Lily Benavides Green Party NJ for Governor Condemns Bipartisan Attacks on NJ Freedom & Support for War and Repression
FightBackBetter editorially urges all to withhold their votes from Mikie Sherrill and from Jack Ciattarrelli. We urge you to instead “write-in” Green Party of NJ candidate Lily Benavides for Governor to show that you are not going to support the repression of NJ’s pro-Palestine community with your vote.
After our steadfast opposition to the IHRA bills since June 2024 and facing the fact that overwhelmingly both parties are ready to destroy FIrst Amendment protections for pro-Palestinian advocates we can not countenance using our votes to support our own repression – we would only be voting to hand ourselves up as victims of Trump’s fascist attacks on us all. Both candidates are captive to powerful pro-Israel lobby and advocacy groups that have an extremely corrupting hold over the political process nationally and definitely in NJ. 67% of the Assembly Democrats are united for the Trump led IHRA fraudulent narrative that if passed can bring legal harm to millions of NJ citizens and residents and lead to massive cutbacks of NJ state funding of public school, municipalities, colleges and universities, libraries and non-profits. While Ciattarelli is openly allied with psychopath Trump’s plans to order US troops to attack our cities with lethal force, Sherrill states she wants to let ICE do its job in NJ and she is united with Ciattarelli and Trump to bring the harm to us in NJ because we oppose their support for genocidal Israel. – Bob Witanek, Editor FightBackBetter – Bob WItanek Editor, FIghtBAckBetter
The following is the video presentation by Lily Benavides at this protest:
We are here in New Brunswick in front of the NJ PAC. There’s different groups here. We have a few people here but obviously this is a big thing for Mikie because she says one day that she’s going to vote for this and the next day she says she doesn’t. So, you know, flip flop flip-flopping on issues.
The same thing she does with ITA (Immigrant Trust Act) . She says one day that she’s going support it, but she wants to force the hand of the immigrant rights organizations and allies to vote for her. So, she will approve the ITA bill.
We know that she wants because she was (voting in congress to) give out money for more detention centers and for militarization at the border. So we know that she’s not going to vote for ITA and Jack Ciattarelli, he won’t vote for that either.
So that’s why we are here to remind them that we are not going to be silenced and that we are not going to allow them to approve the IHRA bill. We are not going to allow that to happen because if that happens then we will never be able to stand here and say what’s going on, what Israel is doing. The genocide that’s going on by the hands of Israel complicit with United States with our money and we are not going to stop doing that.
And also Venezuela and Trump attacking other countries like Venezuela and killing people there as he thinks that he he can just take that kind of decisions, right? And with our money and without our votes, right? So, we are not allowing him to do that.
We won’t stop. We won’t be silent. We will just keep coming here and do this every time that we have to. We have people here from the Green Party. I’m from the Green Party. I am the write-in candidate for the Green Party. You have to write my name if you want to vote for me because Mikie Sherril’s dirty lawyer kicked me out of the ballot. So we are still campaigning. We are still going on and for those who have asked, I am 100% pro Palestine, supporting Palestine, 100% against the IHRA bill.
We are not going to allow them to shut us up, and 100% for the Immigrant Trust Act. So let’s keep going. Let’s keep it going!
