Four organizing squads from the presidential campaign of Diane Sare and the congressional campaign of Jose Vega, joined by independent congressional candidate Karen Ortiz, deployed across Manhattan this week—the Upper West Side, the Upper East Side, and Chelsea—signing up 75 people, distributing hundreds of copies of Sare’s latest statements, and taking donations from dozens of passersby.
The provision of the NDAA merging U.S. and Israeli military and intelligence operations was the single biggest point of engagement, and many New Yorkers took a copy of Diane’s statement on how to defeat the merger. New Yorkers stopped to argue about it, and a striking number were connecting the economic collapse around them to the war policy driving it. Organizers reported a substantial layer of committed independents, considerable hostility to President Trump based on his actual conduct rather than partisan reflex, and support for Mayor Mamdani. Twelve people took out subscriptions to EIR News along with their donations.
Sare’s statement lays out what Section 219 of the House bill—and Section 1217 in the Senate—would actually commit the United States to: joint work with Israel across counter-drone systems, missile and air defense, artificial intelligence and quantum, autonomous systems, directed energy, cyber and electronic warfare, biotechnology, contested logistics, defense industrial co-production, and whatever further technologies the two governments later agree to add. Such a merger with any foreign power would compromise American sovereignty, she argues; the United States and Britain were not linked this way even while fighting Hitler together.
Her point about motive is the sharpest in the leaflet. Netanyahu, she writes, does not want to keep asking a shifting Congress for billions—not when candidates who reject the Gaza policy are now winning primaries. Access to the entire U.S. military budget solves that problem for him permanently. And she notes the evidence that pressure works: Rep. Adam Smith, who had argued vehemently against the Khanna-Massie amendment to strip the provision, reversed himself weeks later and told the Wall Street Journal it should come out—crediting pressure from his constituents rather than any change of heart. Her instruction to readers is to call their congressmen every day until the office confirms they will not pass an NDAA containing the merger, and, in this 250th anniversary year, to heed Franklin’s admonition and keep the Republic.
The organizing tables carried large displays of the World Land-Bridge, with the Bering Strait tunnel and the Oasis Plan highlighted, alongside the North American Water and Power Alliance—the physical-economic answer to the wars now consuming the world’s energy and food supplies.
Sare’s most recent statement, “ICE and Nuclear War: A Radical Change in Thinking Is Required,” connects the two killings by ICE agents—Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine, neither of them the person agents sought—to the same doctrine driving the war danger abroad. “Attempts to rule human beings through force will always fail,” she writes, “simply because force violates our nature as human beings.” She invokes Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s warning after Hiroshima and Nagasaki that humanity has “had our last chance” if it cannot resolve differences outside of war, and Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas on the choice now before the species. The statement closes by pointing readers to the July 31 EIR roundtable on solving the immigration crisis through development.
A note to those cynics who insist an independent campaign cannot win: 250 years ago a group of people set out to be independent, and they succeeded!
