As the 2024 Democratic National Convention opens Monday in Chicago, we look at the protests planned throughout the week to pressure Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party on key policies, including the ongoing U.S.-backed Israeli war on Gaza. Meanwhile, at least 36 delegates are also inside the convention as official delegates representing the “uncommitted” movement and are advocating an antiwar agenda to push for an end to U.S. arms sales to Israel. Although protesters this week come from a range of communities advocating on various issues, from economic injustice to reproductive rights, “Palestine is at the center,” says Hatem Abudayyeh, spokesperson for the Coalition to March on the Democratic National Convention and national chair of the U.S. Palestinian Community Network. “All of those communities are standing up very publicly and very proudly, saying, 'Free Palestine. End U.S. aid to Israel.'”
          • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            172·
            3 months ago

            And then Harris doesn’t get elected because AIPAC dumps a metric fuckload of cash into Trumps campaign.

            Look dude, I fucking hate it too, but you consistently (as in, in every post I’ve seen you make on this topic) ignore the context in a very obviously willful manner. In the system as it stands now, money plays a disgustingly HUGE role in US politics. Pretending it’s not is a recipe for letting Trump win, at which point he will shortly dispatch a squadron of B-52s to carpet bomb Gaza and the West Bank into Graceland (edit: lol what the fuck autocorrect) gravel and start construction on the new Trump Tower Gaza. So like, you know, maybe pull your head out of your ass and try to understand that there’s at least a little bit of nuance to the situation. It is horrible in a humanitarian sense that we have to account for that risk in this way, but it’s going to be far worse if we don’t.

            • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
              32·
              3 months ago

              And then Harris doesn’t get elected because AIPAC dumps a metric fuckload of cash into Trumps campaign.

              So the Democratic Party is AIPAC’s party and we no longer have a representative democracy in this country.

                • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  32·
                  3 months ago

                  Didn’t say they weren’t. Thing is, that means that our only two options serve the interests of a man who is committing genocide to keep himself in power, and prioritize those interests over ours.

                  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                    3·
                    3 months ago

                    They serve his interests for now.

                    I’m low key cautiously optimistic that Harris is going to start shifting away from just giving Israel shitloads of bombs. She knows it’s a bad look, and she knows a lot of her supporters are pretty fucking pissed at Biden over his handling of the situation. She has a chance, once she takes office, to make a meaningful change to policy in that area, and I hope she does.

                    I think that may be why AIPAC is being so bold in this election cycle: they can see the writing on the wall, and they know they’ve pissed off a significant portion of one entire side of our political establishment… and the other side - the one that doesn’t mind that they’re carpet-bombing brown people - has neo-Nazis in it. So that’s a bit of a quandary they’ve put themselves in. It’s really incredible, in a geopolitical sense (because it’s not just America in which this shift is happening), because they’ve basically just thrown the vast majority of international sympathy and goodwill they previously had onto a bonfire and lit the fucker up.

          • just_another_person@lemmy.world
            144·
            3 months ago

            Or else what?

            That’s where you guys always trip up. What’s the next step to these threats?

            The only party who hasn’t supported and signed on to the ceasefire agreements is Israel. Go protest over there ffs.

          • psycho_driver@lemmy.world
            6·
            3 months ago

            The only reason those shitstain Republican Senators voted no was because they knew it would pass without their support and so they could point fingers and say “DERMERCREATS WAR!”. They’re all equally complicit. I’m all for protests for Gaza, but saying the Democrats have anything more to do with it than Republicans is bald faced propaganda and you should be ashamed of yourself.

            And yeah, welcome to the internet. Anywhere you find a big group of at least quasi intelligent people discussing things you’ll find that the Republicans aren’t a popular group because the vast majority of them are traitorous lying pieces of shit who have sold out way more brazenly to the Oligarchs than your average Democrat.