Organizers launch ‘Uncommitted’ primary campaign to criticize Biden’s support for Israel

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Groups building pressure within state party over White House stance on Gaza War weeks ahead of primary voting

By: Austin Fisher – April 8, 2024 3:45 am from Source NM

A grassroots effort to use the New Mexico primary election to push President Joe Biden’s policy positions on Gaza officially launched in the state over the weekend.

The campaign called Vote Uncommitted New Mexico, is encouraging people to register as Democrats and vote “uncommitted” on their primary ballots, rather than selecting Biden as the Democratic presidential nominee.

The campaign here in New Mexico is inspired in part by earlier ones started in Michigan and Minnesota.

New Mexico’s primary on June 4 (early voting begins May 7) will be one of the last among the 25 states and territories where voters can fill out a ballot option other than the parties’ nominees, be counted in the actual national party results, and not get discarded.

By state law, “Uncommitted” appears below the presidential candidates on primary ballots.

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War on Gaza:  The Crucial Role of the Anti-Apartheid Movement in the US

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Please share with your contacts.This is an opportunity to attend a presentation by 

Dr. Philip FarahWar on Gaza:  The Crucial Role of the Anti-Apartheid Movement in the US 
Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice
202 Harvard SE 
March 22, 2024 at 7 pm 

Philip Farah was born four years after the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, a moment known as the Nakba to Palestinians around the world. He was raised in East Jerusalem, Jordan. The Farah family became part of the Palestinian Diaspora when they were barred from returning to their home in Israel. In 1976, he was arrested, tortured, and spent two months in an Israeli prison without a public trial. He immigrated to the US at the age of 27.

Philip holds a doctoral degree in environmental economics from UNM and did his undergraduate work at the American University of Beirut. He has taught in Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank. He is a founding member of the Palestinian Christian Alliance for Peace (2012) and a member of the Virginia Coalition for Human Rights. He has spoken across the United States and on NPR after the bombing of St Porphyrios Church in Gaza where he has extended family. He recently retired after a 35-year career as an economist in Washington, DC. 

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