Democratic National Convention

The Shift: The DNC hits Chicago Amid Protest Over Gaza

August 22, 2024 UNAC Editor Action!!, Protest, Resistance, The War at Home, US Politics

by Michael Arria, published on Mondoweiss, August 20, 2024 The Democratic National Convention has hit Chicago amid Israel’s unrelenting genocide on Gaza. Protests rage outside the convention, with activists demanding that the Biden-Harris administration end its military support for Israel. “We have accomplished something already. There will be thousands of Black, Asian, Latino and Native people saying the central issue[…]

Won’t You Please Come to Chicago? Cheri Honkala on the Democratic Convention

May 16, 2024 UNAC Editor Action!!, Protest, Resistance, US Politics, War and Peace

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, May 15, 2024 The City of Chicago has inadvertently granted the Poor People’s Army a permit to march to the convention steps of the United Center during the Democratic National Convention. Students are protesting Biden and Netanyahu’s war on Gaza all over the City of Chicago while city, state, and Democratic Party[…]