FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, October 15th, 2024
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Abandon Harris to Launch Georgia Campaign
Georgia Green Party welcomes national effort, endorsement
A Media Advisory
Event: Press Conference
Date/Time: Thursday, October 17th, 2024 at 11:30 am
Place: Martin Luther King Center; 449 Auburn Avenue; Atlanta GA 30312
As their website puts it, “The Abandon Harris Campaign (formerly the Abandon Biden Campaign) seeks to empower people of conscience to leverage their vote for the US presidency and, consequently, effect moral change in the United States and around the world.” The strategy is simple: encourage voters to reject Harris and Trump, and any party complicit in war and genocide, by supporting candidates like Dr. Jill Stein who stand firmly against these atrocities. Last week, Abandon Harris officially endorsed Dr. Stein.
This endorsement reflects a significant shift, showing that people of conscience are moving away from traditional party lines to support leaders who align with their principles against genocide. Polling among Muslim voters shows that the non-Trump vote among Muslims is evenly split between Harris (D) and Stein (G). Dr. Rudolph (Butch) Ware, Dr. Jill Stein’s Vice-Presidential running mate, noted, “The Democrats have lost the Muslim vote. And we are never coming back”.
The Muslim vote in Georgia is estimated as at least 6 or 8 times the margin of victory which gave Biden the Georgia electoral college votes over Trump in 2020.
Dr. Hassan Abdel Salam, founder of the Abandon Harris effort, is expected to travel from Michigan to join this press conference in Atlanta.
The Georgia Green Party, since 1996, has been dedicated to building a political alternative that opposes imperial aggression, supports critical election reforms, demands universal healthcare access, addresses the climate crisis, and tackles the wide range of crises facing Georgia communities.
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For background, please link to:
Abandon Harris
Vote Against Genocide
https://www.voteagainstgenocide.org/
Georgia Green Party
https://georgiagreenparty.org/
ISPU: Winning Muslim Votes
https://ispu.org/winning-muslim-votes/
CAIR: Swing State Data Shows Muslim Vote up for Grabs
https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-swing-state-data-shows-muslim-voters-hold-diverse
-preferences-still-up-for-grabs-in-2024/