#March on the DNC

[bonesashesglass]

Video from the March on the DNC today.

Around 15,000 people showed up, this was the largest march I’ve ever been to.

15,000 people showed up today to stand with Palestine, and to show the democrats that ending this genocide is non-negociable. It is not a fringe issue, it is not to be overlooked and this movement is not to be dismissed.

Long live Palestine! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸❤️❤️❤️❤️

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

By Sharon Black

In both 1968 and 2024, the resistance of colonized and occupied people fueled an outpouring of protest and resistance. In 1968, it was the Vietnamese people; today, it is the resistance of the Palestinian people and the horror of the U.S.-funded genocide.

When all is said and done, it is back into the streets where history is made! I intend to be at the 2024 Chicago DNC protests.

[their-name-is-fake]

Hey y’all remember the delegate who was attacked at the dnc? She was attacked by 5 men with signs to the point she suffered a concussion. The men were part of the laborers union of North America

You can’t make this shit up

[calmbelly]

[harriswalz2024-2028]

VOTE 💙🇺🇸 VOTE 💙🇺🇸 VOTE 💙🇺🇸

USA: How to register to vote:

https://www.usa.gov/register-to-vote

USA: Check to see if you are registered to vote: https://vote.gov/

Voter Registration deadlines are here:

https://www.vote.org/voter-registration-deadlines/

Ohio Voters: Check Your Registration:

https://voterlookup.ohiosos.gov/voterlookup.aspx

Vote BLUE the whole ballot through.

[shadathebookworm]

A speaker from the Palestinian feminist collective at the march on the DNC yesterday said something along the lines of “you struggle to be included in the imperialist machine, we struggle to destroy it” and i think there are a whole lot of people that need to hear that

Anyway two more protests are being held tomorrow (Wednesday 8/21) and Thursday 8/22 show up if you can!!

[harriswalz2024-2028]

DonOLD is a Russian asset. Sold America for a buck to pay his neverending bills and is running for president to run from prison.

Him, his family and all his associates ARE TRAITORS OF THE AMERICAN NATION

Trump is the Russian wing of the Republican Party, full of traitors and vicious dull people.

[immaculatasknight]

All meet in Chicago

[sneezest]

uwm4palicoalition:

Over the weekend, the world has seen the settler state of Israel openly committing a scholasticide in Gaza. As students, we must and we will take whatever action necessary to ensure that institutions associated with us have no part in this genocide. Scroll through to learn what has happened since the encampment and what will happen in the future for UWM Popular University for Palestine. DISCLOSE, DIVEST! WE WILL NOT STOP! WE WILL NOT REST!

[braindamagedgoods]

He did it.

Trump has won.

(EDIT) Before I begin, it appears to be critical I say this. In no way, shape, or form do I support Genocide in any way, shape or form. What Benjamin Netanyahu is doing is despicable. It needs to end, and it needs to end soon

(EDIT) Please stop weaponizing my words as a way to prove Democrats are wrong. Or weapons my words. I merely wished to push a vent into the abyss. I am saddened by his Victory. Shame on you for weaponizing this post. I am very politically centralist.

(EDIT) Some of yall in the comments prove my point of ignorance. My points have unfortunately passed way over some heads.

(EDIT) To the conservatives who have weaponized this post. Why? You’ve already won.

To the people who voted against her in protest. Are you happy? Are you happy that millions of people are losing their rights?

There is a reason we put our plane mask on before our kids.

You have to save yourself before others.

Your protest, to save Gaza, has led to the dismantling of our democracy.

Protest in the streets. March and make it known. I HATE the war. I hate both sides of it (Hamas, Netanyahu’s regime)

Harris has NO ability to do ANYTHING relating to what is going on there. A simple Civics textbook can tell you that. But many can’t be bothered, and stay in an endless cycle of online algorithm.

But to dismantle your rights? To dismantle the rights of our queer, non-white, disabled friends? That’s too far. Worry about our own issues first. Your vote? It means nothing.

You have voted, in essence, for Russian Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine. You have voted for someone who has bragged about Sexual Assault. You have voted for someone who has made it clear that if you’re not cis, Straight, and aryan, you do not belong in our wonderfully diverse country

Incredibly bright young students will not be able to afford school. People who can solve major issues in our world. But anti-Netanyahu is more important? Yea. Sure

I did not like either candidate. In a heartbeat i will vote for Harris. Should the DNC have pushed a different, less left candidate? Absolutely

I am scared for what the future holds. The nuclear weapons.

Please stop using personal social media blogs for your research.

Thank you for reading this.

God bless you, the reader, god bless this country, and god please have mercy on us.

[bonesashesglass]

From the AP.

Birds Eye Pic from the March on the DNC. The March was turning in this pic so there’s even more around the corner.

The media has likely been trying to downplay the amount of people that went to the march, but I saw with my own eyes the 10,000+ people that came to stand up for Palestine.

Our so-called leaders may be racist, imperialist, morally bankrupt pieces of shit, but the people stand with peace and justice and freedom, and we will not rest, we will not stop fighting until the day we see a free Palestine.

From the river to the sea❤️🇵🇸✊

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Live video feed from March on the DNC

[their-name-is-fake]

Just learned a DNC member assaulted a Muslim woman, a dnc delegate, at the convention, and there has been no condemnation from any one. This is who you want me to vote for? On top of their party platform including the normalization of Israel and the continued sending of weapons?

Yeah ok let’s see how that plays out

[mariacallous]

Glad people are finally finding out that these Pro Palestine protestors are ratfuckers-by-design at best (and Republicans at worst) and that's why they support Trump:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/08/dnc-palestinian-gaza-protests/679524/

One month ago, an NBC News headline reported:

Protesters made a tiny footprint at the RNC in Milwaukee. Other than a modest daytime march on Monday afternoon, the first day of the Republican National Convention, there were virtually no protests over the event’s four days and nights.

Obviously, the story from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago is already proving different.

This is part of a pattern. Gather any large number of Democrats together, in almost any city or state, whether at rallies, fundraisers, or presidential appearances, and pro-Palestinian protesters will try to wreck the event. These actions have been building to threats of outright violence. Pro-Trump and Republican events, meanwhile, are almost always left in peace.

Of the two big parties, the Democrats are more emotionally sympathetic to Palestinian suffering. The Biden administration is working to negotiate the cease-fire that the pro-Palestinian camp claims to want. The administration has provided hundreds of millions of dollars of humanitarian assistance to Palestinians in Gaza. President Joe Biden’s terms for ending the fighting in Gaza envision a rapid movement to full Palestinian statehood.

By contrast, former President Donald Trump uses Palestinian as an insult. His administration moved the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, and recognized Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights. In 2016, Trump campaigned on a complete shutdown of travel by Muslims into the United States; Trump now speaks of deporting campus anti-Israel protesters. He has pledged to block Gaza refugees from entering the United States.

Trump wants to tell the story that he and his party will enforce public order. He alleges that Democrats cannot or will not protect Americans against chaos spread by extremist elements. The pro-Palestinian movement works every day to create images that support Trump’s argument. As a visibly annoyed Vice President Kamala Harris asked protesters in Detroit earlier this month: Do they want to elect Donald Trump?

Not all pro-Palestinian demonstrators are thinking about the election. Many seem driven by moral outrage or ideological passion. But for those who are thinking strategically, the answer is obvious: Yes, they want to elect Trump. Of course they want to elect Trump. Electing Trump is their best—and maybe only—hope.

To understand why, cast your mind back a quarter century.

In the election of 2000, Vice President Al Gore faced Texas Governor George W. Bush. Gore probably would have won in a straight two-way contest. But that same year, the progressive advocate Ralph Nader entered the race as a third-party challenger—and he pulled just enough of the vote to tip the Electoral College and the presidency toward Bush.

Nader later professed regret for running as a third-party candidate. But at the time, Nader understood exactly what he was doing. Defeating Gore and electing Bush was the intended and declared purpose of Nader’s candidacy. Nader detailed his logic in many speeches, including this one to the summer-2000 convention of the NAACP:

If you ever wondered why the right wing and the corporate wing of the Democratic Party has so much more power over that party than the progressive wing, it’s because the right wing and the corporate wing have somewhere to go: It’s called the Republican Party. And so they’re catered to and they’re regaled—like the Democratic Leadership Council, they’re catered to and they’re regaled. But if you look at the progressive wing … they have nowhere to go. And you know when you’re told that you have nowhere to go, you get taken for granted. And when you get taken for granted, you get taken.

To paraphrase his argument even more bluntly: If progressives caused the Democrats to lose the presidency in the election of 2000, then Democrats would take progressives more seriously in all the elections that followed.

Nader’s logic was not altogether wrong. In many ways, the post-2000 Democratic Party has shifted well to the left of where the party was in the 1980s and ’90s. But catering to the party’s left has cost Democrats winnable races, and with them, key priorities: The Iraq War and 20 years of inaction on climate change head the list of progressive disappointments since the 2000 election, and the list extends from there. Whether or not the shift was worth the price, Nader was neither ignorant nor deceived. He identified his goal and willingly accepted the risks for himself and his movement.

So it is now with the pro-Palestinian demonstrators of 2024.

They start with a fundamental political problem: Their cause is not popular. Solid majorities of Americans accept Israel’s war in Gaza as valid and fiercely condemn the Hamas terrorist attacks as unacceptable. The exact margin varies from poll to poll depending on how the question is asked, but when presented with a binary choice between Israel and the Palestinians, Americans prefer Israel by a factor of at least two to one.

The brute fact of those numbers makes it very difficult for pro-Palestinian activists to win elections. In this cycle, despite all the emotion stirred by the Gaza war, two of Israel’s fiercest critics in Congress lost their primaries to pro-Israel challengers.

From the point of view of any practical politician: If a cause is so unpopular that it cannot help its friends, why listen to its advocates?

The only answer to that question, again from the practical point of view, is the message of the protesters in Chicago: Maybe we can’t help you if you do listen to us, but we can hurt you if you don’t!

Think of it another way. Since the bloody attack by Hamas on October 7 and the Israeli response, pro-Palestinian protesters have marched and agitated all over the United States. They have occupied college campuses. They have impeded access to Jewish schools, businesses, and places of worship. They have posted impassioned words and images on social media.

Yet all of their militant action has barely budged U.S. policy. Arms, intelligence, and economic assistance continue to flow from the United States to Israel. U.S. military forces cooperate with Israel against Iranian proxies in Lebanon and Yemen. Although the U.S. has imposed restraint on some Israeli operations, Israel has mostly been allowed to fight its own war in its own way.

These were President Biden’s decisions, not Vice President Harris’s. But she was the second-highest-ranking member of the administration. If Biden’s deputy inherits Biden’s office, the message is clear: His administration’s record of support for Israel carried no meaningful political price. All of those street demonstrations and campus occupations will have amounted to so much empty noise. All of those articles arguing that Gaza explained Biden’s troubles with young voters would be exposed as ideological wishcasting.

If Harris wins, the pro-Palestinian movement will have lost.

If Harris loses, however, pro-Palestinian protesters can claim that they were responsible for her defeat. That claim might not be true—in fact it probably would not be true—but try disproving it. The pro-Palestinian movement would have at least some basis to argue: You lost because you alienated us.

If Harris wins, she may want to do something about the pro-Palestinian cause—for humanitarian reasons, for reasons of diplomacy and geopolitics, for reasons of Democratic-constituency management in particular congressional districts. But she won’t have to do it. She’ll know that the protesters tried to beat her, and they failed.

If Harris loses, however, future Democratic candidates will tread more carefully on Israeli-Palestinian terrain. Even if they privately doubt that the party’s position on Gaza explains anything truly important, they will be worried by advisers and donors who will believe it or who will want to believe it.

But what about Trump? Why aren’t the pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Chicago more fearful of Trump’s possible return to the presidency?

Although the pro-Palestine cause attracts support from progressives, it is not exactly a progressive cause. Americans associate progressivism with secularism, feminism, and gay-rights advocacy, among other causes. The Palestinian national movement, especially now that Hamas has effectively replaced the Palestine Liberation Organization as leader of “the resistance,” has become markedly religious, patriarchal, and socially reactionary. But it is also a movement fiercely opposed to American global hegemony—and that is its “anti-imperialist” appeal to Western progressives.

If you oppose American global hegemony, Trump is your candidate (as a long list of anti-American dictators have already figured out). Trump fiercely opposes the alliances and trade agreements that magnify American power and make the U.S. the center of a huge network of democratic, market-oriented countries. Trump’s “America First” bluster is actually a pathway to American isolation and weakness that will further remove American power from the world.

If you wish America ill, of course you wish Trump well. The far left and far right of U.S. politics may disagree on much, but they agree on that.

The protesters in the streets of Chicago are not acting aimlessly or randomly. The people on the receiving end of their protests would benefit from equal clarity. The protesters want chaos and even violence in order to defeat Harris and elect Trump. They are not ill-informed or excessively idealistic or sadly misled. They are not overzealous allies. They are purposeful adversaries.

The Chicago-convention delegates should recognize that truth, and act accordingly.

[socialistexan]

The inside game to go with the outside game of protests and boycotts

[hotvampireadjacent]

March on the DNC for Palestine in Chicago August 19& 20

https://t.co/HJRvqHEEwP

I got this information from this Twitter account

https://x.com/marchondnc2024/status/1800599098573336593?s=46&t=kvJFP3BjKnMEl5NO2bJUMA

RT’d by an organization I trust (U.S. Palestine community network)