No Votes For Genocide
Trenton, NJ — As the great civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. said in 1967, amidst the Vietnam War and after rejecting alignment with the Democratic party, “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”
The Uncommitted NJ movement stands with our national allies in our call for Genocide Joe Biden to step down from seeking the Democratic Party’s nomination for President. We demand that the Democratic National Committee move to an open convention and allow a truly democratic process where elected Uncommitted delegates, who represent the working class against genocide, can equally participate. We explicitly connect ourselves to the just tradition of American heroes who unflinchingly call out the U.S.’s brutal and oppressive foreign policy because it perpetuates the genocide in Palestine and in many other countries around the world for the benefit of capitalists.
A putrid display of racism, the recent presidential debate between landlord turned racist TV celebrity, Donald Trump, and Joseph Biden, close friend of segregationists like Strom Thurmond leads us to redouble our demand that Biden step down as the Democratic nominee for president. Both candidates spoke with fascist contempt for Palestinians. Trump, at one point, insisted that Biden was a “bad Palestinian”, and that Israel should be allowed to “finish” the job in Gaza, a blood curdling statement for anyone with a beating pulse. Genocide Joe didn’t even condemn these comments, and instead, defended his existing genocidal policy which protects and perpetuates Israel’s atrocities against the Palestinian people.
Biden is fundraising and hamming it up with members of the Democratic establishment today in New Jersey at Gov. Murphy’s private residence in Red Bank. Phil Murphy, who himself rarely speaks out about any of the Palestinian lives taken by Israel’s genocide, represents the modern day example of what King and other progressives condemned as capitalist warmongers. We realize that the fight for democracy, progressive values, economic and social justice for all cannot be achieved without challenging the hold on our politics by both major political parties, including those like Murphy, who profess to be progressive, while openly supporting Biden and ignoring working class people’s call for a new Democratic candidate for president that does not and will not assist in genocide.
Our mission is to keep fighting for a free Palestinian state. We have developed a grassroots anti-war movement of working class people that can not only end the U.S. support for Zionist oppression of the Palestinians but bring about a new set of politics that can upend the system. We demand a new set of truly progressive politics that ends the genocide in Palestine, wins universal housing and healthcare everywhere, cultivates an anti-capitalist labor movement for social justice and socialism, and creates a world in which climate change actually be addressed, so that we can sustain life rather than continuing to push working class and poor people across the world into death and forced migration. Biden must cede to the will of the people by stepping back from being the presidential nominee, and face the consequences of a working class, united, for a free Palestine.
Free, Free Palestine!
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