To the editor: Peter Dreier and Maurice Isserman are entitled to their very own opinion, however to not their very own information. Their try to persuade protesters to keep away from the Democratic Nationwide Conference in Chicago is deceptive.
They establish the Occasion for Socialism and Liberation and ANSWER as “key organizers” of the March on the DNC 2024 coalition. Sure, these teams are members of the coalition. However they joined solely this April, lengthy after the coalition was based by the Nationwide Alliance In opposition to Racist and Political Repression and the U.S. Palestinian Neighborhood Community, whose members stay its key organizers.
Dreier and Isserman contend that marching on the DNC dangers chaos and should profit former President Trump. They ignore that the coalition is organizing a broad, consultant and “family-friendly” protest and march.
The very fact is, the coalition is marching for not one of the causes Dreier and Isserman say, however somewhat to remind Democrats that Palestinians want and deserve long-denied justice.
Frank Fitzgerald, Chicago
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To the editor: Dreier and Isserman, who I might characterize as pragmatic progressives, are spot on.
Potential demonstrators on the Democratic conference in Chicago have to get up and notice that the right is, certainly, the enemy of the great — and the very last thing this nation wants is to show off potential Democratic voters.
Many progressives made the same mistake in 2016 after they made the willpower that then-presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump had been equally unsavory, so they’d not vote for both. The outcome was a Trump victory and three new conservative justices.
Discuss chopping off one’s nostril to spite one’s face — or on this case to spite their nation. Please, let’s not make this error once more.
Bink Goncharoff, Ventura
