The Uncommitted Movement seeks to pressure Democrats to cease supporting Israel's destruction of Gaza with weapons, aid, and military support. Now that Biden is out, they have a brief window to 1) demonstrate to VP Harris that their constituency remains committed (no pun intended) to their priorities, 2) push her toward less disastrous positions and commitments regarding Gaza, and 3) hopefully gain some commitments from her campaign in exchange for their votes and organizing power. In order to do this, they are asking for our help:
They have 30 delegates. Donate to make sure they can all physically get to the DNC here.
They are collecting signatures on a letter to Harris asking her to cease arms transfers.
They are organizing Not Another Bomb solidarity events for August 18. Click on the dot near you on this map to see the event for your area, or start one yourself.
These actions range pretty widely in how much they ask of you! Signing a letter is a pretty light lift, and if that's all you can do then that's still helpful. Please spread this around.
US folks living in New York, Wisconsin, Connecticut, or Rhode Island:
today (April 2, 2024) is the Democratic primary election! please please go vote against genocide!
the Vote Uncommitted campaign is sending Biden a message that voters demand a permanent ceasefire now! How it works is people vote uncommitted or undecided or other in large numbers, which will show the democrats that they WILL NOT win the general election in the Fall and Trump will become president unless Biden and the rest of the Dems immediately change their policy on Israel and Gaza. Michigan already turned out over 100,000 people voting uncommitted, which is MORE than the margin Biden won MI by last election and more than the margin Trump won MI by in 2016. Voting Uncommitted matters! So if you’re a US citizen who’s able to vote, make sure you do!!
each state has a different ballot option so please refer to this graphic to see how you should vote in your state!
the voice of our generation (and also John Oliver) provides one last reminder about the US election, covering the dangers of a second Trump administration, the unfair treatment of pro-Palestinian voices this election, and a plea from himself as an immigrant to take care of the United States
"This suffering does not advance any rational policy goal," said the advocacy groups. "It merely exists to further the political goal of det
Citing ample evidence of human rights abuses in U.S. immigration detention centers, 200 advocacy groups on Thursday demanded that the Biden administration reverse course on a planned expansion of detention facilities and said President Joe Biden's "further entrenching" of the government's reliance on detaining migrants marks "an utter betrayal" of his campaign promises.
The president's signing of a spending bill last month provided $3.4 billion for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), clearing the way for the agency to make space to jail 41,500 immigrants per day in facilities across the country.
After Biden campaigned on ending the use of for-profit detention centers, said the groups, he took office at a time when fewer than 15,000 people were being held in immigration detention facilities—which gave him "a remarkable opportunity to wind down a wasteful and abusive system."
But after the president's 2023 and 2024 budget requests signaled an intention of reducing detention funding—with ICE itself recommending that numerous facilities be closed due to "critical staffing shortages that have led to safety risks and unsanitary living conditions"—Biden last year requested supplemental detention funding as commentators and Republicans in Congress hammered the administration for allowing so-called "chaos" at the U.S.-Mexico border.
"Your FY2025 budget request sought funding for 34,000 beds instead of the 25,000 sought in the two previous cycles," wrote the groups, including Amnesty International USA, the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC), and the Texas Civil Rights Project. "The result is unsurprising: the FY2024 spending bill you signed provides ICE $3.4 billion to jail an average of 41,500 immigrants per day, historically high funding surpassing all four years of the Trump administration."
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Biden signed the spending bill two weeks after Charles Daniel, a 61-year-old migrant from Trinidad and Tobago, died at a detention center operated by the private contractor GEO Group after being held in solitary confinement for four years. ICE has placed people in solitary confinement over 14,000 times in the last five years, according to PHR, for an average of 27 days each; U.N. experts say exceeding 15 days in solitary confinement constitutes torture.
I’m personally not the biggest fan of Kamala Harris at all. I’m waiting to see what her stance on Gaza is, and if it will differ from Biden. If she really wants the votes of young people, she needs to call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire as well as humanitarian aid. Strategically, this would be the best move for Democrats, especially when it comes to swing states like Michigan, which had a large successful uncommitted voter campaign. She will not be able to win without these key voters in swing states.
Obviously morally it’s the right thing to do, as people in Gaza are going through unimaginable horrors, but politicians care about securing votes, not about the actual lives and well being of people.
sorry but the whole “push harris left when shes elected” thing is not. Working. especially because um. A democrat is the president.
So what exactly do you want from us dissenting vote-witholders except complete obeisance to status quo continuation…. Like am i not allowed to ask for the overton window on polices to shift leftwards until AFTER you lock in my vote in november???? please don’t take me for a fool, i LITERALLY just did this with biden 4 years ago. And he remains ironclad supporting a genocidal terror regime, AND has UN ambassador vote NO on UN recognition of Palestinian statehood, AND has continually relisted Cuba on the terrorist list…while opening commerce with cuban entrepeneurs. Cognitive dissonance is a consistent messaging from democrats and that’s no good. Either stand up for the rights of all peoples, or stand up for your gross imperial legacy. Red white and blue with the blood of innumerable innocent lives.
DO SOMETHING OR YOU WONT GET MY VOTE. ITS SIMPLE.
IM NOT VOTING FOR HARRIS UNTIL DEMOCRATS FORCE THEIR LEADERS TO SUPPORT SUBSTANTIAL POLICY SHIFTS TO THE LEFT. i’ll vote blue down the line tho before you berate me. But i will not vote for a president who doesn’t signal and VERBALIZE intent for real policy changes. It’s simple. I’m begging you to do something to get democrats to earn our votes.
