[Peace] Let’s have a big anti-war demo in Milwaukee on July 13 at the DNC

[Robert Naiman]

Let's think about different ways that we can "talk up" this idea. This is
how we started the April 16, 2000 demonstrations against the IMF and the
World Bank in Washington after we shut down the WTO in Seattle in late
1999. We started talking up the idea. Once the idea was ambient, people who
know how to organize such things came in and organized it.



On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 3:57 PM Stuart Levy <stuartnlevy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Cheering on this idea!  I'd be in, and (lacking any nearby congressional
> Dems) would be game to go to Milwaukee for a demonstration.
>
> On Sat, Jan 18, 2020, 9:38 AM Robert Naiman via Peace <
> peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> https://www.facebook.com/robert.naiman/posts/10159055403547656
>>
>> Let’s have a big anti-war demo in Milwaukee on July 13 at the DNC
>>
>> Let’s have a big anti-war demonstration in Milwaukee on July 13 at the
>> Democratic National Convention.
>>
>> Let’s support this with local actions at Democratic Congressional offices
>> on July 13, so people who are unable to travel to Milwaukee can
>> participate. Every Congressional Democrat is a member of the Democratic
>> National Committee, so on July 13 we can treat each Democratic
>> Congressional office as a local DNC office, which in a way it is.
>>
>> Let’s support that with a call-in day to those Congressional offices, so
>> people can participate without leaving wherever they are.
>>
>> Let’s raise a specific demand: that Congressional Democrats pass binding,
>> veto-proof legislation to end U.S. wars. In particular, that Congress pass
>> binding, veto-proof legislation to end Trump’s unconstitutional war with
>> Iran and Trump’s unconstitutional war on behalf of Saudi Arabia in Yemen.
>> Congress has already voted against these wars. But Congressional Democratic
>> leadership have failed so far to pass binding, veto-proof legislation to
>> end these wars, as they could have done, by passing binding veto-proof war
>> powers resolutions, or by cutting the funding on “veto-proof” “must-pass”
>> Pentagon spending bills. Under Article I of the Constitution, Congress is
>> supposed to be deciding when we go to war, not Trump.
>>
>> Let’s couple this outside strategy with an inside strategy. Let’s push
>> for the elected delegates to amend the Democratic Party Platform to call on
>> Democrats in Congress to end U.S. wars, including the war with Iran and the
>> Saudi war in Yemen, through binding veto-proof war powers resolutions and
>> binding veto-proof funding prohibitions.
>>
>> At the end of a contested presidential primary, the Democratic Party is
>> at its most democratic. The elected delegates to the convention are the
>> people that Democratic primary voters just voted for when they voted for
>> presidential candidates. According to current projections, there will be
>> four groups of such elected delegates: Sanders delegates, Warren delegates,
>> Buttigieg delegates, and Biden delegates. These delegates largely follow
>> the instructions of their campaigns in voting on issues outside of the
>> nominating process. Thus, raising these demands is a way of pressuring the
>> campaigns, which will in turn pressure the Democratic members of Congress,
>> who will also be delegates to the convention.
>>
>> Regardless of what happens at the convention, there’s likely not going to
>> be a new U.S. president for at least another year from now, and we should
>> be ending these wars now. Also regardless of what happens at the
>> convention, under the Constitution, it will still be the job of Congress,
>> not the President, to decide when we go to war.
>>
>> We’ve seen in the past that even though Congress already voted against
>> these wars, when push came to shove, ending these wars wasn’t a priority
>> for Democratic Congressional leadership when they had the opportunity to do
>> so. Let’s change that on July 13.
>>
>> Perhaps, if they know they are going to face these demands on July 13,
>> six months from now, Congressional Democratic leadership will feel
>> pressured to act now.
>>
>>
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