To the editor: The march on the Democratic Nationwide Conference in Chicago unintentionally highlights the necessity to transfer past a polarizing two-party system. This may be achieved by means of reforming our voting system, and appears it will be a central concern to social justice activists.
I’m certain I’m not the one one questioning if withholding assist for the Democratic nominee, as some pro-Palestine supporters promise, is admittedly one thing that might assist Palestinians or some other marginalized folks.
Therein lies the folly of our two-party system.
A elementary concern for activists as we speak is to remodel the best way we elect our officers to maneuver past our “first previous the publish” system. In an Al Jazeera opinion piece final January, journalist Christian Rhodes famous that for the primary half of the twentieth century, many cities used a single transferable voting system, however this was discontinued “largely due to hostility to racial and ethnic minorities benefitting from the system.”
Voter reform is a strong option to suppose globally and act domestically.
Right here’s to freedom and peace for Palestinians — and all whose freedom is withered by our nation’s two-party system.
Deborah Perticara, La Grange Park, In poor health.
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To the editor: The place have been all these pro-Palestinian protesters in the course of the Republican Nationwide Conference final month?
Trump and the Republicans have been full-throated supporters of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for years. It was two Republican audio system of the Home, Reps. John Boehner (Ohio) and Mike Johnson (Louisiana), who invited Netanyahu to talk earlier than Congress.
Netanyahu and his minions should be denounced in essentially the most emphatic phrases.
So why are the organizers solely protesting on the DNC? Are Democrats a better goal than the Republicans? Or is there one thing to this of which we aren’t conscious?
Martin Parker, Thousand Oaks
