{"id":1176,"date":"2024-05-08T19:38:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T23:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/?page_id=1176"},"modified":"2024-05-08T19:42:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T23:42:06","slug":"dr-melina-abdullah-for-vice-president","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/?page_id=1176","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Melina Abdullah for Vice President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Melina-Abdullah-Pic.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1158 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Melina-Abdullah-Pic.jpg?resize=201%2C248&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Dr. Melina Abdullah<\/strong> is a revered Professor of Pan-African Studies at California State University, Los Angeles, and a long-time celebrated community organizer. She is known for her work as a union mobilizer, a founding member of the Black Lives Matter movement and Director of Black Lives Matter Grassroots, and an advocate for systemic change through educational, community, and political organizing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cI am deeply honored and humbled to join Dr. Cornel West as his Vice Presidential candidate at this critical moment as we work together for transformative change. This campaign offers a real vision for the world that stands in opposition to oppressive forces and holds fast to the universal principles of truth, justice, and love.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>As we work arm-in-arm with justice-loving people everywhere, we reimagine and work to build a world that chooses goodwill over greed, courage over cowardice, and liberation over exploitation. Together, we are igniting a movement to not only dismantle harmful systems, but establish the firm foundations of a just, nurturing, and free world.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>See more at:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.cornelwest2024.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Melina Abdullah is a revered Professor of Pan-African Studies at California State University, Los Angeles, and a long-time celebrated community organizer. She is known for her work as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":0,"parent":903,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1176","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1181,"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1176\/revisions\/1181"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}