{"id":31867,"date":"2024-02-19T12:36:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T20:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=31867"},"modified":"2024-02-19T12:36:15","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T20:36:15","slug":"tlaib-urges-michigan-to-send-biden-a-message-on-gaza-by-voting-uncommitted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/02\/19\/tlaib-urges-michigan-to-send-biden-a-message-on-gaza-by-voting-uncommitted\/","title":{"rendered":"Tlaib Urges Michigan to Send Biden a Message on Gaza by Voting Uncommitted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) greets CodePink demonstrators outside her office on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on February 15, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0(Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A critic of U.S. support for Israel’s war on the besieged enclave, the only Palestinian American in Congress stressed the importance of creating “a voting bloc, something that is a bullhorn to say enough is enough.”<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

JESSICA CORBETT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Feb 18, 2024 (CommonDreams.org)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking outside an early voting site on Saturday, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib<\/a> urged fellow Michigan Democrats to vote uncommitted in the February 27 primary to send President Joe Biden a message about U.S. support for Israel as it wages a genocidal war on the Gaza<\/a> Strip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to<\/a>The Detroit News<\/em>, Tlaib “is the first member of Congress in Michigan and the highest-profile official to date to get behind the Listen to Michigan campaign,” which launched<\/a> earlier this month and is led by her sister, Dearborn community organizer Layla Elabed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The only Palestinian American in Congress, Tlaib recorded a 70-second video\u2014shared on social media by the campaign\u2014outside the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center in Dearborn, which is open for early voting February 17-25 from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It is important, as you all know, to not only march against the genocide, not only make sure that we’re calling our members of Congress and local electeds and passing city resolutions all throughout our country,” Tlaib said. “It is also important to create a voting bloc, something that is a bullhorn to say enough is enough. We don’t want a country that supports wars and bombs and destruction. We want to support life. We want to stand up for every single life killed in Gaza.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NEW ENDORSEMENT: \u201cIf you want us to be louder, come here and vote uncommitted.\u201d –@RashidaTlaib<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/8pxuUjq5QG<\/a><\/p>— #ListenToMichigan (@Listen2michigan) February 17, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>