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Tag Archives: 2008 elections
Cynthia McKinney’s Debate Reponse to Our Biggest Lesson from the war in Iraq
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Cynthia McKinney’s Reponse to the Economic Crisis
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Clemente and Gonzalez respond to VP Debate on Democracy Now!
Green Party VP candidate Rosa Clemente, and Ralph Nader’s VP Matt Gonzalez are interviewed together on Democracy Now:
Read, Listen or Watch on Democracy Now here!
From Green Party Watch
Teasers:
ROSA CLEMENTE: Well, I mean, I think both people up there last night were clear that they don’t have the majority of the American people’s interests at heart, including the majority of American people that have called, into the last week, telling the Democrats and the Republicans no bailout.
MATT GONZALEZ: Well, I think, first of all, it was one of the things about the debate that I thought was awkward. I think the Democrats successfully, during the debate, really placed the blame at the feet of the Republicans, but it’s not historically correct.
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More Video from the RNC – featuring a Salt Lake Residenrt- Hip Hop Concert Attendees arrested
Thank you to Ester Republic which states:
This is a video of the arrests at the Take Back Labor Day concert, narrated by a guy from the Glass Bead Collective who interviewed a bunch of people and then buried his video camera so it wouldn’t get confiscated. Good thing, huh?
The Minnesota Independent has continued to cover this story, the most recent development being a forum held by the Society of Professional Journalists. Nick Coleman of the Minneapolis Star Tribune has also written about the experiences of St. Paul residents vis-a-vis the protests and arrests.
Salt Lake’s “Wes”, who is a regular at our weekly peace vigils, is featured and describes the police scene at the RNC, inlcuding innocent hip-hop concert attendees arrested for no reason
Wes at a peace vigil in Salt Lake:
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Tagged 2008 elections, government corruption, police brutality, politics, rnc
Uhuru Movement endorses Cynthia McKinney
Uhuru Movement Endorses McKinney/Clemente Ticket in U.S. Presidential Race
The International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM) has endorsed the McKinney/Clemente ticket in the U.S. presidential race. The endorsement was based on the support that Green Party V.P. candidate Rosa Clemente expressed for InPDUM’s “Revolutionary National Democratic Program,” during her participation in InPDUM’s 17th Annual Convention, held September 27 – 28, 2008 in St. Petersburg, Florida.
On August 1, 2008, InPDUM leader Diop Olugbala led a widely publicized protest at a Barack Obama pep rally that raised the question, “What About the Black Community?” Dissatisfied with Obama’s response, the organization invited all of the presidential candidates to attend its convention to respond to that question. InPDUM spokespeople had indicated that, based on a candidate’s willingness to embrace the group’s “Revolutionary National Democratic Program,” it would make an endorsement in the U.S. presidential race.
InPDUM’s International President Ivory Sobukwe-SoDaye stated, “We are here today to put forward a Revolutionary National Democratic Program that we would like to see all institutions, organizations, candidates and individuals to forward in the world. This is the program of the African community. At the foundation of this program is self-determination. We say that self-determination is the highest expression of democracy.
“Democracy is not the right to vote for a white power candidate. Democracy is not the power to vote on a bill by George Bush. Self-determination is the ability to have control over every aspect of our lives; to have access to our full resources as African people; to have independence; to be able to control every move of our lives.
“At the core of the Revolutionary National Democratic Program is Black Power; it’s the need for African self-determination as a nation of African people the world over. We unite with all other programs for self-determination we see throughout the world with other oppressed peoples struggling for their freedom.”
Speaking at the InPDUM Convention, Rosa Clemente expressed her support for the group’s program for national liberation and self-determination for African people. With its endorsement, InPDUM promises to participate in the Clemente/McKinney “Power to the People” campaign through various means, including the distribution of campaign literature by its branches, members and supporters in Florida, Alabama, South Carolina, Washington D.C., Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Illinois, Minnesota, Texas, and California.
For more information, contact the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement at 727-821-6620 or visit http://www.inpdum.org.
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Cynthia McKinney addresses “No tycoon left behind act”
Stole this from Green Party Watch which “stole that line from the national party mailing I got earlier today”.
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The McKinney Choice
The McKinney Choice
THE PROGRESSIVE, OCTOBER 2008 ISSUE
By Kevin Alexander Gray
http://www.progressive.org/mag/gray1008.html
MENTION TO SOMEONE that you’re thinking about voting for former Georgia
Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney or Ralph Nader and they’ll respond, “So,
you’re voting for McCain!” Or they’ll say, “You’re wasting your vote.”
And if you’re black and not planning on voting for Obama, you may be
labeled a “hater” or an “Uncle Tom.” I know. I’ve been called those
names. Poet Amiri Baraka, never one to be shy, has labeled all those not
supporting Obama as “rascals.”
It doesn’t matter that McKinney is herself African American or that Rosa
Clemente, her running mate on the Green Party ticket, is a hip-hop
activist and an Afro-Puerto Rican. What matters, for most, is that Obama
represents the first realistic chance for a black American to win the
White House, and that he is better than McCain.
But should those be the overriding considerations?
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Candidate Comparisons On War
- immediate withdrawal of troops & contractor
- cut off all war funding
- no war with Iran
Obama / Biden
- delayed, partial withdrawal
- authorized all war funding
- embraced doctrine of pre-emptive warfare
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National Women’s Caucus of the Green Party of the United States
Distributed by the Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org
National Women’s Caucus of the Green Party of the United States
http://greens.org/gp-uswomen/
For Immediate Release
Monday, September 29, 2008
Contact:
Morgen D’Arc, Spokesperson, 207-761-7797, morgenizer@yahoo.com
Linda Manning Myatt, Spokesperson, 248-548-6175, lmmyatt@wowway.com
Green Party National Women’s Caucus challenges NOW to support the historic McKinney/Clemente presidential campaign
WASHINGTON, DC — The National Women’s Caucus (http://greens.org/gp-uswomen) of the Green Party of the United States has sent an open letter to the National Organization for Women (http://www.now.org) urging support for the Green Party’s presidential ticket. The text of the letter is appended below.
The letter cites Green nominee Cynthia McKinney’s six terms in Congress and her unmatched dedication to the principles of equality and human rights championed by NOW. The National Women’s Caucus emphasizes the historical role that alternative parties have played in the struggle for women’s suffrage and rights, and notes that NOW has failed even to recognize the significance of America’s first national campaign by two women of African descent: Ms. McKinney is African American and running mate Rosa Clemente is Black Puerto Rican.
OPEN LETTER TO NOW, THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN
National Women’s Caucus of the Green Party of the United States
http://greens.org/gp-uswomen/
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Dear National Organization for Women leadership and members:
The National Women’s Caucus of the Green Party of the United States is dismayed that your recent endorsement of Senator Barack Obama for President of the United States did not acknowledge the first all-female ticket in recent U.S. history. Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente are running for President and Vice President, respectively, on the Green Party ballot line.
Cynthia McKinney served six terms in the U.S. Congress and two terms in the Georgia General Assembly. She is a global human rights and peace activist with a substantial voting record supporting women. Rosa Clemente is a community organizer and journalist who was one of the founders and primary organizers of the first national Hip Hop political convention. Their “Power to the People” campaign goal is to ensure that public policy reflects the Green Party values of ecological wisdom, social justice, grassroots democracy, and nonviolence.
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A Vote For Obama Is A Vote For McCain
A Vote For Obama Is A
Vote For McCain
By Jerry D.
Rose
27 September, 2008
Countercurrents. org
As we get ever closer to the November election, more and more of my friends who are Obama supporters are upbraiding me for my support of Cynthia McKinney, on their belief that a vote for her is a “vote for McCain.” Many of them agree that she or some other third party candidate is a better choice than either McCain or Obama for President but has no chance of winning, is not a “viable” candidate, and that I should support Obama as the decidedly “lesser evil” alternative to McCain.
The purpose of this article is to set this argument on its head and argue that, in fact, Barack Obama is not “viable,” and that casting one’s vote for him denies third party candidates of any opportunity to defeat the GOP ticket.
For purposes of this
argument, I am willing to waive a very substantial doubt that Obama is indeed highly preferable to McCain as President. Whether Obama or McCain is elected, we will have no interruption in the bipartisan agenda of American imperialism with its wars and occupations in Iraq, Afghanistan and perhaps Pakistan and Iran and who-knows-where; we will have no single payer health insurance; we will see no diminishment of class and racial inequality in the country. In the argument of last resort for an Obama presidency, that he not McCain would be nominating Justices for the next Supreme Court vacancies, a Democratic majority in the Senate could avert such a travesty with a McCain presidency as the appointment of Justices who would complete the process of dismantling Roe v. Wade.
But that’s not my argument, really. Let’s say hypothetically that, like McKinney or Nader, Obama would be a MUCH better President from a progressive perspective.
But no matter, the
same argument as that against third party candidates because of their lack viability can, in my opinion, be applied to the candidacy of Barack Obama.
Why would I argue that Barack Obama is not “electable” as President? A variety of considerations lead to this conclusion. Perhaps the smallest of these is the reluctance of principled progressives—pp’s if you will— (as I consider myself to be, along with most writers and commentators on Counter Currents) to support a candidate like Obama with such vacillating or missing positions on key progressive issues as he pursues a “centrist” campaign along with the Democratic Leadership Council. We pp’s may like to think of ourselves as the wielders of substantial political power, but the proof of that in the electoral pudding of votes for progressive national candidates is seldom to be seen.
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