years
#adelante
February 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Proud to share that I (and *everyone* on @mikesiegeld7.bsky.social‘s D7 team) are signed up with the @afscme1624.bsky.social UNION!
Unions made the middle class and will protect it and all of America in the next four years
#adelante
Unions made the middle class and will protect it and all of America in the next four years
#adelante
Hey everyone - I'm excited to share that, starting today, I’ll be joining @mikesiegeltx.bsky.social and his team at Austin City Hall!
I'm looking forward to working with the team to do everything we can to serve the people of District 7 and our great city!
#Adelante
I'm looking forward to working with the team to do everything we can to serve the people of District 7 and our great city!
#Adelante
January 21, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Hey everyone - I'm excited to share that, starting today, I’ll be joining @mikesiegeltx.bsky.social and his team at Austin City Hall!
I'm looking forward to working with the team to do everything we can to serve the people of District 7 and our great city!
#Adelante
I'm looking forward to working with the team to do everything we can to serve the people of District 7 and our great city!
#Adelante
Turnout was low, but as things stand - that’s the name of the game behind runoffs
Low turnout makes it tough to win elections like these, when PACs and local conservative interests can consolidate against you
But the campaigns and people kept organizing - every winning vote was well earned
Low turnout makes it tough to win elections like these, when PACs and local conservative interests can consolidate against you
But the campaigns and people kept organizing - every winning vote was well earned
December 16, 2024 at 3:06 AM
Turnout was low, but as things stand - that’s the name of the game behind runoffs
Low turnout makes it tough to win elections like these, when PACs and local conservative interests can consolidate against you
But the campaigns and people kept organizing - every winning vote was well earned
Low turnout makes it tough to win elections like these, when PACs and local conservative interests can consolidate against you
But the campaigns and people kept organizing - every winning vote was well earned
Austin Texas has made our voice heard, and we’re sending @mikesiegeltx.bsky.social to City Hall and Fernando Lucas de Urioste to School Board!!
Y’all - this is joy!
With these wins, Austin is leading the way to show the world that when we fight for our values and with our values, we win
#adelante
Y’all - this is joy!
With these wins, Austin is leading the way to show the world that when we fight for our values and with our values, we win
#adelante
December 15, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Austin Texas has made our voice heard, and we’re sending @mikesiegeltx.bsky.social to City Hall and Fernando Lucas de Urioste to School Board!!
Y’all - this is joy!
With these wins, Austin is leading the way to show the world that when we fight for our values and with our values, we win
#adelante
Y’all - this is joy!
With these wins, Austin is leading the way to show the world that when we fight for our values and with our values, we win
#adelante
Yesterday, I joined a coalition of great folks at Austin City Hall in support of a new Resource Generation Plan for Austin Energy outlining future investments and where our energy sources power will come from
And city council passed ALL the amendments to the plan we supported! Y’all - this is HUGE!
And city council passed ALL the amendments to the plan we supported! Y’all - this is HUGE!
December 13, 2024 at 4:55 PM
Yesterday, I joined a coalition of great folks at Austin City Hall in support of a new Resource Generation Plan for Austin Energy outlining future investments and where our energy sources power will come from
And city council passed ALL the amendments to the plan we supported! Y’all - this is HUGE!
And city council passed ALL the amendments to the plan we supported! Y’all - this is HUGE!
We’re knocking doors in the cold today, getting out the vote for @mikesiegeltx.bsky.social for Austin City Council for the D7 Dec 14 runoff!
Great turnout!
Great turnout!
December 7, 2024 at 4:57 PM
We’re knocking doors in the cold today, getting out the vote for @mikesiegeltx.bsky.social for Austin City Council for the D7 Dec 14 runoff!
Great turnout!
Great turnout!
This is amazing! Wow!
Reading up a little more on this now - the Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War had *just* begun in 1407, so this context is "illuminating"!
Is it reading too much into the mountainous landscape depicted in the manuscript as speaking to the terrain that de Berry had to cross?
Reading up a little more on this now - the Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War had *just* begun in 1407, so this context is "illuminating"!
Is it reading too much into the mountainous landscape depicted in the manuscript as speaking to the terrain that de Berry had to cross?
December 2, 2024 at 2:10 AM
This is amazing! Wow!
Reading up a little more on this now - the Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War had *just* begun in 1407, so this context is "illuminating"!
Is it reading too much into the mountainous landscape depicted in the manuscript as speaking to the terrain that de Berry had to cross?
Reading up a little more on this now - the Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War had *just* begun in 1407, so this context is "illuminating"!
Is it reading too much into the mountainous landscape depicted in the manuscript as speaking to the terrain that de Berry had to cross?
Hello! This is deeply kind, but I must say -- while some of this is my understanding/misunderstanding, this is largely me paraphrasing the late, great Jane McAlevey's 'No Shortcuts' from memory
Still *the*, imo, fundamentally right approach for our current times
Still *the*, imo, fundamentally right approach for our current times
![Page 25 of Jane McAlevey's fundamental non-fiction book on labor organizing, "No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age"
Selected text:
“Advocacy, Mobilizing, and Organizing
Here is the major difference among the three approaches discussed in the book. Advocacy doesn’t involve ordinary people in any real way; lawyers, pollsters, researchers, and communications firms are engaged to wage the battle. Though effective for forcing car companies to install seatbelts or banishing toys with components that infants might choke on, this strategy severely limits serious challenges to elite power. Advocacy fails to use the only concrete advantage ordinary people have over elites: large numbers. In workplace strikes, at the ballot box, or in nonviolent civil disobedience, strategically deployed masses have long been the unique weapon of ordinary people. The 1 percent have a vast armory of material resources and political special forces, but the 99 percent have an army.
Over the past forty years, a newer mechanism for change seekers has proliferated: the mobilizing approach. Mobilizing is a substantial improvement over advocacy, because it brings large numbers of people to the fight. However, too often they are the same people: dedicated activists who show up over and over at every meeting and rally for all good causes, but without the full mass of their coworkers or community behind them. This is because[…]”
Excerpt From
No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
Jane F. McAlevey
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November 26, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Hello! This is deeply kind, but I must say -- while some of this is my understanding/misunderstanding, this is largely me paraphrasing the late, great Jane McAlevey's 'No Shortcuts' from memory
Still *the*, imo, fundamentally right approach for our current times
Still *the*, imo, fundamentally right approach for our current times
A good weekend, full of important work
Saturday, I joined a bunch of great folks knocking doors for @mikesiegeltx.bsky.social for Austin city council, District 7 🚪🗳️
Saturday, I joined a bunch of great folks knocking doors for @mikesiegeltx.bsky.social for Austin city council, District 7 🚪🗳️
November 25, 2024 at 3:39 PM
A good weekend, full of important work
Saturday, I joined a bunch of great folks knocking doors for @mikesiegeltx.bsky.social for Austin city council, District 7 🚪🗳️
Saturday, I joined a bunch of great folks knocking doors for @mikesiegeltx.bsky.social for Austin city council, District 7 🚪🗳️
Good morning!
Thinking today of this @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social quote that was shared with me by a dear friend after the election
Hope as embracing uncertainty, of both the known and the unknown, and leaving room for action and the idea that we do or don't do matters
Thank YOU for being here
Thinking today of this @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social quote that was shared with me by a dear friend after the election
Hope as embracing uncertainty, of both the known and the unknown, and leaving room for action and the idea that we do or don't do matters
Thank YOU for being here
November 17, 2024 at 3:42 PM
Good morning!
Thinking today of this @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social quote that was shared with me by a dear friend after the election
Hope as embracing uncertainty, of both the known and the unknown, and leaving room for action and the idea that we do or don't do matters
Thank YOU for being here
Thinking today of this @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social quote that was shared with me by a dear friend after the election
Hope as embracing uncertainty, of both the known and the unknown, and leaving room for action and the idea that we do or don't do matters
Thank YOU for being here
I agree that to carry out its promise, the burden of our country is exorcizing the original sins of violence from its DNA
But what gives me hope is that, there in the bedrock, you can see the guiding lights
The other 1619, for ex., saw the first labor strike (and by “immigrants”) in North America
But what gives me hope is that, there in the bedrock, you can see the guiding lights
The other 1619, for ex., saw the first labor strike (and by “immigrants”) in North America
November 17, 2024 at 5:55 AM
I agree that to carry out its promise, the burden of our country is exorcizing the original sins of violence from its DNA
But what gives me hope is that, there in the bedrock, you can see the guiding lights
The other 1619, for ex., saw the first labor strike (and by “immigrants”) in North America
But what gives me hope is that, there in the bedrock, you can see the guiding lights
The other 1619, for ex., saw the first labor strike (and by “immigrants”) in North America