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Abecedarian for those who burn

- By Shailja Patel

Editor’s note: It has been 200 days since Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire to protest the United States-Israel genocide in Gaza. In solidarity and unwavering resistance, we offer this found abecedarian, drawn from “Burnt Offerings” by Erik Baker, and other sources.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Justice for Palestine

Testifying at the Democratic National Convention

- By Willow Naomi Curry

In 1964, the Mississippi Freedom Democrats spoke at the Democratic National Convention, despite attempts to suppress them. Fannie Lou Hamer’s televised testimony of being threatened and nearly beaten to death, to prevent her registering Black Mississipians to vote, turned the political tide in the United States. Subsequent pressure from the American populace forced President Lyndon B. Johnson to pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Sixty years later, in 2024, Uncommitted Democrat delegates were denied a chance to speak at the DNC.

Both the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the Uncommitted delegations were democratically elected representatives of Democrat voters. Both supported the National Democratic Party under the condition of true democratic representation of the...


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A Hellscape of False Options

- By Anima Adjepong

IN HER ACCEPTANCE SPEECH for the DNC’s nomination, Kamala Harris promised to secure the nation’s borders and to advance U.S. security and values abroad. She assured voters that under her leadership, America will have “the strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world.” The expansion of US military bases in Africa through the AFRICOM program, alongside efforts to control energy and mineral resources in Sudan and Congo, are examples of what the most lethal fighting force in the world does. The record shows, in fact, that the U.S. consistently works to destabilize progressive governments and enable genocides. In a key moment of her speech, Harris reaffirmed the United...


Justice for Palestine

SHAME ON THE DNC!

- By Michel Moushabeck

 

It is ludicrous that keynote speakers for a party campaigning on freedom and democracy would be silent about the genocide in Gaza, where Palestinians are being subjected to daily bombardment and unimaginable suffering. It’s infuriating that the DNC would ignore the children of Gaza, who are being starved at the fastest rate the world has ever seen. How can the DNC disregard the massive mobilization of protests around the country and on university campuses? And there hasn’t been a peep about Israeli apartheid, which the International Court of Justice confirmed in its recent ruling, where it demanded that Israel end its occupation of Palestinian lands. The ICJ also ordered the dismantling of Israel’s illegal settlements.
 

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