Some 270 organizations have joined the Coalition to March on the DNC, including Students for a Democratic Society, Students for Justice in Palestine, and Jewish Voice for Peace.
Tens of thousands of people are anticipated to descend on Chicago amid the 2024 Democratic National Convention — not to attend it, but to push the Harris campaign on a ceasefire in Gaza . Setting the tone for a week of action the evening before the convention’s start, about 200 protesters, who were described in a press release as Palestinian youth and allies, disrupted a DNC kickoff party with a banner reading 'KAMALA: NO WEAPONS TO ISRAEL.
” The day before the convention started, the Uncommitted movement – which organized half a million voters, many in key swing states, to deny Joe Biden support in the presidential primaries due to his Israel policy – announced that the DNC would host its first-ever panel on Palestinian human rights on its first day. Uncommitted will have roughly 30 delegates participating in the DNC. “Our focus remains on policy change.
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