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BONUS: The Uncommitted Movement feat. Layla Elabed & Waleed Shahid

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🗓️ 8 March 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Organizers Layla Elabed and Waleed Shahid join us to discuss their recent successes with the movement to vote uncommitted against Joe Biden in the ongoing democratic primaries. They lay out their goals, how they’ve been organizing, what they feel they’ve achieved so far, and what they hope to accomplish going into the Democratic convention. If you’d like to know more or learn how to get involved, go to: https://www.listentomichigan.com/

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0:00.0

Hello everybody it's Thursday March 7th this is will and Chappo here we've talked

0:07.1

about it obviously a couple times over the last few weeks on the show but the

0:11.1

uncommitted movement has been sort of a surprise of this Democratic

0:15.2

primary season, wracking up over 100,000 votes in Michigan and just on this

0:19.9

Tuesday picking up about 20% of the vote in Minnesota, which is around a 40 or 50,000 votes.

0:28.1

Joining me to talk about the uncommitted campaign are two organizers from it.

0:33.1

Joining us is Walid Shaheid and Leila Alabet.

0:36.4

Leila Walid, welcome to the show.

0:38.7

Thanks for having me.

0:39.6

Okay, here's where I want to start.

0:40.8

And Walid, I'll begin with you, and then then Lila I'd love to hear from this from you as well.

0:45.6

So like I mentioned like this is uncommitted is sort of surprised everyone but like going

0:50.8

forward the Super Tuesday just happened,

0:53.3

going forward what do you each think is like the real, a realistic goal for the

0:57.8

uncommitted campaign at this point?

0:59.6

Well, so the main purpose of the uncommitted campaign was to literally get the political class and the media class to listen to the voices of Palestinian Americans, Arab Americans, young people who are pissed off about President Biden's funding

1:16.2

of a genocide in Gaza and I think we've been enormously successful at getting the media to pay attention

1:21.1

to these voters who are currently uncommitted to the President's

1:24.2

re-election unless he dramatically changes course and ends funding to the war.

1:29.7

Just today it was announced that Hawaii is getting I believe seven delegates they had 29%

1:36.3

uncommitted so I think if we can continue to show that we can get you know five to

1:41.6

10 to 15 percent in some of these states

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