As Tim Walz Accepted VP Nom, Pro-Palestinian Demonstrators Staged a Sit-In Outside the DNC
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Walz talked about his life and background, laying out his progressive credentials against Trump and Project 2025.

Notably absent from Walz’s speech was any real substance on foreign policy — including discussion of the genocide happening against Palestinians in Gaza, which uncommitted delegates and their allies have been trying to discuss for days at DNC. Indeed, most of the night, if not the week, has ignored the issue, and where it has been mentioned, Israel’s role in the genocide has been glossed over.

Uncommitted delegates in support of Palestinian liberation and an end to the genocide have requested that the DNC allow a Palestinian speaker take the podium in the United Center, to discuss a permanent ceasefire and an embargo for weapons from the U.S. to Israel, which the U.S. is legally obligated to do.

“We are learning that Israeli hostages’ families will be speaking from the main stage. We strongly support that decision and also strongly hope that we will also be hearing from Palestinians who’ve endured the largest civilian death toll since 1948,” read a statement from the Uncommitted National Movement account on X. “Excluding a Palestinian speaker betrays the party’s commitment in our platform to valuing Israelis and Palestinian lives equally. Vice President Harris must unite this party with a vision that fights for everyone, including Palestinians.”

A group of uncommitted delegates, joined by interfaith leaders and their allies, staged a sit-in just outside the convention hall on Wednesday night, saying they wouldn’t remove themselves from that spot until their demands for a Palestinian speaker were met.

  • FlowVoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    If the goal is a ceasefire, commonly defined as a bilateral end of hostilities, then you should encourage and reward the administration’s attempts to secure a ceasefire.

    If the goal is to stop arming Israel, then Americans overall do not sufficiently support this goal right now. That means this goal will take years to achieve.

    If you want to help Palestinians, then you should be realistic about what you can achieve and how long it will take.

    • Keeponstalin@lemmy.worldOP
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      3 months ago

      40-100 thousand people have died while they fail to pressure Israel to agree to the ceasefire. Americans overall do, you don’t.

      First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom

      • MLK Jr
      • FlowVoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice

        MLK had patience, which that quote exemplifies. It took the civil rights movement years to see any results.

        • SulaymanF@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          MLK hated people like you who told him to be patient, that he was too radical and that he was trying to change America too quickly or that his protests were hurting LBJ’s re-election campaign. He wrote long diatribes against this idea and people who told him he was moving too fast, go read his anger in Letters from a Birmingham Jail.

          Don’t misquote him like that.

          Edit: Why We Can’t Wait was the actual title of his 1964 book. King’s “Letter” issues a call for urgency. He wrote it as a response to eight local white clergymen who had criticized his activities in Birmingham and appealed for a more patient and restrained approach to lobbying for civil rights. The “Letter” expresses King’s deep disappointment with “the white moderate,” who “paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom.” https://sojo.net/articles/when-patience-becomes-complacency-why-we-cant-wait

          • FlowVoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            3 months ago

            Whether he liked it or not, it took years for the civil rights movement to see any results. The same is true of every other successful activist movement.

            • SulaymanF@lemmy.world
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              3 months ago

              We’ve already been waiting years. Stop being so condescending. If you’re actually on our side like you claim, you could show empathy rather than telling us grieving people that we’re not being patient enough. Again, MLK hated people who said that to his coalition. Have you read his stuff yet?

              • FlowVoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
                12·
                3 months ago

                Empathy for American activists doesn’t help Palestinians. If anything, American activists are often counterproductive. Telling the DNC to fuck off doesn’t bring your goals any closer to reality.

                And you don’t speak for MLK.

                • SulaymanF@lemmy.world
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                  3 months ago

                  Nice strawman. I think we’re done here if you can’t even be honest.

                  Edit: April 16, 1963, King wrote his most famous “Letters from a Birmingham jail” in response to eight local white clergymen who had criticized his activities in Birmingham and appealed for a more patient and restrained approach to lobbying for civil rights. The “Letter” expresses King’s deep disappointment with “the white moderate,” who “paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom.”

                  • FlowVoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    12·
                    3 months ago

                    The strawman is that activists should be more “restrained”. I never said that.

                    You can be as fervent as you want. It will still take years to get results. So buckle up.

                    And if you don’t want to make friends with politicians then it will take even longer. MLK at least didn’t burn his bridges in Congress.