Pro-Palestinian protests about to start back up
The Harris campaign, if it wants to keep the reconstituted Obama coalition together, has very little time to announce a policy change in regards to Israel. Either she does something measurable, or she'll quickly lose young voters. It starts next week at the DNC in Chicago, but it doesn't end there.
The City of Chicago informed organizers of the pro-Palestinian rights group the Coalition while they are permitted to assemble and march with the tens of thousands expected to protest next week, the city has limited their ability to communicate their message about ending U.S. aid for Israel.The Coalition is a pro-Palestinian group that highlights several issues within the Democratic Party, including financing the conflict in Palestine and wars in other countries, contributing to the mass incarceration of Black and brown individuals and deporting millions of immigrants
Protest organizers expect 100,000 participants. While that might an exaggeration, tens of thousands is not out of question.
But that's only the start. College protests largely ended with the end of the spring semester, but now the fall semester is about to start, and protesters are about to restart too.
“We're not going to just be copying encampment, encampment, encampment,” Grosso says. “We will be doing whatever actions we choose, escalations if that's necessary. We will do what is necessary.”
In Cambridge, Mass., for example, students who are home for the summer or living on now-quiet campuses nearby have been joining weekly demonstrations run by BDS Boston, a group promoting boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel — and companies doing business with Israel. A few dozen people protest outside the local offices of Elbit Systems, a defense technology company supplying products to the Israeli military. They circle a busy intersection chanting, “Free Palestine” and “Elbit out of Cambridge now!” One of the organizers takes to the bullhorn, imploring the group to “Continue disrupting, that is our fight!” as Cambridge police detour traffic and respond to frustrated motorists.Students here say they’re learning from their “elders” — many of whom are veterans of Vietnam-era protests, and eager to share lessons on tactics and how and when to escalate them.
Just today Columbia's awful president has been forced to resign.
Dr Shafik's resignation comes only a year after she took the position at the private Ivy League university in New York City, and just a few weeks before the autumn semester is due to begin.
That makes four Ivy League presidents to resign this year.
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Some of us remember the "free speech zones"
at the Kerry coronation in Boston in 2004.
Or for that matter the police riot in 1968 in Chicago.
I keep thinking of Antonio Gramsci's distinction between domination -- brute force -- and hegemony, all of the means by which the regimes obtain your consent to their rule. Nominating conventions seem to have plenty of both.
“When there's no fight over programme, the election becomes a casting exercise. Trump's win is the unstoppable consequence of this situation.” - Jean-Luc Melanchon
"Voters" decide nothing
Whatever happens in Chicago will have nothing to do with policy issues or democracy. It will be a violent psyop intended to increase support for Israel. Grow up.
As I said in my danmned diary
“When there's no fight over programme, the election becomes a casting exercise. Trump's win is the unstoppable consequence of this situation.” - Jean-Luc Melanchon
Let Trump have Israel
Harris would strengthen her base by taking a stand against genocide.