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Greens compare McKinney/Clemente and Obama/Biden

Posted on September 2, 2008 | Leave a comment

Greens compare McKinney/Clemente and Obama/Biden on US war policies, impeachment, environment, and energy

Greens compare McKinney/Clemente and Obama/Biden on US war policies, impeachment, environment, and energy

GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Monday, September 1, 2008

Contacts:
Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, cell 202-904-7614, mclarty@greens.org
Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene@gp.org

Greens promote ‘Peace Slate’ and call Obama/Biden the ‘faux antiwar’ ticket, citing Obama’s record and warhawk positions on military funding, US troops in Afghanistan, threats against Iran; McKinney speaks out on Dems’ complicity in Bush-Cheney hijacking of the US

Video: Cindy Sheehan endorses Cynthia McKinney for President
Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOZlpLmL7wk
Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRNA6nnT2OY

Video: Cynthia McKinney discusses major issues
http://www.youtube.com/user/RunCynthiaRun
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=RunCynthiaRun

Ms. McKinney on the Democratic Party:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpYlQx2MLuw

WASHINGTON, DC — Calling the Obama/Biden ticket the "faux antiwar" candidates, Green Party leaders urged national support and votes for the Green Party nominees, Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente, and for the party’s ‘Peace Slate’ of candidates for Congress and other offices.

Greens challenged the belief among many pro-Obama voters that his candidacy opposed the warhawk actions of the Bush-Cheney White House, and noted that the Democrat-led Congress elected in 2006 — including Sen. Obama — endorsed most of the Bush Administration’s legislative agenda.

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DESPITE POLICE RAIDS AND ARRESTS, MINNESOTA GREENS JOIN ANTIWAR, ANTIPOVERTY PROTESTS AT RNC

Posted on September 2, 2008 | 1 comment

Distributed by the Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org

Green Party of Minnesota
http://www.mngreens.org

For Immediate Release
September 1, 2008

Contacts: Rhoda Gilman: (651) 224-6383; Dave Bicking: (612) 276-1213, Spokespersons, Green Party of Minnesota

DESPITE POLICE RAIDS AND ARRESTS, MINNESOTA GREENS JOIN ANTIWAR, ANTIPOVERTY PROTESTS AT RNC

Greens have been among those targeted for harassment and intimidation by police in a wave of pre-emptive actions taken before the Republican National Convention in St. Paul.

On Saturday police surrounded the home of Michael Whelan, a long-time Green Party supporter, whose Arise Bookstore at one time housed the party’s office. He was host to a group of independent journalists. The police broke down doors and subjected occupants to house arrest. “You figure this would be going on in South Africa, or Russia, not in St. Paul,” Whelan said. “St. Paul is nice.”

The previous night, police had invaded a meeting space in St. Paul rented by the anarchist RNC Welcoming Committee. They seized equipment and subjected some fifty people to handcuffing and search. Next day Monica Bicking, a leading member of the organization, was jailed along with three friends, and her home in Minneapolis was boarded up for alleged violation of city codes.
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Amy Goodman, of Democracy Now!, Unlawfully Arrested at RNC

Posted on September 1, 2008 | Leave a comment

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
http://www.democracynow.org

September 1, 2008

Contact:
Dennis Moynihan 917-549-5000
Mike Burke 646-552-5107

ST. PAUL, MN—Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman was unlawfully arrested in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota at approximately 5 p.m. local time. Police violently manhandled Goodman, yanking her arm, as they arrested her. Video of her arrest can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYjyvkR0bGQ
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STOP THE HOUSE ARRESTS IN MINNESOTA!!

Posted on September 1, 2008 | Leave a comment

Massive house arrests and detentions of activists and media have been occuring in Minneapolis during the RNC.  Please do what you can to speak out!
Power to the People! 
 
If you have a spare minute today or tomorrow, would you please pick up the phone and help the people that are being rounded up by calling Mayor Coleman?:
 
We are asking the public to contact the office of St. Paul, Mayor
Chris Coleman at 651-266-8510 to stop this house arrest, this gross
intimidation by police officers, and the detention of media activists
and reporters.
 
Feel free to pass that number 651-266-8510 out to all of your friends around the country that might have time to file a complaint with the mayor. 

 
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As we go about our important business today at the March on the RNC, let’s also remember those that can’t be with us on the streets.
 
 
Viva La Lucha!
 
Heidi  Sheen
 
 
THE ONLY THING THAT IS PERMANENT IS CHANGE. 
VOTE FOR REAL CHANGE:  McKinney/Clemente 2008  (www.votetruth08.com)

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Cynthia McKinney to file for President in Utah this week

Posted on September 1, 2008 | Leave a comment

MEDIA RELEASE – UTAHNS FOR CYNTHIA MCKINNEY and GREEN PARTY OF UTAH
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY TO FILE FOR PRESIDENT IN UTAH
PRESS CONFERENCE WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3RD AT 9AM AT STATE CAPITOL

Contact information: Deanna Taylor, Utahns for Cynthia McKinney, 801.631.2998, info@utahns4mckinney.org

First all-women-of-color Presidential ticket in U.S. History, Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente, will file as Independent Candidates in Utah.

09.01.08, Salt Lake City – Cynthia McKinney, national Green Party (GPUS) candidate for President of the United States , will file for candidacy as an Independent Candidate in Utah Wednesday, September 3rd.

Cynthia McKinney is a six-term former Congresswoman from Georgia who quit the Democratic Party on her birthday in 2007 because the Democratic Party no longer represented her values. She joined the Green Party, campaigned for its Presidential nomination, and was nominated in Chicago at the Green Party National Convention on July 12 (www.votetruth08.com).
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50 Greens giving $20 puts Cynthia McKinney on Utah’s ballot

Posted on August 28, 2008 | Leave a comment

50 Greens giving $20 puts Cynthia McKinney on Utah’s ballot

Please help Cynthia and Rosa Get on the Utah Ballot!

Help us surmount the costly ballot access barriers we face. Today we sent the $ 500 check to the Utah Secretary of State, but if we’re to see Cynthia and Rosa’s names on the ballot in Utah, we must also still raise $ 1,000.00 more in round trip air fare to get Cynthia to Utah to qualify for her place on the ballot. Its true, Utah statute requires Cynthia’s presence, in person before the Lieutenant Governor, in order to qualify for a place on November’s ballot. Please give to the $ 1,500 needed to put Cynthia and Rosa on the Utah ballot!

For purposes of qualifying for Fedeal Matching Funds, contributions now from Florida, Maryland, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Iowa, Oklahoma and Viginia are particularly welcome at this moment!

While any contribution up to $ 2,300 per donor is welcome in support of this campaign, only the first $ 250 of each individual contribution counts for the Matching program.

Please use our donor form to make as generous a donation as you can. Then send all of your friends, coworkers and neighbors to this site asking that they match or exceed your donation.

Help get Cynthia to Utah!

http://supporters2.runcynthiarun.org/UtahBallotAccess/supporters.cgi

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Paid for by the:

Power to the People Committee,

Cynthia McKinney for President

http://www.RunCynthiaRun.org/

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Cynthia McKinney Speaks in Denver Colorado, before DNC

Posted on August 25, 2008 | 1 comment

Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney speaks at the R-eCreate ’68 rally outside the DNC on Sunday, August 24, 2008.

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Hip-Hop goes Green for McKinney/Clemente ’08

Posted on August 24, 2008 | Leave a comment

Thanks to fellow Green Jason Nabewaniec for posting this information over on Facebook. All I can say is “Wow”.

Many Hip-Hop artists have come out in support of McKinney/Clemente ’08 and the Green Party. Here are a few sample of some recent hip-hop artists to show their support for McKinney/Clemente.

Riders Against the Storm (RAS) hip-hop video Speak The Truth in support of Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente, Green Party President and Vice President candidate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shcIcOU1JNs

N.Y.Oil – switched his support from Barack Obama to Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente Green candidates for President and Vice President. He goes on to compare the issues that McKinney / Clemente bring to Barack Obama’s approach.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz_C1aOMa0U
N.Y.Oil – preforms on “self destruction” and the change you can be.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRmE1___A4Q
and “Boombaye Green Par-tay”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyHX6Ll2ZRM

Khalil Almustafa – “We The People Of Hip-Hop”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQaQHit2Piw

Umi of P.O.W (same Umi from Dead Prez/RBG)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU_xS-fPuM0

DJ Chela who also started “New Girl Order” talks about Hip Hop as reporter telling the truth when the major media does not. The McKinney / Clemente campaign – “This raises the bar for the whole movement.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuZeR4r2z-E

La Bruja – “Being Who We Are”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvi_P8M1HPc

Rebel Diaz – the war in Iraq and the War at home
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hAkXH281_Y

Hakeem Green
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o57mmijhXzM

and earlier I posted Professor Griff of the group Public Enemy
http://gpomc.blogspot.com/2008/07/professor-griff-of-public-enemy.html

and M1 from the group Dead Prez
http://gpomc.blogspot.com/2008/07/m1-of-dead-prez-supports-rosa-clemente.html

http://www.runcynthiarun.org
http://www.rosaclemente.com
http://www.gp.org

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This is a Historical Moment Video

Posted on August 23, 2008 | Leave a comment

Thanks to On the Wilder Side
for creating this and also to Green Party Watch for posting it on their site.

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Hip Hop VP: A Q+A With Rosa Clemente

Posted on August 22, 2008 | Leave a comment

Published on Vibe Launch

Talk about the platform. What do you think the Green Party has over the other parties?

This is the only party that even has social justice as its core principle. When we say ending the war, we mean all the wars. We need to get all the military out of every country, we need to begin to deal with issues of what peace can look like, how do you sustain that. Obviously, the green party is at the forefront of pushing the environment as a core value, that was innovative then. There should be an end to imprisoning young people, an immediate stop to the death penalty, a livable wage, not a minimum wage. Impeachment for George Bush and them is critical. I think if we don’t hold them accountable as a people, then anybody can do the same shit that they did.

Words are words, but we can make the words into deeds. If people would even open up the platform, they would see that neither the Democrats and Republicans would even talk about young people having rights and that we should be signing some of these international treaties, like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The hardest part is to literally get people to open it up and want to be exposed.

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