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It's a very easy electoral choice in the USA if you want to defend bodily autonomy, reduce child poverty, maintain rights for LGBT people, expand unions, or keep some small window for confronting climate change.
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But of course, bipartisan support for genocide in Palestine is complicating the choice. This conversation is worth listening to. x.com/zeteo_news/status/1847355895845458017?t=8J9BPKpLk98gt-fYI-8zHw&s=19
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I expect to be protesting war on November 6 and on January 21. Here's why I'd rather do so against Harris than Trump…
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I'd rather protest ongoing genocide in Palestine than ongoing genocide plus mass deportation in the US. motherjones.com/politics/2024/08/trump-mass-deportation-plan-immigration-border-patrol-ice-dhs-migrants-undocumented/
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I'd rather work against the war side-by-side with the dozens of unions that have called for ceasefire than see their power undercut at all levels by a Trump administration. youtu.be/7ubJFPJgL3Y?si=eiDyOjuBarjJBcj7
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And I'd rather organize within universities while they are not under attack from a general assault on the both the right to speak and on teaching about inequality.
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So I have clear preferences for making sure Donald Trump loses this election. But let me be clear that this whole line of thought is depressing. And it would be unnecessary if Democrats lived up to the values they claim.
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No one of good conscience in America can vote for anyone this fall and fail to accept the responsibility of protesting for Palestinian and Lebanese lives afterwards.