[Sosfbay-discuss] McKinney Reconsiders Run for President on Green Party

[Drew Johnson]

MP3's of two interviews from KPFA from today:

Most relevant:
http://kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=22604
McKinney from the beginning of FlashPoints w/ Dennis Bernstein & DaveyD

http://kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=22603
@ 48:45 minutes in hear Cynthia McKinney interviewed by DaveyD on KPFA

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http://newsblaze.com/story/20071004042616tsop.nb/newsblaze/TOPSTORY/Top-Stories.html
Former Congresswoman Considers Run for President on Green Party

Six-term U.S. Congresswoman from Georgia Cynthia McKinney - who may enter
the 2008 California Presidential Primary on the Green Party ticket - will
speak at a series of events throughout the Bay Area this week, according
to "California Greens to Draft Cynthia McKinney in 2008."

McKinney has not yet made a commitment to run as a Green, or independent,
but supporters say she is expected to make her final decision public this
week.

McKinney will deliver a talk, "Confronting Empire," which covers the
arrogance of the Bush regime, spinelessness of the Democratic Congress,
plight of the under-represented and abused, corporate takeover of our
military and our government and what Americans can do about it.

She is scheduled to speak Thursday in Oakland (9 p.m., Oakland Branch
Library, 1801 Adeline), Friday in Berkeley, where "American Blackout" will
be screened (6 p.m., Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, 1924 Cedar),
and several yet-to-be-announces San Francisco spots Friday and Saturday.
McKinney will also appear at "Impeach at the Beach #4" on Sunday, 11 a.m.,
with Cindy Sheehan and many others.

In the Georgia state primary in 2006, McKinney lost her Congressional seat
to an opponent sponsored by a Democratic Party leadership outraged by her
questioning of its policies. McKinney's last official act in the House of
Representatives was to file Articles of Impeachment against George Bush,
Dick Cheney, and Condoleeza Rice.

The recent documentary, "American Blackout", describes the 2004 election
abuses conducted by the government, and shows McKinney confronting Donald
Rumsfeld at an Armed Services Committee hearing.

Since the end of her last term in Congress, McKinney has been active in a
wide variety of progressive causes and actions. She has spoken out
forcefully about the stolen elections of 2000 and 2004, the Bush
Administration cover-up of the facts of 9/11, the trillions of dollars
missing at the Pentagon, the war in Iraq, U.S. pollution and forest
clear-cutting, and human rights abuses by the U.S. at home and abroad.

judythpiazza at newsblaze.com
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http://cbs5.com/localwire/localfsnews/bcn/2007/10/04/n/HeadlineNews/GREEN-CANDIDATE/resources_bcn_html
OAKLAND: POSSIBLE GREEN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE TO SPEAK
10/04/07 1:20 PDT

OAKLAND (BCN)

Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney will be speaking in Oakland today as
part of a series of Bay Area events during which her supporters will urge
McKinney to run for president on the Green Party ticket.

At the 6 p.m. event at the Oakland Branch Library, 1801 Adeline St.,
McKinney will deliver a speech, "Confronting Empire."

The Democrat represented Georgia in Congress for six terms before her
party backed an opponent who took over the seat, according to the
California Green Party.

Since then she has spoken out about how the 2000 and 2004 elections were
conducted, the Bush administration's handling of the Sept. 11, 2001,
attacks and other issues that include human rights, the environment and
the war in Iraq.

Although McKinney has not officially said if she will run for the
presidency as a Green Party candidate, she is expected to announce a final
decision this week, according to the California Green Party.

On Friday, McKinney will speak at a screening of a recent documentary,
"American Blackout," at 6 p.m. at the Fellowship of Unitarian
Universalists, 1924 Cedar St., in Berkeley.

The film is about 2004 election abuses and shows McKinney confronting
Donald Rumsfeld at an Armed Services Committee hearing.



-- 
JamBoi
http://www.greencommons.org/blog/63
"Peaceable: the ability to interact peacefully.  A skill set similar to
social or emotional intelligence that is unfortunately rare in today's
American culture, but can be developed by all.  The Green Parties need to
lead the way in Peaceableness."


-- 
JamBoi
http://www.greencommons.org/blog/63
"Peaceable: the ability to interact peacefully.  A skill set similar to
social or emotional intelligence that is unfortunately rare in today's
American culture, but can be developed by all.  The Green Parties need to
lead the way in Peaceableness."