[Sosfbay-discuss] Cynthia McKinney in Bay Area this week

[Jim Stauffer]

Thursday Aug. 20 -- Mon. Aug. 24

Cynthia McKinney's Gaza Solidarity Triumph Tour in SF Bay
Area-Oakland-Sonoma State-SF-El Cerrito:

Cynthia's recent experiences in Gaza and an Israel jail. Hear Cynthia on
KPFA radio all next week

No jailing of journalists! In U.S. or outside.
First stop on her tour --  The preliminary hearing of her good friend,
POCC Minister of Information JR, who is facing trumped-up felony charges.

This event is part of former Congresswoman and presidential candidate
Cynthia McKinney’s Triumph Tour of the San Francisco Bay Area next
Thursday-Monday, Aug. 20-24. (See Cynthia McKinney’s Gaza Solidarity
Triumph Tour: Main event Aug. 20 Grand Lake Theater.)

  Hear about Cynthia’s recent experiences in Gaza and an Israel jail.
Hear about the media whiteout of Cynthia’s lifelong breakthroughs in
countless struggles for peace with justice. Help build a full house at
every stop on her historical tour. Hear Cynthia on KPFA radio all next
week. Help promote the tour and pack each event as a way to say WE ARE
THE MEDIA!



  No jailing of journalists!
Join Cynthia McKinney for the very first stop on her tour – attending
the preliminary hearing on the ridiculous, trumped up charge of felony
arson of a trash can against her good friend, POCC Minister of
Information JR (who is the one to thank for organizing Cynthia’s Triumph
Tour). You’ll recall he was arrested by Oakland police, who know him
well as their most severe critic, while on assignment Jan. 7 for the SF
Bay View, covering the first Oakland Rebellion following the execution
of Oscar Grant. Charges have been dropped against nearly all the
100-plus arrested that night – but not JR. The OPD still has not
returned his camera, and they’re still determined to railroad him into
prison. Pack the courtroom Thursday, Aug. 20, 9 a.m., at 661 Washington
St., Courtroom 112! Stop the whiteout of independent journalists!
Support independent media!


                            SCHEDULE

Thursday, Aug. 20, 6:30 p.m., Grand Lake Theater, 3200 Grand Ave.,
Oakland, $15 (no one turned away, space permitting), tickets available
in advance at the Grand Lake box office

Friday, Aug. 21, 6:30 p.m., Black Dot, 1195 Pine St., West Oakland

Saturday, Aug. 22, 3 p.m., Warren Auditorium, Ives Hall, Sonoma State
University, 1801 East Cotati Ave., Rohnert Park, $5 (Students Free),
free parking
SF Bay View newspaper in cooperation with Project Censored and Media
Freedom Foundation hosts Cynthia McKinney at Sonoma State University.

Sunday, Aug. 23, 4 p.m., Lunacy Theater, Redstone Building, 2940 16th
St. at Mission and 16th Street BART, San Francisco, $15 (no one turned
away, space permitting)

Monday, Aug. 24, 5:30 p.m., 33 Revolutions Café, 10086 San Pablo Ave.,
at Central, El Cerrito, no admission, dinner available for a reasonable
price

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  Think what people glued to corporate media won’t hear: Embarking last
December on a Free Gaza boat trip to break the blockade of humanitarian
aid to Gaza, Cynthia was daring Israel to prevent the passage of a
former member of Congress through international and Gazan waters; she
was never in Israeli waters on either trip. In December, days before its
air and ground bombardment of Gaza, Israel ordered its navy warships to
ram the Free Gaza boat Dignity, nearly sinking it.

  Returning June 29 on the Free Gaza boat Spirit of Humanity, she and
all 21 aboard, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Maguire and
numerous journalists, were surrounded by Israeli warships, their boat
was boarded in international waters in what NY City Councilman Charles
Barron called an “act of piracy,” and they were all booked into prison
for a week of catching catnaps on a concrete floor, eating meager
rations of mostly bread and water but also meeting many Africans in an
Israeli prison population that is – surprisingly – mostly Black.

  A day or two after Cynthia was deported back to the U.S., she accepted
an invitation from British Member of Parliament George Galloway to join
Viva Palestina, then stuck at the Egypt-Gaza border with a long convoy
of vehicles and medical aid for Gaza. She and Charles Barron led many
days of negotiations with an unfriendly Egyptian government that
succeeded in allowing some – not all – of the convoy to cross
triumphantly into Gaza on July 15. Black people everywhere cheered when
they learned that the only well known people with Viva Palestina beside
Galloway were all Black: Cynthia McKinney, Charles Barron and M-1 of
dead prez.

  Wait ‘til you hear from Cynthia what she saw inside Gaza! She’ll be
armed with videos on her Bay Area Triumph Tour. People glued to the
mainstream media won’t see them or hear from Cynthia, but you will!

  DON’T MISS SEEING, HEARING AND MEETING CYNTHIA McKINNEY AUG. 20-24!
DON’T LET YOUR FRIENDS MISS THIS RARE OPPORTUNITY!