Article 6Q7NQ Inside the uncommitted movement at the Democratic convention: ‘This is my political home’

Inside the uncommitted movement at the Democratic convention: ‘This is my political home’

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Rachel Leingang in Chicago
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The 30 ceasefire delegates worked tirelessly, staging a sit-in and moving more than 300 Harris delegates to join them

Asma Mohammed organized the uncommitted movement in Minnesota because she was seeing children who look like my son be massacred".

June Rose, an uncommitted delegate from Rhode Island, joined the cause because they were raised as an orthodox Jew, kept away from Palestinians and taught that the occupation of Palestine was for their safety. Then Rose went to Palestine. And I realized that not one single child needs to die in order to keep me safe," they said.

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