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We're grateful for the strong
support of Muslim voters who share with us the determination to end
genocide in Gaza, and the injustice faced by our Muslim friends and
others around the world. Our message is clear: we urge all people of
conscience to resist the propaganda telling you to hold your nose and
vote for genocide. If you vote for genocide, you are actively
consenting to it and enabling it. Don’t let them talk you out of your
humanity. Stopping genocide is the moral imperative of our
time.
As Frederick Douglass said,
power concedes nothing without a demand. Your vote is that
demand. Voting for the “lesser evil” twists your opposition
to genocide into consent for genocide. We say forget the “lesser evil”
and fight for the greater good like our lives depend on it -
because they do.
Every vote against genocide is a
shot across the bow of the empire, announcing that its days are
numbered and that the opposition is getting organized.
The political elites want you to
think you are small and powerless, and that resistance is futile. This
is a propaganda campaign to disarm you. In fact, a large majority of
Americans want an immediate ceasefire and diplomatic solution to the
genocide on Gaza.
On top of that, one in three
eligible voters didn’t vote in 2020, with those voters being mostly
young, low-income, and people of color - the very voters our
anti-genocide, pro-worker, climate action agenda speaks to by calling
for an end to genocide now, a weapons embargo to Israel, a $25 minimum
wage, health care as a human right through Medicare for All, free
public higher education, national rent control, reparations, a real
Green New Deal, and an end to mass incarceration and police violence.
We can pay for these programs by cutting the massively bloated
military budget and making the rich pay their fair share of
taxes.
We can have an
America that works for all of us. It begins by ending the
genocide and moving from a militarized foreign policy to a new foreign
policy based on international law, human rights and diplomacy - and
moving the trillions squandered on endless war to the urgent needs of
the American people here at home.
Our message is resonating with voters across the country,
but we have just weeks left to reach millions of people who are hungry
for a better choice. Please donate whatever you can today to help us get
our message out and build the movement to put an end to war for
good!
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