Uncommitted holds sit-in outside Democratic convention after Palestinians denied a speaker

A group of uncommitted delegates hold a sit-in just outside the United Center to protest the lack of a Palestinian American speaker at the Democratic convention. Photograph: Caroline Brehman/EPA

A sit-in that began on Wednesday evening in protest of the Democratic convention’s denial of speaking slot for a Palestinian American on the main stage continued on Thursday.

Uncommitted, a national movement that began in Michigan, won 30 delegates to the convention and has tried to use the party process to pressure Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to broker an end to the war in Gaza. The sit-in has been taking place outside the United Center, where Harris will speak this evening, is the latest attempt to get the Democratic party to allow greater prominence for the anti-war movement at this week’s convention in Chicago. Organizers were expected to remain in place until or unless the party changes course.