A call to students and youth: Come to Chicago this summer and shut down the DNC!

If you’ve spoken out and protested against Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, you may have been doxxed, fired from your job, slandered in the bourgeois media, or arrested. Your student organization may have been disbanded by your college administration. You should wear all those acts of repression as a badge of honor, as to be attacked by the enemy is a good thing. But have you thrown down against the Chicago police yet? Come to Chicago this summer to oppose the Death and Nakba Coronation, a.k.a. the Democratic National Convention!

Behind Enemy Lines Anti-Imperialist Resistance is currently waging a campaign to demand the City of Chicago cancel the Democratic National Convention (DNC) due to Biden and the Democratic Party’s material, moral, and political support for Israel’s occupation, apartheid, and genocidal war. But if our demand is not met, we’ve got a backup plan: mobilize the broadest possible opposition in Chicago to the DNC while calling on anti-imperialist students and youth to flood the city, organize its residents to protest, and be on the frontlines of those protests with the goal of preventing the coronation of Genocide Joe.

We welcome volunteers all summer long, but we especially call on students and youth to join us in Chicago for the two weeks from August 9 to August 23. Week 1 will be focused on mass outreach: going door-to-door talking to people and agitating car-to-car on the Chicago L train about US imperialism, the DNC, and our Palestine Vote Pledge; getting our “Genocide Joe is Not Welcome in Chicago!” posters up everywhere; holding neighborhood speak-outs that connect US crimes abroad to the slow genocide of Black and oppressed people taking place in Chicago; and organizing people to come to the DNC protests. Week 2 will be focused on protesting the DNC, and while there will be a breadth of protest activity, we’re calling on students and youth to be bold and audacious, take the frontlines, and yes, take police beatings and arrests to oppose Genocide Joe.

The 2024 DNC protests should join the great tradition of anti-imperialist militancy in the belly of the beast, which includes the 1968 Chicago DNC protests and the 1999 protests that shut down the World Trade Organization talks in Seattle and subsequent militant protests against the meetings of the economic instruments of imperialism such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

Make bruises from Chicago police batons the 2024 back to school Fall fashion!

We won’t be silent, we won’t be tame, the war on Gaza is not in our name!

Shut down the DNC!

Are you ready to come to Chicago? Do you want a presentation for your crew? Hit us up: antiimperialistresistance (AT) protonmail.com