Juno News - April 17, 2023


Socialism’s harmful impacts on women (feat. Ana Rizo)

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8 minutes

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161.93

Word count

1,371

Sentence count

95

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9

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Anna Riso is the President of the Ladies of Liberties Alliance (LOLA) in Canada. She grew up in Venezuela, a socialist country, and spent most of her life in the 1970s and 80s living under socialism. She moved to Canada in order to escape the harsh economic and political conditions her country was experiencing at the time. In this episode, she shares her story of how she escaped socialism and how she became a free thinker.

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00:00:00.000 I'm here at the Canada Strong and Free networking conference in Ottawa and one of the things that
00:00:06.240 is always present at this conference is a large amount of exhibitors and sponsors.
00:00:11.360 Right in front of me there is a row of booths from different organizations that are seeking to
00:00:16.640 reach out to the conservative movement and to conservative-minded people. One of these
00:00:22.000 organizations is the Ladies of Liberties Alliance and with me is the president of their Canadian
00:00:28.720 chapter Anna Riso. So Anna, do you want to tell us a bit about what Lola is and the work that they do? 0.95
00:00:35.840 Well, Lola is a chapter-based organization. We are across different countries. We are located in more
00:00:43.120 than 20 countries now. I'm leading the Canada chapter and what we do is that we give an alternative
00:00:49.200 to women that are interested in politics. They're interested in the discussion of ideas but they 1.00
00:00:55.200 don't like the narrative of the left. So essentially we want to give a space for women that are 1.00
00:01:01.520 interested in the liberty movement. Many women that are libertarians and some of them don't even know 1.00
00:01:07.040 it. Like for example, so many women are like, oh yeah, I support women's rights but I don't like the 1.00
00:01:14.560 narrative that men are the enemy. And honestly, in Lola you find a space for that because we believe in
00:01:22.320 the individual. We believe that women and men, they're individuals. Like men are not the enemy,
00:01:28.240 the woman is not the enemy of the man. And you know, in the end we promote liberty, we promote 0.58
00:01:33.600 freedom, and we promote free market ideas. Absolutely. What got you specifically interested
00:01:39.760 in being involved with this group? Well, as a person who had to live in a socialist country
00:01:46.960 during most of my life, I was 23 years old when I moved to Canada. So I remember clearly what it's
00:01:54.400 like to live in a socialist-controlled country. I remember what it's like to live with hyperinflation,
00:02:02.240 I remember what it's like to live without freedom of speech, like these kind of situations is, they
00:02:09.600 taught me that, you know, socialism and the left, they don't care about rights. For sure. And I mean,
00:02:15.200 I know you quite well and you're from Venezuela. How bad does socialism turn a prosperous nation to
00:02:24.320 complete chaos? Because Venezuela has been quite badly hit by socialism and other leftist policies.
00:02:32.720 Well, when I left Venezuela, the situation was so bad that I had to go and line up to buy a bag of
00:02:40.720 bread. That I had to go to the supermarket, do long lines, and they would, like, they would not just tell
00:02:49.840 me, you have to come if your ID number ends in, let's say, nine, you can only come on these days,
00:02:58.320 and you can only buy one bag of bread per person. And that's all you're allowed to do. In work case,
00:03:05.680 a scenario, they will even ask for your fingerprints. Because you could only buy certain amount of food
00:03:11.840 because there was a scarcity. And why there was a scarcity, you might ask yourself. Price controls,
00:03:18.320 expropriation, no respect for private property at all. And that led to an economic disaster.
00:03:26.000 Well, it does sound disastrous. Indeed, you've obviously came to Canada, which has been a more 0.99
00:03:31.120 free country. Over the last three years, we've seen several civil liberties breached in Canada.
00:03:38.240 Does that concern you to see what has happened in Canada the last three years? And do you think
00:03:42.720 it's getting better now? Or are you still concerned about some of the direction that
00:03:46.400 Justin Trudeau has taken, the stuff that Jagmeet Singh wants to impose, for example, which kind of,
00:03:51.040 you know, sounds a little bit like what you're describing is happening in Venezuela?
00:03:54.880 It's actually very concerning. Since COVID started, I saw how the Canadian government
00:04:00.560 used this crisis in order to expand power, in order to seek for control, right? So I never was,
00:04:09.360 like, I never supported lockdowns. And people were like, no, that's inhuman. How are you going to do
00:04:15.040 that? You know, you shouldn't put the life of business on top of the life of people. But what people
00:04:21.520 don't realize that businesses are part of the life of people? Financial freedom is part of your life.
00:04:28.800 How do you sustain your family if you don't have money? No, that's true. It's a good point. We were
00:04:33.360 talking a bit earlier before we started recording, and you mentioned something important. It is the way
00:04:38.800 that socialism affects women. How are women impacted by socialism? I believe that women take the worst 1.00
00:04:47.680 when the economy goes downhill. And that's based on what I saw in my country. You know,
00:04:55.360 women, we had to struggle more to get into the workforce. Now things are more equal in countries 0.53
00:05:02.320 like Canada, which is good. But you know what is sad to see that single mom that had to struggle with
00:05:09.760 her kid on her own because the dad had to flew to another country because there was no alternative in
00:05:16.160 Venezuela. It's sad to see the amount of women in Venezuela who were victims of human trafficking
00:05:21.840 because it went up when the crisis came to my country. It was depressing to see how many women 1.00
00:05:29.040 had to become basically like illegal prostitution went skyrocketing when this happened. So in situations
00:05:37.360 like that make you think, yes, women take the worst part. And that's certainly very interesting. And it's 1.00
00:05:43.920 quite sad, honestly. What I find even more sad is that, you know, I see on university campuses and all
00:05:50.640 the woke lefties now, they love socialism. And in fact, socialism is very popular amongst the young
00:05:56.880 people that, you know, with socialist leaders like Bernie Sanders are kind of selling this socialism as a
00:06:03.920 problem solution rather to all our problems. Why do you think so many young people here in capitalist 0.82
00:06:12.720 western nations are so attracted by socialism despite the fact that it's failed every time
00:06:17.280 it's been tried? Well, one of the reasons is because the left was very smart in taking over academia.
00:06:23.600 That's something that I believe that they did strategically and they did with an obvious
00:06:27.920 intention that is to spread their ideology. And another thing is that many young people are very
00:06:33.920 naive when it comes to propaganda. So I have seen some women, for example, telling me that, you know,
00:06:39.520 the Cuban health care system is good because they provide abortion, because they don't ban abortion
00:06:45.600 in Cuba. And it's like, woman, do you have any idea why you have so many abortions in Cuba? Because
00:06:52.240 preconception methods are a luxury. Condoms are a luxury. And like many of these women don't want to bring 1.00
00:06:59.520 a child into a nation where they cannot even feed this child. That's a fair point. Lastly, I mean, 0.89
00:07:06.400 you guys obviously are doing some activism to try to fight back. Maybe others are as well. Like,
00:07:11.840 what more needs to be done so that young people become quite, like truly realize what's real
00:07:20.320 socialism? What's the cost? Are we going to have to live through it in order for us to realize that
00:07:23.760 it's bad? Or do you think there's a way to prevent that? Honestly, sometimes I feel like that too,
00:07:27.280 but I believe that what it needs to be done is, you know, spaces like this, activism, engagement.
00:07:34.640 Like what the reason why the left take over the mainstream is because we leave that space empty.
00:07:41.840 Many people are not really engaged in politics. They see it as problematic. What am I going to do this?
00:07:48.960 And you know, in the end of the day, that space that you leave, someone else will take it. And
00:07:56.000 someone else will probably take it because they are radicalized with crazy ideas too.
00:08:01.200 Yeah, for sure. All right. Well, before we wrap up, do you want to show the camera your amazing search?
00:08:06.800 Socialism distancing. And my friends, please also practice legacy media distancing and support
00:08:12.320 independent media at True North. It was a pleasure talking to you, Anna.
00:08:15.680 Thank you for inviting me, Ali.